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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Star Correspondents Bolt Tampa For NOLA, As Isaac Approaches — Two TV news correspondents who made their marks covering Hurricane Katrina seven years ago are returning to New Orleans as another hurricane approaches. — Fox News Channel's Shepard Smith and CNN's Anderson Cooper …
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FishbowlDC, New York Magazine, Globe and Mail, Yahoo! News, Forbes, Associated Press, The Huffington Post, @andersoncooper and TVSpy
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
With Isaac Bearing Down, Networks Weigh Their Options — Put yourself in the shoes of a network news president for a moment. There's a tropical storm bearing down on the Gulf Coast, reviving memories of Hurricane Katrina seven years ago. But there's also a political convention beginning in Tampa …
David Carr / New York Times:
Political Conventions Can Learn From Reality Shows
Political Conventions Can Learn From Reality Shows
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Politico and Media Decoder
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
IAC Buys About.com From NY Times Co. For $300 Million — “Invest in the Times” is the watchword at The New York Times Co. these days. Now the publisher has another $300 million to invest in its core brand, thanks to internet mogul Barry Diller. Diller's IAC has completed a deal to buy …
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Folio, AdAge, The Wrap, PC Magazine, BtoB Magazine, NetNewsCheck Latest and New York Times
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Jim Edwards / Business Insider:
Here's How Much Money The New York Times Was Losing On About.com — IAC has agreed to buy About.com from the New York Times for $300 million in cash, according to Bloomberg, and no wonder—the encyclopedia site was losing barrowloads of cash. But the sale won't fix NYT's overall digital problems …
Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
Fox asks court to ban Dish's ad-skipping features — (Reuters) - Fox Broadcasting Company is asking a court to put a stop to two features on Dish's new digital video recorder that let consumers skip commercials because it is hurting the TV networks' business.
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VentureBeat and Los Angeles Times
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Joe Schneider / Bloomberg:
Fox Seeks Ban on Dish's Ad-Skip Feature Pending U.S. Trial — Fox Broadcasting Co., a unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (NWSA), sought a preliminary court ban against Dish Network Corp.'s feature that let consumers skip commercials, saying it would lose revenue otherwise.
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Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:
CNN Looks for a Boost From HBO Shows — In a bit of corporate synergy, Time Warner is planning to dip into one of its strongest cable channels, HBO, to help revive the fortunes of one of its weakest, CNN. — As part of Time Warner's attempt to reinvigorate its 24-hour cable news channel …
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TVNewser, The Huffington Post and Los Angeles Times
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
‘Slate’ Gets a New Publisher — Online magazine Slate recently created a dedicated sales force to capitalize on its traffic growth, and now it's getting a new publisher to lead it. Matt Turck, the vp of sales and marketing who built up the new team, will start in the new role Sept. 10.
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The Wrap and FishbowlNY
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Book Reviewers for Hire Meet a Demand for Online Raves — TODD RUTHERFORD was 7 years old when he first understood the nature of supply and demand. He was with a bunch of other boys, one of whom showed off a copy of Playboy to giggles and intense interest.
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Betabeat, The Verge, Page-Turner, Gizmodo, bookforum.com, Business Insider and The Big Picture
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Google discloses paid bloggers and journalists, says Stanford professor Mark Lemley is outside counsel — inShare Google has followed up with a judge's order to disclose anyone it might have paid to influence coverage of its trial against Oracle, and the list includes a well-known Stanford professor …
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Marketing Land and Gizmodo
Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:
Hijacking the news: how hackers are manipulating the press from the inside out — In May of last year, PBS reported online that “prominent rapper Tupac has been found alive and well in a small resort in New Zealand.” The U.K.-based The Sun devoted its front page in July to a report …
Erik Wemple:
Brisbane hammers NYT for ‘progressivism,’ Occupy bias — Outgoing New York Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane made himself a hot aggregational commodity this weekend with a farewell column accusing his paycheck issuer of bias. The money graphs: … So the New York Times covered Occupy Wall Street like a cause, huh?
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Poynter, The Daily Beast and The Huffington Post