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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
The New York Times Is About to Say Goodbye to About.com — The New York Times' time with About.com may be coming to an end. The paper has been looking to get rid of the struggling Web site, which produces high-volume, low-cost content, and has a deal in place to sell it to Answers.com.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
News Corp. Takes $2.8 Billion Charge — News Corp. missed its quarterly numbers today by reporting adjusted earnings of 32 cents a share on revenue of $8.4 billion; the Street was expecting 32 cents and $8.7 billion. — More interesting is the $2.8 billion “non-cash impairment charge” …
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Steve Myers / Poynter:
New York Times news apps team ventures into product development with Olympics syndication — The New York Times has built an impressive online home for its Olympics coverage, with instantly-updated results, medal counts, athlete bios, and of course stories and photos.
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Linda Holmes / NPR:
Good Business, Bad Quality: How NBC Is Both Right And Wrong On The Olympics
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Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
BBC's Olympics Broadcasts Focus on Live Coverage
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Obama Is an Avid Reader, and Critic, of the News — WASHINGTON — A few months after President Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus package passed, he began to notice news reports, but not about the jobs the bill might create or how much of the country's infrastructure it would repair.
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
70 journalists killed in six months — At least 70 journalists and support staff were killed while on assignment in the first half of this year, making it one of the bloodiest periods of recent times. — Fifteen were confirmed dead in Syria alone between January and June …
Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Washington Post's TruthTeller project hopes to birth real-time fact-checking — Steven Ginsberg saw the future of fact-checking while listening to a politician tell lies in Iowa last summer. — “It was one of those small parking lot affairs outside a sports bar and the candidate …
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Aaron Mesh / Willamette Week:
Stop the Presses — The Oregonian may not be a daily newspaper much longer.
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Two years after the tipping point, papers' web readership is booming — As newspapers' print circulation continues to decline, publishers now get the majority of their readers online. But what does that look like in practise? — I crunched ABC and ABCe (UK) data for the last 12 years to discover the long view.
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Howard Finberg / Poynter:
6 foundations tell journalism schools to change faster or risk future funding — As thousands of educators head off to Chicago for the 100th anniversary convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, I can promise that one of the most talked-about topics …
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James Poniewozik / Time:
Politifact, Harry Reid's Pants, and the Limits of Fact-Checking — Fact: I do not know whether Mitt Romney paid federal income taxes, when, or how much, in any year before 2010, for which he publicly released his tax returns. Fact: You probably do not either, unless you are among …
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Peter Jukes / The Daily Beast:
Elton John sues the Times for Libel — Adding to Murdoch's woes, the singer sues the media mogul's flagship paper for libel. Peter Jukes reports. — Rupert Murdoch's luck in London seems have run out. After some seventy arrests associated with phone hacking [LINK ON PHONE HACKING …
Alan Mutter / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Big Data is a big deal for newspapers — Just when you thought you had a handle on digital publishing, here comes a paradigm shift that will be more counterintuitive and more disconcerting for newspapers than all the technological innovations that have come before.
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