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12:00 PM ET, April 2, 2010

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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Time Inc.'s Tablet Push Starts With Time Mag App At $4.99 An Issue  —  Sports Illustrated has been the Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) tablet poster child for months but Time is first to market with an app.  Time for iPhone is free but iPad Time runs $4.99 an issue, same as the newsstand price and available on Fridays.
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
Disney Aims Premium iPhone Apps At Kids, Sports Fans  —  In addition to the ABC (NYSE: DIS) Player hitting the iPad App Store, its parent Disney has a number of special items for the iPad's release on Saturday.  Aimed at affluent, first-adopters with kids, Disney Publishing Worldwide has built …
Media Buyer Planner:
CBS, ABC to Stream Free TV Content to iPad; Print Media Prepares, Too
Howard Owens:
The why and how of a real names policy on comments  —  If you run a online news site, you should allow users to comment on posts.  And if you allow comments, you should require users to register with their real names.  —  Why?  —  It starts with basic news ethics: Readers have a right to know who is saying what.
Discussion: Romenesko
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Eric Zorn / Change of Subject:
Pseudonymity can battle the scourge of comment anonymity  —  Columnist Leonard Pitts writes: … This topic comes up here with some regularity, in part because of my own mixed feelings about it, and it's my sense that Pitts is only partly right; that anonymity — or psudonymity …
Wall Street Journal:
For Amazon, Arrival of the iPad Opens Door to More e-Book Sales  —  Electronic books are expected to be a major selling point for Apple Inc.'s iPad, which goes on sale Saturday.  But competitors, particularly Amazon.com Inc., could end up as major e-book providers for the new device.
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:   The Newsonomics of iPads and tablets, floor by floor
Pat Kiernan / Mediaite:
iPad Lacks Flash; iPad Reviews Lack Disclosure  —  Try going to Hulu.com with an iPhone.  Instead of the video you're after, a big black box tells you that “Hulu requires Flash Player.”  —  Now try Viacom's nickJr site.  When I go there with my iPhone I get a big empty white box at the top …
Discussion: The Awl, TechFlash and DailyFinance
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Screws Top Gadget Blogs: No Early iPad Review Units (AAPL, AOL)
Discussion: Personal Technology and The Wire
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, but about the mode and tempo of that alteration.
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Where Have the Network Morning Show Viewers Gone?  —  The first quarter of 2010 has not been good to ABC's “Good Morning America” and CBS' “The Early Show,” while NBC's leading “Today” show is essentially flat from the first quarter of 2009.  —  “Good Morning America” with its new anchor team …
Discussion: New York Times and Romenesko
A. O. Scott / New York Times:
A Critic's Place, Thumb and All  —  TWO weeks ago I went to Atlanta to give a talk at a conference devoted, in part, to “The Future of Criticism.”  The gist of my remarks was that there is one.  This was a contrarian, and perhaps also somewhat self-serving, position to take.
Discussion: The New Yorker Blog
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
Marvel Comics Arrive on the iPad  —  When people talk about content on the iPad, they mostly mention books, video, TV and games.  But there are many other niche content types that fit the iPad's 9.7" screen perfectly, and one of the more important ones is comics.
/ Marco.org:
One of the problems with pageview billing is that it incentivizes publishers to distract you while reading.  —  Every time they distract you and get you to click on something else, they make money.  —  But if you're simply reading their content, they make less.
Discussion: Soup and tag me with a spoon
Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
Media Moves: Former Gawker Writer Sheila McClear to New York Post  —  ​Speaking of Gawker moves, looks like another one's being made.  —  Onetime jailbird Sheila McClear - who was let go at the end of 2008's network-wide bloodbath - has been named as a staff features writer at the New York Post.
Discussion: FishBowlNY
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Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
John Cook Leaving Gawker for Yahoo News
Discussion: New York Observer
Harold Pollack / The New Republic:
The Best-Covered News Story, Ever  —  This week's On the Media laments the low quality of press coverage in health care reform.  It's certainly easy to find examples of shoddy journalism and public ignorance to bolster this charge.  Every night, one could watch cable TV screamers trafficking …
Trevor Sheridan / App Advice:
Exclusive : It's Official - Netflix Streaming on the iPad  —  Netflix is a free app for the iPad that will be available on launch April 3rd.  If you're a netflix subscriber you can watch instantly anything in Netflix's online collection directly on your iPad.  You can stream TV shows and movies just like you would on your computer.
David Cohn / MediaShift Idea Lab:
A Plan for Spot.Us to Use Community-Centered Ads  —  Perhaps it's ironic for me to write about advertising.  Fellow Knight News Challenge winner Dan Pacheco can quote me as once saying “f*&# advertising” and one of the initial inspirations for me to get into journalism was Adbusters Magazine.
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.
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The hunt for the elusive influencer  —  Maybe there is no such thing as an influencer.  —  We keep hunting the elusive influencer because marketing people, especially, but also politicians (marketers in bad suits) and media people (marketers in denial) think that if they can find and convince …
Discussion: George Dearing
Tcarmody / Bookfuturism:
The future of no future  —  There's a semi-viral video that's been kicking around for a couple of weeks titled “The Future of Publishing.”  The schtick is that the same column of text, about preferences of younger readers gets read two ways — descend and you get a sharply pessimistic …
Discussion: if:book
BBC:
Science writer Simon Singh wins libel appeal  —  A science writer has won the right to rely on the defence of fair comment in a libel action, in a landmark ruling at the Court of Appeal.  —  Simon Singh was accused of libel by the British Chiropractic Association over an article in the Guardian in 2008.
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
 
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
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Glynnis MacNicol / Mediaite:
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Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
How to plug the $17B newspaper sales gap
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Temp X / TheWrap.com:
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Discussion: The Business Insider
Gillian Reagan / Silicon Alley Insider:
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Gabriel Sherman / GQ Magazine: GQ:
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Discussion: New York Times and Romenesko
Daniel Trotta / Reuters:
WSJ cuts prices in battle with New York Times
Discussion: Folio
Richard Perez-Pena / Media Decoder:
New York Times Company Sells Small Part of Its Red Sox Holdings
 

 
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