The morning lowdown

The Morning Lowdown 4-2-12

»  The best and worst April Fool’s jokes (Poynter). Legitimate news source ditches credibility for April Fool’s fun (Gawker)

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The Morning Lowdown 3-29-12

»  News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) said to plan U.S. sports network to rival ESPN (NYSE: DIS) (Bloomberg)

»  Magazines’ digital…

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The Morning Lowdown 3-27-12

»  You can buy the Harry Potter e-books now — here’s what you need to know (paidContent)

»  Why Mike Daisey isn’t done…

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The Morning Lowdown 3-23-12

»  Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Play mulls movie sales (CNET)

»  Music wars: Spotify heading for Ireland and Australia as Rdio g…

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The Morning Lowdown 3-21-12

»  Comics are now selling laughs by the download (NYT)

»  No joke: YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) gets its first live comedy show…

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The Morning Lowdown 3-19-12

»  Pew: Twitter, Facebook aren’t moving as much news as you think (paidContent)

»  Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and the Daisey af…

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The Morning Lowdown 3-16-12

»  Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), AOL (NYSE: AOL) And Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Begin Selling And Delivering Ads In Display Partnership (Marketi…

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The Morning Lowdown 3-15-12

»  Billboard’s Hot 100 Singles chart starts tracking online listening (NYT)

»  My review of the new iPad reviews. How m…

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The Morning Lowdown 3-14-12

»  After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses (NYT Media Decoder) Britannica Ends Printing, Now Will Face Wikiped…

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The Morning Lowdown 3-13-12

»  Is Intel (NSDQ: INTC) working on a major TV initiative? (GigaOM)

»  Everyone’s a curator, everyone’s a content creat…

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The Morning Lowdown 3-12-12

»  CNN in Talks to Acquire Mashable, Sources Say (NYT Media Decoder) CNN Mashing Up With Mashable? Not So Fast (paidContent)

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The Morning Lowdown 3-9-12

»  Chris Hughes is the new owner of The New Republic (NYT/Media Decoder)

»  If the government makes agency pricing go a…

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The Morning Lowdown 3-7-12

»  Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) in talks for cable partnership (Reuters)

»  Why tablet makers need to make iPad events matter (…

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The Morning Lowdown 3-6-12

»  Newspapers: It’s not a revenue problem, it’s a culture problem (GigaOM)

»  Bloomberg Expanding Tech Coverage (Fast C…

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The Morning Lowdown 3-5-12

»  Pew: Papers’ biggest revenue threat is inertia; second biggest is action (paidContent)

»  Papers put faith in paywal…

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The Morning Lowdown 3-1-12

»  With Starz exiting, Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) loses access to live TV (GigaOM)

»  Source: AOL (NYSE: AOL) planning to lay…

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The Morning Lowdown 2-28-12

»  AOL (NYSE: AOL) sees three more major talent departures (VentureBeat)

»  Oscar night turns into a winning night for…

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The Morning Lowdown 2-24-12

»  Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) looks to Chomp to improve App Store discovery (GigaOM)

»  Hunger Games eclipsing Twilight saga in…

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The Morning Lowdown 2-22-12

»  Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Browser-gate: Here come the lawsuits (paidContent)

»  Mario Puzo estate sued by Paramount (NYSE:…

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The Morning Lowdown 2-14-12

»  Verizon, AT&T (NYSE: T) to sell 4G iPad (WSJ)

»  Barry Diller gets into the “cord-cutting” business (All Things Digi…

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The Morning Lowdown 2-10-12

»  Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) vs. Google: The stakes are rising (WSJ)

»  Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) adds Clinton alum Jamie Gorelick t…

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The Morning Lowdown 2-8-12

»  Sprint (NYSE: S) earnings: 1.8 million iPhone sales, but “all the money’s going to Cupertino” (paidContent)

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The Morning Lowdown 2-6-12

»  First legal streaming Super Bowl a success, but audience still denied the real show (TechCrunch)

»  Facebook mobile…

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The Morning Lowdown 2-2-12

»  Facebook files $5 billion IPO (paidContent). 2.7 billion daily likes and other key numbers from the S-1 (paidContent).

