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2:50 PM ET, March 29, 2010

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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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Kirk LaPointe's themediamanager.com:
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 …
Discussion: Guardian
MICHAEL WOLFF / Newser:
Rupert Murdoch: If You Want to Read a Paper, Read the Damn Paper
Discussion: 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 …
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 road map …
Discussion: AppleInsider and Online Video News
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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?
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, FishBowlNY and Gawker
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.
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 …
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 …
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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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Up Is Down: FT Free On iPad, Guardian Monthly Mobile Charge?
Discussion: Guardian and eMedia Vitals
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 …
Discussion: Guardian, Press Gazette and Time
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Lebedevs Try to Rescue The Independent of Britain
Discussion: Media Decoder
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.
Discussion: Company Town
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 …
Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab and The Wire
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.
Discussion: Lost Remote
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 …
Discussion: Romenesko and Chickaboomer
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Bernstein Internet Analyst Jeff Lindsay Joins AOL  —  Latest Hire Will Serve as VP in Content Division  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — One of Wall Street's more bullish analysts on AOL has now joined the company.  —  Leading internet analyst Jeff Lindsay has left Sanford C. Bernstein …
 
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Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
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Discussion: The Wire
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Discussion: Thomson IR and Fitz & Jen
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Amy Davidson / The New Yorker Blog:
A Shooting in Zambia  —  I've been reading Jeffrey Goldberg's piece …
Editor and Publisher:
‘Chicago Tribune’: Our Parent Co.'s Bankruptcy Typifies Huge Fees These Days
Discussion: Chicago Tribune and Romenesko
Stuart Kennedy / TheAustralian:
With an app at the ready, The Australian awaits the iPad
Discussion: mUmBRELLA
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
What Does the Future Hold for Newspapers?
Discussion: Guardian
Jon / CyberJournalist.net:
ABC's This Week live tweets during broadcast
Discussion: Mediaite and Political Punch
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk:
Rumor: Google AdWords Reseller Program Ending?
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Details emerge from Bloomberg deal with San Francisco Chronicle
Discussion: eMedia Vitals and Cision
Richard Wilner / New York Post:
Maria is no longer sweet on ‘Honey’