Johnnie L. Roberts
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Fans Go Gaga Over ‘Born This Way’ in Monstrous Album Debut
An Amazon cloud deal, iTunes sales and giveaways at Best Buy could power first week purchases to the elusive 1 million mark
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Brand Theft Gaga: Meteoric Fame, Done the Madonna Way — Exactly
Part 2 of 3-part series: How Lady Gaga cannily patterned her success on another blonde icon — Madonna — even while denying that she was
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Why Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way’ May Save the Music Industry
Lady Gaga’s success may drive a new business model for the struggling music industry – the ‘360 deal’ gives her record company a cut of everything she does | Part I of a three-part series
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With Len Blavatnik’s Purchase of Warner Music, Is a Play for EMI Next?
Analysis: Warner Music’s new owner, joined by music industry veterans Edgar Bronfman and Lyor Cohen, may look to consolidate the business even more
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Sylvia Rhone Seen Headed for the Exit at Universal Motown (Exclusive)
A farewell by the veteran music executive would continue a high-profile turnover at the world’s largest music company.
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Sony, Viacom, DirecTV: Battles for Survival Batter the Media Landscape
Producers, distributors, aggregators and tech enablers are now pitted in momentous clashes, with tens of billions of dollars at stake
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Apple & Disney: A Relationship Too Close for Comfort?
Unmarried, the content and tech giants have accomplished the improbable in the past five years — digital convergence
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Double Jeopardy: TV Faces the Abyss with NFL and NBA Player Lockouts
Billions of dollars and hundreds of ratings points are at stake. The scary part? It looks right now like both lockouts are really going to happen
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We Need a One-Size-Fits-All Ratings System
The search is on for an authoritative Nielsen-esque measure for multi-platform viewership
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Tina, Arianna, AOL, Comcast: Get Ready for the New Media Culture Clash
Time Inc.’s Jack Griffin may have been the media industry’s first casualty of a quaint business concept in the throes of redefinition
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Lots of High Decibel Talk But Digital Dollars Still Amount to Diddly Squat
While the media giants highlight the digital transformations under way, revenues remain woefully underwhelming compared to Old Media
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Fast Times at Deal High for Huffington Post and AOL
The romance between Huffington Post and AOL was whirlwind, but the hot news site had been planning big for a while.
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Corporate Flip-Flop: Big Media’s Flacks Keep Swapping Jobs
As the business faces unprecedented change, the faces of the spokesmen who tell media’s corporate story are changing, too
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Citigroup Grabs Debt-Plagued EMI
On the brink of defaulting on loan, Guy Hands’ Terra Firma relinquishes control of music giant
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It’s Got NBCU … Now Comcast Has a Fight for Reinvention
The irony is exquisite — a mighty cable giant betting that its embrace of a faded Peacock will secure its future in the Internet Age