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Tim Bradshaw / blogs.ft.com:
Behind the Times' new paywall — The time is near for putting to the test Rupert Murdoch's rhetoric about the value of digital journalism and the evils of Google. The Times and the Sunday Times will unveil their new (separate) websites to the public “imminently” - perhaps as soon as Tuesday.
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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.
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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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.
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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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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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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 …
Michael Volpe / ocbj.com:
Local Online News Site Shuts Down — Costa Mesa-based Orange County Local News Network has ceased operations after four months. — The online news website, which wrote and aggregated news from other newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and its local weeklies, said it was shutting down operations Monday.
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.
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.
Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
The Atlantic's Ad Pages Are Up 22 Percent (A Bunch Of Other Mags Aren't Doing So Bad Either) — Last we checked in on The Atlantic Monthly, back in early April, it had just decided to start paying its interns. — Yesterday, another piece of sunny financial news was emanating …
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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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
AOL Now Employs 4,000 Journalists (But Only 500 Are Full-Time) — It's no secret that AOL is aggressively building out its content strategy. Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong says that the company now employs 4,000 journalists, 3,500 of which are part-time or freelance.
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Mayor Mike Clongs Media Biz for Producing Weak Content — The problems 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 …
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 …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
BBC Looks To Ban Third-Party iPlayer Builds — The BBC, seeking to maintain its brand, says it does not want to make its programmes available to third parties for VOD distribution on an unbundled basis. The corporation's executive makes the suggestion in proposals for changing …
Jack Riley:
Why (and how) we're changing commenting on independent.co.uk — Eagle-eyed readers will have spotted a big change at the foot of articles published on the site today. Where once there was chaos, there is now (hopefully) order. And in the event that the launch of our new commenting section …
Brian Steinberg / AdAge:
Broadcast's Youth Market Starts at 44 — Why Advertisers This Upfront Will Pour Billions Into Network TV Prime Time to Reach Increasingly Aging Demo — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — While advertisers get ready to plunk down billions on prime-time broadcast TV during this upfront …
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Jure Leskovec: How memes move, heartbeat-like, through the news — Every week, our friends at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society invite academics and other thinkers to discuss their work over lunch. Thankfully for us, they record the sessions. This week, we're passing along …
Joe Ciarallo / FishbowlNY:
Josh Tyrangiel on Business Reporting: 'What I'm Noticing Is a Lot More Skepticism' — In part two of our Media Beat interview with Josh Tyrangiel, editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, we talk about the state of business and financial reporting. — “I'm new to the incredible pressurized coverage …
Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:
Macy's Ad Gets Tablet-fied for Digital Mags — In an early example of how a major fashion retailer is working with the iPad, Macy's is using the Apple tablet to turn its summer catalogue into a shoppable slideshow. — Macy's 60-page print catalogue was converted into a two-page spread …
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