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Forbes' New Advertising Pitch: Wanna Buy a Blog? — The Revenue Side of DVorkin's AdVoice Model Means Advertisers Publish Under Company's Banner — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — When Forbes bought blogging startup True/Slant, it got a familiar face in True/Slant CEO and former Forbes editor Lewis DVorkin …
Discussion:
Talking Biz News, Felix Salmon and AdPulp

Steve Burke Replacing Zucker Atop NBCU — Steve Burke, Comcast chief operating officer and a onetime executive star at Disney, will become CEO of NBC Universal once federal regulators approve the cable TV giant's $30-billion proposal to control the content company.
Discussion:
Business Wire, Multichannel, MediaMemo, AdAge, Variety, Wall Street Journal, From Inside the Box, paidContent, rbr.com, Media Decoder and B&C

The Demon Blogger of Fleet Street — Nick Denton cast himself as a media outsider. That's how he made it inside. — Nick Denton has built a panopticon. From his living-room window, he can all but see his favorite table at Balthazar, and his favorite table at Balthazar is picked …

Why the Fox News Suit Against Robin Carnahan's Campaign Is Bogus — It's legally weak and makes the network look partisan. — Last week, in an apparently unprecedented move, Fox News sued Robin Carnahan, Missouri's Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, for copyright infringement.
Discussion:
Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog and Romenesko

Killing the Golden Goose, a modern media parable — Local media websites regularly employ tactics that put revenue above users, and this is a much bigger deal than we realize. — Let's review. Local media, feeling the disruption to its core business, reaches out into the Web for new revenue opportunities.
Discussion:
Kirk LaPointe's …
Simon Dumenco / AdAge:
Three Truths About the Media Future — Including the End of Rupert Murdoch — Plus: Magazines Are Making a Comeback and VCs Might Be Getting Desperate — 1. This really might be The End of Rupert Murdoch — but not for the reasons you might think. — Imagine if a reporter …

Study Finds That Apple Dominates Tech News — A customer, Evan Wiendczak, spoke after buying the first iPhone 4 on Fifth Avenue in June. — A new study confirms what some in the technology industry have long sensed: that Apple commands an inordinate amount of the media's attention.
Discussion:
Agence France Presse and San Francisco Chronicle
New York Times:
The Readers' Front Page — Views from readers, responses from the staff, and thoughts from the public editor. — The Times's Web site always lists the most popular e-mailed stories. These are increasingly taking the role of “headlines.” One looks at them to see what one may have missed, or what others are reading.

Techmeme keeps up with lighting-fast tech news — In the five years since Gabe Rivera founded Techmeme, the speed and volume of technology news has increased dramatically. — And that's helped the San Francisco firm's website become the go-to place for the technorati.

Old Media Must Deliver Digital Experiences Consumers Demand — What is the new reality for dealing with a digital world? If content is king, then there's a new emperor in town: the digital experience. The business of selling content has now become the business of delivering audiences.
Discussion:
Kirk LaPointe's …

Julia Budworth: Tea with ‘The Lady’ — Matthew Bell takes cake with the co-owner of the genteel women's weekly magazine - and finds her in a remarkable fury over its editor, Rachel Johnson — Seventy miles from the hushed London offices of The Lady, in a Georgian drawing room overlooking a lake …
AdAge:
AP Circular App Coming to Help Print Compete With Online Coupons — After the Web Cost Them Classifieds, Newspapers Don't Want to Lose Important Revenue Source — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The Associated Press is developing an app it hopes will help newspapers keep their hands on a key source …