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A case of never letting the source spoil a good story — Perhaps it's too embarrassing for some writers to risk linking to primary sources that readers can check for themselves — Why don't journalists link to primary sources? Whether it's a press release, an academic journal article …
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Bad Science and bengoldacre

Libya: Mohammed “Mo” Al Nabbous, founder of Benghazi webcast “Libya Alhurra TV,” killed in firefight — Watch live streaming video from libya17feb at livestream.com — Via LibyaFeb17.com and via the Twitter updates from NPR's Andy Carvin, terrible news that the brave citizen journalist …
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Guardian, Guardian, Gawker, The Daily Dish, Libya February 17th, @acarvin, Toronto Star, The Daily What, Global Voices in English and Media Network

Why I Won't Pay For “The Daily” and I Will Pay For The Digital New York Times — I wanted to love The Daily, the first news source from a mainstream media company designed purely for the IPad, a platform I love. I couldn't wait for it to get launched. I told everyone I knew in the business …

HOW NOT TO INTERACT WITH THE MEDIA 101, courtesy of Hashable CEO, Mike Yavonditte: — 1. See a negative op-ed about your company wherein the author uses a metaphor describing you being a velvet rope telling people they're not “Hashable” enough. — 2. Utterly fail to grasp metaphor.
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tag me with a spoon and Betabeat, more at Techmeme »
Arthur S. Brisbane / The Public Editor's Journal:
Additional Letters: Too Little Information — Following up on the reader letters that appeared in my print column for this week, here are some additional letters via e-mail to my two columns, An American in Pakistan and Business News You Didn't Read Here. — Dear Mr. Brisbane:
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Peter Preston / Guardian:
Paywall or no paywall, print is still what pays — The New York Times's model for online charging will no doubt be widely copied. But according to one analyst, print will still be providing 86% of UK newspapers' revenues even in 2017 — So, at long, long last, we have the paywall policy …

The Groupon phenomenon: beautiful deconstruction of an old media model — Groupon — and all it means — is here to stay. How did the newsmedia industry not see it coming? And what do we do about it now? — TAGS — In case you haven't noticed, media companies have changed their strategy of charging for advertising.

‘Daily’ Publisher Disputes Subscription Numbers; Says 5,000 Far Too Low — The folks at The Daily aren't ready to talk real numbers but they are upset enough about one set making the rounds now to try to set the record straight. A piece we republished from our sibling MediaGuardian ends …
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NYConvergence.com

Confirmed: The Hollywood Reporter IS for Sale (updated) — The Hollywood Reporter and its four sister publications — Billboard, AdWeek, MediaWeek and Brandweek — are up for sale, an individual with knowledge of the proposed transaction told TheWrap on Friday.
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Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
CEO says Hollywood Reporter, Adweek and sister mags not for sale
CEO says Hollywood Reporter, Adweek and sister mags not for sale
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WWD Media Headlines, FishbowlNY, TVWeek.com, MediaPost, Runnin' Scared, paidContent, New York Post and New York Magazine
James Robinson / Guardian:
Met must hand over phone-hacking evidence — Police must pass documents seized from Glenn Mulcaire to lawyers representing growing number of people suing paper — The growing number of public figures suing the News of the World won a major high court victory when a judge said Scotland Yard must hand …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Netflix Bets Big On “House Of Cards” But Swears It's Not a Strategy Shift: Q&A With Content Boss Ted Sarandos — Netflix has bought its first TV show which doesn't exist yet. The company has finalized a deal to distribute two seasons of “House Of Cards”, a yet-to-be produced political drama directed …
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The Official Netflix Blog, TechCrunch, Media Decoder, GigaOM, The Wrap, VideoNuze, The Atlantic Online, paidContent, rbr.com, Electronista, Technologizer, The Wire, Multichannel, AdPulp and parislemon

Huffpo Claims Its Bloggers Aren't Writers. Is That True? — Accused by the Newspaper Guild of undermining journalism and victimizing journalists, the Huffington Post says it's not the case. No surprise there. What's interesting is how the news-and-blogs site chose to justify itself …
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Poynter, http://www.Stinkyjournalism … and Future of Journalism
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Courtney Boyd Myers / The Next Web:
Faced with a strike, The Huffington Post says: “Our bloggers are happy.”
Faced with a strike, The Huffington Post says: “Our bloggers are happy.”
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Cision and Wired In Blog| BNET, Thanks:cbm

Can HighGear Media Turn Lousy Blog Economics into a Huge Exit? (TCTV) — Earlier today, we posted an interview with Matt Heist, CEO of HighGear Media, an auto blog that hit four million uniques last month. That may not sound too jaw-dropping but gearheads are a surprisingly neglected online audience …
Thanks:jbirk

Young CEO Seeks to Reset Ticketmaster With Tech and Transparency — Ticketmaster CEO Nathan Hubbard. Photo: Ticketmaster — Fifteen years ago, Nathan Hubbard and his band Rockwell Church played Austin's South by Southwest music festival, the gathering of industry insiders and plain ol' fans …