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Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Obama Jabs At Mitt Romney, Congress, Huffington Post And Dogs At W.H. Correspondents Dinner — President Obama took the stage at the White House Correspondent's Dinner on Saturday night, where he made a number of jokes at his and others' expense. He took aim at Congress, Mitt Romney, the Huffington Post and dogs.
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Buzzfeed's Jonah Peretti: Display dollars aren't coming back — Content providers are wringing their hands over how to get advertisers to pony up the big bucks they once spent on display ads. Maybe that money is just gone forever. — Jonah Peretti, a founder of the Huffington Post …
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@om and @penenberg
Nicholas Carr / Technology Review:
The Library of Utopia — Google's ambitious book-scanning program is foundering in the courts. Now a Harvard-led group is launching its own sweeping effort to put our literary heritage online. Will the Ivy League succeed where Silicon Valley failed? — In his 1938 book World Brain …
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The Verge and The Daily Dish
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: The $1.2 Billion Inside Story of How Demand Media Almost Went Private Last Week (And Then Didn't) — According to sources close to the situation, Demand Media was deep into discussions with a private equity firm to complete a deal that would have taken the online content company private, for almost double its current value.
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Future of Journalism
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of 99-cent media — Honk if you still love newsprint enough to pay $700 or more a year for a seven-day print subscription to The New York Times. Of course, you have many other choices. — You can try one of several print/bundled options for considerably less money.
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mediabistro.com
Justin Elliott / ProPublica:
FCC-Required Political Ad Data Disclosures Won't Be Searchable — The Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 this morning to require broadcasters to post political ad data on the Web, making it easier for the public to see how as much as $3.2 billion will be spent on TV advertising in this election.
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The Loyal Opposition, Media Matters for America and Salon
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Approve This Message: Politics through Awl-colored glasses — The Awl sure likes to build stuff. In about three years, they've gone from a single “New York City-based web concern” to a family of six sites. The latest just debuted: Approve This Message, a kind of politics wire with the sensibility of The Awl mothership.
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Journatic CEO: We are creating a better future for journalism — The Chicago Tribune recently laid off many of the reporters and editors who produced its hyper-local editions, and announced that it was outsourcing those functions to a startup called Journatic — a move that drew criticism …
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@jayrosen_nyu and Chicago Reader
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Yellowing Paper and Vanishing Ink as Sports Cartooning Declines — BALTIMORE — Mike Ricigliano practices a nearly extinct newspaper art: he is a sports cartoonist, poking fun at sports figures with pen, paper and a gag writer's shtick. — How much longer he can earn a living doing what he loves …
Lauren Kirchner / CJR:
How Scandinavia's press councils keep the media accountable — How Scandinavia's press councils keep the media accountable — When right-wing militant Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in and around bucolic Oslo last July, the story dominated the press in Norway for months.
Reuters:
Apple courts EPIX for upcoming TV: sources — (Reuters) - Apple Inc began talks earlier this year to stream films owned by EPIX, which is backed by three major movie studios, on devices including a long-anticipated TV, according to two people with knowledge of the negotiations.
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