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Andrew Rice / New York Times:
Putting a Price on Words — Last year, Sam Apple got the idea into his head that what the world needed was a new kind of newspaper. This was, to put it mildly, at odds with the consensus of the marketplace. At the time, several large media companies were in bankruptcy …
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Wall Street Journal:
New York Times to Begin Website Charges in January — The New York Times will begin charging for access to articles on its website in January, Bill Keller, executive editor of the newspaper, said at a dinner for the Foreign Press Association Thursday evening.
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Keller: Pay Model Will Affect Few Non-Subscribers — Executive Editor Bill Keller of The New York Times said most readers of the paper's website will likely never have to pay for access under the new pay model set to launch next January. — “Those who mainly come to the website via search engines …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Media Attacks On Facebook And Mark Zuckerberg Are Getting Out Of Hand — Friday is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 26th birthday. My guess is he won't be enjoying it as much as he should, given that the top tech story of the day is a look at a private instant message exchange he supposedly had six or seven years ago at Harvard.
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New York Post:
Newhouse cuts back — THE cost cutting seems to be picking up steam at S.I. Newhouse Jr. media empire Condé Nast. — Yesterday, the glitzy publisher of Vanity Fair, Vogue, Glamour and The New Yorker told its 3,000 employees that starting July 1 their pension plans would be frozen.
Josef Adalian / New York Magazine:
Vulture Exclusive: NBC Offered to Renew Law & Order, But Did Dick Wolf Play Chicken? — Is Law & Order really over? After multiple reports suggesting that the iconic New York-based crime procedural would definitely be back for a 21st season next fall — allowing Dick Wolf his life-long dream …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Oprah Opens Online Auditions, Voting For Her Next TV Star — When the Oprah Winfrey Network launches in January, we'll see whether her star power is enough to carry a whole network—and what it can do for one person in particular whose name we can't even imagine today.
Jason Fell / FOLIO: Section Blogs:
Jet Publisher: ‘We Had to Completely Rethink’ Distribution Beyond Print — As print struggles, Johnson Publishing looks to online, mobile, e-readers. — As part of a bigger initiative to reposition Ebony and Jet beyond just their printed magazines, Johnson Publishing has launched MYJET247.com.
Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
The Washington Post Co. Adds State-Focused Blogs — The Washington Post company has rolled out a new network of blogs focused on state politics. — The new collection of sites, housed at Voices.washingtonpost.com/politics/ blog-network, was born out of a blog posting by Chris Cillizza, who pens The Washington Post's The Fix Blog.
Congressman Lamar Smith / Editor & Publisher:
Commentary: Why I Started a ‘Media Fairness Caucus’ in Congress — WASHINGTON, D.C. … Of the many complex issues our nation's founders debated, one subject they spent an immense amount of time discussing was freedom of the press. A free, fair and vibrant press lies at the heart …
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Jim Goldman / CNBC:
Apple Was Behind iPhone Search Warrant — Apple the company, and not an individual employee, initiated the investigation into a missing iPhone prototype that found its way onto the Internet, according to the search warrant unsealed in this case earlier this morning.
Michael Oneal / Chicago Tribune:
More roadblocks crop up as Tribune Co. tries to emerge from bankruptcy — Objections to Chapter 11 disclosure statement complicate company's efforts to win judge's approval — Objections to Tribune Co.'s Chapter 11 disclosure statement flooded into U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware on Thursday …
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
Gowalla Partners with National Geographic and Washington Post for Branded Trips — Location-sharing service Gowalla has just revamped its website and expanded its Trips feature. The Foursquare competitor is launching the new feature set with two big business partners …
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
Murdoch-Owned Sun Online Blocks Meltwater Media Monitor — The Sun's website has fallen in behind its News International stablemate Times Online by barring the PR media monitoring service Meltwater from crawling its articles. — Sun Online used the robots.txt protocol to block the service on Thursday …
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Media execs embrace the iPad — Chase Carey, Brian Roberts praise device's earnings potential — When asked about digital technology last month on a stage in Beverly Hills, Chase Carey went off on the wonders of Apple's new iPad. — “Digital,” said former Warner Bros. and Yahoo honcho Terry Semel.
Rick Edmonds / The Biz Blog:
Civil Beat, TBD Model How To Start a News Operation From Scratch — This month and next we are getting an up-to-the-minute answer to what has become a familiar news industry question: If you were starting a news operation from scratch, what would it look like?
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
AOL's Self-Imposed Turnaround Deadline May Be Sooner Than You Think — AOL (NYSE: AOL) has given itself a year from now to make bottom-line progress with its massive turnaround effort—or rethink its strategy, according to Barclays Capital analyst Douglas Anmuth.
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Dana Flavelle / Toronto Star:
Canwest must boost online revenue, strategist says — John Paton says half of earnings could be digital in 5 years … The man who is helping bring Canada's largest newspaper chain out of bankruptcy protection says traditional newspaper companies could be making half their profit from digital content within five years.
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