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The Morning Lowdown 2-1-12

»  Facebook’s IPO To Start At $5 Billion, And It’s Coming Wednesday AM (paidContent); Facebook Picks Morgan Stanley to Lead IPO (B…

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The Morning Lowdown 1-31-12

»  As Sky growth slows, can Internet defend it from downturn and rivals? (paidContent)

»  Facebook widens its lead over…

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The Morning Lowdown 1-27-12

»  Twitter faces censorship backlash (paidContent)

»  How the Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) became the web’s biggest newspaper…

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The Morning Lowdown 1-26-12

»  Netflix’s Hastings: “We’re done promoting our DVD service” (paidContent)

»  Why adding subscribers again may not mea…

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The Morning Lowdown 1-23-12

»  Endgame: RIM’s Balsillie, Lazaridis to step down from CEO roles (paidContent)

»  350,000 textbooks downloaded from A…

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The Morning Lowdown 1-20-12

»  SOPA Blackout, Anonymous-Style: FBI, DOJ Sites Downed In Megaupload Protest (paidContent) Day After Piracy Bill Collapses, Feds…

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The Morning Lowdown 1-19-12

»  Huffington Post partners with L’Espresso for “L’Huffington Post Italy” (paidContent)

»  Introducing new apps for Tim…

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The Morning Lowdown 1-17-12

»  YouTube’s lineup gets a boost from two new entertainment channels (paidContent)

»  Media News CEO John Paton is out…

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The Morning Lowdown 1-13-12

»  Hulu Plus claims more than 1.5 million subscribers, commits $500 million to content in 2012 (paidContent)

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The Morning Lowdown 1-11-12

»  Inside the NYT’s hyperlocal efforts (Street Fight)

»  BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) axes Al Gore’s Current TV from its pay-TV li…

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The Morning Lowdown 1-9-12

»  Buy a one-year Nook New York Times (NYSE: NYT) subscription, get the Nook free (paidContent)

»  Streaming dreams: Yo…

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The Morning Lowdown 1-6-12

»  Warner Brothers Will Make Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), Redbox, Blockbuster (NSDQ: DISH) Wait Longer for New Movies (All Things D)

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The Morning Lowdown 1-3-12

»  What’s coming in 2012 (paidContent)

»  Happy app year: Downloads pass 1 billion/week; U.S. way ahead of the rest (pa…

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The Morning Lowdown 12-21-11

»  Highlights of 2011: Let’s do the CEO shuffle (paidContent)

»  Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) releases performance-enhancing Kin…

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The Morning Lowdown 12-20-11

»  Signal failed: Winners and losers from the death of AT&T’s T-Mobile deal (paidContent)

»  Highlights of 2011: The ye…

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The Morning Lowdown 12-14-11

»  AP launches strategy to go beyond breaking news, become more “distinct” (Michael Calderone/Huffington Post)

»  Paypa…

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The Morning Lowdown 12-8-11

»  Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) and J.C. Penney bake up a strategic deal that actually makes sense (paidContent)

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The Morning Lowdown 12-6-11

»  Europe probing Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and publishers for e-book price “cartel” (paidContent)

»  YouTube’s new “channels”…

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The Morning Lowdown 12-5-11

»  Internet Access and the New Divide (New York Times)

»  Case Study: Numbers Behind Mooted ‘Bailout’ Of Wales’ Nationa…

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The Morning Lowdown 12-2-11

»  Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) CEO Glocer is out; COO James Smith replaces him (paidContent). Here’s a tour of Thomson Reuters’ st…

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The Morning Lowdown 11-16-11

»  Sony (NYSE: SNE) considers Internet rival to cable TV (WSJ)

»  Village Voice claims it owns “Best of NYC” phrase, su…

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The Morning Lowdown 11-10-11

»  ‘I Am Not Incompetent’ – James Murdoch Defends Himself (paidContent)

