Mediagazer: LinkedIn Is Turning Itself Into A Very Valuable Media Company (Jay Yarow/Business Insider)

10:10 AM ET, February 26, 2013

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

ABC News announces Susan Saulny hire — ABC News has announced the hire of New York Times reporter Susan Saulny as a correspondent. The news comes one day after ABC News announced the hire of Times national political correspondent Jeff Zeleny. — In a memo to staff …

Discussion: Media Decoder, TVNewser and @dylanbyers

Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:

Now: The Long Nag — First some great news. Tomorrow will be three full weeks since the meter went into effect on the Dish. Too soon for any serious assessment, but soon enough for some analysis - and for the transparency we promised you. In February, through the meter, we have brought in $93,000 or so in subscriptions.

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Three weeks in, it may be time for Andrew Sullivan to tweak The Dish's metered paywall — When Andrew Sullivan announced that he was taking his immensely popular blog, The Dish, independent and behind a metered paywall, he raised $333,000 in 24 hours. In the remainder of January, The Dish raised an additional $185,000.

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Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

LinkedIn Is Turning Itself Into A Very Valuable Media Company — LinkedIn is successfully turning itself into a media company, notes Scott Devitt at Morgan Stanley. — This is fairly obvious to anyone who has been paying close attention, but it's worth mentioning again.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

For the First Time Since Napster, Music Sales Are Growing — The last time music was a growth business was 1999 — back when people bought millions of Britney Spears CDs, and GeoCities was the third-most popular Web property in the world. You know what's happened since then.

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Christine Haughney / New York Times:

Herald Tribune to Be Renamed The International New York Times — The New York Times Company said Monday it was planning to rename The International Herald Tribune, its 125-year-old newspaper based in Paris, and would also unveil a new Web site designed for international audiences.

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Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch:

Old Media, Meet New: European Publisher Axel Springer Acquires Second Screen App TunedIn — TunedIn Media, the German company behind the second screen “social TV' app TunedIn, has been acquired by European publishing giant Axel Springer. The amount isn't being disclosed …

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Gizmodo Boss Joe Brown Goes (Back) to Wired — Wired, the Conde Nast tech title, continues an overhaul that began last fall: Joe Brown, the top editor at Gawker Media's Gizmodo tech site, is joining up. — Brown will be Wired's “New York editor,” a new role that will have him weighing …

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Christine Haughney / New York Times:

Time Inc. and Meredith Prepare to Join Magazine Businesses — When Jack Griffin, the former president of the magazine company Meredith, took the reins at Time Inc., he threw a holiday party for his staff on the 34th floor of the Time & Life Building. For many employees at the famously hierarchal company …

Sara Inés Calderón / TechCrunch:

‘War Correspondents’ In Mexico Address Mainstream Media Shortcomings, Use Twitter To Spread Information — In Mexico's drug-war-torn cities, a small number of Twitter users affected by narco violence are acting as war correspondents to the masses, providing a public-safety alert system of sorts …

Roger Yu / USA Today:

Shakeout in old media picks up pace — On Feb. 6, Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes spoke at length about his company's performance in a routine earnings call. He went on about CNN's election coverage, the enduring popularity of HBO — and even the impact that the absence of any new Harry Potter movies …

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

WSJ's Narisetti to join News Corp. executive ranks — Raju Narisetti, who currently oversees the Wall Street Journal's digital operations, is moving up into the executive ranks, according to an email sent out by Journal managing editor Gerard Baker to the staff. — Baker wrote:

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