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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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Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:
The Times and Sunday Times: What a paywall looks like — And it's up - the long awaited News International paywall for the new Times and Sunday Times websites has gone up today. This is the screen you get when you try to go beyond the sites' homepages - thetimes.co.uk and sundaytimes.co.uk.
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
UK Times Goes Tentatively Paid From Friday At £1-A-Month
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Guardian, paidContent:UK, Bloomberg, magCulture.com/blog, ResourceShelf, Press Gazette, Jon Slattery, WebNewser and Company Town
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
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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
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Telegraph, FierceMobileContent, The Register, Editors Weblog, MacStories, Kirk LaPointe's … and 9 to 5 Mac, more at Techmeme »
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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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.
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 …
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 …
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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.
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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The Plum Line, The Daily Dish, GroundReport.com, Daily Kos, Romenesko, FishbowlNY, The Huffington Post, Gawker and Mediaite
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.
Matt / WordPress.com News:
Phone Your Blog — A broken telephone I saw while wandering around Bangkok — It's happened to all of us. The night starts off innocently enough with a little gin and tonic, maybe a mojito, then next thing you know you're doing tequila shots with the bartender and the girl from Brazil …
The Independent:
BBC's new pay policy ‘could spark media war’ — Corporation may never be the same again if it reveals stars' salaries — When Sir Michael Lyons, chairman of the BBC Trust, told a broadcasting seminar in London on Wednesday night that the BBC should publish details of the salaries paid …
Jon Slattery:
FBU spokesman fights tabloid fire with fire — The good thing about blogs is the way they give you many different angles on a story, not just from journalists but from those dealing with them or the people they are writing about. — Francis Beckett (pictured) is currently handling media relations …
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BBC:
China's Xinhua launches global English TV channel — China's state news agency Xinhua has launched a 24-hour global news channel in English. — Officials said CNC World would present “an international vision with a China perspective”. — The launch is being seen as an attempt by China …
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