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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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MICHAEL WOLFF / Newser:
Rupert Murdoch: If You Want to Read a Paper, Read the Damn Paper — Follow him on Twitter @MichaelWolffNYC — Rupert Murdoch's paywall goes up around his papers, the Times and Sunday Times in London, this June. His plan is much more straightforward and draconian than almost anyone suspected.
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Danny Shea / The Huffington Post:
Michael Calderone Leaving Politico, Latest In Mini-Exodus — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Politico media blogger Michael Calderone is leaving the site for Yahoo. — According to sources, he is expected to leave Politico within a matter of weeks to join Yahoo News' original content project, overseen by blogging editor Andrew Golis.
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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Christopher Conklin / The Awl:
How Web Writers Get Held Responsible for the Lawyers, the Sales Guys …
Jeff Whatcott / Brightcove Blog:
The Present and Future of HTML5 Video Experiences — As commercial availability of the Apple iPad draws near, we have been getting a lot of inquiries from customers looking for guidance on what they need to do to deliver great video experiences on these devices that exclusively support the HTML5 approach to video.
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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 …
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Forget Paywalls - How About More Serendipity? — If ChatRoulette does nothing else, at least it seems to be getting some traditional media outlets to think about their content differently. For Chris Thorpe of The Guardian, the lightbulb went on during a lunchtime presentation …
John Yemma / paidContent:
Memo To News Sites: There Is No Future In ‘Digital Razzle Dazzle’ — John Yemma is Editor of The Christian Science Monitor. — Let's agree that Rupert Murdoch is right: Content is king. You'll get nothing but applause from a journalist of four decades like me.
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?
MediaShift:
Better Coordination Needed to Map Local Media Ecologies — Back in 2008, I co-organized a conference called Beyond Broadcast. That year's theme was “mapping public media,” and was designed to both call out the rising importance of maps as a platform for sharing digital media, and to “map” …
Connie Schultz / Plain Dealer:
Web site posters' anonymity an invitation to mischief: Connie Schultz — I look forward to the day when news organizations start to ban anonymous comments on their Web sites. — Maybe that's the foolish optimist in me, but I want to believe that we will finally admit …
Margaret Atwood / NYRblog:
Atwood in the Twittersphere — A long time ago—less than a year ago in fact, but time goes all stretchy in the Twittersphere, just as it does in those folksongs in which the hero spends a night with the Queen of Faerie and then returns to find that a hundred years have passed and all his friends are dead.... Where was I?
Claire Atkinson / Broadcasting & Cable:
Hallmark, Martha Stewart Exploring New Lifestyle Cable Channel — Hallmark parent Crown Media in talks with Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia on wide-ranging mutlimedia joint venture — Two of the most recognized American brands, Hallmark and Martha Stewart, may be joining forces behind a new lifestyle cable channel.
Joe Ciarallo / FishBowlNY:
Media Beat: Lockhart Steele on Nick Denton: ‘I Loved Working For Him’ — Gawker by day, blog network by...day. That was Curbed Network founder and president Lockhart Steele's schedule for at least a few years. — While spending his days as managing editor at Gawker, Steele got his own network up and running.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Howard Kurtz reflects on Gerald Boyd's ‘My Times in Black & White’ — Faced with what would become the greatest fraud in the history of the New York Times, Gerald Boyd did not want his own reporters to investigate. — “A handoff is a dereliction of duty,” he told his boss, Howell Raines …
Richard Wray / Guardian:
Apple's iPad may give media executives a chance to make money — New tablet device goes on sale this week — When it was announced, to much fanfare and the sort of near- hysterical hype that has come to characterise the Mac fan club, the iPad was seen by many technology watchers as an answer in search of a question.
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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.
Jim / Gannett Blog:
Study: In donations, ‘citizen journalists’ hit a wall — A new study of online start-up financing offers only a glimmer of hope for self-employed reporters like me, trying to make a living as “citizen journalists” through voluntary contributions from readers.
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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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Lebedevs Try to Rescue The Independent of Britain