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6:35 PM ET, April 1, 2010

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
NYT readies a free iPad app for those who don't want to pay; plus first looks at NPR, WSJ, AP, Bloomberg, and USA Today on iPad  —  The New York Times may be preparing to charge a lot for its primary iPad app, but it looks like they're also willing to provide a limited, free alternative …
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Media Buyer Planner:
CBS, ABC to Stream Free TV Content to iPad; Print Media Prepares, Too  —  CBS and ABC have inked deals with Apple to stream TV shows free of charge to users of the iPad, complete with commercial breaks - similar to the way they are streamed on the networks' own websites.
Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
ABC Sitcom “Modern Family” Gives iPad A Serious Product Placement Slot (AAPL)
Alex Williams / New York Times:
Latest Rising Stars of Gossip Blogs  —  IT had all the elements for the perfect tabloid gossip item — a clash between star financial journalists, big egos and a surprise ouster that had Wall Street buzzing: Henry Blodget, the well-known disgraced-analyst-turned-financial- pundit and co-founder …
Clay Shirky:
The Collapse of Complex Business Models  —  I gave a talk in Edinburgh last year to a group of TV executives gathered for an annual conference.  From the Q&A after, it was clear that for them, the question wasn't whether the internet was going to alter their business, it was about the mode and tempo of that alteration.
Discussion: The Wire
Daniel Trotta / Reuters:
WSJ cuts prices in battle with New York Times  —  The Wall Street Journal is cutting new subscription prices by as much as 80 percent in some cases as it prepares to confront its rival, the New York Times, with a New York City edition.  —  The move comes amid a plunge in U.S. newspaper circulation …
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Ryan Chittum / CJR:
Reuters' Imaginary WSJ/NYT Price War
Discussion: paidContent
New York Times:
Successes (and Some Growing Pains) at Hulu  —  Hulu, the popular and free online video hub, has some things to celebrate as it heads into its third year.  —  The site, a venture of NBC Universal, the News Corporation and the Walt Disney Company, has been profitable for two quarters …
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Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Hulu's Revenue Kimono Opens: $100 Million Revenues in 2009; Profitable
Michael Rose / TUAW:
Hulu coming to iPad... sometime, eventually
Discussion: Gizmodo
Richard Perez-Pena / Media Decoder:
New York Times Company Sells Small Part of Its Red Sox Holdings  —  The New York Times Company said Wednesday that it has sold a small slice of its minority ownership of the Boston Red Sox and related properties.  —  The company sold a 1.18 percent share in New England Sports Ventures to Henry F. McCance, a venture capitalist.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Study: 52 Percent Of Bloggers Consider Themselves Journalists  —  According to a new study released by PR Week and PR Newswire, 52% percent of bloggers surveyed consider themselves journalists.  This is an increase from 2009's study, when just one in three had the same opinion.
Mark Fitzgerald / Editor and Publisher:
McKinsey Survey: Some Hope for Newspapers in Greater News Consumption by Young  —  CHICAGO A new survey of news consumption in Britain should comfort newspaper publishers everywhere, according to McKinsey & Co. Adults under the age of 35 have significantly increased their consumption of news …
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Screws Top Gadget Blogs: No Early iPad Review Units (AAPL, AOL)  —  Apple made an interesting choice in how it handled early iPad reviews: It provided review units to ten publications — including the three usual suspects, and some unusual ones — but left out the world's two top gadget blogs …
Discussion: The Wire
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon e-Book Deal Mirrors iPad  —  Two major book publishers have struck new electronic-book pricing deals with Amazon.com Inc., just days before the launch of Apple Inc.'s much anticipated iPad tablet device.  —  The agreements, with CBS Corp.'s Simon & Schuster and News Corp.'s HarperCollins Publishers …
Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
3 principles for reporters and bloggers in a networked era  —  Dina Rickman posed a question to me this week about the role of a reporter in our current networked age.  I thought I'd expand on my response, shown above.  Depending on your point of view, this is either a draft manifesto …
Discussion: smays.com and Kirk LaPointe's …
Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:
Newsweek Staff to Lose New Offices  —  Newsweek staffers, having suffered through layoffs and the struggle for the title's future, have to endure yet another loss: their new offices.  —  Scarcely a year after they moved from their unglamorous Midtown offices to cushier Tribeca digs …
Discussion: National Review and The Wire
Gillian Reagan / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Wants To Hire More ‘Content Object’ Makers (AOL)  —  AOL is hiring an managing editor to run their Real Estate sites, according to this Gorkana posting.  The chosen one will work on sites like Housingwatch.com and Rentedspaces.com.  —  Unfortunately AOL makes the job sound like the person …
Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
John Cook Leaving Gawker for Yahoo News  —  Woah.  After we just got word from sources familiar with the matter that Gawker's investigative reporter John Cook will be leaving Gawker.com at the end of April to go work for Yahoo News, it was then confirmed by Gawker publisher Nick Denton …
Gabriel Sherman / GQ Magazine: GQ:
The Citywide Leader in Sports?  —  More than thirty years after its very first SportsCenter, ESPN is a colossus—bigger, stronger, and faster than its scrappy founders could have possibly imagined.  Now, by thinking smaller, it's thinking bigger than ever  —  IT'S AN UNUSUALLY BLUSTERY Friday …
Discussion: Romenesko
Pew Internet:
The Impact of the Internet on Institutions in the Future  —  By an overwhelming margin, technology experts and stakeholders participating in a survey fielded by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center believe that innovative forms …
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Vidyo Scores Monster $25M Funding Round  —  Just so you know, this is not an April Fool's joke: video conferencing startup Vidyo — the same company that powers the ultra-popular Google Talk video chat client — has raised a $25 million Series C round of financing, it announced today.
Discussion: VentureBeat and TechCrunch
Felix Salmon:
Blogonomics: Monetizing passion  —  In my continuing attempt to come up with bright ideas for how bloggers can turn traffic, readers, and influence into money, I met this morning with interactive marketing executive Gaston Legorburu of SapientNitro.  It was a mildly depressing meeting …
 
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