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6:55 AM ET, July 3, 2010

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Iain / The Beta Blog:
Paywalls, discipline and game theory  —  So today's the day that thetimes.co.uk starts charging for access.  You can still access the front page without paying, but if you try to read any stories it prompts you to pick a payment option (£1 for one day's access, or £2 for a whole week).
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Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:
The Times and Sunday Times: What a paywall looks like
Discussion: ExchangeWire.com
Kevin Allocca / TVNewser:
Simon Cowell Says He Helped Broker Morgan Deal; CNN: ‘There Is No Deal’  —  The day after CNN/US President Jon Klein told B&C that the network execs “never have negotiated” with Piers Morgan, TV producer and personality Simon Cowell tells Extra, “[Morgan] was under contract to us on 'America's Got Talent …
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Simon Cowell / Extra:
Simon Cowell Brokered Piers Morgan's CNN Deal  —  “Extra's” Terri Seymour spoke exclusively with former “American Idol” judge Simon Cowell, and he broke some big news about helping his pal, Piers Morgan, broker a deal with CNN.  —  “[Morgan] was under contract to us on 'America's Got Talent …
Alex Alvarez / FishbowlNY:
Exclusive: ESPN: The Magazine To Move From New York To Connecticut  —  ESPN: The Magazine is moving from its New York headquarters to Bristol, Connecticut this coming fall.  —  We were able to speak with someone from ESPN: The Magazine, who explained that the move didn't exactly come …
Zeke Turner / New York Observer:
Welcome Back Carlos Slim!  ‘Newsweek’ Bids Arrive, Now Who Knows?  —  Mike Allen proclaims 91-year-old Sidney Harman and Marc Lasry, the billionaire hedge funder who is chummy with the Clintons, the two most elegible Newsweek buyers, after the final round of bidding closed Thursday evening.
Discussion: The Politico and Gawker
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Bloomberg:
Fred Drasner, Avenue Capital Said to Submit Bids for Newsweek
Discussion: Romenesko
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
On the Media: Survey shows not all polls equal  —  Daily Kos' lawsuit against Research 2000 charging doctored results is a reminder to the public to carefully scrutinize polls.  —  Virtually every single American supports the Arizona crackdown on illegal aliens.
Discussion: CJR
Alicia Shepard / NPR:
Taking The Lord's Name In Vain  —  Taking the Lord's name in vain does not go over well in some households, particularly in the South.  —  In a June 23 story about Tom Cruise's new action movie, Knight and Day, Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep was discussing the “Superstar” crisis in Hollywood as Cruise ages out of that category.
Discussion: Romenesko and The Awl
Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Evening News Ratings in a Word: Down  —  The network news standings, always near immutable, showed nothing suggesting a shakeup during the second quarter - though they did demonstrate a distinctive trend for all parties: downward.  —  For ABC and CBS, down meant all the way to another new low …
Discussion: Variety, Romenesko and rbr.com
Chang Kim / Blogger in Draft:
Introducing Blogger Stats  —  Posted by Staszek Pako and Wiktor Gworek, Software Engineers  —  Although some of you use Google Analytics or other third party tools to track your blog traffic, many of you have requested an easier-to-use, fully-integrated stats feature for Blogger.
Chang Kim / Blogger Buzz:
Get Related Content for Your Blog with the Zemanta Gadget  —  Guest post by Boštjan ‘Bos’ Špeti, Zemanta CEO  —  About a year ago this blog featured Zemanta, a tool that helps you get more out of blogging.  Previously, Blogger users could install a Zemanta browser plugin …
Discussion: Z-Blog
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google Launches Useful, Curious “Ad News”  —  Here's something useful for people who pay attention to search and advertising for a living: Ad News.  Powered by Google News, it selectively delivers stories from news sites and blogs and is organized by topic: search, display, mobile advertising, traditional media, etc.
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Blockbuster To Be Delisted from NYSE  —  More bad news for Blockbuster: the DVD rental firm announced yesterday that it will lose its place on the New York Stock Exchange next Wednesday, after it failed to get enough shareholder votes on proposals designed to help it comply with NYSE requirements.
Douglas McCollam / CJR:
Up and Down on the Bayou  —  A snapshot of The Times-Picayune five years after Katrina  —  In the spring of 2006, about seven months after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and a swath of the Gulf coast, Ashton Phelps, publisher of The Times-Picayune, gave this prognosis of his paper's future …
Discussion: Romenesko
 
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CNN head Jon Klein faces weighty tasks
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Eugen Rochko / Mastodon Blog:
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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