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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 …
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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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Times website to charge from June
Times website to charge from June
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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 …
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.
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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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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.
USA Today:
Crazy like a Fox? — Fox News is one voice in a massive and growing media environment. Cal and Bob say our noisy democracy can handle the right-leaning Fox — or any and all other media voices. … Today: Bias and Fox News. — Cal: We've been around politics long enough to know that an …
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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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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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 …
Claire Howorth / Vanity Fair:
The Bookopticon — To become a literary star, having talent helps, but so does carving out a place in the tangled, incestuous web of the publishing world. Our interactive field guide illustrates how 10 young authors with potential best-sellers coming out this spring and summer fit into the firmament.
Katy Bachman / Mediaweek:
ESPN to Launch Local New York Site — ESPN announced Thursday (March 25) that it would launch a local Web site in New York on April 2. The launch of ESPNNewYork.com is timed to coincide with the ESPN2 telecast between the 2009 World Series Champion New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park on April 4.
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