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7:20 PM ET, March 26, 2010

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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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Jennifer Howze / Times of London:
The Times and Sunday Times websites to charge from June  —  Alexi Mostrous, Media Editor, and Francesca Steele  —  The Times and The Sunday Times will start charging for their websites from June, it was confirmed today.  —  News International, the newspapers' parent company …
Discussion: PC World and Editors Weblog
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
John Humphrys argues in favour of newspaper paywalls  —  Now this comes from left field.  John Humphrys, a BBC presenter who works for an organisation offering free online news content, contends that we should all be happy to pay for content on net.  —  Writing in The Sun today …
Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:
For the media biz, iPad 2010 = CDROM 1994  —  I'm having flashbacks these days, and they're not from drugs, they're from the rising chorus of media-industry froth about how Apple's forthcoming iPad is going to save the business of selling content.  —  Let me be clear: I love what I've seen …
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
How Apple Is Dogfighting To Control Your News  —  Apple's iPad could make it the king of old media, arbiter of taste and technology alike.  So magazines and newspapers have begun a series of countermoves that could turn the quietest dogfight in media into the most vicious.
Discussion: RJI, Epicenter and TomsTechBlog.com
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
What the WSJ's iPad Price Says About the iPad  —  The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that it will set monthly iPad subscriptions as $17.99.  This is what we in the biz know as cojones.  I looked up WSJ subscriptions for Web and print today.  It turns out that getting the WSJ …
Cglynch / The Lynch Blog:
What The Reader Elite Means for Journalism Schools  —  In the wake of my last post about The Reader Elite, I had several discussions with friends in the media industry about what such an audience would mean for journalism as an academic concentration.  The Reader Elite is what I call the group …
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Ravi Somaiya / Gawker:
Journalism Schools May Die.  Good.  —  A shrinking pool of journalists may mean the death of J-schools.  Good.  Fusty academia, pointless courses on ‘new media’ and endless essay-masturbation over ethics is pointless anyway.  —  Learning journalism in a classroom feeds the idea …
Discussion: Romenesko
Hollywood Reporter:
e5 CEO: ‘No truth’ to Nikki Finke claim  —  In a blog post Thursday on Deadline Hollywood, Nikki Finke wrote, “... in early December 2009, the new owners of The Hollywood Reporter approached me about becoming the trade's new editor-in-chief.  In late January 2010, they made me a very lucrative financial offer.”
Discussion: Folio and New York Magazine
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Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:
Here's The Hollywood Reporter Offer To Me
Discussion: MinOnline
Boston Globe:
Guild protests NY Times execs compensation  —  The Boston Newspaper Guild, which is the biggest employee union at The Boston Globe, is circulating a petition that asks its members to sign a letter to protest the compensation packages of the two top executives at The New York Times Co., the Globe's owner.
Discussion: Media Nation and Romenesko
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Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
CW to Double Ads in Web Shows  —  Seeking to mine a growing audience for TV shows online, The CW Network is taking a route that other broadcasters have avoided: putting as many ads in Web versions of its shows as it airs on TV.  —  The U.S. network, a joint venture of CBS Corp. and Time Warner Inc. …
Mercedes Bunz / Guardian:
News Corp's UK titles to pull out of Nexis  —  News Corp withdraws its content from news aggregator Nexis, but it will remain on the Murdoch-owned Factiva  —  News International is to pull its content for all their UK titles from the aggregation and archive service Nexis …
Kristen Schweizer / Bloomberg:
Spotify Online Music Site Targets U.S. Start in Third Quarter  —  Spotify, a virtual digital jukebox and Europe's largest legal online music site, aims to start U.S. operations in the third quarter.  —  The Stockholm-based company, which has 7 million users in Europe, is in talks …
Big Think:
Design of the Times: Khoi Vinh and NYT.com  —  Why does the Web version of a newspaper look so different from the print version?  It may sound like a simple-minded question, but the answer cuts to the heart of the difference between the print and the online experience.
 
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