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Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
Will the New York Times' Pay Wall Chase Away Bloggers? — Everyone who publishes news online would like to be able to get paid for it by readers. But the balance of risk versus reward isn't the same for every publisher. Some, like The New York Times (NYT), have far more to lose by erecting a pay wall …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Publish2 Wants To Disrupt The Associated Press With An Online News Exchange — Online news aggregation and curation startup Publish2 is today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference launching a new product dubbed Publish2 News Exchange, with the ambitious goal of disrupting the entire reason for being of The Associated Press.
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
UK Times' Paid Sites Will Turn Search Engines Away From Stories — The Times and Sunday Times' upcoming paid sites will not allow their articles to appear in search engines like Google (NSDQ: GOOG). That was one nugget gleaned during a preview of the attractive forthcoming relaunches Monday night.
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Rachel Sklar / Mediaite:
Mark Zuckerberg's Weird, PR-Speak Facebook Op-Ed in the Washington Post — I read Mark Zuckerberg's op-ed in today's Washington Post with an open mind. I think the latest Facebook privacy imbroglio has been nuts, and my user experience (and use) has plummeted drastically over the past year or so …
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Jason Fell / FOLIO: Section Blogs:
Media's Ad/Edit Relationship Is Getting Increasingly More Hazy — ASME takes issue with Shape's May issue. — A content producer—whether a magazine editor or a network producer—would like to believe that the content they create can be distributed to consumers without input or intrusion from the advertising side of the business.
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Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:
ASME Eyes Celeb Rules
Poynter Online:
Peters to cover newspapers, magazines for NYT — The Media Desk is delighted and relieved to announce that we've found the perfect reporter to replace Richard Perez-Pena on the newspaper beat. Jeremy W. Peters, an alumni of Metro, Bizday and the Detroit bureau, will take over the publishing job covering …
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Broadcast networks in good time slot for sale — The upfront presentations may have wrapped up last week, but the broadcast networks' sales pitches may be just beginning. — With General Electric in the process of selling NBC Universal to cable giant Comcast, some Wall Street dealmakers …
Simon Rogers / Guardian:
Information is power — Crime, education, health - in the coming weeks, we will be able to access previously unseen data covering every aspects of our lives. This throws up huge possibilities, and challenges, for journalists — • Get more data from our Datablog — Is data journalism?
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Lynette Rice / Hollywood Insider:
‘Lost’ series finale carried more than 45 minutes of commercials — ABC packed roughly 107 spots — or more than 45 minutes of commercial and promotional time — into the two-and-a-half-hour Lost series finale, according to our (very unscientific but pretty reliable) count.
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Aanarav Sareen / The Huffington Post:
Lost: A Media Transition
Alicia C. Shepard / NPR:
When Is It Plagiarism? — When it comes to attribution, the rules for on-air and print are fairly clear — give credit for anything that isn't yours. — But the rules are fuzzier for the Web, where it's easier to lose control of your material. Anyone can upload someone else's YouTube video or copy from a website.
State Journal Register:
Jon K. Broadbooks: SJ-R to focus on print edition's value — If anything, The State Journal-Register is a study in evolution. — In 179 years, area residents have seen the newspaper go from hot type to cold; from having ads on the front page to not having ads back to having ads …
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Faber Will Be a Host of New CNBC Show — CNBC is adjusting its lunchtime programming line-up for the first time in years, adding a half-hour program that will have as its co-hosts David Faber and Gary Kaminsky. — The program, called “The Strategy Session,” will have its debut in CNBC's 12 p.m. time slot on June 7.
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Tunerfish Aims to Chart the Social Graph for Video — A skunkworks project within Comcast dubbed Tunerfish that's aimed at using game mechanics to chart the social graph for video was announced at TechCrunch Disrupt today. By enticing users to share what they're watching with their friends …
David Kaplan / paidContent:
MySpace: No Plans To Charge For Music Streams, Mobile Is Audience Driver — After some good-natured tangling with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, the site's founder Michael Arrington laid into MySpace (NYSE: NWS) co-presidents Jason Hirschorn and Mike Jones.
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Boxee CEO: Google TV is ‘a Great Opportunity’ — Google's launch into the living room with the introduction of its Google TV could threaten Boxee, Roku and other broadband-connected set-top makers. But despite the fact that the search giant's TV platform could compete directly …
Alex Pappademas / GQ Magazine: GQ:
All The Dirt That's Fit To Print — We're used to National Enquirer stories on “shocking” plastic surgery, but in 2010 the rag almost won a Pulitzer. Alex Pappademas chronicles its evolution from tabloid to breaking-news contender — ‘National Enquirer’ executive editor Barry Levine works …
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Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Consumer Reports rolling out paid content mobile strategy, taps potential users to set prices — The journalism world is still grappling with to-charge-or-not-to-charge, but it's clear charging has the momentum — particularly on mobile devices. The New York Times is moving ahead …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Lady Gaga Says No Problem If People Download Her Music; The Money Is In Touring — Earlier this year, we wrote about how Lady Gaga had leveraged free music as a huge part of building up her popularity, and turned that into money via sellout tours and corporate sponsorship.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
HDTV Keeps Viewers Watching Longer — HOUSTON — Fully half of the United States is now watching television in high definition, the fastest adoption of TV technology since the VCR hit store shelves in the 1980s. — With the adoption comes good news for networks and Hollywood studios …
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