»  Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Buys Voice-To-Text Start…

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The Morning Lowdown 11-9-11

»  Kobo acquired by Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten for $315 million (paidContent)

»  Flash in the pan: Adobe (NSDQ: A…

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The Morning Lowdown 11-7-11

»  Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and MGM ink exclusive streaming deal for UK and Ireland (paidContent)

»  Disney (NYSE: DIS) and…

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The Morning Lowdown 11-4-11

»  Groupon gets $700 million IPO, starts trading as GRPN (paidContent)

»  Google (NSDQ: GOOG) ponders pay-TV business (…

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The Morning Lowdown 11-2-11

»  Why tech companies want engineers to ignore patents when designing products (paidContent)

»  AOL (NYSE: AOL) arrests…

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The Morning Lowdown 10-17-11

»  YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) now allows music partners to sell merchandise, digital downloads and event tickets (TechCrunch)

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The Morning Lowdown 10-7-11

»  Bonjour, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN). Kindle Store debuts in France with its first French Kindle (paidContent)

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The Morning Lowdown 10-5-11

»  Why the disappointment over the iPhone 4S launch means nothing (paidContent)

»  Hallmark has something to worry abou…

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The Morning Lowdown 10-3-11

»  Judge refuses to halt Facebook’s Timeline; spills new details (paidContent)

»  Google (NSDQ: GOOG) takes page from S…

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The Morning Lowdown 09-23-11

»  @ F8: Facebook Unveils New Class Of Social Apps And Redesigned ‘Timeline’ (paidContent)

»  @ F8: Zuckerberg Wants Us…

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The Morning Lowdown 9-13-11

»  New details on Philly papers’ bold tablet plan (Adweek)

»  Groupon makes foray into e-commerce, taking on Amazon (NS…

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The Morning Lowdown 9-7-2011

»  Carol Bartz out at Yahoo; (NSDQ: YHOO) Tim Morse is interim CEO. Plus, our Yahoo timeline (paidContent). Here’s the new Yahoo l…

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The Morning Lowdown 9-6-2011

»  Now on iTunes, for free: A show you can’t watch on Fox (NSDQ: NWS) for a couple of weeks (Peter Kafka / All Things Digital)

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Morning Lowdown 8-29-11

»  A hurricane of hype? (Some commenters disagree.) (Howard Kurtz/The Daily Beast). / Public service or weather porn, how much cov…

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The Morning Lowdown 8-25-11

»  Lowdown-in-a-lowdown: Steve Jobs edition here.

»  Our Steve Jobs coverage: Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO, Cook tak…

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The Morning Lowdown 8-23-11

»  The NYT’s new education site with WNYC will be collaborative, experimental…and meter-free (Nieman Journalism Lab)

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The Morning Lowdown 8-19-11

»  WebOS enters third act of its fight for mobile relevance–what’s to come? (paidContent) Plus, here’s our history of WebOS.

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The Morning Lowdown 8-18-11

»  Music publishers settle with YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG), as other defendants fight on (paidContent)

»  Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX…

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The Morning Lowdown 8-17-11

»  Here comes Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing, with first author…and a (polite) war cry (paidContent)

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The Morning Lowdown 8-16-11

»  Is Google (NSDQ: GOOG) turning into a mobile phone company? No, it says (DealBook/NYT)

»  Google-Motorola: Our cover…

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The Morning Lowdown 8-15-11

»  Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to acquire Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobility for $12.5 billion (paidContent)

»  MediaNews Group adds…

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The Morning Lowdown 08-10-11

»  Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Shakes Off Apple’s Shackles With Its Kindle Cloud Reader App (paidContent)

»  Angry Birds Spread…

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The Morning Lowdown 8-4-11

»  The e-mail that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) really doesn’t want a jury to see (paidContent)

»  Facebook explores changes to…

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The Morning Lowdown 8-2-11

»  Following reports of homes being vandalized, Airbnb announces $50,000 guarantee, posts “our commitment to trust and safety” (Ai…

