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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Murdoch's Plan For Paywall Success: Readers Will Pay 'When They've Got Nowhere Else To Go' — This Sunday Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt will address the American Society of Newspaper Editors at their conference in Washington D.C.—and, par for the course, it's on the heels …
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Paul Harris / Guardian:
I'll stop Google taking our news for nothing, says Murdoch — News Corp boss hails iPad as potential saviour of newspapers, but says industry must stand up for itself and charge for content — Greenslade: Murdoch profits from political influence — Rupert Murdoch has launched …
Eric Beecher / Crikey:
Why Murdoch defies gravity while other owners have to play by the rules — When people talk about the need to create a new “business model” to pay for journalism, the implied formula is one that makes a profit. — But there's another prevailing funding model for journalism that …
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Michael Calderone / Michael Calderone's Blog:
Murdoch: NYT has ‘an agenda’; Times responds — Rupert Murdoch spoke last night at the National Press Club about media battles of the past, present, and future, while assuring interviewer Marvin Kalb that he's “not at war with the world.” — Still, the 79-year-old mogul has never been adverse to conflict.
New York Times:
Airstrike Video Brings Attention to WikiLeaks Site — Three months ago, WikiLeaks, a whistleblower Web site that posts classified and sensitive documents, put out an urgent call for help on Twitter. — “Have encrypted videos of U.S. bomb strikes on civilians.
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David Schlesinger / Reuters:
Video of our colleagues' death in Iraq
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Conan O'Brien Ventures Onto the Web to Promote His Tour — LOS ANGELES — When Conan O'Brien wanted to start a Web site last winter, he was reminded that he did not own his dot-com name, ConanOBrien.com. — Gainfully employed by NBC for some two decades, a personal Web site had hardly …
Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
‘Atlantic’ Publisher Takes Stand on Intern Pay. Who Will Follow? — Heavy use of unpaid interns has long been the norm in the publishing industry. But one company is changing its policy in light of a new focus on what some see as an exploitative practice. … ‘Atlantic’ Publisher Takes Stand on Intern Pay.
Phil Rosenthal / Chicago Tribune:
CNN may need ABC, CBS to survive — You know what you don't hear very often? The phrase, “So last night I was watching CNN and ...” — What you do hear is how CNN's top shows are in a free fall. And this has occasioned much discussion in journalism circles of late along the lines of: “Can CNN be saved?”
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Full screen ahead: WSJ iPad ads fuse logic of print, online — Yesterday, Josh analyzed the design choices news outlets have made with their iPad apps. But what about the ad design? — The (free) New York Times app sometimes features a banner ad at the bottom of its screen …
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John Koblin / New York Observer:
The Great Media Hiring Thaw — It's springtime, media New Yorkers! The trees are blossoming, the sidewalks are filling up with cafe tables and if you stake out just the right corner, you might spot the N.Y.U. track team racing shirtless up Broadway. (It's not just what's outside, either!)
Jay Yarow / The Wire:
Here's The Real Story Behind Apple, Newsweek, Dan Lyons, And Steven Levy — Earlier today, we covered a flare up between Steven Levy of Wired and Dan Lyons, a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs, tech columnist at Newsweek. — Over the weekend, Dan had appeared on CNN and said that Apple's head of PR …
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
For Malone, a Much Smaller Piece of DirecTV — DirecTV's single largest shareholder and the chairman of its board of directors, John Malone, is divesting most of his stock in the satellite television company. — Two years ago Mr. Malone acquired the News Corporation's stake in DirecTV.
Justin Willett / The Columbia Daily Tribune:
Chamber cashes in with Craigslist founder — The Columbia Chamber of Commerce wanted to do something special this year for its largest fundraiser, the annual Business Showcase, and decided to bring in Craigslist.org founder Craig Newmark. — The move paid off — literally.
Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
iTunes models for news? What publishers can learn from mflow — An iTunes model for news may be a phantom, but publishers wanting to make money from content online can still learn from the experiences of the music sector. The latest launch in this area is the music sharing-and-buying startup mflow …
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Could David Shuster Still End up at CNN? — Now that David Shuster is all but finished at MSNBC, is CNN still interested in picking him up? — “We decline comment,” said CNN spokeswoman Christa Robinson when asked that question, and a few others, about the situation.
Michael Field / Stuff.co.nz:
Murdoch to be pushed out of Fiji — Fiji's military plans to give itself powers that will allow it to force Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd out of the country. — Murdoch owns the country's biggest and oldest daily, the Fiji Times. — But in a draft media decree released today it is clear …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
More Online Dating Action: Daily Mail Sells Dating Sites To EasyDate — More consolidation in the online dating industry, this time in the U.K.: EasyDate has bought up Allegran—which operates four of the top 10 dating websites in the U.K.—from Associated Northcliffe Digital …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple Announces Mobile Ad Plans Thursday, and Google Can't Wait to Tell the FTC — Apple is likely to introduce its mobile ad platform Thursday at its iPhone developer event, say sources familiar with the company's plans. Expect to hear a loud cheer from Google, Apple's former ally and current competitor.
Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:
Fox Sports Produces Spanish-Language Baseball For Cable Operators — Bright House, Time Warner Cable air MLB games en Espanol — Fox Sports is producing some 177 Major League Baseball games in Spanish for cable providers Time Warner Cable (TWC) and Bright House Networks (BHN).
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MarketWatch:
McClatchy to Roll Out WebVisible's Online Marketing Services to All of Its Daily Newspapers Nationwide by End of Year — Local Advertisers in All 29 McClatchy Markets Gain Targeted Visibility Online with Customers — No Matter Where or How They Search — The McClatchy Company (MNI 5.44 …
Felix Salmon:
TheStreet stands up to Generex's bullying — Well done to Adam Feuerstein and TheStreet.com for standing up to egregious bullying from Generex, a small and smelly Canadian biotechnology company which has just filed a ridiculous $250 million lawsuit against them for libel.
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Photographers Group To Sue Google Over Book Deal — While Google waits for news about its proposed book search settlement with authors and publishers, it's about to face a new legal challenge. The Financial Times reports that the American Society of Media Photographers and related trade groups …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
AOL Admits Bebo To Be Sold Or Shut Down; Memo Sets May Target For Decision — AOL (NYSE: AOL) told employees today that it may sell or shut down social network Bebo this year after deciding it would take too much additional investment to make keeping it worthwhile. Here's the memo from AOL Ventures EVP Jon Brod...
Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:
Oxygen Wants New Season to Be Breath of Fresh Air for Younger Women — The preview of the cable channels' plans for the 2010-11 season, known as the upfronts, continued on Tuesday morning with a presentation from Oxygen Media that was glitzy, glammy and a little bit hammy.
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