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'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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Rory Cellan-Jones / dot.Rory:
The Times paywall: An end to sharing — A great experiment is about to get under way, and it will tell us much about the future of journalism and the willingness of readers to pay for it. In Wapping last night, News International showed off the new websites for The Times and Sunday Times which have opened to the public this morning.
Brad Stone / New York Times:
U.S. Is Said to Scrutinize Apple's Online Music Tactics — SAN FRANCISCO — The Justice Department is examining Apple's tactics in the market for digital music, and its staff members have talked to major music labels and Internet music companies, according to several people briefed on the conversations.
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
Stop The Presses: ‘Sunset’ For Print In Five Years, FT Sees — For years, even many of us in the online realm had countered digital prophesies of “the death of print” with cautious reservation. — But now - as newsprint costs rise, digital operations grow their importance to publishers …
Zeke Turner / New York Observer:
Mike Bloomberg is an iPad Fiend! But Says Technology is a Distraction for Publishing Industry — Just this morning Mayor Mike Bloomberg used his iPad to Tweet, update his Facebook profile, read Digg and checked in on Foursquare, according to The New York Times. — “I even posted a personal on Craigslist,” he said.
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John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
FCC Launches Media-Ownership Rules Review — Notice of inquiry officially begins Congressionally-mandated review of five rules limiting local ownership, cross-ownership — The FCC officially launched its congressionally-mandated review of its media ownership rules.
Chris Anderson / Wired:
Wired Magazine's iPad Edition Goes Live — The irony that Wired, a magazine founded to chronicle the digital revolution, has traditionally come to you each month on the smooshed atoms of dead trees is not lost on us. Let's just say the medium is not always the message. — Except that now it is.
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.
Glen Dickson / Broadcasting & Cable:
Tennis Channel teams with Google TV Ads — Latest cable net to use automated platform — Cable sports network Tennis Channel announced May 24 that it will make part of its advertising inventory available through Google TV Ads, the Internet search giant's online platform for buying cable spots.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
RealNetworks Founder Glaser Becomes a VC at Accel-the Venture Firm that Backed Him 15 Years Ago — Rob Glaser, the founder of RealNetworks, is joining Accel Partners as a part-time venture partner. — Ironically, it was Accel that first funded the digital media pioneer …
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Engaging with journos: At GigaOM, there's an app for that — Have you ever tried to get in touch with a journalist, only to wander her employer website's labyrinthine maze of non-linked bylines and PR department messages and institutional contact forms? Have you ever, desperate but not optimistic …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Scribd Ramps Up Migration To HTML5; Scores Partnerships With Forbes Media And Others — We reported recently that online document sharing site Scribd will start to ditch Flash across its tens of millions of uploaded documents and convert them all to native HTML5 Web pages, another win for Apple in its battle against Flash.
Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
5 Ways to Monetize the Future of News Media — This series is supported by The Poynter Institute's Mobile Media blog - your guide to the intersection of mobile and media. Sign up to receive the blog in newsletter format and be entered into a drawing to win an iPad at Poynter.org/ipadgiveaway.
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MediaShift:
PBS NewsHour Collaborations Require Buy-In from the Top — Collaboration is one of the public broadcasting buzzwords of the moment. The new PBS NewsHour is a national news organization that is trying to figure out how collaboration works. — Collaboration was one of the bullet points when we announced the changes to the program.
Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Borrowing from burgers: franchise-model startup wants to make community news sites profitable — Launching a community news site is tough. You've got editorial decisions, like putting together a team of reporters and editors, plus technical hurdles like finding the right CMS and hosting service …
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 …
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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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 …
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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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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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