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The Morning Lowdown 7-28-11

»  Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) lost 130,000 video subscriptions in Q2; broadband picks up the slack (paidContent)

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The Morning Lowdown 7-26-11

»  Full stream ahead for Hastings and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) (but DVDs still add fuel) (paidContent)

»  Crunch time at Th…

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The Morning Lowdown 07-25-11

»  Research In Motion to lay off about 2,000 employees, some 10% of global workforce (paidContent; Marketwatch)

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Morning Lowdown 7-22-11

»  Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) may bid for Hulu online video service (Bloomberg)

»  Justice Department prepares subpoenas in New…

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Morning Lowdown 7-21-11

»  Seamless Web rebrands, shifts to mobile (ClickZ)

»  Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) Special Committee: “Absolutely no sign of…

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The Morning Lowdown 7-15-11

»  Rebekah Brooks is resigning as CEO of News of the World. Here is the resignation e-mail she sent to staff (paidContent).

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The Morning Lowdown 07-13-11

»  Want Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Streams And DVDs? Be Prepared To Pay 60 Percent More (paidContent)

»  EA Gets Bejeweled; B…

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The Morning Lowdown 7-12-11

»  News Corporation moves to delay BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) deal to avoid its collapse (NYT)

»  News Corp.’s lost $7 billion s…

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The Morning Lowdown 07-11-11

»  Ad Industry: Solid 2010 Performance, SMG No. 1 In Billings (Mediapost)

»  Slingbox may be answer to ‘TV Everywhere’…

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The Morning Lowdown 07-7-11

»  Disney’s CEO says Hulu will be sold (WSJ). Kilar: Hulu Plus subscriptions will pass 1 million ahead of schedule (paidContent)…

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The Morning Lowdown 07-5-11

»  ESPN (NYSE: DIS) close to landing rights deal for Wimbledon (SportsBusiness Daily). Conference call today at noon.

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The Morning Lowdown 07-1-11

»  Six winners including Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) pay $4.5 billion for Nortel patents (paidContent)

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The Morning Lowdown 06-29-11

»  Not so square anymore: Dorsey’s payment startup gets $100 million, valued at $1 billion (paidContent)

»  Animoto rai…

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The Morning Lowdown 06-28-11

»  Don’t Stop Playing Grand Theft Auto, Kids-The Supreme Court’s Got Your Back (paidContent)

»  New Study Shows E-Reade…

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The Morning Lowdown 06-23-11

»  J. K. Rowling’s Pottermore.com is the exclusive Harry Potter e-bookstore, but it will support Kindle books. (paidContent)

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The Morning Lowdown 06-21-11

»  Keith Olbermann returns to the air on Current TV (Politico). Plus, the NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) News/CNBC exodus: why is so much top t…

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The Morning Lowdown 06-17-11

»  Facebook readies an iPad app, finally (Bits). Meanwhile, at Poynter, CNN, Greensboro’s News & Record, and Better Homes and Gard…

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The Morning Lowdown 06-15-11

»  The Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Store’s retail secrets: Full loyalty, no negativity (WSJ). Meanwhile, Apple Stores chief Ron Johnson lea…

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The Morning Lowdown 06-09-11

»  Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) reverses course on in-app subscriptions (MacRumors). The change induces proprietors to offer subscription co…

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The Morning Lowdown 06-07-11

»  WWDC 2011: Our full coverage (paidContent)–including iTunes and the cloud: the fine print and why competition made iOS 5 stron…

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The Morning Lowdown 05-27-11

»  Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) Online expected to become world’s most popular news website (Journalism.co.uk)

»  PayPal file…

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The Morning Lowdown 05-25-11

»  Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) Announces New Nook; Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Responds with Cheaper 3G (paidContent)

»  Gene Mu…

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The Morning Lowdown 05-17-11

»  As the television upfront week began on Monday, the presentations of the two networks that were first to outline their 2011-12…

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The Morning Lowdown 05-16-11

»  NYTCo’s Nisenholtz On Fixing About.com: It’s All About The Guides (paidContent)

