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• Back to the future: What if the ‘mass media’ era was just an accident of history?

  
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  When it comes to the traditional media business, there is often a pervasive nostalgia for “the good old days,” when a handful of newspapers and TV networks ruled over the media landscape and profitability was so taken for granted that huge family dynasties with names like Sulzberger and Bancroft were built on ...
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• Back to the future: What if the ‘mass media’ era was just an accident of history?

  
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  When it comes to the traditional media business, there is often a pervasive nostalgia for “the good old days,” when a handful of newspapers and TV networks ruled over the media landscape and profitability was so taken for granted that huge family dynasties with names like Sulzberger and Bancroft were built on ...
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• News flash: Twitter doesn’t have to hire journalists to be a powerful media competitor

  
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  When Twitter recently posted a job listing for a “head of news and journalism,” it sparked a rash of posts and commentary about how the company was becoming a media entity — until Twitter staffer Mark Luckie tossed cold water on that idea with an interview in which he poo-poohed the notion that Twitter had ...
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• News flash: Twitter doesn’t have to hire journalists to be a powerful media competitor

  
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  When Twitter recently posted a job listing for a “head of news and journalism,” it sparked a rash of posts and commentary about how the company was becoming a media entity — until Twitter staffer Mark Luckie tossed cold water on that idea with an interview in which he poo-poohed the notion that Twitter had ...
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• Is it the best of times or the worst of times for journalism? Yes

  
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  If you’re convinced this is the worst possible time to be a journalist, there’s plenty of evidence to support you: just this week, there have been cutbacks at the New York Post and news of cuts at the venerable Village Voice , not to mention periodic bankruptcies and printing-press shutdowns. But if you ...
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• LinkedIn continues its evolution as a media entity with the launch of magazine-style news channels

  
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  Although it is still seen by many as a place for networking with colleagues and/or posting a digital curriculum vitae, LinkedIn has been behaving a lot more like a media entity recently — and a revamp of its LinkedIn Today offering that launched on Wednesday is one more step in that evolution. The site now offers ...
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• Open interviews and gatekeepers: The media can either open up or sources can go direct

  
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  The way the media works — digital or otherwise — hasn’t changed all that much in some respects: journalists interview people about a topic and then select the quotes they want to use. Sometimes a reporter will cherry-pick an interview in a way that the source doesn’t like, but what can they do about it? As it ...
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• Planet Money and Kickstarter: Is web-based crowdfunding the future of public media?

  
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  When the reporting team at Planet Money — a joint venture between PRI’s This American Life and National Public Radio — decided to do a series tracing the creation of a T-shirt all the way from the cotton fields to the department store, producer Alex Blumberg says that Kickstarter seemed like a natural way to ...
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• Planet Money and Kickstarter: Is web-based crowdfunding the future of public media?

  
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  When the reporting team at Planet Money — a joint venture between PRI’s This American Life and National Public Radio — decided to do a series tracing the creation of a T-shirt all the way from the cotton fields to the department store, producer Alex Blumberg says that Kickstarter seemed like a natural way to ...
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• Want a job at Gawker Media? You can get a head start by being a regular commenter

  
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  Gawker Media’s auto-focused site Jalopnik hired a new editor recently — which isn’t all that surprising, since the blog network run by Nick Denton has been expanding in all sorts of directions lately, including into new countries. But Jalopnik’s new hire didn’t come from a job board or Craigslist or even ...
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• Think micropayments for media can’t work? Greg Golebiewski says you are wrong

  
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  Growing numbers of newspapers and other media outlets are erecting paywalls, hoping to imitate the success of the New York Times , while others such as The Guardian and the Daily Mail remain paywall free in the hope that they can survive on advertising revenue — but very few seem to be experimenting with ...
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• RapGenius may not have found the future of news, but it has about as much chance as anyone else

  
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  You might have heard about the website RapGenius when it raised $15 million from Marc Andreessen’s venture firm and thought to yourself that this was a strange investment for the former Netscape founder: a site that allows music fans to annotate rap lyrics. And when the founders announced their intention to launch ...
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• Newspapers need to stop lying to themselves — and to advertisers — about their circulation

  
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  There has been much hue and cry about the New York Times passing USA Today in circulation to become the second-largest newspaper in the United States, thanks in part to a boost from the NYT’s digital susbcription plan, which reportedly boosted circulation to almost 2 million daily readers. These numbers are ...
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• What I learned at paidContent Live: No one has all the answers on the future of media, and that’s good

  
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  When we started to put together the paidContent Live conference , which we held in New York last week, one of the driving forces behind our selection of speakers was to find those who are doing interesting things — either in new or traditional media — so that we could try and figure out what the future of media ...
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• Three things that Reddit did right during the Boston bombings and why that matters

  
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  Although mainstream media outlets like CNN and the New York Post have come under plenty of fire for the way they handled information during the Boston bombings (Reuters even fired one of its social-media editors), much of the attention has focused on what Reddit got wrong — in part because it seems to puncture ...
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• Two deals that make it obvious where Twitter’s heart lies: inside your television

  
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  There were a number of reports last week that Twitter was looking to do TV-related content deals with broadcast networks such as Viacom and NBC so that it could add video clips to its real-time stream, and now we have seen two deals announced that show the kind of thing Twitter has in mind: one with BBC America ...
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• Takeaways from paidContent Live: Paywalls, sponsored content and massive disruption

  
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  The world of media is being disrupted at an even faster rate than ever, it seems — both the content side and the advertising side — and our paidContent Live conference in New York on Wednesday was full of fascinating viewpoints and analysis from some of the writers, publishers, startups and investors who are ...
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• Takeaways from paidContent Live: Paywalls, sponsored content and massive disruption

  
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  The world of media is being disrupted at an even faster rate than ever, it seems — both the content side and the advertising side — and our paidContent Live conference in New York on Wednesday was full of fascinating viewpoints and analysis from some of the writers, publishers, startups and investors who are ...
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• Promoting alcohol on social media: where do we draw the line?

  
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  Last Friday I was interviewed for a segment on ABC 7pm News about alcohol advertising on social media. Click on the image below to see the video . The piece begins: There are concerns alcohol companies may be turning to the colourful world of social media to promote drinks to minors. There are already ...
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• Boston marathon: Has social media coverage finally matured?

  
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  “Compared to past breaking news events, today we saw an increased level of maturity from social media and technology-enabled reporting that may provide a glimpse of what breaking news coverage can be in the future,”   says David Holmes in PandoDaily
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