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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Before The Paywall, Murdoch Stops Disclosing UK News Site Traffic — With nearly a month to go before News International raises its first paywall in June, both Times Online and Sun Online have stopped publishing their user numbers through the ABC in the UK.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
U.S. Subpoenas Times Reporter Over Book on C.I.A. — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is seeking to compel a writer to testify about his confidential sources for a 2006 book about the Central Intelligence Agency, a rare step that was authorized by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.
Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Apple to Charge a Premium to Put Ads in Mobile Apps — Setting a high bar for its debut in the advertising business, Apple Inc. aims to charge close to $1 million for ads on its mobile devices this year and perhaps even more to be among the first, ad executives say.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Huffington Post Starts To Give Out Badges To Readers — The Huffington Post is taking on more of the trappings of a social network. Borrowing from Foursquare, today it will start giving out badges to loyal readers who comment like crazy and share HuffPost stories via Facebook and Twitter …
Steve Jobs / Apple:
Thoughts on Flash — Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe's founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years.
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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Linking Customer Loyalty With Social Networking — PEPSICO wants to sell its customers sodas whether they are near a grocery store, a restaurant or a gas station. With a new partnership that weaves its loyalty program into the location-based network Foursquare, PepsiCo gets a live notification …
ap.org:
AP Directors vote to launch wide range of collaborative new digital initiatives — News Registry rolls out in July; AP will also launch college football hub and offer members ability to create locally branded apps — NEW YORK — The Associated Press Board of Directors voted unanimously today …
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Tim Wu / Slate:
Don't Prosecute Gizmodo for the iPhone That Walked Into a Bar … - The Senate Tries To Get Goldman Sachs To Admit They're a Bunch of Jerks- Now Doulas Are Assisting During Abortions as Well as Childbirth- The Incredibly Unfair Trial of Muslim Activist Syed Fahad Hashmi- Troy Patterson: Is Happy Town the Next Lost?
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New York Times:
Director Is Elected at Times Co. — Carolyn Greenspon, a fifth-generation member of the family that controls The New York Times Company, was elected as a director. — Ms. Greenspon, 41, a psychotherapist, was approved by shareholders to serve on the board at the company's annual meeting on Tuesday.
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Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
NYTer's tweet sparks ‘off the record’ definition debate — Nick Bilton (left) tweeted that a Facebook employee told him “off the record” that CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn't believe in privacy. The Times reporter contends “'off record' means there is no attribution to who it is but conversation …
C.W. Anderson / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Why Philly matters: The intersection of bankruptcies, Pulitzers, networks, foundations, and geeky “edglings” — I've been studying the Philadelphia media ecosystem since before we had the name “ecosystem” to describe the new journalistic world we were entering.
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Eric Zhang / Google News Blog:
Bringing Living Stories to Wordpress — For the last few months we've been talking with publishers about ways to make it easier for them to use Living Stories, our experimental format for displaying news coverage, on their own websites. Today we're releasing a Living Stories plugin and theme for Wordpress.
Shelley DuBois / Fortune:
Steve and Tim Forbes head upstairs, eye new COO — (Fortune) — After 19 years running Forbes magazine, CEO Steve Forbes and his brother, COO Tim Forbes, are planning a reshuffle in management. Headhunter Michele James, CEO and founder of James & Co, has contacted at least one bona fide candidate for the job of COO of Forbes.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Skype targets TV shows with Crystal Entertainment deal — Internet phone company looking to get its services - particularly video calling - used in shows such as This Morning — The internet phone company Skype is aiming to break into TV programming through a deal with Crystal Entertainment …
Jeremy Caplan / Digits:
The iPad and the Future of Text — Digital text is at a crossroads, and the iPad's momentum could nudge it in one of two directions. — Down one path lies a world in which words are increasingly digitized in iPad-like e-readers that function like locked glass boxes.
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Carol Midgley / Times of London:
Say what you like about journalists, we'd say it better — The spread of unsubstantiated celebrity rumours by “citizen reporters” shows how important it is to have professionals — I started getting the calls and texts last week from friends, associates and virtual strangers.
blogs.journalism.co.uk:
Coders meet journalists; journalists meet coders — Do journalists need to learn to code? Probably not, but those who can are likely to find themselves quickly snapped up by news organisations with interactive and data teams. — I have no grand hopes of learning to code properly …
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Journalistopia
Mike Taylor / FishbowlNY:
Glenn Beck, Nay Phone Latt Among Media Types to Crack the Time 100 — Time released its “Time 100” list today. Most of the heavy hitters to make the cut fall outside the media sphere, with a few notable exceptions. — Clearly the most serious among the selections is Nay Phone Latt …
Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Soon-To-Be SNL Host Betty White Won't Do Nudity Or “Dope Jokes” — After a lengthy Facebook campaign, Betty White will host Saturday Night Live on May 8. — We asked the 88-year-old about the campaign on a conference call this afternoon in which she spoke about the pressure of SNL, “dope jokes” and nudity.
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Motoko Rich / Media Decoder:
Scott Turow Elected President of the Authors Guild — The lawyer and the queen of teenage lit are in the house! — Scott Turow, the author of “Presumed Innocent” and the coming sequel, “Innocent,” has been elected president of the Authors Guild, a trade group that represents writers …
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