The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung.
1. Netflix and WaPo bought a combined $8M in Facebook ads last year, IPO says (All Facebook)
2. Analysis: A sobering look at Facebook (Reuters)
3. How...
Daily Must Reads, Feb. 3, 2012
Media Decoder Blog: Dow Jones Names Lex Fenwick Its New Chief Executive
Mr. Fenwick, a longtime Bloomberg L.P. executive, is filling a six-month vacancy created when Les Hinton resigned amid the phone-hacking scandal in Britain.
topheadlin.es: Aggregating both news and news judgment
There's a morning routine that seems to unite almost everyone in the media world: that first, groggy glance at the smartphone before leaving bed. It's a universal experience born out of a basic need: Tell me what I need to know right now. When Jeremy Singer-Vine was building topheadlin.es, a mobile-ish news aggregator, this was...
The newsonomics of the next New York Times CEO
Talk about a plum job: chief executive officer of The New York Times Company. The Times is one of the most respected brands on the planet. It is a pinnacle of the news trade. It generated revenues of $2.32 billion in 2011, according to the latest quarterly numbers released this morning. It sits square in...
Media Decoder Blog: Bloomberg Executive Is Said to Be in Talks to Lead Dow Jones
News Corporation is said to be in advanced discussions with Lex Fenwick to become chief executive of Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and the Dow Jones Newswires.
The newsonomics of WSJ Live
It's news. It's video. It's a streaming tablet product that's this week's #1 free news app in Apple's App Store. And it's The Wall Street Journal — founded in 1889. WSJ Live, launched last week, is a milestone product. It's not Fox News. It's not CNN. It's not New York Times news video. WSJ Live...
