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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Turn Your iPad Into a Futuristic News Portal — Magazines that spring to life with video. Gorgeous, instantly-updated newspapers. Custom-tailored broadcasts. The iPad could revolutionize news along these lines, which helps explain why it makes people so giddy. The new era begins with these nine news apps.
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Steve Smith / MinOnline:
iPad App Store: Epi, GQ, Time, Nat Geo and Outside Ready at Launch — Now we know which print publications actually made the iPad App launch cut for this weekend's hotly anticipated rollout of the tablet device. The iTunes App Store added scores of iPad apps to its catalog yesterday.
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AdAge, Multichannel, TVNewser, The Live Feed | THR, Silicon Alley Insider, Broadcasting & Cable, paidContent and NewTeeVee
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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MediaPost, Time, The Wire, TechCrunch, Publishers Weekly, eMedia Vitals, Online, Media Money … and Nieman Journalism Lab
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
WSJ iPad subscription officially $17.29 per month — is Murdoch insane?
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Talking Biz News, The Toybox, MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal, SlashGear, Gadgetell and TUAW
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Shuster's CNN Dalliance May Bring MSNBC Response — David Shuster, an anchor on MSNBC, recently participated in a test of a new show. But not for his own network. — MSNBC executives were highly displeased when they learned about his test for the competing news channel CNN through …
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Felix Gillette / New York Observer:
Inside the CNN Stockroom: Network Recently Shot Pilot Staring MSNBC's Shuster and NPR's Martin — Amid the recent news of CNN's rough first quarter, there's been much speculation about what CNN U.S. chief Jon Klein should do to revitalize the cable news network's line up.
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 …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Acquires Online Video Hosting Platform Episodic — Google has acquired Episodic an online video hosting platform, according to a blog post on the startup's site. Google has confirmed the acquisition. We are told that Episodic's technology will be folded into YouTube …
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MediaPost, MediaMemo, NewTeeVee, paidContent, VentureBeat, Episodic and Silicon Alley Insider
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.
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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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TechFlash, TeleRead, Tech Trader Daily, Free Press, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check and theBookseller.com
Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
WSJ Exec Named Publisher of the Year — for Losing $80 Million — In most industries, losing $80 million in a single year will get you fired and, maybe, sued by your shareholders. In the newspaper industry circa 2010, it will get you awards for managerial brilliance.
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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.
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Yahoo Banking on Original Content — Again — It's back to the future time at Yahoo, it seems. The Internet portal/media giant has decided to invest in original content again, embarking on a hiring spree that's so far added almost a dozen journalists from both traditional print media outlets …
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Ads Venturing Further Into Magazines' Editorial Pages — You've Got to See These Magazine Ads — No Really, You've Got No Choice — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Magazines are getting more comfortable with ads that run right through their editorial pages, a onetime taboo that's under pressure …
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Eric Spitznagel / Vanity Fair:
CNBC's Erin Burnett Doesn't Think All Rich People Are Evil — Courtesy NBC. Erin Burnett has a face that's made for high-definition. The first time I saw her, she was filling in as a guest anchor on NBC's Today, and the sight of her in HD nearly gave me an aneurysm.
Maureen O'Connor / Gawker:
NYT Fooled Twice on April Fools' Day — The paper of record fell for two blogs' April Fools' jokes—or rather, they fell for one, and the other went so far over their heads, the Times sent a publicist to quell an “inaccurate” story. — The joke they fell for hook, line …
Annalee Newitz / io9:
5 Ways The Google Book Settlement Will Change The Future of Reading — If you care about the future of books, you need to understand the Google Book Settlement. It's a complicated legal document, but we've talked to some of its architects, detractors, and defenders - and break it all down for you.
Judith Thurman / The New Yorker Blog:
More Counterfeit Interviews — Yesterday, I posted a followup to my Talk of the Town story in this week's issue about the literary hoaxes perpetrated by Tommaso Debenedetti, a freelance journalist based in Rome who fabricated interviews with Philip Roth and John Grisham.
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Dan Trombetto / Folio:
The 2010 FOLIO: 40 — Our annual list of magazine industry influencers and innovators. — Welcome to the 2010 FOLIO: 40, our list of some of the most distinguished magazine and media professionals from every corner of our industry. — Every FOLIO: 40 has its unique themes …
Leah Betancourt / poynter.org:
Sites Reinvent Classified Ads with Social Media, New Features — As newspapers struggle with shrinking revenue from classified ads, new Web sites are reinventing classifieds by extending their reach with social networks, mobile presence and partnerships with other sites.
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.
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