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Not the iPad 3 or New TV — But Apple Planning Media-Related Event in the Big(ger) Apple This Month — According to sources close to the situation, Apple is planning an important — but not large-scale — event to be held in New York at the end of this month that will focus on a media-related announcement.
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This Month's Apple Event To Focus On Publishing And iBooks — Apple will be holding a product event later this month in New York, Kara Swisher is reporting, and we've confirmed independently with a source. — According to the source the event will not involve any hardware at all and instead …
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Is the Sun looking at charging for content again? — Is News International looking again at charging for content from The Sun? I blogged last year that News International had ditched the idea of putting up a paywall for The Sun, but an archive website has now appeared offering access to historical Sun content for 50p an article.
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Brian Stelter / The Caucus:
Taking to Twitter, Murdoch Signals Support for Santorum — The media mogul Rupert Murdoch signaled his support for Rick Santorum on Monday evening, calling him the “only candidate with genuine big vision” for the United States. — His comments were significant not only because Mr. Murdoch …
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New York Times, theweek.co.uk, The Huffington Post, Telegraph and New York Magazine
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An annotated field guide to the Campaign 2012 press corps — According to the Greater Des Moines Convention and Visitors Bureau, there are some 1,500 of what they call “media visitors” in Iowa right now, attracted by the run-up to the Iowa caucuses beginning formally tomorrow.
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Erik Wemple
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Murdoch hacking warning admission won't lead to review by BSkyB board — Murdoch hacking warning won't lead to review by BSkyB board — The BSkyB board does not regard James Murdoch's admission that he was warned of the extent of phone hacking in 2008 as “material”, sources at the company have claimed.
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Buzzfeed: The New Species at Iowa's Media Watering Hole — At the zoo that is the Iowa Caucus, the lobby bar in the downtown Des Moines Marriott is like a communal watering hole where roving packs of reporters, political hacks and even candidates assemble nightly to drain drinks and exchange political gossip.
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CJR and Vanity Fair
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Julie Moos / Poynter:
Des Moines Marriott a ‘Star Wars’ bar scene for journalists covering Iowa Caucus
Des Moines Marriott a ‘Star Wars’ bar scene for journalists covering Iowa Caucus
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Vanity Fair, Via Meadia, msnbc.com, Iowa Caucuses, New York Times and The Huffington Post
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If you choose your own news, you'll be less well read — Digital news offers customers the choice of what they want to read. But print offers something extra: stories that people didn't know they wanted to read until they had read them — Last year it was paywalls …
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Daily News' Response to Conlin Allegations Sets Bar for Penn Staters — Immediately, the Pennsylvania newspaper's disgust and outrage were palpable. — No hint of hesitation. No qualifications or excuses. Just pure outrage and undiluted disgust. — Those are gut reactions you'd expect …
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Erik Wemple
Justin Peters / CJR:
Movement Man — Meet Chris Faraone, Occupy reporter for the Boston Phoenix — The week before Occupy Boston changed Chris Faraone's life, grassroots revolution was already on his mind. Faraone, who covers rap music and social injustice for the Boston Phoenix, had filed a 2000-word story …
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Tom Freston's $1 Billion Revenge: Ex-Viacom Chief Helps Vice Become the Next MTV — Shane Smith is trying to order drinks. It's not going well. “There was a bottle of red wine that's kind of like a rosé that they chill down,” the CEO and cofounder of Vice Media tells the waitress …
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Three trends from 2011 that will reshape digital news in 2012 — If you're like me, by now you've read more than enough uninspired recaps of what happened in 2011 or wild guesses at what's in store for 2012. So here's something a little different. — I looked back at the world …
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Google Launches New Site With Resources for the 2012 Presidential Election — Google will officially announce its online information hub for political elections on Monday, a day before the Iowa Caucuses. It is the first website Google has dedicated exclusively to elections.
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Tim Armstrong trumpets AOL successes, urges ‘kaizen’ spiritual-business approach on employees in New Year's Eve missive — AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong closed out 2011 with a 2,000-word motivational memo emailed to his several thousand staffers around 7 p.m. on New Year's Eve.
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Future of Journalism
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Romney's Huffington Post connection
Erik Sass / MediaPost:
Lots of Newspaper Deals, But Not Much Hope — The last three months of 2011 brought a sudden flurry of deals in the newspaper industry, with a number of fair-sized metropolitan and regional dailies trading hands. But the increased pace of deal-making doesn't reflect improved fundamentals …
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