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Media Week:
'If paywall doesn't work I'm in the s**t', admits News Int's commercial chief — LONDON - News International's commercial leader, Paul Hayes, joked his neck could be on the line if the publisher's eagerly anticipated plans to erect paywalls around online content fail next month.
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Tim Bradshaw / blogs.ft.com:
Behind the Times' new paywall
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Nat Ives / AdAge:
New Yorker Plans One Price for Access Across Digital Platforms — Magazines' Current Model Charges Existing Subscribers Extra for iPad and Kindle Editions — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The New Yorker wants to let readers pay once for digital access across the iPad, the Kindle and other platforms …
Lewis DVorkin / The Copy Box:
About those M&A rumors: Forbes to acquire True/Slant — For me, True/Slant began a long time ago. — It didn't have a name when I scribbled the beginnings of an idea on a calendar page during an interminable flight from Washington to New York. There was a vision, though …
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Stephanie Clifford / Media Decoder:
Two More Editors Leave Harper's — A flight of high-level editors from Harper's Magazine is continuing. — Two senior editors, Bill Wasik and Luke Mitchell, will be leaving the magazine soon. Kathy Park Price, the Harper's spokeswoman, confirmed that they had given notice.
Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Google offered Viacom $592 million for content — Not long after Google acquired YouTube, the search engine offered nearly $600 million in guaranteed revenue if Viacom—the parent company of MTV Networks, Comedy Central, and Paramount Pictures—licensed its TV shows and films to YouTube, records show.
Damon Kiesow / Mobile Media:
Former Newspaper Photographer Becomes Mobile, Social Journalist — “Hi, I'm Jim. I'm from the Internet.” — That was the moment Jim MacMillan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, veteran of 17 years at the Philadelphia Daily News and former embedded journalist of the war in Iraq, realized the game had changed.
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Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Bankrupt Tribune wants to give another $15 million in bonuses to executives — The new bonuses, which cover 42 top executives, include nine of Tribune's 10 top-ranking corporate leaders. The company has already handed out $57.4 million worth of bonuses while under bankruptcy protection.
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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Justice Dept. cracks down on leaks — The Obama administration's crackdown on leaks to the press has snared a high-profile conviction of an FBI linguist, who was sentenced to 20 months in prison Monday after pleading guilty to giving classified information to a blogger.
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Romenesko
Multichannel:
Tiles Re-Ups As G4 President For Three More Years — Executives Signs Extension With Comcast Entertainment Group — G4 president Neal Tiles has inked a three-year renewal pact with Comcast Entertainment Group. — Under Tiles's tutelage, G4 has emerged as TV's destination for young guys …
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Variety
Jim O'Neill / FierceOnlineVideo:
Metacafe on its new movie channel: We're not Hulu or YouTube — Metacafe doesn't have the size of YouTube or the premium television content of Hulu. But Metacafe CEO Erick Hachenburg says that's where his company can gain ground on both of them. — “The challenge for this space …
CNBC:
SEC Investigating Leaks in Galleon Insider Trading Case — The government's case against accused insider trader Raj Rajaratnam has taken an unexpected twist. The government is now investigating leaks to journalists alleged to have come from the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Smallish Crowds for Finales of ‘24’ and ‘Law & Order’ — The long runs of two of television's recent titans, “24” on Fox and “Law & Order” on NBC, mostly whimpered to an end Monday night with no real bang in the ratings. — The series finales of both series did only slightly better Monday …
Antonina Jedrzejczak / The Wire:
Music Videos Make Up 57% Of The Web's Most Watched Viral Videos — Visible Measures, an Internet video metrics website, has a feature called the 100 Million Views Club, which tracks the most-watched viral videos of all time. — Nate Elliot, an analyst at Forrester Research …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
BitTorrent Download Record Shattered By Lost Series Finale — Last year, Lost achieved the questionable honor of being the second most-pirated TV-show on BitTorrent. With more than 6 million downloads for a single episode, Lost was only trailing Heroes by a few thousand downloads.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
If You're Going To Dump On ‘Citizen Journalism’ Projects... It Probably Helps Not To Get All Your Facts Wrong — This one comes via Jay Rosen, who points us to an article at NowToronto.com that trashes a new Toronto-based journalism project called OpenFile, for being a “citizen journalism” project.
Julian Clover / Broadband TV News:
Rovi seeks to guide Google TV — It is not so much a battle for hearts and minds as one for middleware and navigation. Google's announcement that it has created a version of its Android operating system for the TV has been followed up by news that Rovi intends to bring its TotalGuide navigation solution to the party.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
The New York Times Plans a Blogger-Friendly Pay Wall. Link All You Like! — Will the pay wall the New York Times is building scare away the paper's natural allies-bloggers who like to link to the site? — Daily Finance's Jeff Bercovici floats the scenario by pointing to some eye-popping statistics.
Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Eamon Javers Bails On Politico For CNBC — Eamon Javers, one of Politico's White House reporters, is headed to CNBC, where he was once an on-air correspondent covering the intersection of business and politics. He's joining the network as a Washington reporter covering lobbying and regulatory affairs.
Claire Hughes Johnson / The Official Google Blog:
Google's U.S. economic impact — (Cross-posted to the Google Public Policy Blog) — In 1978, people told Douglas Twiddy he was crazy when he started renting out vacation homes in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. More than 30 years later, his son Ross is using our AdWords advertising program …
Wall Street Journal:
Disney Weighs Options for Miramax — Having given notice Monday that it was breaking off negotiations to sell Miramax Films to a group of investors that included Harvey and Bob Weinstein, Walt Disney Co. is now faced with several options about the future of its independent film library.
Editor & Publisher:
Wallace to Head Boston Globe Media Digital Ad Strategies — NEW YORK — Boston Globe Media has hired Mike Wallace as executive director, digital advertising strategies. The former Boston.com staffer is responsible for developing programs and initiatives for digital advertising across The Boston Globe …
Katy Bachman / Mediaweek:
Newspapers' Web Traffic on the Rise — Newspapers may be struggling with how to monetize their online versions, but they're doing just fine with increasing Web traffic. The number of unique visitors to newspaper Web sites in the top 25 markets grew 10 percent from March to April reaching 83.7 million …
Vince Veneziani / The Wire:
Here's What Dennis Kneale REALLY Thinks About CNBC, His Colleagues, And His Future At The Network — Last week, we sat down for a late lunch with CNBC's Dennis Kneale. — We met the Power Lunch host at a small cafe around the block from our offices and expected polite, bland exchanges about politics, careers, and Wall Street.
Lost Remote:
Guest Post: The future of investigative journalism — Another of the LR Faithful have answered the call to write a guest post, and this time we go international. Stijn Debrouwere is a graphic designer in Belgium. He wrote this thoughtful piece on the future of investigative journalism.
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Mayor Mike Clongs Media Biz for Producing Weak Content — The problem with the media business is not the result of technology, it's about quality of content, said Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a press briefing today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference. — In response to a question from this reporter …
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