Mediagazer: Showtime Makes An Appointment With ‘Web Therapy’ (Mike Reynolds/Multichannel News)

4:10 AM ET, April 26, 2010

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The Media Equation: How Gizmodo Monetized an iPhone Spectacle — We all know that advertisers need to pay for clicks to keep the Web spinning. But what does it mean when publishers start paying for them as well? — I'm not talking about some seedy click-mills in the Far East …

Discussion: Bits, CNET News and Financial Times

Matthew Flamm / Crain's New York Business:

NY's paper tigers — Journal takes on Times in its own backyard. Some call it ‘the last great newspaper war’ — The newspaper business is struggling across the country. You wouldn't know it in New York. — The Wall Street Journal launches its long awaited New York edition today …

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Andrew Vanacore / Associated Press:
Wall Street Journal revs up New York Times rivalry

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Patrick Gavin / On Media's Blog:

Slevin signs off, takes parting shots — Jonathan Slevin is indeed stepping down as Publisher and President of the Washington Times, as POLITICO reported Friday, and will be leaving the organization. — In his farewell letter, he takes a few parting shots, calling out board members …

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Paul Carr / TechCrunch:

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Rafat Ali / paidContent:

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Motoko Rich / New York Times:

Random House Cedes Some E-Rights to Styron Clan — After publicly staking a claim to the right to publish electronic versions of books that already have a long history in print, Random House appears to be letting go of digital rights to several works by one prominent author without a fight …

Mike Shields / Adweek:

Web Video Budgets to Grow — Most marketers plan to up their online video ad spending in 2010 — Most marketers plan to up their online video ad spending in 2010 — though they'll do so despite maintaining serious qualms about the medium. — According to a survey of ad agencies commissioned …

Discussion: NewTeeVee

Mike Reynolds / Multichannel News:

Showtime Makes An Appointment With ‘Web Therapy’ — Lisa Kudrow's Online Series Will Migrate To Premium Service In 2011 — Showtime will move Lisa Kudrow's online series Web Therapy to the premium service next year. — Showtime has ordered 10 half-hour installments of the onine series …

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Techmeme's Media Spinoff Hits100K Monthly Uniques Since March Launch — Techmeme, considered by many as the most authoritative tech news aggregator, spun off a media news site called Mediagazer in early March. — Since its launch, it has quickly garnered 100,000 unique monthly visitors …

Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:

Bloomberg and Businessweek Mesh Gingerly — When Bloomberg L.P. bought Businessweek in December, a group of the magazine's writers, who were being transferred to the Bloomberg newswire, attended a two-week training session. They learned that the terminals, costing about $20,000 a year …

Matthew Bell / The Independent:

‘I want to see the decomposing corpse,’ says bureau chief — Iain Overton wants more than a whiff of scandal for his new investigative bureau. — In theory, Iain Overton has one of the best jobs in journalism. As managing editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism he enjoys a healthy salary …

Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

The Revolution Will Be Commercialized — Sarah Palin is already president of right-wing America—and it's a position with a very big salary. — On the morning of July 3, 2009, a national holiday, Sarah Palin placed a call to her communications director and told her that she wanted to hold …

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