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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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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 …
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.
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
What Voice of San Diego wants in an “engagement editor” — One thing you should know about Voice of San Diego's new engagement editor gig: it's not (just) about social media. Yes, being active on Facebook and Twitter will be part of the job, but that's a means rather than an end.
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 …
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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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Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
Nine Questions on the Tablet and the News Industry Future — The countdown clocks are winding down. The iPad is almost here. THE big question: Can news companies rise to this occasion, taking advantage of the new platform that will plainly be popular with audiences trained by the iPhone, their appetites whetted.
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.
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.
Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
Digital content set for growth. Oh, except news — Redundancy, job cuts, advertising decline, falling readership... perhaps it is inevitable that it's crisis rather than opportunity that gets the news industry most of its coverage. — In the wider digital content landscape, things are not so bleak.
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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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 …
Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
LL Cool J Distances Himself From Fox News, Sarah Palin (Update: Fox Responds) — Well this is an interesting twist - actor/musician LL Cool J, who is one of the celebrities who will be part of Sarah Palin's Thursday show (and is in the promo), isn't happy about the ‘misrepresentation.’
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Publisher Network To Be Axed, Customers Referred To Chitika Instead — We just received an anonymous tip from someone who claims to have received an email from Yahoo which says that the company's Google AdSense counterpart, Publisher Network, will be shut down by the company in the next 30 days.
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.
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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 …
Evan Smith / The Texas Tribune:
T-Squared: Thanks a Million-Plus — When we launched the Trib twenty-two weeks ago, we had goals — somewhat arbitrary and aspirational but definitely sincere — for the site's traffic in the first year. We'd like to be at 150,000 unique monthly visitors by the end of 2010, we told everyone who'd listen.
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Jeff Clabaugh / Washington, D.C. Business News:
Washington Times says it is not for sale — The Washington Times denied a report Tuesday that its owners had put the paper up for sale, saying it has been approached by buyers in the past but is not working on a deal now. — The Drudge Report reported the struggling paper was for sale …
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.
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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Brian Caulfield / Velocity:
Twitter's Homepage Gets Newsier, Searchier — Social messaging service Twitter launched a new homepage Tuesday aimed at putting more of the quips, commentary, and news generated by its users up front. — What do you think of Twitter's new homepage? Let us know in the comments section below.
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