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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
FT.com Takes Free Articles Away From Unregistered Users, Except Via Search — Now the Financial Times is getting really bullish about its web access model. In another tweak, it's now ensuring that no free articles are on offer to non-registered users. — In 2007, the site introduced …
Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:
Apple Swears iPad Partners to Secrecy — Developers must sequester the tablet computer in rooms with blacked-out windows, reflecting secrecy around a product that may mean billions of dollars in sales — Apple makes big demands of software developers who want an early crack at the iPad.
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Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
WSJ's New Union Contract: Wage Freeze to July 2011! — As the Wall Street Journal hurries to ready Project Amsterdam, Rupert Murdoch's bid to rock the New York Times dead with a big, splashy color metropolitan section before he kicks the bucket, staffers at the Journal are burning the midnight oil.
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Michael Wolff / Newser:
Charge for News! Yes, Do It! C'mon! I Dare You. — Follow him on Twitter @MichaelWolffNYC — I'm in London at the Guardian's Changing Media Summit conference. — Guess the subject that has most often come up. Yes, yes, pay walls. The absolute determination on the part …
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Brian Aguilar / Wall Street Journal:
A History of Wall Street Journal Hedcuts — When job-seeking illustrator Laura Levy first met the team of Wall Street Journal hedcut artists in the early 1980s, she was struck by their peculiar task. — “I saw what these people were doing and I thought, 'they're insane,'” says Levy.
Claudia Eller / Company Town:
Carl Icahn launches hostile takeover bid for Lions Gate [Updated] — One week after Lions Gate Entertainment rejected his bid to raise his stake in the studio, investor Carl Icahn is launching a hostile takeover bid for the entire company. [For the record, updated 9:41 a.m. …
Michael Corkery / Deal Journal:
A Guy Named Bob Wants to Buy Newsday — Who wants to buy Long Island's largest newspaper, Newsday? — Is it The New York Times' Arthur Sulzberger Jr.? How about News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch? — No, it is Robert “Bob” Toussie, a real estate developer and investor.
Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:
Bill O'Reilly's indie instincts — In a time of political turmoil, can the Fox News commentator be seen as a moderate? — Fox News' top-rated host Bill O'Reilly has helped to make the network a ratings leader. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) — Reporting from New York
Jason Boog / GalleyCat:
Authors Guild Offers eBook Royalty Advice for Random House & HarperCollins Authors — Today the Authors Guild wrote to individual members referring to letters that some authors have received from Random House and HarperCollins about eBook rights. According to the Guild, the publishers hope …
John Koblin / New York Observer:
It's War! Kate Taylor Quits The Journal to Join The Times — Arts reporter Kate Taylor quit The Wall Street Journal today and is joing The New York Times. — Ms. Taylor, a veteran of the Sun, joined The Wall Street Journal's New York section only six weeks ago.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
YouTube and Viacom Find Lots of Emails, but No Smoking Gun — The YouTube-Viacom documents released today are chock full of interesting morsels. Feel free to ignore most of them. — Because if you're trying to handicap the way the copyright lawsuit pans out, today's document dump won't do much to help you.
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Amanpour: A surprise - and a risk — In choosing Christiane Amanpour to host “This Week,” ABC defied the Sunday show conventions that have resulted in a succession of hosts who were male political journalists steeped in Washington culture. — Passing over more traditional choices …
Mark Oppenheimer / New York Times:
The Optimist's Blogger — In February 2001, a Brown University graduate with the improbably suave name Lockhart Steele took up occupancy in a one-bedroom third-floor walk-up apartment on Rivington Street, near the intersection with Ludlow. The Lower East Side could still claim, just barely, to be a marginal neighborhood.
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The Pentagon's Stringers — Ex-CNN exec Eason Jordan and author Robert Pelton say their Afghan reporting project was hijacked by a rogue DoD official. But had their unorthodox operation already crossed a line? — Post Comment — Need entrée to Afghan warlords and powerbrokers?
David Folkenflik / NPR:
ABC News Under Fire For Payment To Murder Suspect — text sizeAAA — ABC News is facing sharp criticism over the disclosure that it paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a Florida woman who now stands accused of killing her own infant daughter. — The $200,000 payment in August 2008 …
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Truth Or Fiction: Did 30 Rock Call Comcast A Porn Company? — Last week's episode of 30 Rock featured a “truth is better than fiction” plot line that introduced the acquisition of NBC by a Philadelphia-based cable provider known as “Kabletown” (which parallels the real-life drama behind Comcast's efforts …
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