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8:05 AM ET, March 24, 2011

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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
AOL HuffPost To Freelancers: We Want You On Staff, But Real Journalists Only Need Apply  —  In the reorganization of AOL and the Huffington Post into the Huffington Post Media Group, the company succumbed to layoffs and consolidated AOL news sites into the Huffington Post, folding or shutting down thirty properties.
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Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:   Huffington's cultural revolution: Destroying the old world to forge a new one, for a while
Erik Sherman / BNET:
AOL's Brewing Conflict: Brand Versus Journalism
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Google News de-indexing Berkleyside: Bug, not snub!  —  You may have seen a blog post making its way around Twitter today: Lance Knobel, publisher of the respected local news site Berkeleyside (and past Lab contributor), noting the fact that Google News had suddenly stopped indexing Berkleyside articles.
Discussion: Davos Newbies
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Lance Knobel / Davos Newbies:
Google listens... if you shout loudly enough  —  Yesterday evening I wrote about the bizarre disappearance from Google News of my news site, Berkeleyside.  What happens next is either an illustration of the power of digital democracy or an example of the value of friends with fantastic megaphones.
Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Think Quarterly: Google Launches Its Own Online Magazine  —  We hear a lot about Google's relationship with publishers, but this week the search giant also quietly launched its own online publication based in the UK.  Think Quarterly, which calls itself a “a breathing space in a busy world” …
Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
'I'm just mystified that this little job post has resonated with so many people in the business'  —  Sarasota Herald-Tribune's Matthew Doig has written what Mother Jones calls “the best journalism-job want ad ever.”  His search for an investigative reporter is all over Twitter and journalists' Facebook pages.
Kelly McBride / ESPN:
Straight to the point  —  Poynter Review Project aims to help fans understand ESPN, and vice versa  —  Since Poynter and ESPN announced that we would partner to create a review project as the next evolution of the ESPN ombudsman, the general reaction from you, the fans, has been: What is The Poynter Institute anyway?
Discussion: Poynter and Nieman Journalism Lab
Kunur Patel / AdAge:
McClatchy, a Groupon Partner, Starts Selling Its Own Daily Deals, Too  —  Will Still Use Groupon, but Becomes Latest Publisher to Try Social Coupon Game for Itself  —  After teaming up with Groupon to get daily deals on its websites last summer, McClatchy Co. has decided to also get into the business on its own.
Discussion: Screenwerk, @r and eMedia Vitals
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Starbucks network adds ESPN, Economist, Marvel  —  ESPN Rumor Central on the Starbucks Digital Network  —  Digital subscriptions to the Economist aren't cheap, but temporary online access to the magazine's contents just dropped to the price of a cup of coffee, and a trip to the nearest Starbucks store.
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Bloomberg: Personalizing the News for 20 Million People  —  Mining through terabytes and zettabytes of data isn't just for hardware companies and database-service providers — media companies like Bloomberg are also trying to make use of the oceans of information they have about their users …
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
Irina Slutsky / AdAge:
Facebook Test Mines Real-Time Conversations for Ad Targeting  —  Offering Marketers the Ability to Target Swells of Sentiment, Much Like Twitter  —  This month — and for the first time ever — Facebook started to mine real-time conversations to target ads.
Joe Mullin / paidContent:
What The Collapse Of The Google Books Deal Really Means  —  For all the growth in the digital book market over the last few years, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Books is still the only project with the outsize ambition of scanning every book, and it's not an exaggeration to say the deal it reached …
Yahoo! News:
Ongo looks to capture US news online  —  Online news service Ongo is hoping to provide its subscribers with full access to The New York Times and expanding its line-up of contributors, Ongo chief executive Alex Kazim said overnight.  —  Kazim, in an interview with AFP, said Ongo …
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
New York Times' Frank Bruni shares his tools for versatile writing  —  Longtime New York Times reporter Frank Bruni doesn't have a set beat.  Instead, he skillfully wanders as a writer by exploring a variety of topics.  —  Take a look at Bruni's most recent stories and you'll see what I mean.
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:
Being Mrs. Keller  —  Sometimes it's convenient to have a newsroom at your fingertips.  —  When returning to the states from a trip to the U.K., Emma Gilbey Keller, spouse of New York Times executive editor and 50th most important person in the world Bill Keller, asked the Twitterverse, “Exactly what is the snow situ in NYC?
Discussion: Future of Journalism
David Bauder / Associated Press:
CNN trying to take advantage of newsgathering  —  NEW YORK — CNN sent 11 crews to cover Japan's earthquake and tsunami, including headliners Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta.  Anchors Wolf Blitzer and Piers Morgan were elsewhere last week: Blitzer hosting his evening newscast from France …
Discussion: New York Times, Mediaite and TVNewser
Jessica Ocheltree / splicetoday.com:
The Half-Lives of Media Alarmism  —  The radiation levels in Japan have been greatly exaggerated.  —  oisa  —  I've just discovered that I was exposed to radioactive potassium-40 this morning.  I even ingested it, and now there is no way to stop it from incorporating itself into my smooth muscle tissue …
OnSwipe Company Blog:
Onswipe Partners With Automattic To Power iPad Traffic On 18.6 Million+ WordPress.com Blogs  —  Basic gist of what's happening: All of WordPress.com including most of its VIP blogs will be Onswipe enabled for the best browsing experience possible on iPad.  It's available for all .org users too!
 
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Robert Hernandez / Online Journalism Review:
Q & A with Overheard in the Newsroom's Kevin Cobb
Leslie Horn / PC Magazine:
Q&A: The Person Who Demolished the Times Paywall Via Twitter
Simon Owens / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How CNN's iReport enhanced the network's coverage of the Japan earthquake and its aftermath
Chris O'Shea / mediabistro.com:
The Atlantic Pulls Unflattering Jay-Z Article
Discussion: HYUNINC and New York Press
Emma Barnett / Telegraph:
Google News executive: ‘We are not at war with Apple’
Discussion: SAI
Patricia Sellers / Fortune:
75 Rock: A tower of power
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Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:
Former NBC exec leads parents group's profanity crusade
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
USA Today rewrites strategy to cope with Internet
Discussion: Poynter and On Media's Blog
Joshua Levine / Wall Street Journal:
Brand Anna  —  The editor of Vogue has always occupied …
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Pretty Flipboard Fundraising at an Even Prettier $200 Million Valuation
Lara O'Reilly / nma.co.uk:
FT website to match pink paper
Discussion: Talking Biz News
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
On the Media: At Neon Tommy, the reporters are responsible for delivery too
Discussion: Poynter and smays.com
Jeff Neumann / Gawker:
Libya Releases 3 More Journalists
Discussion: Press Gazette