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2:00 PM ET, January 26, 2011

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Julianne Pepitone / CNNMoney.com:
Demand Media shares soar 34% in IPO  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Shares of online content creator Demand Media rose 34% in early trading Wednesday, raising $66.5 million for the company in an IPO that valued Demand at more than $1 billion.  —  The offering included 8.9 million shares …
Discussion: Poynter and Exile On Wall Street
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Wall Street Welcomes the Content Farm: Demand Media Supersizes Its IPO  —  Demand Media has given skeptics plenty to chew on over the last six months: Accounting issues to hash out with the Feds; weird noises from Google, which it depends on; and debates about what “profitable” means.
Tom Junod / Esquire:
Roger Ailes on Roger Ailes: The Interview Transcripts, Part 1  —  TALENT SCOUT /// “I thought Glenn at Headline News was not doing what he could do.  I thought Bill O'Reilly at Inside Edition was not doing what he could do.  I thought Sean Hannity on radio — good-looking guy, why not put him on television?
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Dear commenters, Steve Doocy is reading
Discussion: Mediaite, @tolles and Swampland
Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
Bill Keller's Clash with Assange  —  As The New York Times publishes its first e-book, editor Bill Keller tells Howard Kurtz how exasperating it was to deal with the WikiLeaks founder—and why he's launching his own column.  —  Bill Keller, who led The New York Times through its rocky dealings …
Discussion: Yahoo! News
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Raphael G. Satter / Associated Press:
AP Interview:WikiLeaks seeking more media partners  —  LONDON - WikiLeaks hopes to enlist as many as 60 news organizations from around the world in a bid to help speed the publication of its massive trove of secret U.S. diplomatic memos, the site's founder said Tuesday.
Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:
Analysis: The Internet Stole Obama's State of the Union From Cable News  —  A reliable producer of big ratings for cable news networks for decades, the President's annual State of the Union address on Tuesday seemed to mark a turning point in which media delivery of the event …
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
National Journal Skirts Embargo, Posts Full Text Of Obama's State …
Lauren Kirchner / CJR:
The Most Tech-Enhanced SOTU Yet
Erik Sass / MediaPost:
Newspaper Web Sites Reach 62% of Online Population  —  Newspapers are not dying — at least online.  An average of 105.3 million people pre month visited a newspaper Web site during the fourth quarter of 2010, according to comScore data cited by the Newspaper Association of America …
Discussion: newsplexer and eMedia Vitals
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NetNewsCheck Latest:
Newspaper Site Generate Big Traffic In Q4  —  Newspaper sites generated an average monthly audience of over 105 million unique visitors — 62% of all adult Internet users — during the fourth quarter of 2010, according to a study from comScore and the Newspaper Association of America.
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Twitter Tests Self-Serve Ad Platform  —  Twitter has begun testing a self-serve ad platform with advertisers and agencies it plans to roll out in the first half of this year, and MediaPost got a glimpse.  —  Clix Marketing Founder David Szetela began supporting a handful of clients this week.
David Kaplan / paidContent:
After 25 Years, Village Voice Publisher Cohen Steps Down  —  Village Voice Publisher Michael Cohen is preparing to exit the free alt-weekly after nearly 25 years.  He'll be replaced by Village Voice Media veteran Josh Fromson, who is currently publisher of the SF Weekly.
Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:
Journalism's Subterranean Saviors  —  The iPhone will become available for Verizon customers in a few days, and New York City should steel itself for a pedestrian population more app-enabled and more dangerously distracted than ever.  But the subway is another thing entirely.
Discussion: mediabistro.com
New York Post:
Talent raid?  —  Eyes at MSNBC have shifted to CNN's Roland Martin to fill a hole in their evening news lineup since the exit of 8 p.m. gasbag Keith Olbermann.  We hear Martin's name has been brought up to take over the 6 p.m. time slot that was anchored by Ed Schultz.
Discussion: TVWeek.com and Chickaboomer
Eric Pfanner / DealBook:
In a Wikileaks Era, Balancing Public and Private  —  DAVOS, Switzerland — At a meeting of the World Economic Forum in China last year, Adrian Monck, the group's chief spokesman, moderated a panel on social networking.  Because the Internet can be a sensitive topic in China …
Sam Gustin / Epicenter:
From Newsweek to Nomad: Media Banker Launches iPad ‘Weeklies’ Platform  —  Former Newsweek president Mark Edmiston is launching a new digital suite of publications designed for iPads and other mobile devices called Nomad Editions.  —  Edmiston, a veteran New York City magazine executive …
Guardian:
Tags are magic!  - Part 3  —  In part three of this series of posts based on a presentation given at last year's Online Information conference in London, the Guardian's tag manager Peter Martin and information architect Martin Belam look at how we keep our tags useful for the audience, and in line with house style
Discussion: @mthomps
 
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Joel Meares / CJR:
Q&A: Former NYT Shanghai Bureau Chief Howard French
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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Obama has pre-SOTU lunch with TV news stars
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Real Blogs Don't Have Interstitial Ads
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David Goetzl / MediaPost:
WPP's Sorrell Calls For Pay Model For Content
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Greg T. Spielberg / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How Sam Spratt is finding a niche for illustrations in the text …
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Newspapers Try to Reimpose Scarcity on News With Ongo
Discussion: Lost Remote, Bits, Fast Company and Ars Technica, Thanks:mathewi
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
ASME Unveils New Guidelines for Magazine Web Sites
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:
Journal Sues to Open Up Medicare Database
Josh Jackson / Paste Magazine:
Paste Magazine Acquired
Discussion: Folio
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
The iPad newsstand that works
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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Adobe launches its AI video model Firefly Video Model in public beta in Premiere Pro, including letting users extend footage and generate video from prompts

Matt Mullenweg:
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Jennifer Hiller / Wall Street Journal:
Google signs an agreement to purchase nuclear energy generated from multiple small modular reactors developed by Kairos Power, targeting 500 MW by 2035

 
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