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By Amanda Ernst
Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced eight new initiatives under his MediaNYC 2020 program, designed to promote innovation in the media industry and draw talented media companies and employees to New York in the hopes of strengthening the dying industry that was once at the core of the city’s success.
“New York City is the media [...]

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Alexandra Le Tellier

As news outlets sprang into action to report on Michael Jackson’s condition June 25, users on social media sites were whipped into a frenzy: He’s not breathing! He’s in a coma! He had a heart attack! And then a Facebook status update, made at 2:21 p.m., that Jackson had died.
Of course, 23 [...]

By Georgina Prodhan
Takeovers in the media sector are likely to be few and far between until at least next year, especially given the high gearing and shaky cashflows of many firms in the industry, bankers and financiers said on Wednesday.
Despite apparent bargain valuations close to six-year lows, and signs of improvement in some debt markets, [...]

By John Milewski
While it’s impossible to draw a direct connection between an act of insanity like this past week’s murder at the Holocaust Museum and the hysterical rantings of media viruses like Hannity, Coulter, Limbaugh, and Beck, a quick tour around the op-ed circuit and the blogosphere indicates that there is significant concern about what [...]

The Obamas may have the smartest, most finely calibrated press operation in White House history, parceling out scoops (The New York Times), partisan talking points (the Huffington Post), and First Family tidbits (the celebrity mags) to a desperate media. Just don’t ask them to admit it.
By Michael Wolff

Bill Burton is the baby-faced political op [...]

By BILL CARTER and BRIAN STELTER
 

LOS ANGELES — On Monday night, when Conan O’Brien officially takes over “The Tonight Show” from Jay Leno, it will mark an unusually peaceful transition of power in Hollywood.
Then comes the revolution.
NBC’s decision to move Mr. Leno to his own talk show at 10 p.m. in September is not only [...]

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
 

The Watergate break-in eventually forced a presidential resignation and turned two Washington Post reporters into pop-culture heroes. But almost 37 years after the break-in, two former New York Times journalists have stepped forward to say that The Times had the scandal nearly in its grasp before The Post did — and let it [...]

By DAVID CARR
 

Write about the media long enough and eventually you type your way to your own doorstep. Lately, when I finish an interview, most subjects have a question of their own.
“What’s going to happen to The New York Times?” they ask, some plaintively, others pruriently. In the last few weeks, I have heard the [...]

By Nicholas Carlson|\
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Google took a look and decided it didn’t want to buy the New York Times Company.  But that doesn’t mean it isn’t trying to help the newspaper and others like it.

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We hear Google (GOOG) continues to hold talks with New York Times chairman Arthur Sulzberger, who visited Google’s Mountain View, Calif. headquarters last [...]