Mediagazer: London Newspapers Challenge Web's Gratis Orthodoxy (Eric Pfanner/New York Times)

1:35 AM ET, May 31, 2010

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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 …

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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.

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 …

Eric Pfanner / New York Times:

London Newspapers Challenge Web's Gratis Orthodoxy — PARIS — A strange thing happened when I checked out the new Web sites from The Times and Sunday Times of London: I read some of the stories. Not just the headlines, but entire articles — even a review of “Sex and the City 2,” a film I hope I never have to watch.

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 …

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 …

Ivor Shapiro / J-Source:

Stackhouse: Globe and Mail will relaunch as daily magazine — Daily “news” papers are doomed by broken economic and reporting models, John Stackhouse told a forum at the Canadian Association of Journalists May 29. But the EIC of The Globe and Mail said he draws hope from the continued success …

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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).

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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.

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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 …

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