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online media stories: 37 news summaries

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Piracy Police Accidentally Hit Non-Pirates

Internet TV network furious after misplaced denial of service attack

May 30, 08 10:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - MediaDefender’s job is to hunt down pirates. The company specializes in seeding piracy sites with fake files, or “spoofs,” frustrating would-be media thieves. There’s just one problem: Its latest victim, Revision3 Corp, isn’t actually pirating anything. An Internet TV network, Revision3 was using file sharing... More »

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online media • piracy • file sharing • denial of service attack

OPINION

 Come On, Her RFK
 Gaffe's Not So Bad 

Online journos magnified one line to rack up hits

May 25, 08 7:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Why have reporters turned Hillary Clinton's RFK flub into a huge story? To generate online hits with more political gossip, John Harris writes in Politico. Sure, it's hot news to hear about, but if you watch the remark on video, it's "deflating," Harris writes—it's just a calm,... More »

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Hillary Clinton • online media • media criticism • journalism • online newspapers • media coverage • print journalism

Is the Internet
Bad News for Journalism?

Coverage getting narrower, not broader, new report says

Mar 17, 08 2:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Internet is changing journalism—but not in the ways many predicted. Contrary to expectations that coverage would broaden, a new report says the news agenda is actually narrowing. The Iraq war and presidential campaign represented more than a quarter of news stories last year, while countries besides Iraq, Iran,... More »

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Internet • online media • blogging • journalism • Internet advertising • Iraq war • print journalism • reporting

Web Content Breathes Life Into Magazines

New model uses
online submissions
to fill pages

Mar 12, 08 9:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Circulation is down and Web content is taking over: what's a magazine to do? Milk the Internet for all it's worth and gather a plethora of content on the cheap, Newsweek reports. Publisher 8020 fills its travel and photography magazines with content submitted by readers via the web; its JPG... More »

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Internet • online media • magazine • publishing • freelance • magazine industry • 8020 • JPG • Everywhere magazine

The Internet Is Watching You

Biggest companies gather data on the average user hundreds of times a month

Mar 10, 08 12:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Long gone are the days of Internet anonymity. Big Web companies know all about you, says a study commissioned by the New York Times. The Internet giants track users’ behavior across sites, gathering details on a typical person several hundred times a month. That information lets them target content... More »

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Yahoo • Internet • AOL • MySpace • online media • New York Times • online privacy • consumer protection • targeted advertising • Internet advertising

Blogs Find Their Audio Outlet

BlogTalkRadio.com gives just about anyone a platform, claims 2M listeners

Feb 28, 08 5:39 PM CST
(Newser) - It's no NPR yet, but the latest radio phenomenon is gathering steam—and it's not even really radio, Portfolio reports. The 18-month-old BlogTalkRadio.com lets anyone with a broadcasting itch host a show for free; users select a time slot, genre, topic and start gabbing—the audio blog even... More »

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radio • Internet • Brad Pitt • online media • John Kerry • blog • BlogTalkRadio

Blogger Wins Award, Vindication

Talking Points Memo founder captures
Polk Award

Feb 25, 08 1:00 PM CST
(Newser) - The blogosphere is rejoicing in the news that “local boy” Joshua Micah Marshall garnered a George Polk Award for legal reporting. Marshall's Talking Points Memo blog is the first Internet-only operation to win the award, and many bloggers see that as validation, reports the New York Times. Marshall... More »

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Department of Justice • online media • blogging • journalism • US attorney firings • blog • Joshua Micah Marshall • George Polk Award • political criticism

Amateur MTV Journos to Cover Election

Hipsters aim to grab eyeballs lost to bloggers, Daily Show

Jan 12, 08 7:37 PM CST
(Newser) - MTV is banking on enthusiastic amateurs to make it the go-to source for hip election news. The "Street Team"—51 mostly-under-25 journos armed with laptops, digital cameras, and camcorders—have been deployed to recapture eyeballs and cachet lost to bloggers, Comedy Central, and YouTube, while "redefining journalism,... More »

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television • online media • MTV • journalism • blogger • Election 2008 • young voters

