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Students of US Mass Media History will appreciate this! Cathy

more about “Onion News: Historic ‘Blockbuster’ St…“, posted with vodpod

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Arango, T. (2009, December 4). Comcast Gets NBC From G.E. in Deal That Reshapes TV. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/business/media/04nbc.htmlNY
More Big Media.  If this deal disturbs you, see FreePress.

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Blogs Find Fox News Story on SEALs. (2009, December 3). Pew Research Center. Retrieved December 3, 2009, from http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1430/blogs-fox-news-court-martial-navy-sealses
Interesting report from Pew: “A story that has generated little attention in the mainstream media was the most popular subject among bloggers last week.”

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Loechner, J. (2009, December 2). Consumers Will Pay For News if Unique, Not Yet Known. MediaPost Publications. Retrieved December 2, 2009, from http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=118120&lfe=1
Summarizes research from The Boston Consulting Group

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Check it out from Multimedia Services @ IC Library: DVD 4230

more about “Trailer — Most Dangerous Man“, posted with vodpod

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From Ebrary:
Ebrary has notified us that there will be a scheduled upgrade to the system today from 8:00-9:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. During this period, ebrary may not be available. (see details below):
Dear ebrary Customer,
ebrary will be deploying a new system release from 5:00PM to 6:00PM
US Pacific Standard Time (UTC – 8) on Monday November [...]

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Loechner, J. (2009, November 23). Measurement: Newspaper Readers or Circulation? MediaPost Publications. Retrieved November 23, 2009, from http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=117854
From the research summary of Scarborough’s study, “The analysis of Scarborough audience data not only indicated that newspapers are being read by a majority of adults in print and online, but also that these Integrated Newspaper Audiences continue [...]

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Barnes, B. (2009, November 22). Ad Budget Tight? Call the P.R. Machine. The New York Times. Retrieved November 23, 2009, from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/business/media/22steal.html?_r=1
An excerpt:
..don’t think that Hollywood believes it can get by with less promotion [given drastic cuts to marketing budgets]. This, after all, is the place that perfected the hard sell. As studios cut “paid [...]

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Tenore,, M. J. (2009, November 20). Public TV, Radio Stations to Increase Local Investigative Coverage as Columbia Report Advised. PoynterOnline. Retrieved November 20, 2009, from http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=173444
Brilliant! For all the new models I’ve heard, this one excites me.  I’m also interested in the participatory widgets such as HuffPo’s Impact.

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The National Day of Listening is November 27, 2009.  From the website:

On the day after Thanksgiving, set aside one hour to record a conversation with someone important to you. You can interview anyone you choose: an older relative, a friend, a teacher, or someone from the neighborhood.
You can preserve the interview using recording equipment readily [...]

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Goetzl, D. (2009, November 13). New Congressional Bill: Smackdown On Kids’ TV Ads. MediaPost Publications. Retrieved November 16, 2009, from http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=117407
Regarding the Healthy Kids Act, H.R. 4053 (pdf, GPO Access)

Siegel, F. (2009, November 11). Nielsen Sells Trade Titles, ‘Hollywood Reporter,’ ‘Adweek’ Group. MediaPost Publications. Retrieved November 16, 2009, from http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=117223

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Candace Clement just sent out an ote about the Local Community Radio Act.  She made the video, “to tell Washington why we need more local radio…” See FreePress’s page on Low Power FM Radio.
H.R. 1147 (pdf, GPO Access) & S. 592 (pdf, GPO Access)

more about “Free Press: media reform through educ…“, posted with vodpod
 

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Mattu, R. (2009, November 9). The Vatican works on its communication skills. FT.com. Retrieved November 13, 2009, from http://blogs.ft.com/management/2009/11/09/the-vatican-works-on-its-communication-skills/
Interesting!

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Rafat Ali of paidContent posted this video from the Monaco Media Forum with some of his tweets.  He has deemed it “Video of the Year”.  The debate was between Arianna Huffington and Mathias Dopfner (German media outlet Axel Springer).  The debate was moderated by Christine Ockrent (France 24 TV).  A

more about “paidContent: Arianna Huffington [...]

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Westphal, D. (2009, November 10). No revenue model for news? Labor steps up. OJR: The Online Journalism Review. Retrieved November 11, 2009, from http://www.ojr.org/ojr/people/davidwestphal/200911/1795/
He looks at cases such as The Tyee:
When I posted notes from my Harvard remarks last week [see here], NYU’s Jay Rosen pointed me to David Beers, editor of The Tyee of [...]

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Chuang, A. (2009, November 9). When is Fort Hood suspect’s faith relevant in media coverage? PoynterOnline. Retrieved November 10, 2009, from http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=58&aid=173171
Examines the headlines after the Fort Hood tragedy. Quote from the dean of faculty at the Poynter Institute, Keith Woods:
“Race and ethnicity never truly describe,” Woods said. “Connecting faith, race or ethnicity to motive [...]

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Bayard, S. (2009, November 6). Glenn Beck’s UDRP Complaint Gets The Smack Down. Citizen Media Law Project. Retrieved November 9, 2009, from http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2009/glenn-becks-udrp-complaint-gets-smack-down
The UDRP is apparently the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy from ICANN.  Someone named a website: glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com (site did not link for me). The reason for the take-down may be [...]

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Garber, M. (2009, October 29). FCC Taps Waldman to Study “State of the Media” : CJR. Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved November 4, 2009, from http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/fcc_taps_waldman_to_study_stat.php?page=all
CJR cites Waldman’s blog Beliefnet.  The FCC have a post at 10/28/09, “Steven Waldman Named to Lead Commission Effort on Future of Media in a Changing Technological Landscape” (pdf).
 

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Sass, E. (2009, November 3). Nielsen: Radio Reaches 77% of Adults Daily. MediaPost Publications. Retrieved November 4, 2009, from http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=116763
Good news for radio from the Council for Research Excellence.

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Here is the August 2009 CSM Newsletter.  I learned about the video posted below by reading it. Here is the greetings:

Greetings,
It’s official –the dates of our annual Making Your Media Conference are Feb. 11-12. Mark your calendars!

Our 10th annual Human Rights Film Series brought packed houses for screenings of As We Forgive, Burma VJ, [...]

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