»  How Drudge Has Stayed on Top (NY…

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The Morning Lowdown 05-11-11

»  The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism (Columbia J-School, paidContent Editor Staci D Kramer’…

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The Morning Lowdown 05-10-11

»  Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Reportedly Close To A $7 Billion-Plus Purchase Of Skype (paidContent)

»  Google (NSDQ: GOOG)…

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The Morning Lowdown 05-04-11

»  Pandora Internet Radio Service to Offer Large Archive of Comedy Clips (NYT)

»  PBS plays Google’s word game, transcr…

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The Morning Lowdown 05-03-11

»  Second Sony (NYSE: SNE) Videogame-Service Is Hacked (WSJ)

»  US digital sales up 2% in volume and 12% in value but s…

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The Morning Lowdown 04-29-11

»  A Right Royal Opportunity: The Big Wedding In Digital Media (paidContent)

»  The iPhone Location-Tracking Issue Won’…

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The Morning Lowdown 04-22-11

»  Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Inc has completed work on an online music storage service and is set to launch it ahead of Google Inc. (NSDQ…

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The Morning Lowdown 03-28-11

»  The metered pay model kicks off in the U.S. today and the plan’s most dangerous foe: Perception (paidContent)

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The Morning Lowdown 03-22-11

»  That was quick: Four lines of code is all it takes for The New York Times’ paywall to come tumbling down (Nieman Lab) [Check ou…

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The Morning Lowdown 03-18-11

»  The NYT paywall arrives

»  The Newsonomics of The New York Times’ pay fence

»  Selling Video Scoops Onlin…

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The Morning Lowdown 03-16-11

»  After Ad Changes, Yahoo Media Unit Gets a Management Shakeup

»  On the Media: Patch.com’s Newark plan smells of conf…

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The Morning Lowdown 03-11-11

»  NYT editor Bill Keller’s disquisition on the tendency of media reporters to treat editors with an undeserved, inflated sense of…

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The Morning Lowdown 03.10.11

»  Several Newsweek staffers have accepted the buyout packages offered to about one third of 90 employees. [The Cutline]

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The Morning Lowdown 03.09.11

»  A new iPad app called Zite provides users with personalized news based on their social media feeds as well as stated interests.…

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The Morning Lowdown 03-08-11

»  Still no sign of the NYTimes.com’s metered paymodel yet — but while we wait, the Dallas Morning News’s website is pulling up t…

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The Morning Lowdown 03.04.2011

»  Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone says the company has no upcoming plans to go public or raise funding. More than that, he says the…

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The Morning Lowdown 03.03.11

»  Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is said to be considering legal action against Facebook for poaching. The social giant recently hired Mi…

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The Morning Lowdown 03.01.2011

»  Like pretty much everything Gawker does, its recent redesign inspired some intense commentary from its readers — especially th…

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The Morning Lowdown 02.23.11

»  Ashton Kutcher’s venture capital fund is now backing ticket search startup SeatGeek. [Venturebeat]

»  Facebook is hi…

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The Morning Lowdown 02.22.2011

»  Publishers should wait a good while before signing on with Apple’s subscription plan, advises John Squires, a consultant and fo…

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The Morning Lowdown 02-21-11

»  Mobile advertising’s come a long way, but it still has a number of obstacles in the way of truly explosive growth. [WSJ]

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The Morning Lowdown 02.16.2011

»  Groupon has approached Hulu CEO Jason Kilar to take on the job of worldwide operations head. It’s unclear if Kilar is intereste…

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The Morning Lowdown 02.10.2011

»  Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) shuts down its music game division and production of existing Guitar Hero titles in order to focus on i…

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The Morning Lowdown 02.09.2011

»  A second version of the iPad will be thinner, lighter and feature a camera. It’s set to debut in the next several months. [WSJ]…

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The Morning Lowdown 02.08.2011

»  One big question hanging over AOL’s acquisition of The Huffington Post is how its recently hired ad team will do without the ma…

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The Morning Lowdown 02.07.11

