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Times of London:
Why the future of good news is not free — If we are asking politicians to be honest, it is important we practise what we preach. Nowhere is this more crucial than with journalism on the internet. At present we are in the absurd position of charging people £2 for our newspaper …
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The Sunday Times of London explains its paywall decision — Rupert Murdoch, the world's largest press baron, said some time ago that his operations could no longer continue to provide information freely online. — For years his Wall Street Journal has charged an online subscription fee …
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Guardian
MICHAEL WOLFF / Newser:
Rupert Murdoch: If You Want to Read a Paper, Read the Damn Paper
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The Daily Dish
Graydon Carter / Mediaweek:
Opinion: Print Is Dying ... Really? — At a time when magazines are everyone's whipping boy, Graydon Carter offers evidence to the contrary. … It's become fashionable to proclaim that print is dying, as if a medium that has been around for more than five centuries might …
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Romenesko, Silicon Alley Insider, New York Observer, mediabistro.com and magCulture.com/blog
David Carr / New York Times:
The Media Equation: Google's Not Creating Content, Just Protecting It — Should we be surprised that the biggest fight over freedom of expression in years involves Google, a company that produces algorithms rather than articles? — Probably not. — Google executives struck a blow …
Felix Salmon:
Blogonomics: Monetizing readers — At this point, even I'm bored of the Salmon vs Blodget wars. But Henry has decided to grossly misrepresent my views, so it's worth explaining in a bit more detail what I actually think about blog content and how it can and should be turned into money.
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Wall St. Cheat Sheet, New York Observer, 24/7 Wall St., ParisLemon, Spiersblr, Journalism.co.uk and mathewingram.com/work
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Nat Ives / AdAge:
The Wall Street Journal Joins Newspaper Battle at Starbucks — Paper Enters New York Area Stores Weeks Before Introducing Its New York Edition — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The newspaper battle that recently began inside Starbucks has welcomed another contestant: The Wall Street Journal …
The Independent:
Stephen Glover: This paper now has a chance to break even — The Guardian's coverage of last week's sale of the two Independent titles to Alexander Lebedev was characteristically charitable. By that I mean characteristically uncharitable. The paper highlighted Mr Lebedev's past as a former KGB agent …
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Joseph Plambeck / New York Times:
What if No One Went to the Office? Inc. Magazine Finds Out — Max Chafkin, a senior writer for Inc. magazine, couched the idea as a sort of joke: for his article on virtual offices, perhaps the entire magazine staff should work remotely while making the issue?
Gillian Reagan / Silicon Alley Insider:
Financial Times' iPad App Will Be Free For Two Months — And Then $190 A Year — Apple's iPads are en route to their first round of consumers and media companies are prepping for them. — At its launch in late April, The Financial Times will offer their iPad app for free for two months.
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
What Does the Future Hold for Newspapers? — If you've been following the newspaper industry at all over the past year or so, you probably won't be surprised to learn that 2009 was the worst year in decades as far as advertising revenues are concerned. But the sheer scale of the declines over the past few years is staggering.
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Brightcove Targets iPad With HTML5 Support — Online video management firm Brightcove is going after media companies that want to make their videos available on the Apple iPad by adding a whole new feature set to deliver iPad-compatible HTML5 video. The company also has unveiled a roadmap …
Editor and Publisher:
Guild Ratifies 5-Year-Plus Contract With ‘St. Louis Post-Dispatch’ — CHICAGO St. Louis Newspaper Guild members voted by a better than two-to-one margin this weekend to approve a new contract with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that cuts pay by 6% in the first two and a half years of the five and a half-year agreement.
Editor and Publisher:
NAA Spent $400,000 on Lobbying in Q4 — NEW YORK The Newspaper Association of America spent $440,000 lobbying the federal government in the last quarter of 2009, on issues ranging from the future of journalism to the estate tax. — The group, which represents nearly 2,000 newspapers in the U.S. …
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