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8:50 AM ET, March 22, 2010

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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Effort at Wall Street Journal to Attract More New Yorkers  —  Maybe newspapers really are dying, as some media analysts have been predicting for decades, but apparently that does not apply to newspaper wars.  A doozy is shaping up at the moment between The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Paywall On-Ramps Get A Workaround  —  Remember BugMeNot.com?  The site was started in 2003 to let users, peeved by a growing crop of news site registration walls, borrow someone else's login.  —  Seven years on - for registration wall workaround, read pay wall hack.
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
Hollywood Reporter:
Conan-Fox talks resume amid ‘Idol’ offer  —  THR EXCLUSIVE  —  After a two-week stall, Fox and Conan O'Brien have resumed talks about a potential late-night talk show fronted by the former “Tonight Show” host.  —  But a wrinkle in the courtship has emerged that involves the biggest show on television …
Discussion: E! Online and New York Magazine
Andrew Hampp / AdAge:
Fox News: We're an Upscale Buy on Par With Mainstream Nets  —  Cable Channel Broadens Competitive Set Beyond Historical Archrival CNN  —  LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) — For years, Fox News' pitch to advertisers and the press was that it was bigger and better than any other cable- news network.
Nellie Andreeva / Hollywood Reporter:
Rosie O'Donnell plots daytime return  —  Teams with Dick Robertson, Scott Carlin for new talk show  —  Rosie O'Donnell is plotting a return to daytime.  —  O'Donnell, who hosted the syndicated “The Rosie O'Donnell Show” and did a stint on ABC's “The View,” has teamed with syndication …
Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
NSFW: Jimmy Wales Wants Me Dead (The Neutrality Of This Article Is Disputed)  —  Some weeks, writing this column is easy.  All it takes is for an influential person - a politician, a business person, perhaps even a fellow columnist - to say something dumb and I get to spend a thousand words or so explaining precisely why they're wrong.
Discussion: paidContent
New York Times:
Chinese Official's Threat to Reporter Ignites Furor  —  BEIJING — In another era, the brusque response of Li Hongzhong, the governor of Hubei Province, to a reporter's question about a scandal on his home turf might have been the end of it.  —  Infuriated that the reporter would even ask about the case …
Maureen O'Connor / Gawker:
Why Is NYT's Weddings Page So Obsessed with Employment?  —  In response to our post about NYT inadvertently exposing their Weddings/Celebrations page's discomfort with acknowledging housewives and the unemployed, a bride and a recent mother-of-the-bride write in with their stories about being factchecked by the Times.
Ravi Somaiya / Gawker:
Fox News Says Healthcare Reform is the Beginning of Armageddon  —  Healthcare reform has passed.  It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing and almost universally a good thing.  Unless you're Fox News or Sarah Palin, in which case it's the end of the world.  We watched today's apocalyptic coverage, mystified.
 
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Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
DoubleClick Lead Architect Launches Search Retargeting Platform
Discussion: AdExchanger.com
Kevin Allocca / TVNewser:
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Is FiLife Running On Borrowed Time?
Tim Carmody / Snarkmarket:
Why books on the iPad just might work
Discussion: Kindle Review and TeleRead
Kelly Carr / BusinessJournalism.org Reynolds Center …:
A Web writing bootcamp for business journalists
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Peter Preston / Guardian:
Farewell, unique users - killed by the paywall
Discussion: Editors Weblog
Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
Murdoch In Over His Head? ‘NY Times’ Publisher Seems to Think So
Steve Herrmann / The Editors:
BBC News linking policy
Ravi Somaiya / Gawker:
How Blogs Are Becoming More Like Newspapers
Discussion: AdPulp and Los Angeles Times