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2:30 PM ET, July 2, 2010

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Media Week Customer Publishing:
News Int charges for Times online from today  —  The Times and The Sunday Times will charge for access to its digital journalism from today (2 July).  —  The Times: paywall comes in to play tomorrow  —  Online readers will be required to pay for access to www.thetimes.co.uk …
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Bill Mitchell / Newspay:
Pay Walls Debut at Three Gannett Papers Testing ‘Journalism as a Service’  —  Gannett stepped into the world of paid content today with what it termed “a small-scale test” at the Tallahassee Democrat, The Greenville (S.C.) News and The (St. George, Utah) Spectrum.  —  screengrab/Tallahassee.com
Discussion: paidContent
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Eric Schmidt talks about threats to Google, paywalls and the future  —  Google chief Eric Schmidt tells Activate summit that the future of newspapers is online - and mobile  —  • Video: Eric Schmidt discusses newspapers and the web with Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger
Hunter Walker / The Wrap:
Anderson Cooper is ‘Happy at CNN’ and Mad at ‘The Internet’  —  CNN's star anchor Anderson Cooper responded to TheWrap's report of drama going down at the cable news network with an e-mail that's essentially just a long-winded version of the old “move along, nothing to see here” trick.
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Anderson Cooper ‘Very Happy at CNN’ with ‘No Plans to Leave’
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Hearst's Houston, San Antonio papers to work even more closely together  —  Memo to Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News staffs  —  It was about a year ago when Steve Swartz at Hearst Newspapers urged us to accelerate the rate of exchange between our two newsrooms.
Discussion: Editors Weblog and Hair Balls
Wall Street Journal:
Apple Lets Google Sell Targeted Ads  —  Apple Inc. doesn't appear to have barred Google Inc. and others from selling targeted ads inside iPhone and iPad applications, after implying several weeks ago that it might do so.  —  Software developers say their new and updated applications …
Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:
All 5 Supes sign letter to Zell protesting fake LAT page *  —  That four-page ad for Universal's King Kong attraction in the Los Angeles Times this morning really drove the Los Angeles County Board of Supevisors, well, ape.  All five elected supervisors signed a protest letter that calls on the Times to …
Tim Adams / Business Week:
Tyler Brûlé, Media Maverick  —  Canadian-born Tyler Brûlé's magazine, Monocle, challenges just about every piece of received wisdom about what works in media these days  —  In a modest, terraced mews building beside Marylebone station in West London …
Ben / Westside Independent:
Proof that the New York Times is More Popular than the Wall Street Journal — Among Thieves  —  The Wall Street Journal is in a death-match with the New York Times to win the hearts and minds of New York's intellegentsia.  But there is one crucial group to whom the Journal apparently doesn't appeal: thieves.
Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Study: Newspapers stopped describing waterboarding as ‘torture’ during Bush years  —  Is waterboarding torture?  If you picked up a major U.S. newspaper before 2004, the answer would likely be ‘yes,’ according to a new Harvard University study.  —  But in the post-9/11 world …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Is Apple All The Tech Press is Talking About?  (Stats)  —  You may feel like all the tech press has talked about this week is Apple's new iPhone 4.  If you thought that was literally the case, though, you'd be wrong.  We did some counting and dividing and looked at the number of headlines containing …
Discussion: memeburn
Matthew Battles / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Papering over the bumps: Is the online media ecosystem really flat?  —  [Matthew Battles is one of my favorite thinkers about how we read, consume, and learn.  He's reading and reacting to Clay Shirky's Cognitive Surplus and Nicholas Carr's The Shallows.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Ex-Times law blogger joins Guardian  —  Tim Kevan, creator of BabyBarista blog, strikes deal to publish on Guardian law site via new Wordpress plugin  —  Tim Kevan, who quit the Times last month before its online content went behind a paywall, is to publish his BabyBarista blog on the Guardian's law website from today.
Discussion: BabyBarista and Journalism.co.uk
Scott Trust / Guardian:
Guardian unveils WordPress plugin for bloggers  —  Guardian News & Media (GNM) today unveils a brand new WordPress plugin, which will enable millions of bloggers across the globe to publish content from guardian.co.uk on their own sites free of charge.  —  The Guardian news feed plugin …
Discussion: paidContent and The Next Web
Clem Richardson / NY Daily News:
Kids are ‘raised by media’ - The Lamp examines messages beamed into our homes  —  Your average-sized son/daughter/cousin swears he's fat.  Or maybe you think you've lost cool points because your cell phone is more than six months old.  —  Those ideas didn't just spring into children's heads.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Error Allowed BP To Violate Ad Guidelines  —  It's well known to many at this point that BP has been advertising on Google to get its public relations message out.  Today, it turns out that some of those ads have been violating Google's guidelines — in particular …
 
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The Independent:
BBC's new pay policy ‘could spark media war’
Jon Slattery:
FBU spokesman fights tabloid fire with fire
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Eric Alterman / The Nation:
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John Consoli / The Wrap:
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Matt / WordPress.com News:
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BBC:
China's Xinhua launches global English TV channel
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
The New Republic Adds Blogs, Claims Ad Success Amid Hybrid Pay-Free Site
Discussion: MinOnline and eMedia Vitals
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Updated: Wired's Dadich Adds Corporate Digital Mag Role
Discussion: New York Observer
Meghan Keane / Capital New York:
Not even the internet could save ‘Party Down’
Will Richmond / VideoNuze:
Revision3 is Achieving Unaided Advertising Recall of Up to 99%
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
BBC's Interactive TV Exec Chakkara Heads To TalkTalk
Discussion: Guardian
Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Marc Lasry's Avenue Capital Is Among Newsweek Finalists …
 

 
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Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

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