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Steve Myers / Poynter:
Dow Jones calls Guardian allegations of WSJ Europe circulation scheme ‘inflammatory’ — Dow Jones is refuting allegations by the Guardian that The Wall Street Journal Europe paid a third party, through other companies, to buy its newspapers as part of a scheme to boost its circulation.
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Future of Journalism
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Steve Myers / Poynter:
WSJ confirms side deals in paid circulation boost at Journal's Europe edition — The Wall Street Journal follows the Guardian's story about a circulation scheme at the Journal's sister paper in Europe with its own story confirming many of the details first reported by its competitor.
Discussion:
Wall Street Journal, Talking Biz News and CJR
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
New York Times Plans Staff Reductions — In the midst of a deteriorating advertising climate, The New York Times plans to eliminate up to 20 newsroom positions and seek additional savings in the business units, the company said Thursday. — The reductions, described by the New York Times Company …
Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
WEF calls for pressure on Eritrea to release journalists — Erik Bjerager renews calls for the release of all journalists detained in Eritrea, as he presents the 2011 Golden Pen of Press Freedom to the brother of Dawit Isaak — The president of the World Editors Forum today called …
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
‘Arab spring’ revolutions fail to provide greater press freedom — The fall of repressive regimes in north Africa and the Middle East, in the so-called Arab spring, has failed to usher in greater press freedom, according to a global media organisation. — A report by the World Association …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
A News Story Is Growing With ‘Occupy’ Protests — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Splashed across the front page of the local newspaper here on Tuesday was the story of a 24-year-old Occupy protester named Keith Cuesta. He was not in New York, where some have been living in a park near Wall Street …
Discussion:
The Huffington Post and Chickaboomer
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Jesse Holcomb / Journalism.org:
Occupy Wall Street Drives Economic Coverage
Discussion:
Poynter, Forbes, Capital New York, Salon.com, Washington Times, Future of Journalism, On Media's Blog, TVNewser and Multichannel
Ben Fritz / Company Town:
Apple prepping movie cloud service — Apple Inc. is preparing to put movies in the cloud, entering a market in which it may be both competitor and ally to a similar offering backed by most Hollywood studios. — Representatives of the iPhone and iPad maker have been meeting with studios …
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Wall Street Journal, CNET News, GigaOM, SlashGear, TUAW, MacStories, Future of Journalism, Business Insider, App Advice, Gizmodo, Electronista, 9to5Mac and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
MediaMonkey / Guardian:
Financial Times's FT Tilt service to close — Puzzling news out of FT Towers on London's South Bank: the pink 'un's flagship online emerging markets service, FT Tilt, is being shut down after just nine months. The reason? Slow subscription sales, apparently - showing once again how difficult …
Discussion:
paidContent and Talking Biz News
Reuters:
AOL CEO pitches investors on Yahoo deal: sources — (Reuters) - AOL Inc CEO Tim Armstrong has been meeting with top shareholders in the past couple of weeks to push the idea of a sale to Yahoo Inc that could wring up to $1.5 billion of cost savings, according to sources with knowledge of the discussions.
Discussion:
Reuters, Forbes, Guardian, Deadline.com, CNET News and Electronista, more at Techmeme »
Andrew Gauthier / TVSpy:
Kansas City Stations Refuse to Share Raw Footage with Investigators in Lisa Irwin Case — After receiving grand jury subpoenas requesting that they share video footage connected to the disappearance of 10-month-old Lisa Irwin, Kansas City stations plan to cooperate with investigators …
Discussion:
Kansas City Star, B&C and TVNewser
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Us Weekly Stays The Course, Keeps EIC — Despite Us Weekly suffering through some poor newsstand sales, the magazine is keeping Mike Steele, its Editor-in-Chief, reports The New York Post. When Steele began as Editor-in-Chief last year sales were healthy, but as his contract inched toward ending, times have been much tougher:
Discussion:
eBookNewser
Merrill Knox / TVNewser:
Current TV CEO: 'Our Three Competitors are About Breaking News, and We're About Fixing It' — For Current TV, the addition of former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm to the primetime lineup was an easy decision. — “When Joel [Hyatt] and I sat down with her and sort of began a conversation …
Discussion:
NY Daily News
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The Huffington Post:
Jennifer Granholm Gets Current TV Show
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Mediaite, Adweek, TVNewser and On Media's Blog
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The contribution conundrum: Why did Wikipedia succeed while other encyclopedias failed? — The guys behind Wikipedia weren't the first to experiment with creating a crowd-sourced online encyclopedia. They were just the first ones to do it successfully, on a worldwide scale.
Discussion:
Berkman Center
Carol Marie Cropper / NetNewsCheck Latest:
Paper's Paywall Proves Boon For Competition — In Albuquerque, N.M., the Albuquerque Journal's paywall — erected in 2001 — has let the rest of the market's online players catch up to the top site. Now, with aggressive mobile plans, the area's TV sites are poised to breakout.
Discussion:
Erik Wemple
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Lee Cowan gets Champagne Toast Upon Return to CBS — As TVNewser first reported in August, Lee Cowan has changed channels and is returning to CBS News after four years with NBC News. — Cowan will continue to be based in Los Angeles and will report for CBS News as National Correspondent.
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Judge: Reporter must discuss writing style in leak case — A New York Times reporter will be required to testify about his writing style at the upcoming trial of a former Central Intelligence Agency officer accused of leaking information about a U.S. effort to undermine Iran's nuclear program, a federal judge ruled.
Discussion:
Reporters Committee News
Poynter:
Let's take news apps out of the newsroom and create products instead of content — There was a great story in The Onion a few weeks back, right after Steve Jobs announced that he was stepping down as CEO of Apple. The headline read, “New Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'I'm thinking printers'”
MiamiHerald.com:
Ga.'s Morris to focus on digital journalism — AUGUSTA, Ga. — Morris Communications Co. announced Wednesday it is restructuring the company to create a “digital-first” approach across its media divisions. — The Augusta-based company on Wednesday named Mark Lane from The Florida Times-Union …
Discussion:
Big News Network.com
David Lieberman / Deadline.com:
Discovery And News Corp Flunk Research Firm's Governance Tests — It's not surprising to see that News Corp was one of 10 companies given an “F” grade by corporate research firm GMI Ratings for management or accounting practices that could make them risky bets for investors.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
CNN: Blackberry Outage Impacting Users On Almost Every Planet — There's no escape. The Blackberry service outage is now impacting users on almost every planet, CNN reports. Tatooine and Coruscant appear to not have been affected yet, but users all over Geonosis, Naboo and Yavin were reportedly hit hard.
Discussion:
BBC, paidContent:UK and PC Magazine, more at Techmeme »
Marcus Vanderberg / FishbowlLA:
Three Advertisers Reportedly Pull Ads From KFI — Three advertisers agreed to pull their ads from the John and Ken show on KFI, according to the National Hispanic Media Coalition. — The afternoon talk show has come under fire after giving out the cellphone number of Jorge-Mario Cabrera …
Ally Schweitzer / Arts Desk:
Labor Film Fest Takes Heat for Washington Post Film — Local labor groups have plenty of experience battling governments and executives. But this year, organizers of the annual D.C. Labor Film Fest encountered surprising opposition from people in their own camp.
Discussion:
Poynter
Matt Scott / Guardian:
‘Fake sheikh’ denies all knowledge of hacking — Former News of the World investigations editor tells court he hopes perpetrators will be ‘sent down’ for activities — Mazher Mahmood, the former News of the World investigations editor, has denied any knowledge of phone hacking during …
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