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Mediatwits #36: Facebook IPO Fever; Dive into Media; $30 Million to Columbia/Stanford
Welcome to the 36th episode of "The Mediatwits," the weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift's Mark Glaser and Dorian Benkoil, who is filling in for Rafat Ali. It's been a crazy week in media + tech, with Google privacy concerns, Amazon falling short in earnings, and much more. But the dominant news was Facebook filing for an... more »
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Poll: What Will Facebook Be Worth in 5 Years?
They say that history repeats itself, but that's so easy to forget. It was only as recently as 2006 that analysts were saying that MySpace was likely worth $15 billion (and I was spoofing that conclusion). And you can go back to older social networks like Friendster or Tribe.net or America Online's chat rooms... you get the point. So now... more »
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Daily Must Reads, Feb. 3, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. Netflix and WaPo bought a combined $8M in Facebook ads last year, IPO says (All Facebook) 2. Analysis: A sobering look at Facebook (Reuters) 3. How the Huffington Post became a new-media behemoth (GigaOM) 4. News Corp. names Bloomberg exec as Dow Jones CEO (The...
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E-books and Self-Publishing Roundup, Feb. 2, 2012
The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self-publishing 1. Apple's iBooks push raises 6 questions about future of self-publishing (Fast Company) 2. Is Nook Simple Touch the best e-reader? (Gizmodo) 3. Franzen on e-books and the end of books (LA Times) 4. Open Road teams with ProPublica to publish its e-books (eBookNewser) 5. Man...
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Daily Must Reads, Feb. 2, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. Facebook faces many threats, but none more than Google (CNET) 2. Facebook IPO crashes SEC website (TechCrunch) 3. More people are visiting newspaper websites (FishbowlNY) 4. Tumblr is hiring writers and editors to cover the world of Tumblr (New York Times) 5. Guardian offers 'hack...
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Romenesko Gets His Mojo Back After Leaving Poynter
Jim Romenesko is having a good time. Lately, the "journalism evangelist," "KING of the blogosphere," and "go-to source for news about the news" has been waking up earlier, posting more often, and featuring content he had not felt free to publish for more than a decade. In the wake of his abrupt departure from The Poynter Institute late last year,...
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Daily Must Reads, Feb. 1, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. Report: Facebook's IPO to start at $5 billion (paidContent) 2. Barnes & Noble faces setback in Microsoft antitrust complaint (ars technica) 3. Hulu: We pay our content partners more than Netflix (AdAge Digital) 4. Yahoo! News hires its first White House correspondent (Yahoo! News) 5....
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Turning Panic Into Money: Marc Maron's Podcast Gold
Just over two years ago, comedian Marc Maron was out of a job, couldn't get standup gigs and was going through a debilitating divorce that had put him in debt. With "nothing to lose," as he put it, he launched the WTF podcast, by sneaking into the New York offices of Air America radio, from which he'd just been fired....
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Journalism and Digital Education Roundup, Jan. 31, 2012
The best stories across the web on journalism and digital education 1. Stanford, Columbia share $30 million digital-media gift (Chronicle of Philanthropy) 2. Apple's new iBooks won't school college bookstores any time soon (Wired) 3. Knight Center course teaches journalists in digital world how to cover disasters, crises (Knight Center) 4. The forgotten role of journalists in journalism research (The...
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Daily Must Reads, Jan. 31, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. Former Cosmo editor gives $30M to start media innovation center at Stanford, Columbia (Poynter) 2. Three founders leave Demand Media, operator of eHow (paidContent) 3. NBC to stream Super Bowl on web (All Things D) 4. Obama shines in Google Plus hangout (Lost Remote) 5....
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10 Types of Foundation-Led Projects Changing the Local Media Landscape
Local foundations are becoming key players in the emerging local news ecosystem by funding news and information projects or creating their own. Knowing that, the Knight Foundation has distributed more than $16 million to 85 challenge winners to develop projects that inform and engage local communities. The Community Information Challenge focuses on community or place-based foundations because Knight believes these...
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Localore Winners Gear Up to Transform Public Media
The following post is from Jessica Clark, who is the media strategist for the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR), which produced the Localore competition. From Fargo to Austin, and Boston to the Bay Area, 10 public stations across the country are now poised to ramp up their innovation capacity. They'll be incubating projects led by winners of the Localore...
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