Media
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Fade In Wants a Retraction – Here’s the Letter
I guess I shouldn't be surprised. TheWrap has received a letter from a lawyer for Audrey Kelly of Fade In magazine, seeking a retraction of the piece investigating complaints about its screenwriting contest. Given the long list of legal claims involving Kelly and Fade In, this was probably to be expected. The letter uses lots of…
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Jon Stewart — Jonathan Swift for our Time
Interview? It was a pantsing by Jon Stewart. I have no idea why CNBC Mad Money-man Jim Cramer decided to go on Comedy Central to face down Jon Stewart, who has been skewering him for a week. Why in the world? Cramer was assured an opportunity for public humiliation on television, with the guarantee that…
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Headbanging at AOL Music
What a week for AOL! Tuesday, the Time Warner unit began its third round of layoffs since 2007, with 700 employees, or 10 percent of the workforce, in line to get the ax. Then Thursday, AOL replaced chairman and chief executive Randy Falco — only two years into the job — with Tim Armstrong, a…
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Google’s Tim Armstrong Takes Over AOL
TW hopes ad wunderkind will turn around online unit.
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Hurry … Last Chance to Hate On the “Old” Facebook!
The new Facebook home page goes live on Wednesday, which means time is short for anyone with piled-up grievances against the site in its present form. From what we’re being told, after the redesign Facebook will be less about connecting with people by following random details of their lives, more about connecting with them through…
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McClatchy Cuts 1,600 Jobs
The chain has been poisoned by immense debt from the purchase of Knight-Ridder and the flight of readers and advertisers.
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Hot Tweeters
Some of the top tweeters are news organizations. Here’s the top 10 tweeters and their followers as compiled by Twitterholic.com, whose “twittastic” robots scan the Twitter public timeline to pinpoint Twitter usage: 1. CNN Breaking News (cnnbrk) 414,684 2. Barack Obama (BarackObama) 385,667 3. Twitter (twitter) 338,883 4. Britney Spears (britneyspears) 315,523…
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‘Retraining’ New York Times Reporters: A Raw Deal
The New York Times, my former mother-ship, is offering to “retrain” its reporters and turn them into new media whiz-kids. Only one problem with that. Nobody wants to do it. I can’t exactly blame the reporters. The memo a couple of weeks ago from one of the least user-friendly assistant managing editors at the paper,…
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Twitter: A Media Darling, and a Backlash Target
Seemingly overnight, Twitter became the quickest, most visceral form of reporting for some major stories. Backlash time.
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Eminem Loses Case to Universal Music Group
Eminem’s music publishing company failed to prove that Universal Music Group owed him royalties for music downloaded over iTunes and sold as cellphone ringtones.
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Eminem Loses Downloading Case to Universal Music
A blow to artists seeking a greater share of digital profits.
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Life in the Digital Real World
Call it birthing pains. Call it a life lesson. I don’t know what else to call it but pure hell when your new web site goes down for reasons you can’t quite fathom and for — tick-tock, tick-tock — many hours you cannot retrieve. I guess this is life in the digital world. We built…
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Surprise (not)… It’s Genachowski!
As expected, President Obama has officially tapped his campaign’s top technology adviser, Julius Genachowski, to head the Federal Communications Commission. A longtime Obama buddy dating back to Harvard Law, Genachowski certainly has the creds. He worked at the FCC during the Clinton administration, was legal counsel to ex-FCC chairman Reed Hundt, a co-founder of the…
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Johanna Neuman