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Flipboard 1.5 Integrates LinkedIn, Adds A Content Guide For Curated News Browsing — An update to social news viewing app Flipboard goes live in the app store today, with a new souped up 1.5 version that optimizes the reader experience even further. Earlier this week we had the chance …
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Flipboard wants to be the newsstand of the future — Flipboard, one of the first iPad applications to really take advantage of the new device's touch interface to create a kind of digital magazine, released a series of updates and new features Thursday that turn the app into even more of a tablet newsstand.
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MacStories, Inside Flipboard and PR Newswire, Thanks:mathewi
Tim Mak / The Politico:
Mark Halperin apologizes for Obama gaffe — Mark Halperin, editor-at-large for Time, called President Obama “a dick” on Thursday on a popular MSNBC morning show and then quickly apologized. — “I thought he was a dick yesterday,” Halperin, who also is a senior political analyst for MSNBC …
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msnbc.com, Media Decoder, TVNewser, The Huffington Post, Salon, FishbowlDC, @markhalperin, Mediaite, Splice Today, NY Daily News, Hot Air, The Atlantic Wire, WebProNews, Adweek, PolitickerNY, Inside Cable News, Gawker, CJR, mediabistro.com, New York Magazine, Indecision Forever, AmSpecBlog, CNN, Runnin' Scared and Chickaboomer
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Roger Ailes' Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint for Fox News — Republican media strategist Roger Ailes launched Fox News Channel in 1996, ostensibly as a “fair and balanced” counterpoint to what he regarded as the liberal establishment media. But according to a remarkable document buried deep within …
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Mediaite, Poynter, MediaPost, The Atlantic Wire, New York Magazine and On Media's Blog
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Fox News to debut ‘The Five’ in Glenn Beck Timeslot — Fox News Channel will debut a new program called “The Five” airing in Glenn Beck's soon-to-be vacated timeslot beginning Monday, July 11 and running through the summer. — The show, a “The View"-like ensemble program …
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A year after its big redesign, how Google News is thinking about the best ways to present news stories — It's been a year since Google News launched its big redesign, the first major update of the Google News interface since it launched in 2002. The revamp put a new emphasis on customized news content …
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Tablet owners read print newspapers, magazines less often — People who use an iPad or other tablet device read printed newspapers, books and magazines less than they used to, according to a recent study by Forrester Research. — Almost one-third (32 percent) of tablet owners …
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Future of Journalism
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The newsonomics of the British invasion — Editor's Note: Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab. — With the United Kingdom one of the countries suffering the economic doldrums …
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Dylan Byers / Adweek:
Forensic Art Expert Sues ‘New Yorker’ Author — Forensic art expert Peter Paul Biro brought a $2 million defamation suit Wednesday against The New Yorker staff writer David Grann and Advance Magazine Publishers (owners of Condé Nast, which publishes The New Yorker) …
Jennifer 8. Lee:
The Potential for Google+ Stream for News — I got invited to try Google+, which has been written about a lot. Short summary: Facebook should be scared. — The Stream (similar to Facebook) is pretty nice UI/UX. Intuitive icons, clean design. Sparks, the newsy thing …
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Future of Journalism, blogs.journalism.co.uk and Rhymes with Reason
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A Year Behind The ‘Wall’, The Times Has 101,036 Digital Subscribers — One year after it introduced digital charges, News Corp.'s Times Newspapers in the UK says it has 101,036 digital subscribers across the web, tablets and e-readers. — Since the £2 weekly subscription subscription …
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Adweek and Press Gazette
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Next Issue Media Works To Build The Storefront Before The Audience Arrives — Magazine joint venture Next Issue Media is adding six titles to its digital storefront on the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android-powered Samsung Galaxy as it unveils an integrated app that allows users to keep their digital reads …
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Media Maverick
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Newspaper Chain Fights for Copyright Troll's Survival — Stephens Media, the Las Vegas-based media chain, is fighting to keep its latest business model alive: copyright-trolling. — After standing on the sidelines while professional content-troll Righthaven fights in court …
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Righthaven Victims
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Birthers Sue Esquire Over Parody, Seeking More than $200 Million — Joseph Farah and Jerome Corsi have some pretty interesting beliefs. They believe there's no proof Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. * They also believe Hearst Corp. and a writer it employs ought to pay them hundreds …
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Adweek, The Wire, The Atlantic Wire, The Huffington Post, The Raw Story, FishbowlNY and New York Magazine
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Penske's MMC Rebrands, Promotes Racer To President — Jay Penske's Mail.com Media Corp is simplifying things a bit by rebranding as PMC and promoting Chief Revenue Officer Aly Racer to the role of president. Also, CFO George Grobar will now add the COO post to his duties …