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Don’t Miss Tina Brown Interviewing Cathie Black at EconWomen, Oct. 29 - 0 Comments
Posted By Rachelle Crum - Thu 09 Oct 2008 09:48 PM PST

We’re excited to announce that Tina Brown, co-founder and editor in chief of The Daily Beast, will interview Hearst Magazines President Cathie Black in a Spotlight Q&A at our EconWomen…

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Patricof on “R.I.P Good Times”: Don’t Burrow Into a Dark Hole - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 10 Oct 2008 04:33 PM PST

And while Sequoia and other left-coast VC firms are asking their firms to tighten up, and strategically leaking their own advice about surviving the economic downturn (nevermind their investments into…

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Departing Mansueto Digital Head Forms New Drupal-Based Social Publishing Firm - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 10 Oct 2008 04:27 PM PST

We reported earlier today about Fast Company’s merging digital with print operations, and Ed Sussman, the president of Mansueto Digital, leaving as a result. He is now starting a new…

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Weekend Reading: Arianna Huffington Gets The New Yorker Treatment - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 10 Oct 2008 03:31 PM PST

Arianna Huffington’s had cameo appearances in The New Yorker before, but the Oct. 13 issue is pure star treatment—all 10,279 words (if my word count check is on target) and…

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Fast Company Lays Off 20 As Digital Folds Into Print Operations; Sussman Leaving - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 10 Oct 2008 02:20 PM PST

Layoffs at Mansueto Ventures, specifically the digital side of Fast Company, the result, we’re told, of a decision to fold Mansueto Digital into the company’s print operations. At the same…

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Economic Meltdown Strikes Viacom, CBS Corp.; Both Warn Investors On Lowered Outlook - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 10 Oct 2008 12:59 PM PST

It looks to be a brutal Q3 reporting season: Both Viacom (NYSE: VIA) and CBS (NYSE: CBS) Corp have cut their respective outlooks, warning investors that they have been taking…

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Top Headlines Of The Week From mocoNews and paidContent:UK - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Fri 10 Oct 2008 11:57 AM PST

Top headlines of the week from our sister sites mocoNews and paidContent:UK: mocoNews: -- Tech Startups Told To Cut Back Spending; Analysts Say Downturn Will Hit Wireless Industry -- Interview:…

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UMG CEO: Piracy Will Be Solved By Technology, Not People; Timing on Hulu-Like Music Video Site - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 10 Oct 2008 11:56 AM PST

Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris can never be accused of being shy, or, putting his foot in, oh well...in an extensive interview with Billboard, he talks about the digital…

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YouTube Starts Running Full Length CBS Shows - 2 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 10 Oct 2008 10:41 AM PST

YouTube, hoping to counter the competition from sites like the NBC/*News Corp*. JV Hulu, has started running full-length episodes of CBS (NYSE: CBS) programming. Executives at the Google-owned video site…

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AP Tells Staff Debt Free, Diversified Revenue Streams But Cash Flow Affected, Hiring Freeze - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 10 Oct 2008 09:19 AM PST

The Associated Press, source of so much of today’s financial news, is doing a little in-house education on its own finances. In a memo to staff sent out yesterday and…

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Top Jobs Of The Week In Digital Media - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Fri 10 Oct 2008 09:18 AM PST

Our latest top jobs in the industry posted this week: -- *Clear Channel* Radio: Director, Research and Advanced Technology Product Development -- Rodale: Director of Online Advertising Operations -- 20th…

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Hearst Shutters CosmoGirl Mag, Though Website Will Live On - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 10 Oct 2008 09:18 AM PST

Magazines may have been weathering the economic downturn better than newspapers, but the current upheaval in the financial markets makes it only more likely that survival will be more difficult.…

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The Money Somehow Ran Out: 11 Troubled Web Companies - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 10 Oct 2008 09:17 AM PST

A link bait if there ever was one, and a flawed one at best, but then, always fun for the rest of us: a list of 11 online companies that…

