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The Media Oxpecker: Gawker's Got a Comment Thread in Brooklyn to Sell You

In the search for revenue "beyond the ad," Gawker Media's Nick Denton is looking to the comments section. (FULL STORY)
AAN  |  05-25-2012  2:30 pm  |  Media Roundup

The Media Oxpecker: Why Warren Buffett is Investing in Newspapers Instead of Facebook

Does Warren Buffett's $142 million purchase of 63 newspapers from Media General mean the legendary investor sees growth potential for newspapers? (FULL STORY)
AAN  |  05-18-2012  1:20 pm  |  Media Roundup

The Media Oxpecker: The Future of News Will Not Be Frictionless

While users abandon "frictionless sharing" social readers, publishers are turning away from apps — and rekindling the romance with paywalls. (FULL STORY)
AAN  |  05-11-2012  12:35 pm  |  Media Roundup

The Media Oxpecker: Do Current Reporting Rules Make Circulation Stats Meaningless?

What's the deal with the Audit Bureau of Circulations' reporting rules? What return do advertisers really get for their Facebook ad spend? And is it ever okay to let a source review a story pre-publication? (FULL STORY)
AAN  |  05-04-2012  1:38 pm  |  Media Roundup

The Media Oxpecker: The Aggregation Serf's Guide to the Ethics of Blogging

Elizabeth Flock and the unique tyranny of life as an aggregation serf; sex on the internet is still sex on the internet; what your Klout score really means; and much more. A tale of sex and murder awaits! (FULL STORY)
AAN  |  04-27-2012  2:22 pm  |  Media Roundup

The Media Oxpecker: What Hath Tumblr Wrought?

How the technology that analyzes – and monetizes – social media data could radically transform the economics of publishing. (FULL STORY)
AAN  |  04-20-2012  2:20 pm  |  Media Roundup

The Media Oxpecker: Lessons From the Week in Newspaper News

Last month's Pew numbers are worse than you think; David Carr finds the answer to newspapers' business dilemma; the reporter who got fired before he was hired; and how copy editors are destroying America's newspapers. (FULL STORY)
AAN  |  04-13-2012  12:30 pm  |  Media Roundup

The Media Oxpecker: The Ever-Expanding Job Description of the Modern Editor

The future of media is here, and it is relentlessly on-message. (FULL STORY)
AAN  |  04-06-2012  11:00 am  |  Media Roundup

The Media Oxpecker: Are Readers a Commodity or Potential Business Partners?

The Guardian turns its readers into a resource; Google launches a paywall alternative for publishers; what one journalism professor would do if he ran an alt-weekly; and what type of journalist are you? (FULL STORY)
AAN  |  03-30-2012  2:05 pm  |  Media Roundup

The Media Oxpecker: Who Profits When News Goes Mobile?

Pew Research Center says we're living in "the age of mobile"; Why diversity initiatives based on skin color miss the point entirely; And what one former newspaper editor says she'd do if she could do it all over again. (FULL STORY)
AAN  |  03-23-2012  11:38 am  |  Media Roundup

The Media Oxpecker: Creating the Internet We Want

On the Curator's Code, hobo symbols, and making the "web we want." (FULL STORY)
AAN  |  03-16-2012  3:10 pm  |  Media Roundup

The Media Oxpecker: The Search for a New Business Model

What can alt-weeklies take away from the Pew's report on daily newspapers' (lack of) digital revenue? What does the iPad's "retina display" mean for publishers? Given the ongoing gender disparity in newsrooms, how did NPR become a hotbed for female journalists? And the Oxpecker turns 1. (FULL STORY)
AAN  |  03-09-2012  2:53 pm  |  Media Roundup

The Media Oxpecker: How to Activate the Facebook Timeline for Your Company Page

Facebook's timeline format comes to brand pages; How Google's latest search changes affect local businesses; and why the time it takes for a website to load can make or break it. (FULL STORY)
AAN  |  03-02-2012  2:22 pm  |  Media Roundup

The Media Oxpecker: In Defense of Aggregation

The newsonomics of hyperlocal; putting the "non" in non-profit news; and the huge chasm between where we spend our time and where advertisers are spending their money. (FULL STORY)
AAN  |  02-24-2012  3:45 pm  |  Media Roundup

The Media Oxpecker: Pew Digital Advertising Report 'Unsurprising but Damning'

What can we learn from the Pew Research Center's report on Digital Advertising and News? A Women's Media Center report reminds us that media is overwhelmingly male, and getting maler. And get ready for the Tablet Generation. (FULL STORY)
AAN  |  02-17-2012  3:33 pm  |  Media Roundup

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