4 posts and columns on Daily Finance

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Love Insidery Media Web Site Feuds? Mediaite vs. DailyFinance Is for You!

in Media on August 12, 2010 at 7:07 pm PT

Mediaite Editor Colby Hall didn’t like Jeff Bercovici’s piece about the media site’s use of other people’s video. You can read his lengthy response here, but if you’re time-pressed, it boils down to: 1) What we do is totally fine. 2) But AOL, Bercovici’s employer, does much worse.

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Mediaite Runs on Video It Doesn't Pay For. Can It Keep Going?

in Media on August 12, 2010 at 10:40 am PT

Can Mediaite continue to run big chunks of other people’s videos without their permission? Dan Abrams’s media site, which depends on clips from TV news operations to fuel its traffic, thinks it can. So does Magnify.net, which actually hosts the clips for Abrams. But DailyFinance’s Jeff Bercovici wonders if one of the media giants will finally bring the hammer down.

The New York Times Plans a Blogger-Friendly Pay Wall. Link All You Like!

in Media on May 25, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

Will the pay wall the New York Times is building scare away the paper’s natural allies–bloggers who like to point to the site? Only if the paper goes out of its way to scare them off. Instead, it’s trying its best to keep the links coming next year.

Forbes.com CEO Jim Spanfeller Out. Here’s the Internal Memo.

in Media on July 15, 2009 at 8:26 pm PT

Forbes.com CEO Jim Spanfeller, who has run one of the Web’s biggest finance sites for the last nine years, is leaving the company at the end of the summer. No replacement has been named. Spanfeller’s departure comes amid a flurry of bad news for finance publications.
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