Mediagazer: Why MIT's Technology Review is going digital first (Mathew Ingram/GigaOM)

6:45 AM ET, June 5, 2012

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Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:

What Happened to GOOD? — In five days, GOOD went from being a media darling to the media's latest jerk when the company laid off most of its editorial staff. Just what happened to the do-gooder publication is still pretty murky. — First off, if you aren't familiar with GOOD …

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Walter Kirn joins The New Republic — The New Republic, on a hiring spree since it came under the ownership of Chris Hughes, has hired novelist and essayist Walter Kirn to serve as National Correspondent. — Kirn tells me he'll cover “politics and culture and their convergence,” and will start within the next few weeks.

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

TNR: ‘The New Yorker’ of Washington D.C.? — The New Republic has a new goal: It wants to be The New Yorker of Washington, D.C. — Chris Hughes, who bought the 98-year-old magazine three months ago, has literally said just that, multiple sources who have spoken with the 28-year-old tech entreprenuer tell POLITICO.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
GOOD Magazine posts thank-you video featuring laid-off staffers

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Dan Frommer / SplatF:

If You're Expecting The TV Industry To Just ‘Collapse’, Keep Dreaming — The Internet has already changed the television industry significantly, and will continue to do so. But the idea that the web will cause the TV business to “collapse” is fantasy. — Henry Blodget has just written …

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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Don't Mean To Be Alarmist, But The TV Business May Be Starting To Collapse

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Why MIT's Technology Review is going digital first — Magazines and newspapers of all kinds have been experimenting with paywalls, iPad apps and other methods of handling the ongoing disruption that the web and digital media have produced, but very few have taken a fully “digital first” approach.

Discussion: Technology Review, Thanks:@mathewi

Jaquetta White / New Orleans Times-Picayune:

Times-Picayune Citizens' Group aims to stop publication changes at newspaper — About 50 business and civic leaders and organizations have joined together to express frustration at a recently announced plan to reduce print publication of The Times-Picayune.

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Christine Haughney / New York Times:
As Newspapers Cut, Analysts Ask if Readers Will Remain

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Julie Bosman / Media Decoder:

Attacking Amazon, Authors Group Urges Opposition to E-Book Settlement — The Authors Guild on Monday will urge its 8,500 members to protest the Department of Justice's proposed settlement with three publishers, a proposal that clears the way for Amazon to lower prices on e-books.

Erik Wemple:

John Solomon to help out at Washington Times — A memo from Washington Times President Tom McDevitt indicates that a familiar face may be roaming the newspaper's hallways. From the memo: … Saying that Solomon merely served as executive editor “from 2008-2009” sort of buries the lede.

Ed Pilkington / Guardian:

Bradley Manning lawyer in struggle to have government documents released — The US government is in possession of 250,000 pages of documents relating to the transmission of state secrets to whistleblower website WikiLeaks, which it is refusing to disclose to defence lawyers representing the alleged source of the leaks, Bradley Manning.

Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:

New York Times Tacks on Two for Social Media, Values People Who Know Their Way Around Reddit — The New York Times is beefing up their social media S.W.A.T. team; one comes from inside the building, the other, ProPublica. A memo from inside the Times, in which we learn what the social media masters …

Jim Romenesko:

Fired U-T San Diego sports columnist: I wasn't told my job was in danger — U-T San Diego sports columnist Tim Sullivan was fired on Friday after working at the paper for a decade. “I was advised that my services were no longer required,” Sullivan tweeted. “Simple as that.”

Erik Wemple:

Roger Ailes wife's newspaper in state of denial — Elizabeth Ailes has a message for journalist Gabriel Sherman. He's welcome to schlep to a local newsstand to buy a copy of her Putnam County News and Recorder. But that's the only way he's going to get his hands on the community paper.

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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