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Felix Salmon:
Blogonomics: Revenue per page — In the wake of the debate we had earlier today, Henry Blodget took to Twitter to explain the numbers behind ad-supported blogs. The most interesting tweets, to me, were these: … If $10 is “a good monetization rate”, then let's be generous and say that Blodget is making $15 at TBI.
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Silicon Alley Insider:
Reuters Blogger Attacks Business Insider On Twitter, We Defend Ourselves — A Reuters blogger attacked us on Twitter this afternoon. — Having gotten used to having his own journalistic efforts funded by a multi-billion-dollar finance-terminal business (which we, sadly, lack) …
Juli Weiner / Vanity Fair:
Tweet Fight!: Henry Blodget vs. Felix Salmon — The Business Insider C.E.O. Henry Blodget and Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon are currently enmeshed in an epic Twitter fight about journalistic ethics. Sing, goddess, the anger of Felix Salon, who pointed out that a Business Insider piece …
Addy Dugdale / Fast Company:
Editor of The Times Goes Online to Answer (Not Very Many) Questions on Impending Paywall — Following on from this morning's news that two of Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers are to start charging, James Harding, editor of The Times, braved the Intertubes for a Q&A with his readers.
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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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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.
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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Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:
Here's The Hollywood Reporter Offer To Me — As you know, I responded early yesterday to some inaccurate showbiz website's rumor-mongering. I revealed that, in early December, the new owners of The Hollywood Reporter approached me about becoming editor-in-chief.
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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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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 …
Henry J. Gomez / Metro:
Plain Dealer sparks ethical debate by unmasking anonymous Cleveland.com poster … CLEVELAND, Ohio — By unmasking an anonymous poster at its companion Web site, The Plain Dealer finds itself in an ethical quandary, stirring a debate that balances the public's need to know against the privacy concerns of online participants.
Rachel Maddow / The Rachel Maddow Show:
Maddow takes full-page ad in Boston to say she's still not running — An ad slated for the Boston Globe. (Click for full jpg or pdf.) — People in Massachusetts picking up their morning papers today may spot an open letter from Rachel Maddow. The full-page ad explains that she's …
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Steve Smith / MediaPost:
A Pandora For Content? — The personalized music service Pandora is a huge hit in my family, where almost everyone has his or her own custom “channel” of Internet radio. Over time, Pandora learns the kinds of tunes we like — and don't like. It requires minimal and only occasional interactivity …
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