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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Now, Breathe: Demand Media Beats Wall Street Expectation in Q3 — Demand Media beat Wall Street expectations in the third quarter, posting a loss of five cents a share. Investors had expected it to lose from four to six cents. — Revenue was up 25 percent to $85.1 million, compared to $65.4 million in the same period a year ago.
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Mashable!, Investor Relations and CNBC, more at Techmeme »
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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Demand Media's Bold New Strategy For eHow: Suck Less — No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public, said H.L. Mencken. Maybe so, but in the third quarter, Demand Media lost $3.3 million doing it, and they know it, judging from the publisher's earnings call Monday.
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AllThingsD
Kim Willsher / Guardian:
Max Mosley wins French privacy action against News of the World — NoW publisher to pay £32,000 after being found guilty of violating former F1 boss's privacy — The publisher of the News of the World has been ordered by a French court to pay £32,000 in costs and damages …
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Journalism.co.uk and Business Insider
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Ian Burrell / The Independent:
Max Mosley takes his crusade against invasion of privacy to France
Max Mosley takes his crusade against invasion of privacy to France
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Guardian
Evan Hansen / Wired.com:
Wired.com Goes Creative Commons: 50 Great Images That Are Now Yours — From NIN Dazzles With Lasers, LEDs and Stealth Screens — Wired.com photographers have the enviable job of shooting the coolest stuff and most intriguing people in the technology world. Now we're giving away many of those photos to you, the public, for free.
Discussion:
Media Decoder, The New York Observer and Future Journalism Project
Stephen Hull / The Huffington Post - UK:
Phone Hacking: Top 10 Must Read Stories Ahead Of James Murdoch's Committee Meeting — Phone hacking at News of the World has started to make its way back up the news agenda after a series of new revelations about the activities of journalists at the now defunct newspaper.
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Ryan Chittum / CJR:
Dirty Business (As Usual) at News Corporation
Michael Oneal / Chicago Tribune:
New twist in Tribune Co. bankruptcy case could benefit billionaire Sam Zell — Judge's finding for holders of certain notes could support recovery claims of company chairman — A bankrupcty court judge's ruling could mean that Tribune Co. Chairman Sam Zell, who engineered a leveraged buyout …
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Poynter
Dylan Byers / Adweek:
Josh Tyrangiel Means Business — Josh Tyrangiel has a preposterous mission: to convince readers that a weekly business magazine left for dead two years ago is now a must-read. — That would be challenging enough in a good market. But in 2011, with print advertising still in crisis …
Kimberly Nordyke / Hollywood Reporter:
MSNBC to Air Documentary About Conrad Murray Trial Four Days After Guilty Verdict … Not long after Dr. Conrad Murray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in relation to the death of Michael Jackson came word that a documentary about the trial is already completed.
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mediabistro.com and TVNewser
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Kelly Cobiella and Bazi Kanani Join ABC News — ABC News is on a talent hiring spree. In addition to two local news anchors from Chicago set to join the network. ABC News president Ben Sherwood has announced he is beefing up his international reporting staff with the hires of Kelly Cobiella …
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TVSpy
John Koblin / WWD:
The New Yorker Names Creative Director — ALWAYS A FIRST: Condé Nast's digital magazine design director Wyatt Mitchell has been tapped to become The New Yorker's first-ever creative director. Mitchell, who has been the number two to Condé Nast's design guru Scott Dadich …
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FishbowlNY
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Martin Nisenholtz, Senior VP of Digital, leaving New York Times — Martin Nisenholtz, one of the most respected executives in the online media world, is leaving the New York Times, where he has been senior vice president of digital operations for quite awhile and has helped oversee …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
NYT Digital Head Martin Nisenholtz Retiring; Won't Be Replaced
NYT Digital Head Martin Nisenholtz Retiring; Won't Be Replaced
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AdAge
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
News organizations can finally create Google+ pages — Google+ has launched brand pages for businesses, finally enabling news organizations and other businesses, institutions or products to engage with people on the social network. NBC News, Good Morning America, Fox News and The New York Times …
Amir Efrati / Digits:
Twitter Looks to TV, Media Partnerships for Growth — Twitter is becoming a big star on TV-and now the online-messaging service wants to shine even brighter. — A growing number of TV shows such as Fox's “Glee” and PBS's “Nova” regularly direct their viewers to Twitter in order to view …
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Lost Remote, Twitter Developers blogs, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, CNET News, ReadWriteWeb and L.A. Times Tech Blog
Michele McLellan / Knight Foundation:
Pittsburgh investigative news site launches, experiments with collaborative model — PublicSource, an investigative journalism organization that received seed funding as a Knight Community Information Challenge winner, launched Sunday with a report that college lands in Pennsylvania may be leased …
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Poynter
Crayton Harrison / Bloomberg:
Slim's Move Into Web TV Draws Protests of Piracy From Rival Billionaires — Carlos Slim, the billionaire banned from providing television service in his native Mexico, is offering shows for free on the Web, drawing protests from rivals wary of his influence in the market.
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Deadline.com
Michael Martinez / CNN:
Study: More women, traditional media are blogging — Los Angeles (CNN) — The blogosphere — arguably the first engine of the new-media age — is becoming more female, while traditional media is horning in on the blogging action, a new study said Friday. — “It's healthy and it's mature …
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Medacity