Here’s the morning after a night before that saw AOL buy HuffPo and The Daily’s big Superbowl play…

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The Morning Lowdown 02.03.11

»  Reddit has reached 1 billion monthly pageviews, up 300 percent from a year ago and a 20 percent increase from last month. The s…

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The Morning Lowdown 02-01-11

»  Facebook’s ad rates were up in 2010, but click-throughs were actually down versus the year before. A Webtrends report looked at…

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The Morning Lowdown 12.21.10

»  Hulu is no longer planning an initial public offering and is expected instead to possibly turn to its existing owners for more…

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The Morning Lowdown 12.20.10

»  Toshiba, *LG Electronics* and Sharp likely won’t be unveiling versions of their TVs running *Google* TV at the Consumer Electro…

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The Morning Lowdown 12.16.10

»  Gilt Groupe has secured a $15 million line of credit — but it has only drawn down $5 million of that. [Bloomberg, eMoney]

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The Morning Lowdown 12.14.10

»  Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) layoff rumors are surfacing again: the word now is 600 to 700 job cuts, way down from the 2,500 that were br…

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The Morning Lowdown 11.24.10

»  The CEO and founder of big social networking app developer RockYou has stepped down; the company is searching for a new leader.…

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The Morning Lowdown 11.23.10

»  New research suggests that internet users may be willing to watch lots more online video ads. [NYTimes]

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The Morning Lowdown 11.22.10

»  David Carr has some questions about how successful Rupert Murdoch’s national newspaper for the iPad, The Daily, will be. [NYTim…

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The Morning Lowdown 11.17.10

»  The Huffington Post has just celebrated its fifth anniversary and all of a sudden, two Democratic consultants are suing founder…

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The Morning Lowdown 10.29.10

»  As Condé Nast goes through its latest reorg, there is a mutual, if not entirely amicable, parting of the ways between the publ…

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The Morning Lowdown 10.28.10

»  The Economist Group debuted its “Ideas People Channel,” an online ad network with nearly 30 publishers chosen by readers as the…

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The Morning Lowdown 10.18.10

»  Everyone always talks about social media companies (the biblical “Davids”) doing away with old media companies [“Philistines” a…

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The Morning Lowdown 09.28.10

»  It looks like there’s some progress on creating a standard measurement for online audiences, as Nielsen says it can accurately…

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The Morning Lowdown 09.20.10

»  Now that the WSJ’s New York metro section is settling into a groove, Rupert Murdoch’s next move involves building up and rebran…

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The Morning Lowdown 09.08.10

»  The latest comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) data shows that Gawker Media’s network attracts more monthly users than any newspaper online -…

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The Morning Lowdown 09.02.10

»  Disney (NYSE: DIS) content has remained on Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) even though the companies’ cable and broadcast deal ha…

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The Morning Lowdown 09.1.10

»  News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) are extending their search-ad deal for one month while negotiations to renew it…

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The Morning Lowdown 08.30.10

»  YouTube is negotiating with the major movie studios to launch a streaming video service, which would include new releases and c…

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The Morning Lowdown 08.17.10

»  Nick Denton is planning a major overhaul of the Gawker sites, starting with Deadspin. But instead of the usual blog-based redes…

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The Morning Lowdown 08.16.10

»  Apple’s tight control over iAds is causing delays and other problems for agencies and marketers. [WSJ]

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The Morning Lowdown 08.13.10

»  It looks like Rupert Murdoch has made a decision on creating a dedicated news unit to create content for a tablet-only publicat…

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The Morning Lowdown 08.11.10

»  A group of veteran journalists have gotten together to create a weekly digital magazine expressly made for people who read on m…

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The Morning Lowdown 08.10.10

»  Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has been doing some soul-searching about how deeply it can and should delve in to mining the data its colle…

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The Morning Lowdown 08.05.10

»  Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) is looking to take its TV Everywhere concept to magazines by allowing print subscribers access to their…

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The Morning Lowdown 08.04.10

»  As Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) considers selling itself — and its founder considers forming an investor group to buy it — it,…

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