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• FTC to Probe Bloggers Who Take Money to Hawk Stuff

  BNET Media - 1 hour 5 minutes ago

  The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is drawing up guidelines that will allow it to investigate bloggers who promote products, as well as the companies that pay them to do so, when such conflicts of interest are not disclosed to readers. The agency also will investigate any false claims by the...

• Villainous hedgies

  Financial Times - 21 hours 16 minutes ago

  John Gapper's blog: We now have a new Hollywood villain to blame for the financial crisis - not a financial arbitrageur with slicked-back hair, as in the...

  • Hedge funds are Hollywood’s new financial villains | Financial Times

• Gannett Lays off 1,400; Time for a G.I. Bill for Journalists?

  BNET Media - 23 hours 58 minutes ago

  Gannett Co. is axing 1,400 newspaper jobs. Fitz & Jen published an internal memo that explains, “Unfortunately, we must take these steps because the advertising environment remains challenged. There have been some promising signs of a recovery, but the reality is the improvements are not broad-based and the economy continues...

• Does ABC-7 Eyewitness News Really Want My Opinion, or For Me to Watch the News?

  BNET Media - 1 day ago

  Yesterday, I wrote about people representing a sketchy magazine subscription company showing up at my door; today, let me tell you about the robocall (or robopoll) that I got from ABC 7’s Eyewitness News station in New York. “Hosted” by Eyewitness News anchor Bill Ritter (right), it asked me who...

• Honduran President Just Sitting Around Hoping a Reporter Will Visit [Media Crack]

  Gawker - 1 day ago

  In your Friday-like Thursday media column: Howard Kurtz types many words for no good reason, Rupert Murdoch denies wanting to own the NYT, the WaPo can't stop distancing itself from that sellout email, and journalism is practiced in Honduras...

  • aposHow To Get An Interview With the Post-Coup President, By Jeffrey Kofman | Media Bistro

• IN&M sells €22m Indian newspaper stake

  Financial Times - 1 day ago

  Independent News & Media has raised €22m selling part of its investment in an Indian newspaper group as part of asset sales to repay a €200m bond...

  • IN&M sells stake in Indian media group | Media Week

• CNBC Reports Host Kneale Takes On Blogger

  Media Bistro - 1 day ago

  The long-running feud between CNBC Reports host Dennis Kneale and financial bloggers has hit the name-calling point.Apparently tired of being referred to as "Beaker," "super dipshit," "as desirable to watch as a 350-pound woman in a thong bikini on the beach," "clueless" and countless other things, Kneale fired back.After referring...

  • CNBC Host Driven to Cursing Freak-Out By Bloggers [Smackdowns] | Gawker

• Has CNN Started to Go Totally Tabloid to Goose Its Ratings?

  BNET Media - 1 day ago

  Based on ratings for the second quarter just released by Nielsen, I guess I can believe what I was seeing Tuesday night on CNN: an example of a respected news network going totally tabloid. The just-released second quarter Nielsen figures show that CNN trails both MSNBC and Fox in the...

• Trinity Mirror to close nine Midlands newspapers

  Financial Times - 1 day ago

  The newspaper group that owns the Daily Mirror has announced plans to close nine local newspapers in the Midlands resulting in the loss of up to 120 jobs...

  • 118 jobs to go as Trinity Mirror axes a swathe of its Midlands' papers | Media Week

• Economist launches first film ad in eight years

  Media Week - 1 day ago

  LONDON - The Economist is launching a new branding campaign tomorrow with its first film ad since 2001.

  • Economist drops branding for new film ad | Media Week

• FTC to Probe Bloggers Who Take Money to Hawk Stuff
• Gannett Lays off 1,400; Time for a G.I. Bill for Journalists?
• Does ABC-7 Eyewitness News Really Want My Opinion, or For Me to Watch the News?
• Has CNN Started to Go Totally Tabloid to Goose Its Ratings?
• A Physicist Explains How Online is Killing Newspapers
• Did I Just Get Had By a Magazine Subscription Sales Company?
• Jon Miller, Owen Van Natta Explain MySpace and News Corp. to You
• AdAge: Two Years of Life (at least) for The Times
• Michael Jackson's Death a (Perverse) Shot in the Arm for Magazines
• Pivot Point in Debate Over Google Book Scans
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