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Motoko Rich / New York Times:
In E-Book Era, You Can't Even Judge a Cover — Bindu Wiles was on a Q train in Brooklyn this month when she spotted a woman reading a book whose cover had an arresting black silhouette of a girl's head set against a bright orange background. — Ms. Wiles noticed that the woman looked about her age …
Oliver Luft / Press Gazette:
Johnston Press halts paywall experiment — Johnston Press is to drop the paywalls it implemented on a number of its local newspapers from next week, Press Gazette understands — The regional publisher erected barriers on two of its Scottish and four of its English weekly newspaper websites …
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Felix Salmon:
The economics of non-profit newspapers — Alan Mutter is a genuine expert on newspaper economics, which is one reason why his bizarre blog entry today on the economics of non-profit newspapers is so puzzling. This has to be one of the most innumerate things he's ever written:
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E.B. Boyd / WebNewser:
Ex-BizWeek.com EIC Byrne Gives Sneak Preview of Upcoming C-Change Venture — Former BusinessWeek.com editor-in-chief John Byrne provided a sneak preview of his new C-Change Media venture at a panel discussion hosted at the Horn Group in San Francisco Tuesday night.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
With Hirings, Yahoo Steps Up News Coverage — SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo has recruited nearly a dozen journalists from traditional and online media outlets and opened a bureau in Washington to push into original content and increase the popularity of its online news site.
Stop / Twitter Blog:
Tweaking the Twitter homepage — Twitter's homepage is a work-in-progress. Today, we're testing a new design that bubbles up more of the information flowing through Twitter. This builds on a series of changes starting last year when we redesigned the homepage to make search and trending topics …
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Dansabbagh / Beehive City:
Alan Rusbridger's fair analysis of The Times, The Indy and the world — A memo from Alan Rusbridger, Editor of the The Guardian, went out to all staff. It starts with a nicely aggressive analysis of The Times's financials, followed by a good swipe at The Indy and then a lot more stuff …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
White House swamped with authors looking for the inside story — The White House has practically been overrun by journalists pumping top officials for behind-the-scenes details for a growing roster of behind-the-scenes books. — The blitz has created complications for presidential aides …
John Koblin / New York Observer:
Just Asking... Which Financial Daily Is Jumping Into the Gossip Biz? — Last week, we reported that The Wall Street Journal's New York section was starting—of all odd things—sports beats, with reporters traveling to home and away games of New York teams. — Well, now it appears The Journal's …
John Koblin / New York Observer:
Exiled Condé Editors: The Lost Years — So what happens to an editrix after Si Newhouse shuts down her magazine? — Dominique Browning wrote in The Times Magazine last weekend that her life went into a free fall after House & Garden was shuttered in 2007.
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
A “reader affection” formula: Gawker creates a metric for branded traffic — Influence, engagement, impact: For goals that are, in journalism, kind of the whole point, they're notoriously difficult to quantify. How do you measure, measure a year, and so on.
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Serendipity is unexpected relevance — Serendipity is not randomness. It is unexpected relevance. — I constantly hear the fear that serendipity is among the many things we're supposedly set to lose as news moves out of newsrooms and off print to online. Serendipity, says The New York Times, is lost in the digital age.
TBI Research:
Here Is Why The iPad Won't Save The Magazine Industry — Get The Internet Analyst in your inbox every day. To sign up, please submit your name and email address here. — Magazine industry advertising revenue declined an average of 12% the past 2 years (18% in 2009) …
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Steve Rosenbaum / The Business Insider:
A Wolff In Web Clothing — For some, curation grew out of necessity. — Michael Wolff is a world-renowned writer and contributing editor to publications like New York Magazine and Vanity Fair. But even as he wrote bigger and more controversial articles, he began to feel that the future …
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
The FT promotes its Twitter feed as alternative to newspaper — Hear first and act fast with Twitter feeds. Get the news you need as it happens, with FT Twitter feeds. Delivering breaking FT news, features, blogs, and multimedia, they'll alert you to the developments that matter.
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the nytpicker:
How's Times Skimmer Doing? One Bad Sign — NYT Can't Seem To Find Anyone To Advertise On It. — On December 2, 2009, the NYT Media Group's chief advertising officer, Denise Warren, announced the launch of “Times Skimmer,"a new NYT application designed to mirror the experience of reading …
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Richard Siklos / New York Observer:
The Price of Free — For the past few years, media buffs have been waiting for the elusive answer to a simple question: When is what's on TV going to really start acting more like what's on the Web? It's a two-part question, really, and the answer isn't nearly as clear as you might think.
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Anita Chang / Associated Press:
Journalists in China say Yahoo accounts hacked — All four affected are professionally focused on China and related issues — BEIJING - Yahoo e-mail accounts belonging to foreign journalists appeared to have been hacked and Google's Chinese search engine was intermittently blocked Tuesday …
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
YouTube's Original Sin — The video site danced with the devil to get a massive traffic boost. Now it might pay the price. — Google CEO Eric Schmidt regularly uses about 30 different computers at work. Although his company has made it easy for people to organize their e-mail across different computers …
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Kevin Marsh / The BBC College of Journalism Blog:
Paying for quality? — Of all the arguments in favour of newspaper paywalls, one is utter tosh. It is that we - the readers - must pay online to preserve what one tabloid editor once called “the best newspapers in the world”. It's a description that's reared its head again this week.
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