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4 Minute Roundup: Examiner Buys NowPublic; CIMM Wants Better Metrics

Here’s the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week’s edition, I look at the recent buyout of NowPublic by Examiner.com for a reported $25 million. The citizen media site will combine with Examiner.com’s low-pay “Examiners,” who write about niche topics for the newspaper chain. Also, major TV networks, ad agencies and advertisers teamed up to form the Coalition for Innovation in Media Measurement (CIMM) to provide either pressure on, or an alternative to, Nielsen in ratings across TV, online and mobile. Plus, I have Just One Question for Allvoices CEO Amra Tareen.

Check it out:

Background music is “What the World Needs” by the The Ukelele Hipster Kings via PodSafe Music Network.

Here are some links to related sites and stories mentioned in the podcast:

The News Is NowPublic: Cit-J Site Sold To Anschutz’s Examiner.com; Price Around $25 Million at PaidContent

U.S. media firm buys Canadian citizen journalism site NowPublic at Canadian Press

Examiner.com’s Purchase Extends Cheap News Model Even Further at BayNewser

Majors team up to fund initiatives at Variety

Major Media Companies Form Measurement Initiative; Not An Attempt To Replace Nielsen at PaidContent

Ratings cabal = group therapy and pressure on Nielsen at TV by the Numbers

Can Allvoices Succeed as Citizen Journalism Platform? at PBS MediaShift

Here’s a graphical view of last week’s MediaShift survey results. The question was: “What do you think will happen to record labels?”

Also, be sure to vote in our poll about what you think about the rumored tablet coming from Apple.

Mark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and Idea Lab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Association. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter @mediatwit.

Mark Glaser :Mark Glaser is founder and executive director of MediaShift. He contributes regularly to Digital Content Next’s InContext site and newsletter. Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. From 2001 to 2005, he wrote a weekly column for USC Annenberg School of Communication's Online Journalism Review. Glaser has written essays for Harvard's Nieman Reports and the website for the Yale Center for Globalization. Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter during the dot-com heyday, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column. Glaser won the Innovation Journalism Award in 2010 from the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication. Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife Renee and his two sons, Julian and Everett. Glaser has been a guest on PBS' "Newshour," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the College Media Assocation's national convention. He has been part of the lecture/concert series at Yale Law School and Arkansas State University, and has moderated many industry panels. He spoke in May 2013 to the Maui Business Brainstormers about the "Digital Media Revolution." To inquire about speaking opportunities, please use the site's Contact Form.

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