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CNN is hiring 15 to 16 new correspondents across the globe. “Owning the content we broadcast, publish and make available to affiliates and other platforms is the backbone of this business,” Tony Maddox, executive vice president of CNN International, said in a statement. Two months ago, CNN dropped its contract with Reuters, emphasizing that content ownership is key.
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This is a test post for an upcoming feature on Lost Remote called Idea Feed. We’ll be highlighting some of the coolest ideas on media sites today. Besides the blog, you’ll also be able to receive the latest Idea Feed posts via email and a dedicated RSS feed. Plus, we’ll be encouraging you to submit your own favorite ideas. Stay tuned…
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Earlier this week, Rupert Murdoch told reporters that he “expected” WSJ.com to switch to free access in the near future. “It is jumping the gun,” says Wall Street Journal SVP Michael Rooney. “We haven’t even closed the deal yet… Mr. Murdoch would like to have the largest, most robust site in business. Free is a way to look at that. But there is a lot of detail behind that. You have to work that out. You don’t just flip the switch.” That’s for sure.
Plus: Murdoch says huge TV profits are history in “highly-challenged” broadcast biz
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With 8 million members across 26 countries and 9 languages, it’s… Xbox LIVE, which is celebrating its fifth birthday. Like I’ve mentioned before, wouldn’t it be cool if Xbox LIVE and Facebook converged somehow? (My wife, however, would think that’s a horrible idea. I thought she’d find this video funny, but I guess it struck a little too close to home.)
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Jay Rosen, NYU professor and all-around-smart-guy has launched BeatBlogging.org today, the latest project to drop from NewAssignment.net. 13 reporters have opted in to help Rosen test his hypothesis that beat reporting with a social network is a viable pro-am concept.
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Editor and Publisher has the latest newspaper site numbers from Nielsen (um, ’cause Nielsen owns E&P). NYTimes.com had a big surge and topped the list with more than 17.5 million unique monthly visitors, up from 14.6 million in September. Breaking into the top 30 for the first time is the recently-launched D.C. newspaper Politico. Also, the San Diego Union-Trib had high numbers, most likely due to great wildfire coverage. Interesting to note how much time people are spending on newspaper sites. The top dogs are now holding users for about half an hour.
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Cranky and -ahem- “outspoken” yakker Don Imus has inked a five-year deal with RFD-TV to go back on the small screen when he returns to the radio waves in early December. Owned by Rural Media Group, Inc, RFD produces shows from its Nashvillle studios like “The Cattle Show,” “National Tractor Pulling” and the “Largent and Sons Hereford Cattle Auction” that reach 30 million homes via on-demand services. Imus will be doing a morning drive-time show from New York City on WABC-AM, RFD isn’t worried about the city slicker. “Don’s passion and understanding of rural America fits in so well with our ongoing effort to bridge city and country folks with this channel,” said Patrick Gottsch, Rural Media Group’s founder and president. If you could hear my mocking lisp, the tale of the City Mouse and the Country Mouse would sound like “City Mouth and the Country Mouth.”
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This is an interesting survey: 45 percent of people said they rather watch college or pro football games on HDTV compared to 32 percent who said they’d rather see the game in person. Now, I’m a huge football fan, and I was just thinking the same thing the other night while watching the Seahawks play in the ice-cold rain on my high-def TV. Brrr. If it’s a critical match-up or a playoff game, I’d rather go. If not, I’d rather stay home. Also, I think this survey is a good reason for the NFL to consider doing away with old-fashioned blackout rules.
Plus: NBC cancels remainder of Notre Dame football season (not really)
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NYT’s Bits blog has some inside dirt on how Google and Yahoo are similar tracks to blend social networking functions into their Web mail products. While Facebook and the other Web 2.0 social service sites offer tools to import address lists so you can jumpstart your online friendliness, the big free-mail providers have already got it all going on, but navigation and transportation issues make things complicated. Brad Garlinghouse, who runs the communication and community products for Yahoo, offers this: “The inbox you have today is based on what people send you, not what you want to see.” Sounds nice, (wait for it…) BUT, social networking is based in living as an online extrovert, sharing bits and pieces of your life selectively with friends, friends-of-friends, and possibly, strangers. E-mail is a far more private affair, even considering the potential pitfalls of sneaky bccs or blind forwards. A little meditation on this reveals the value proposition inherent in social network sites that offer private messaging between members without revealing real e-mails. How the megaportals can balance this remains to be seen, but I still wish they’d turn their might against stopping spammers who abuse their systems and cost us all billions of dollars every day.
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The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that Google co-founder Larry Page is set to marry his girlfriend, Lucinda Southworth, at an undisclosed location sometime during the weekend of December 8. Page, 34, and Google’s other founder, Sergey Brin, were co-ranked at No. 5 this year in Forbes’ 400 list of U.S. billionaires. Each is estimated to have a net worth of $18.5 billion. Brin married his longtime girlfriend, Anne Wojcicki, in May.
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Seth McFarlane, the creator of Family Guy, is on strike with the WGA and, not surprisingly, openly defiant with his employers. Those employers, Fox, have decided to go ahead with production on new episodes of his show without him. The first one made without his sign-off has already been delivered. In addition to executive-producing the show, MacFarlane voices the characters of Peter, Brian and Stewie. If we had LR Polls, we could all make our “Suck” or “Not Suck” predictions, but instead, the new LR Circuit Board is a great place for a free range discussion on the war between the suits and the creatives.
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Peter Wilson, who heads up Google’s 400-person engineering office in Seattle, just wrapped up speaking before a group of business leaders here. “I haven’t watched TV since ‘99,” he said. When asked about the last show he watched, Wilson added, “I remember Seinfeld was very popular.” If that wasn’t enough to confound the TV folks in the crowd, Wilson went on to explain how “most innovations and product definitions (at Google) come from the bottom up.” They hire smart engineers, empower them, provide a little structure around the edges, and let the chaotic process feed innovation. A little different than media companies, eh?
By the way, Seattle’s technology scene is rapidly expanding. Besides Google’s aggressive ramp-up in the area (they’ve built offices in two neighborhoods here), Yahoo is building an office complex for as many as 700 employees and Microsoft has kicked off a massive campus expansion with a potential capacity for 12,000 new employees. Whew.
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In other Google union news, European regulators refused to approve Google’s $3.1 billion purchase of the Internet advertising company DoubleClick. The European Commission, the part of the European Union that oversees antitrust issues for the 27 member nations, said the merger raised concerns about competition and required a more thorough review of its effects on the Internet advertising business. Slightly ironic, while some residents on the west side of the Atlantic use “socialist” as a dirty word, the EU is doing the capitalist dance very well and is going way ahead in many areas of technology and new business. Some estimates say Google already has 70 to 80 percent of the paid-search advertising market locked up. No wonder old school ad-driven businesses like oh… television, newspapers, and magazines… are having a hard time making it online as they all scrap over the scraps.
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