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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 …
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 …
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.
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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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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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. …
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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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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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.
Crain's New York Business:
Penguin Press pays mega bucks for political book — Matthew Flamm - Book publishers must think the 2012 presidential campaign will be even more eventful and historic than 2008's. The Penguin Press, an imprint of the Penguin Group (USA), has just emerged as the winning bidder …
Russ Smith / splicetoday.com:
The Wall Street Journal Gets Too Cute — A March 24 front-page photo and caption give a sliver of ammunition to naysayers who still believe Rupert Murdoch wants his flagship newspaper to spice things up—New York Post style. — kevindooley — The overwhelming consensus among Americans …
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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.
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