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BBC:
Times website to charge from June — The Times and Sunday Times newspapers will start charging to access their websites in June, owner News International (NI) has announced. — Users will pay £1 for a day's access and £2 for a week's subscription.
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Elizabeth Barrett / Press Association:
Users to pay £2 a week to read Times online — Customers will be charged £2 a week to read The Times and The Sunday Times online from June, News International announced today. — Both titles will launch new websites in early May, separating their digital presence …
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The Next Web
John Reynolds / Media Week:
Who is Alexander Lebedev? — LONDON - Alexander Yevgenievich Lebedev, the new proprietor of The Independent and the Independent on Sunday, likened by colleagues to a chess grandmaster, is famously difficult to read. — Alexander Lebedev: the new owner of The Independent and Independent on Sunday
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Daniel Finkelstein / Times of London:
Former KGB spy Alexander Lebedev buys Independent for £1
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Associated Press
Shira Ovide / Digits:
Time's Managing Editor: iPad Content Awaits ‘Its Orson Welles’ — “I was very keen on being present at the creation.” — That's Richard Stengel, managing editor of Time magazine, excitedly talking about the iPad version he expects to roll out at or shortly after the hotly anticipated launch of the tablet computer on April 3.
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MinOnline
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PATRICK GOLDSTEIN / The Big Picture:
Variety to studios: Stop giving scoops to the competition! — Variety has been making a lot of news lately. Unfortunately, the news has been pretty much all bad. — In case you've just tuned in, the venerable trade paper has suffered one black eye after another in recent weeks.
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Dozier leaves CBS News to become AP's intelligence reporter — AP Washington Bureau Chief Ron Fournier's memo — I'm pleased to announce the AP's new intelligence reporter: Kimberly Dozier. — You may know Kim as the Middle East correspondent for CBS News, where she earned a reputation …
Roc / Media is a Plural:
Union Busting, Bloomberg Sale Looming at ABC News? — Turmoil continues at troubled ABC News. Morale among employees was already low after president David Westin's recent announcement that their ranks are to be decimated as part of a “new digital day.” — It plunged even further following …
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Michael Schneider / On The Air:
Ex-ABC correspondent Rooney: Massive cuts “will have unintended consequences”
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LA Observed
Michael Fox / 22 Michaels:
The incredible power of a 16 year old video blogger — Well, it's taken me a week to think through all the ramifications of this and put it into a blog post, but last week was the best ever for Shoes of Prey by a large order of magnitude, and it's all thanks to this video by a 16 year old YouTuber, Juicystar07 aka Blair Fowler.
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Jimmy Dolan Pulls Out of Village Voice After Dick Joke, Or The Most Expensive Blog Post of All Time — We now know the yearly value of a dick joke: $20,800. A company owned by Jimmy Dolan, Cablevision CEO and new owner of Gothamist, has pulled a $400/week ad from the Village Voice after it joked about his penis.
Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Fox Reups Kevin Reilly — I've learned Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly's new deal just closed. His new deal will keep in place for 3 more years. His contract wasn't up until July, but Fox Broadcasting Co wanted to lock him in early as because of all the TV hits he's generating …
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Company Town
Cristine Russell / CJR:
From Gumshoe to Google Wave — Investigative journalism goes multimedia — CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—While investigative journalism still requires old-school skills like stakeouts, meetings with confidential sources, and painstaking scrutiny of documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests …
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Writing / Editing
Adrian Holovaty / The EveryBlock Blog:
New EveryBlock city: Portland — Today, we've launched a new EveryBlock city: Portland, Oregon. — Portland has consistently been one of the most voted-for cities in our homepage poll, so we've always figured it was only a matter of time before we added it.
Doree Shafrir / Gawker:
How the Michelle ‘Bombshell’ McGee Story Got Made — Everyone was shocked when, last week, In Touch published a cover story about Jesse James' mistress Michelle “Bombshell” McGee. The surprise wasn't that James was having affairs, but that In Touch had gotten the story—and gotten it right.
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
The Photo Tool That Could Shake Up Online Publishing — Here's an amazing demo of the “content-aware fill” tool that's apparently forthcoming in Photoshop CS5. The tool makes it easy to delete objects from a complex photo, without any trace they ever existed. The ramifications for internet publishing are frightening.
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Vanity Fair
Will Richmond / VideoNuze.com:
Here's How Google TV Will Work - And What It Might Mean — Last week, the NY Times shared some details of “Google TV,” the new set-top box Google is developing in partnership with Intel and Sony. The article provided a good outline, and now, based on additional information I've gathered …
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Gizmodo
Alex Weprin / Broadcasting & Cable:
Spike Launching UFC Destination Site — UltimateFighter.com will feature archive of all episodes and fights from Spike show, additional content — MTV Networks-owned Spike TV is expanding its relationship with the UFC, creating a branded destination site for avid fans of mixed martial arts.
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