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'Economist' releases consolidated media report

Adweek :: As the number of digital reading devices has grown, publishers have evolved to keep up. So, too, have the firms that audit them. Last year, with ad buyers clamoring for more information about print audiences, the Audit Bureau of Circulations launched a voluntary product called the Consolidated Media Report, or CMR, that presents publications’ total brand footprint across print and digital platforms. So far, 30 or so newspapers have released Consolidated Media Reports.

The Economist as well.

HT: Mathew Ingram, GigaOM here:

Economist says digital subs are about 6 percent of total subscriptions -- and it's at the *high* end for mags: adweek.com/news/press/eco…

— Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) April 30, 2012

Continue to read Lucia Moses, www.adweek.com

Brands' social media posts and tweets likely to influence purchase decisions

Marketing Charts :: There may be some hand-wringing about the ROI of social media marketing, but brand posts apparently can be a powerful influence in consumer purchase decisions, finds Market Force in a survey of 12,000 consumers in the US and UK to be released later this week. 78% of the US respondents reported that posts by retail, restaurant, travel, entertainment, and financial services businesses they follow on social media have had a moderate to highly influential effect on their purchase decisions.

Continue to read www.marketingcharts.com

Pinterest, Tumblr and BuzzFeed's interpretation of fair use and copyright

The Atlantic :: It all started when I was looking at a photograph of an otter that was, BuzzFeed said, "disappointed that [I] never finished Infinite Jest." The merits of this otter's feelings aside (I got pretty far after all), the whole gallery of "extremely disappointed" animals caught my attention. Out of the 33 animal photos, only two of them had attributions. The rest seemed to emerge from some Internet froth only to be reassembled by Jack Shepherd into something that I have looked at least four times since it was posted two week ago.

It got me thinking: where were they getting all of these photos? And how were they using them without worrying about copyright? And Tumblr? Pinterest?

Continue to read here Alexis Madrigal, www.theatlantic.com

Radio royalties fight heats up again

Media Decoder | New York Times :: A bitter fight between radio and the record industry that has lasted decades is flaring up again. The dispute is over the royalties that broadcasters pay to play music on the air. By a quirk in United States copyright law, radio stations pay songwriters and publishers but not record companies or a song’s performers.

Radio royalities - Continue to read Ben Sisario, mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

From infancy to political powerhouse: The role of Twitter in politics

NPR :: Five years ago, Twitter was hardly a blip on the political radar. Now, it's a social media giant. President Barack Obama recently urged college student to take to Twitter and pressure their representatives on student loan interest rates. Host Michel Martin discusses the role of Twitter in politics with NPR's Don Gonyea and SocialFlow's Frank Speiser.

Audio recording - Listen to the stroy here www.npr.org

Why you can't trust tech press to teach you about the tech industry

Dashes.com :: If there were one lesson I'd want to impress upon people who are interested in succeeding in the technology industry, it would be, as I've said before, know your shit. Know the discipline you're in, know the history of those who've done your kind of work before, understand the lessons of their efforts, and in general look beyond the things that are making noise right now in order to understand bigger patterns of how technology works, both literally and socially.

[Anil Dash:] This is a difficult challenge, because today's media about the technology industry will not teach entrepreneurs and creators what they need to know about the history of the technology industry.

Continue to read Anil Dash, dashes.com

Inside the AP’s social strategy

Digiday :: Beyond delivering news to its 1,700 newspaper and 5,000 television and radio partners, the AP historically sat at the front of news technology innovation. Whether it was introducing the rotary press to speed up printing, bringing in teletypewriters (a printer connected to a telegraph) or launching the WirePhoto Network (ability to send images over phone lines), the AP offered new ways of information distribution. Now it’s confronted with the rise of social media.

Inside - Continue to read Josh Sternberg, www.digiday.com

Columbia: $2 million in grant money to find 'best practices' in digital media

Capital New York :: Three months after receiving an unprecedented $18 million endowment from Helen Gurley Brown to create a "media innovation" institute, Columbia's journalism school is celebrating yet another significant cash infusion. The school has secured a combined $2 million from the Knight Foundation and the Tow Foundation for research projects exploring "best practices" for digital news.

Reported by - Continue to read Joe Pompeo, www.capitalnewyork.com

Barnes & Noble, Microsoft form strategic partnership to advance digital reading experiences

Microsoft :: Barnes & Noble Inc. and Microsoft today announced the formation of a strategic partnership in a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary, which will build upon the history of strong innovation in digital reading technologies from both companies. The partnership will accelerate the transition to e-reading, which is revolutionizing the way people consume, create, share and enjoy digital content.

HT: Ingrid Lunden, TechCrunch

Continue to read Press release, www.microsoft.com

Byliner takes Bissinger’s e-book off Amazon: Navigating a tightrope with Amazon

New York Times :: Last Tuesday, Buzz Bissinger hopped the Amtrak train to Philadelphia from New York, where he had done a bit of publicity for “After Friday Night Lights,” a 12,000-word e-book that had been performing nicely since its release. But when he opened his laptop to check his ranking on Amazon, he found the book was no longer for sale there. “I was stunned,” he said in a phone interview on Friday.

Continue to read David Carr, www.nytimes.com