EU Proposes Digital Media Plan

Seeks unified regulatory guidelines, single European market

Jan 4, 08 12:46 PM CST
(Newser) - The European Commission wants to create a unified European online market for music, films and games. Goal is to streamline the patchwork of regulations across member nations, to make multi-territory copyright licenses easier, and to combat illegal downloads it says are discouraging content providers from  offering their products on the... More »

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online media • copyright • European Commission

Apple Wants Slice of Movie Rental Biz

Fox deal presages plans to shake up online distribution

Dec 27, 07 11:53 PM CST
(Newser) - Apple is getting ready to formally announce the launch of its online movie rental business, the AP reports. Fox is already on board, as the FT reported yesterday, and other studios are expected to follow in making their movies available for rent through iTunes. Apple's also planning a widespread licensing... More »

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online media • iTunes • Apple • digital downloads • Fox • iTunes Store • film studio • movie rentals • movies

The Internet Didn't Kill the TV Show

Economist argues online viewers more likely to tune in the old fashioned way

Nov 9, 07 4:19 PM CST
(Newser) - With Viacom's lawsuit against YouTube, and widespread speculation that the dearth of material created by a long TV writers' strike will send more viewers online, there are still some economists who think Internet video could stimulate rather than stifle TV viewing. The key is not to think of the online/on-air... More »

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television • Viacom • YouTube • online media • copyright

MSNBC Buys Out Online Indy News Site

Newsvine goes corporate, as media giant moves in

Oct 7, 07 11:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - MSNBC will announce today its acquisition of online news site Newsvine, as the media giant attempts to revamp its image. While the move will only add 1 million monthly users to its already massive 29 million, Newsvine's user-generated content and annotated stories are expected to give MSNBC a leg up... More »

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online media • MSNBC • online news

Senate Shield Law Would Cover Bloggers

Controversial new measure defines 'journalist' broadly

Oct 5, 07 9:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Senate bill that passed the Judiciary Committee yesterday would give bloggers the “reporter’s privilege” of protecting their sources. The federal shield law defines journalism broadly enough to include bloggers who write about public affairs. Critics, including US attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, say the bill would undermine national security,... More »

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Congress • online media • Senate • House of Representatives • journalism • blog • blogger

YearlyKos
Gets Ready
for Its Closeup

With big day tomorrow, Bloggers ponder their clout with Dems

Aug 3, 07 3:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bloggers contemplating the off-again, on-again appearance of Hillary Clinton at tomorrow's YearlyKos convention can't quite get over how much more respect—would fear be an exaggeration?—they're inspiring in Democrats this year, compared to the last go-round. Joe Gandelman at the Moderate Voice asks whether it means the Democratic center... More »

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media • Internet • online media • Bill O'Reilly • Chris Dodd • netroots • Daily Kos • YearlyKos • blogger • Election 2008 • Iraq war

Wikipedia: Encyclopedia, Newspaper,
or Cult?

All of the above, and
an astonishing success

Jul 1, 07 10:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Novelist Jonathan Dee plumbs the phenomenon that is Wikipedia: First it was a populist encyclopedia, increasingly it's populist journalism, and all along it's been a religious cult, populated by cybermonks working in isolation, often putting in long hours in their bedrooms on school nights. The amazing twist, he notes, is... More »

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religious right • Wikipedia • online media • Jimmy Wales

TV Moguls Blast Web Rivals

Parsons: 'They are
the Custer of the modern world. We
are the Sioux Nation.'

May 9, 07 8:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - A panel of top television executives at a Vegas conference yesterday went on the offensive against their digital rivals, blasting the perception that cell phones, the Web, and other digital formats are killing their business. Quite the contrary, pronounced Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons: "The Googles, they are the... More »

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television • media • Google • Internet • Viacom • YouTube • online media • Richard Parsons • News Corp

Bochco Switches to Shorts

Keep it snappy;
I'm sick of this buffer bar

Mar 20, 07 8:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Steven Bochco, the brains behind "L.A. Law" and "Hill Street Blues," is the latest to move from the small screen to the short attention span. His new project is "Cafe Confidential," an online video featuring a series of brief clips from members of the... More »

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entertainment • television • Internet • Steven Bochco • Cafe Confidential • online media

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