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5:40 AM ET, March 27, 2010

Top News:

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 …

Discussion: paidContent, FishBowlNY and Fast Company

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.

Discussion: BuzzMachine, Journalism.co.uk and paidContent

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
John Humphrys argues in favour of newspaper paywalls

Discussion: The Sun, the Econsultancy blog, Media News and Jon Slattery

Jennifer Howze / Times of London:
The Times and Sunday Times websites to charge from June

Discussion: PC World and Editors Weblog

BBC:
Times website to charge from June

Elizabeth Barrett / Press Association:
Users to pay £2 a week to read Times online

Discussion: Editor and Publisher, Digital Trends, Search Engine Watch and The Next Web

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.

Discussion: The Corsair and The Awl

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) …

Discussion: WE ARE YOUR FEK and The Atlantic Wire

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 …

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: Epicenter and RJI

Joe Mandese / MediaPost:

Apple Poised To Unveil ‘iAd,’ New Mobile Ad Platform Is Jobs' ‘Next Big Thing’ — Even as the buzz builds toward the April 3rd ship date of the iPad, Apple is preparing to announce its “next big thing” — a new personalized, mobile advertising system that could well be called the “iAd” — Online Media Daily has learned.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and MacRumors

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 …

Discussion: MinOnline, Romenesko, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Digits

Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
What the WSJ's iPad Price Says About the iPad

Discussion: CJR, Online Video News and George Dearing

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 …

Discussion: The Wire, Living My Yoga, Romenesko, Connecting, About.com Journalism and /message

Ravi Somaiya / Gawker:
Journalism Schools May Die. Good.

Discussion: Romenesko

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.

Discussion: Romenesko, Editor and Publisher and Newsroom Law Blog

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.

Discussion: The Wrap, MinOnline and LA Observed

Hollywood Reporter:
e5 CEO: ‘No truth’ to Nikki Finke claim

Discussion: Folio and New York Magazine

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

Gillian Reagan / Silicon Alley Insider:
New York Times Staffers Furious Over The Huge Raise Executives Gave Themselves (NYT)

Discussion: Editor and Publisher, Media Research Center, Editors Weblog and FishBowlNY

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 …

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

For Fox's ‘24,’ Terror Fight and Series Near End — If any one show has represented the post-9/11 era on television, it is “24,” the Fox drama that has offered counterterrorism as entertainment for nine years. — On “24,” torture saves lives. On “24,” phones are tapped, plots are disrupted …

Discussion: Variety and TVbytheNumbers

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 …