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Industry Moves: MSLO Hires InStyle.com’s Horwood To Chart Online Editorial Strategy - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 10 Oct 2008 08:16 AM PST

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) has named former InStyle.com exec Gail Horwood to the new role of SVP Digital Programming and Strategy. Horwood will oversee MSLO’s digital properties, including…

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Update: Small Yahoo Investor Asks MSFT To Rebid At $22; Asking For Asia Spinoff; Shares Below $12 - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 10 Oct 2008 08:08 AM PST

Updated below: At the rate it is going, $15 per share might sound enticing to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) after a while. A small Yahoo investor Mithras Capital has put out…

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Hollywood.com Acquires Box Office Data Site Media By Numbers - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 10 Oct 2008 07:53 AM PST

Hollywood.com, the newly independent and newly relaunched, online celeb/entertainment sites, has acquired Media by Numbers, a box office data and analysis resource founded by Paul Dergarabedian, Variety reports. Financial information…

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As Online Ad Growth Slows Elsewhere, Nielsen Ramps Up China Ventures - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 10 Oct 2008 07:35 AM PST

With China’s internet audience estimated at 250 million and growing as the U.S. online ad market slows, Nielsen is hoping for a little balance by expanding its partnerships to measure…

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RBI Sale At Risk Of Falling Through As Bidding Price Drops To $1.7 billion - 1 Comment
Posted By Patrick Smith - Fri 10 Oct 2008 07:24 AM PST

Reed Elsevier’s (NYSE: RUK) troubled attempt to sell-off its UK B2B division Reed Business Information appears to be in big trouble with the news that bids for the company since…

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Time CEO Anne Moore Rules Out IPC Media Sale; Announces Two-Year Plan to Counter Downturn - 0 Comments
Posted By Patrick Smith - Fri 10 Oct 2008 07:14 AM PST

She might run the biggest magazine company in the world in a time of falling advertising revenue and dwindling sales, but Time Inc’s (NYSE:TWX) CEO and Chairman Anne Moore doesn’t…

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Play.com Steps Up Music Download Battle With 3 Million DRM-free Tracks From All Four Majors - 0 Comments
Posted By Patrick Smith - Fri 10 Oct 2008 07:05 AM PST

UK e-tailer Play.com has stepped into the music download battle by signing the four major music labels to its PlayDigital online store to offer more than 3 million DRM-free MP3…

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Deal Radar 2008: TopTenREVIEWS.com - 0 Comments
Posted By Sramana Mitra - Fri 10 Oct 2008 05:05 AM PST

Utah-based TopTenREVIEWS.com is a technology-focused product review site. Founded in January 2003 by Jerry Ropelato, the company began as a website to help parents find web filtering software to protect…

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Earnings: GE Q3 Earnings Meet Lowered Expectations; NBCU Profit Up 10 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 10 Oct 2008 03:43 AM PST

Late last month, General Electric (NYSE: GE) chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt lowered the company’s Q3 guidance dramatically and today it met those expectations. We’ll see if the inoculation—and the…

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Yahoo’s Stock Below $13; Other Media Stock Down To New Lows - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 09 Oct 2008 02:33 PM PST

A bit hard to stay focused and keep writing about media, considering the scope of other things happening around. Anyway, in our own industry, even as analysts downgrade online ad…

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Prospective Buyers Line Up For San Diego U-T; But Just Looking For Now, Thanks - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 09 Oct 2008 01:53 PM PST

About four buyers are taking a serious look at The San Diego Union-Tribune, which put itself up for sale two months ago. Voice of San Diego identifies the prospective suitors:…

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Tech Not Excluded From Meltdown; Startups Told To Cut Back Spending - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 09 Oct 2008 12:20 PM PST

Now that we are weeks into a financial crisis, not only are the predictions starting to surface on how technology, and specifically wireless will be affected, but actions are starting…

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