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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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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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.
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Gillian Reagan / Silicon Alley Insider:
New York Times Staffers Furious Over The Huge Raise Executives Gave Themselves (NYT) — Some New York Times Co. (NYT) staffers are boiling about their top executives' huge $12 million payouts in 2009. — Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr.'s compensation more than doubled in 2009, to nearly $6 million.
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.”
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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 Farey-Jones / Media Week:
From £665m to £1: The changing shape of Britain's …
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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. …
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 …
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Kevin Allocca / TVNewser:
New Anderson Cooper Talk Show Specials? — NY Post's Cindy Adams mentioned this little note about Anderson Cooper at the bottom of her Page Six article this week: “CNN adding a nightly talk show for Anderson Cooper?? Eclectic-type guests? It's what I'm hearing.”
Economist:
Blacked out — How Silvio Berlusconi constrains political debate in the media — THE regional elections in Italy on March 28th and 29th will, as Silvio Berlusconi has himself conceded, be of national importance—a big test of the prime minister's popularity after a troubled 2009.
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.
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.
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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