The Media Drop

Over at the HuffPo, Rachel Sklar (shocker!) has the scoop on the new editors at Gawker.
[Thanks, Chris!]

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I’m looking to have the design of The Media Drop, plus my personal blog - which runs WordPress - done up, with some themes staying the same, but some improvements across the board. I know a few of you have chimed in in the past, but I’d been crazy elsewhere. In any case, it’s about […]

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The AP’s Hope Yen reports on some new studies saying that if media consolidation were allowed to continue along the lines of what some “big media” entities are looking for, that there would be a dissolution of some genres of music on radio. It’s kind of sad that just because it’s easier to run multiple […]

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As I was lining up items to potentially blog about this morning, I noticed this WSJ article by Dennis Berman and Sarah Ellison about who was looking into getting a piece of Tribune Co., who is looking for interested bidders at the moment. Then, my colleague Chris Thilk pinged me with a couple of items […]

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On Monday morning, I’d received a tip from a friend of mine who works in the mixed martial arts field, about how Buck Woodward at pwinsiderxtra.com had received an internal memo from ESPN that discussed the removal of all mixed martial arts advertisements from Disney and ESPN’s networks as a whole. After pinging David Singer […]

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After a little bit of an incident on the air during Friday night’s A’s-Tigers baseball game on FOX, baseball broadcaster and former Major Leaguer Steve Lyons was fired by the network over the weekend. “Psycho,” as he is fondly referred to by those in and out of the game, is most notably known for forgetting […]

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As news has come out that New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle was killed in an accident where his plane crashed into a building on the Upper East Side of New York City, I wanted to send some kudos to baseball-reference.com for pulling the advertisements off of Lidle’s profile page, which is surely getting a […]

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Okay, so comments are more or less back up here at TMD. The fine folks at Zubrcom are working on some fun ways of solving the big issue of comment spam here, although they block a ton, it gets server intensive to do so. They may periodically shut down, but typically only if I’m getting […]

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Chris Thilk pinged me to let me know about this article from ABC 7 (WLS in Chicago) about how it and the Daily Herald were joining forces on the news front, with the main focus being, obviously, the Internet. Here’s the money graf:
The relationship with ABC 7 will focus heavily not only on sharing of […]

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Well, it looks like it wasn’t such a great day in Cincinnati, based on the first five headlines I’m seeing in my RSS reader for the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Ugh.

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