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Monday, June 29, 2009

Is Bigger Better? Here Come the Supersized Web Ads.

super-size-me-dvdEarlier this year, an online publishing trade group promised to get its members to start running new, bigger, harder-to-ignore ads by July. So here they are: The Online Publishers Association says 37 sites, including the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and CNN.com, will start selling the plus-sized ads this week. Now we’ll see if they work.

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Friday, June 19, 2009

Report: Steve Jobs Is Recovering From Liver Transplant, Still Coming Back to Apple

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The Steve Jobs health story takes yet another twist, this time a happier one: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Apple CEO underwent a liver transplant earlier this spring, and is recovering from the operation. Jobs, who stepped away from day-to-day management of his company in January, is still expected to return to work later this month.

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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore: Let’s Put the Digital “Genie Back in the Bottle” [UPDATED]

geniePoor John Squires. The Time Inc. SVP seems like an affable fellow. So what has he done to deserve this impossible task–figuring out a digital strategy for Time Warner’s publishing unit? Or, to put it in Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore’s words, figuring out “how to put the genie back in the bottle”?

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Thursday, February 5, 2009

The Boss Says No: Bruce Springsteen Already Campaigning Against Ticketmaster-Live Nation Deal

The Ticketmaster-Live Nation deal isn’t official yet, but it’s already garnering plenty of opponents. The real question: Who’s going to come out in favor of a deal that helps one of the country’s most disliked companies?

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Monday, November 3, 2008

MySpace Campaigns for Ad Dollars–Will It Have to Come Clean After the Election?

MySpace pushes a pretend candidate to New York publishers and ad agencies. But the company’s real results come a day after election day: On Wednesday, parent company News Corp. will have to tell investors how the giant Web site’s ad sales are performing.

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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