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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
The Mayor of All Media — As Michael Bloomberg prepares for his post-mayoralty, his media company is also evolving. For decades, Bloomberg LP saw profits soar by selling just-the-facts journalism and financial information to Wall Street traders. That vision, while still wildly profitable …
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Capital New York, paidContent, New York Magazine, FishbowlNY, Los Angeles Times and Inside Cable News
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Will Bloomberg buy the New York Times? — New York Magazine's Gabriel Sherman has taken a long, well-reported look at what's next for Michael Bloomberg following his tenure as mayor of New York. — Central to whatever lies ahead is the expansion of his media empire, Bloomberg News …
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Poynter, Capital New York, Guardian and City Room
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
The Undoing of the Daily — The news waits for no one. But newspapers might start asking readers to — at least for print copies. — Almost two weeks ago, The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, which is owned by Advance Publications, announced it would cut back its print schedule to just three days a week.
David Carr / New York Times:
CNN Hires Bourdain, in a Bet on Lifting Stalled Ratings — Michael K. Williams played Omar Little, the righteous stickup man in “The Wire,” and now plays Chalky White, the bootlegger on “Boardwalk Empire,” so he is a big deal in the Brooklyn housing projects where he grew up.
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TVNewser, Erik Wemple, Inside Cable News, Chickaboomer and Prof Chris Daly's Blog
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Sales of Murdoch's New British Sunday Paper Slip — LONDON — Rupert Murdoch has endured a litany of blows in the unending phone-hacking scandal at his British tabloids. But one setback isn't happening in Parliament, but on Britain's newsstands. The Sun, a brash daily tabloid …
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The Huffington Post
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
AOL Threatens Blogger With Copyright Infringement Charge... For Doing The Exact Same Thing AOL Has Done On A Large Scale — There have been plenty of accusations made against AOL's the Huffington Post concerning its habit of “over aggregating” content from other sites.
Anna Heim / The Next Web:
BiblioCrunch relaunches as an e-book services marketplace that helps publishers find talent — BiblioCrunch's e-book services marketplace is now open to the public, the New York-based startup announced today, right on time for Book Expo America. According to its CEO Miral Sattar …
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Radio Host Neal Boortz To Retire, Will Be Replaced By Herman Cain — Long-time conservative radio talker Neal Boortz will announce his retirement today, according to a report. The announcement that contains Boortz's retirement also says that former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain will replace him early next year.
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Media Decoder, Radio & Television … and The New Yorker Blog
Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
NYT: “MEN invented the internet” — What a steaming turd of an opening line in David Streitfeld's otherwise serviceable New York Times piece about the Ellen Pao/Kleiner Perkins sexual harassment lawsuit, and gender discrimination in Silicon Valley. — Here's the opening graf (bold-ing, mine):
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New York Times, New York Magazine, Felix Salmon, Betabeat, Dave Winer and @mathewi
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Don't Mean To Be Alarmist, But The TV Business May Be Starting To Collapse — In the first decade of the commercial Internet—the 1990s and early 2000s—there were frequent murmurings that newspapers were screwed. — The digital audience didn't read newspapers, people pointed out. They visited web sites.
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The Daily Caller and Fortune
Pandora Young / FishbowlLA:
James Rainey Writes Moving Tribute to Murdered Brother — Via Facebook, Los Angeles Times media critic James Rainey shares a loving remembrance of his older brother, chiropractor Robert Rainey, who was killed last week at his Venice boulevard office in Palms.
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JIMROMENESKO.COM, Los Angeles Times and LA Observed
Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:
My Gettysburg oration: A vision for journalism that can long endure — This is the prepared text for my June 2 keynote speech to the Pennsylvania Press Conference. I ad-libbed a bit, so this isn't exactly what I said. — I'm used to leading 90-minute workshops at conferences like this.
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Poynter and @jayrosen_nyu
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