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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.
The Live Feed | THR:
Conan-Fox talks resume amid ‘Idol’ offer — 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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Doctor on ‘Nurse Jackie’ Will Post to Twitter in Real Time — Shows on every major network have tapped Twitter for plotlines and punch lines. This month even Homer Simpson got in on the act, punishing Bart by telling him to tweet his every action “even though I don't know what Twitter is, and have no desire to find out.”
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Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Managing the magazine component of newspapers — This is the second part of a series about the evolution of print media. Part I here. — A few years ago, the founder of the French daily Liberation was asked what he would do if he had unlimited resources to run his paper: “I would do a magazine everyday”, he said.
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.