Mediagazer: Why You'll Pay More to See Popular Science on IPad (AdAge)

7:00 PM ET, May 30, 2010

Top News:

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

FTC protects journalism's past — The Federal Trade Commission has been nosing around how to save journalism and in its just-posted “staff discussion draft” on “potential policy recommendations to support the reinvention of journalism,” it makes its bias clear: The FTC defines journalism …

Discussion: Pursuing the Complete …

Alexander Howard / The Huffington Post:

FTC Considers Publishing Public Data Online to Support the Future of Journalism — The Federal Trade Commission released a discussion draft of policy recommendations to address the crisis in the newspaper industry and its relationship to the future of journalism. It's embedded below and can be downloaded as a PDF.

Randall Stross / New York Times:

YouTube Wants You to Sit and Stay Awhile — TWO weeks ago, YouTube celebrated when the number of videos viewed daily on its site reached two billion, a milestone. — But it also used the occasion to express its envy of television's continuing hold on viewers: “Although the average user spends 15 minutes …

Peter Preston / Guardian:

Rupert Murdoch's paywall at the Times may not be a disaster — Losing perhaps 95% of browsers (how much are they worth?) can be more than offset by winning committed readers — The Times iPad app: could charging encourage greater loyalty? — Those who make their livings in outer cyberspace …

Nick Bilton / Bits:

One on One: Brian Lam of Gizmodo.com — It was just last month that Gizmodo.com, the gadget blog, published images of the next-generation iPhone that led to a chain of events that sound more like a soap opera than a gadget story. Since then, Gizmodo has been catapulted into the mainstream media …

AdAge:

Why You'll Pay More to See Popular Science on IPad — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Consumers who think iPad magazines editions should cost no more than print editions and perhaps should cost less — given all the money publishers save on paper, printing and distribution — are going to be disappointed.

Liz Gannes / GigaOM:

Digg Wants to Be the Twitter of News — Digg founder Kevin Rose is close to his first major launch since taking over as CEO and instituting layoffs. He published a video today on his personal YouTube account laying out the site's upcoming version 4 release, due “very soon” (found via TechCrunch).

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Next Web, Soaring on a Pig … and Scripting News

Ryan Chittum / CJR:

Missing the Paywall Point — What do the Irish News and the Guardian teach us about paywalls? — The Guardian's Roy Greenslade thinks we should take a lesson about paywalls from the Irish News, a 45,000-circulation daily that charges (a lot) to access its work on the Web. … Yes, those are awfully small.

Jarvis Coffin / Burst Media Company Blog:

Paywalls Don't Determine the Difference Between Good and Bad Media — My understanding of the whole paywall issue isn't that it's so much about making subscription money as it is about reasserting the value of proprietary content to advertisers. — It has been widely discussed, here and elsewhere, that content is substantially free.

Discussion: Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog

Kathy Haley / NetNewsCheck Latest:

Reinvent Your Business Now, Papers Told — The question for newspaper executives is not whether to erect an online paywall, says advertising industry veteran and media consultant Barbara Cohen. The question is how to restructure the way they think about their businesses, from top to bottom …

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Apple probe grows — The Justice Dept.'s probe into Apple is expanding to include how the iPhone and iPad maker does business with media outfits in areas beyond music, The Post has learned. — According to several sources, the Justice Dept. has contacted a handful of the country's biggest media …

Discussion: Mashable!, Gizmodo and CNET News

Kenneth Li / Financial Times:

How Jeff Bewkes is reinventing Time Warner — Media executives thrive on high-wattage company - Hollywood celebrities, publishing legends, fellow tycoons. The tycoons, at least, were in abundance last summer at the annual retreat sponsored by boutique investment bank Allen & Co in Sun Valley …