Mediagazer: Time's Managing Editor: iPad Content Awaits ‘Its Orson Welles’ (Shira Ovide/Digits)

11:40 AM ET, March 26, 2010

Top News:

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.

Discussion: Media Decoder, FishBowlNY, paidContent, Media Week, industry.bnet.com, Guardian, themediablog.typepad.com, Channel 4, Press Gazette, Journalism.co.uk, Sky News, Jon Slattery, Freelance Unbound, One Man & His Blog, THINQ.co.uk and John Rentoul

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 …

Discussion: The Next Web

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: Guardian and Editors Weblog

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.

Discussion: FishBowlNY, MinOnline, TUAW, All Things Digital, MarketingVOX and Silicon Alley Insider

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: TomsTechBlog.com and Advertising Lab

Arn / MacRumors:
CBS.com Prepping HTML5 Video Playback for iPad

Discussion: Online Video News, eMedia Vitals, NewTeeVee, Lifehacker, The Other Mac Blog, Online, TUAW, MediaPost, Fast Company, ReadWriteWeb and Gizmodo

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

Discussion: Guardian, Media News and Brand Republic

Peter Kirwan / Wired.co.uk:
Why Lebedev's Indy should go digital

Discussion: Media Money, malcolm coles, Economist, Guardian and paidContent

Daniel Farey-Jones / Media Week: From £665m to £1: The changing shape of Britain's …

Daniel Finkelstein / Times of London:
Former KGB spy Alexander Lebedev buys Independent for £1

Discussion: Associated Press

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. …

Discussion: Online Video News

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.

Discussion: The Wire, Romenesko, Movieline and LA Observed

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 …

Discussion: Editor and Publisher, Associated Press, TVNewser, The Wire and Michael Calderone's Blog

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 …

Michael Schneider / On The Air:
Ex-ABC correspondent Rooney: Massive cuts “will have unintended consequences”

Discussion: LA Observed

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 …

Discussion: Writing / Editing

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 …

Discussion: Company Town

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.

Discussion: Runnin' Scared and FishBowlNY

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 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.

Discussion: WebNewser and Lost Remote

Xiao Qiang / chinadigitaltimes.net:

The Ministry of Truth Limits Reporting on Google in China 03/23/10 (Updated) — In China, several political bodies are in charge of Internet content control. At the highest level, there is the Central Propaganda Department, which ensures that media and cultural content follows the official line as mandated by the CCP.