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3:40 AM ET, April 2, 2010

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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.
Discussion: The Wire and Kirk LaPointe's …
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
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
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 …
Discussion: Howard Owens and Romenesko
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Leonard Pitts Jr / MiamiHerald.com:   Anonymity brings out the worst instincts
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
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
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
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 …
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 …
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.
AdAge:
‘Modern Family’ Featured an IPad, but ABC Didn't Collect  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Apple may not have paid for its new and much-ballyhooed iPad device to be woven into a main storyline in last night's showing of “Modern Family” on ABC, but everyone is acting as if they did.
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.
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Newsonomics of iPads and tablets, floor by floor  —  [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.]  —  AppleMania meets Rummy's oft-noted trilogy of known knowns …
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 …
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
Alexandra Fenwick / CJR:
Stream of Consciousness  —  SnapStream and the future of searchable video  —  About a month ago, while on a business trip to New York from his tech company's headquarters in Houston, Texas, SnapStream president and CEO Rakesh Agrawal sported a hot pink wristband as he worked his way through the day's appointments.
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
AP News Registry Gets Antitrust Pass From DOJ  —  The Associated Press News Registry shouldn't face antitrust issues when it goes fully live the summer as long as the nonprofit news co-op sticks to the plans it outlined to the U.S. Department of Justice.  AP asked for a business review …
Discussion: PR Newswire
 
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
A&E Taps Microsoft's Admira For Targeted—And Limited—TV Media Buys
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Screws Top Gadget Blogs: No Early iPad Review Units (AAPL, AOL)
Discussion: Personal Technology and The Wire
Michael Calderone / Michael Calderone's Blog:
Glasser named Foreign Policy's EIC
Editor and Publisher:
Les Hinton of ‘The Wall Street Journal’ Named E&P's Publisher of the Year
Jason Boog / GalleyCat:
Breaking: Penguin Has Not Reached eBook Agreement with Amazon
Glynnis MacNicol / Mediaite:
Hell And Damnation! Vatican Launches War Of Words With NYT
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
How to plug the $17B newspaper sales gap
Temp X / TheWrap.com:
How to Beat the Variety.com Paywall
Discussion: The Business Insider
 Earlier Picks: 
Gillian Reagan / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Wants To Hire More ‘Content Object’ Makers (AOL)
Gabriel Sherman / GQ Magazine: GQ:
The Citywide Leader in Sports?
Discussion: Romenesko
Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
John Cook Leaving Gawker for Yahoo News
Discussion: New York Observer
Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:
Newsweek Staff to Lose New Offices
Discussion: National Review and The Wire
Chicago Breaking Business:
Tribune Co. buys more time for reorganization plan
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Joanna Shields moves to Facebook
Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
3 principles for reporters and bloggers in a networked era
Discussion: smays.com and Kirk LaPointe's …