Mediagazer: Times Paper in Mass. to Charge for Online Content (Jeremy W. Peters/Media Decoder)

3:55 PM ET, August 16, 2010

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Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

Times Paper in Mass. to Charge for Online Content — The Telegram & Gazette, a New York Times-owned newspaper in Worcester, Mass., said that it would begin charging readers to view some of the local news articles that appear on the paper's Web site. — Starting on Monday …

Discussion: Gawker, Shaping the Future …, rbr.com, Worcester Telegram & Gazette, The Wrap, Silicon Alley Insider, Editors Weblog, Lost Remote, TVWeek.com and NetNewsCheck Latest

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Why iPad Magazines Won't Be a (Really) Big Business for a While-and Why Prices Won't Come Down, Either — Will tablets save the magazine business? Nope. But if the industry's hopes for the iPad and its ilk pan out, digital editions could give the industry a billion-dollar boost in a few years.

Discussion: Publishing Executive News, New York Observer and paidContent

Robert Andrews / paidContent: The Message Isn't Always The Medium

New York Times:

Hulu Is Said to Be Ready for an I.P.O. — By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN and MICHAEL J. de la MERCED — Hulu, the rapidly growing hub for online television and movies, aims to go public through an offering that could value the company at more than $2 billion, according to people briefed on the matter.

Wall Street Journal:

Slow Start for Apple's iAds — Apple Inc. is facing some early challenges in its closely watched mobile advertising foray, with some ad campaigns experiencing delays as agencies attempt to learn the new system amid Apple's tight control over the creative process, according to ad executives.

Discussion: Gawker, paidContent, Fast Company, The Next Web, Epicenter, Poynter Online, Silicon Alley Insider, Gizmodo, Fortune, Guardian and AdPulp, more at Techmeme »

Lymari Morales / Gallup:

In U.S., Confidence in Newspapers, TV News Remains a Rarity — No more than 25% say they have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in either — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans continue to express near-record-low confidence in newspapers and television news — with no more than 25% …

Discussion: TVNewser, National Media, Journalism.co.uk, MediaPost, Mediaite, Shaping the Future …, CJR, mediabistro.com and The Wire

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:

Google and the Search for the Future — The Web icon's CEO on the mobile computing revolution, the future of newspapers, and privacy in the digital age. — To some, Google has been looking a bit sallow lately. The stock is down. Where once everything seemed to go the company's way …

Discussion: CJR, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web, Future Tense, Kirk LaPointe's … and AdExchanger.com

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Fortune steals Primack away from Reuters — TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE — Dan Primack, editor-at-large with Thomson Reuters, has given his notice with the wire service to take a job at Fortune.com, which is overhauling the financial part of its site to feature his work.

Discussion: Romenesko and The Wire

Newser:

Once Again Into the Breach: Rupert Murdoch Dreams of a Digital Newspaper — Follow him on Twitter @MichaelWolffNYC — First, the really big news in the LA Times story about Rupert Murdoch's plan to start an all new national newspaper for the iPad and mobile devices: The picture shows that he's not dyeing his hair anymore.

Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
Murdoch's New iPaper: One Last Tragic Roll Of The Digital Dice

Discussion: Garcia Media, Poynter Online, PC Magazine, Guardian, Journalism.co.uk and broadstuff

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Truth-o-Meter, 2G: Andrew Lih wants to wikify fact-checking — Epic fact: We are living at the dawn of the Information Age. Less-epic fact: Our historical moment is engendering doubt. The more bits of information we have out there, and the more sources we have providing them, the more wary we need to be of their accuracy.

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

Ambinder, Madhani to lead National Journal's White House team — Marc Ambinder and Aamer Madhani to Lead New National Journal W.H. Team — Washington, D.C. (August 16, 2010) — National Journal Group announced today that two of Washington's fastest-rising journalistic talents are joining together …

Discussion: MinOnline and On Media's Blog

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Initial impression of D.C. local news Web site TBD; N.Y. Times skips Obama lunch — One of the most intriguing features of the new, buzz-generating local Web site TBD is an invitation to readers to add some journalistic input. At the bottom of a piece on D.C. mayoral candidate Vincent Gray is the header “Complete This Story”:

Discussion: Romenesko

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Google Hires BBC News Exec To Woo Publishers — Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is hiring BBC News' head of development and rights, Madhav Chinnappa, to its partnerships team for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, it tells paidContent:UK, “with a specific focus on helping publishers get the most out of Google News”.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Gawker's Next Redesign Thinks Big - Like Big Screen TV — For better or worse, Nick Denton's Gawker Media leads the way for a lot of online media. So it's worth checking out what he has up sleeve, which happens to be in plain view: A super-sized redesign of his 9-blog network.

Media Week:

Times loses 1.2m readers — The Times has lost 1.2 million UK readers across its daily and Sunday websites and almost halved the amount of time people spend on its sites in the past three months, according data released by ComScore. — In May, the free-to-access website Timesonline.co.uk …

Discussion: The Wire

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Yahoo's Premier League Video Highlights Go Live — For such a potentially beneficial addition, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) certainly isn't shouting about its new English Premier League video highlights, which debuted in Britain this weekend. — On the Monday morning after the league's opening weekend …

Discussion: Press Gazette, TechCrunch Europe and CrunchGear