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Ian Burrell / The Independent:
Has Rupert Murdoch's paywall gamble paid off? — Advertisers don't like it. Analysts are unconvinced. The paywall at News International may not be winning many fans, but the man behind it is determined to keep it standing. — As the fugitive businessman Asil Nadir flew back to Britain …
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New York Observer, For The Media, Lost Remote, Editors Weblog, mediabistro.com, Silicon Alley Insider and Jon Slattery
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Analyst: Paywall Subscribers Worth A Quarter Of Print Readers — Even if newspapers migrate every print reader to paying online, they will still face big losses, according to one analyst. — Annual income per paywall subscriber on TheTimes.co.uk and WSJ.com is just a quarter that from subscribers …
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Press Gazette, Romenesko and Soup
New York Times:
Tabloid Hack Attack on Royals, and Beyond — IN NOVEMBER 2005, three senior aides to Britain's royal family noticed odd things happening on their mobile phones. Messages they had never listened to were somehow appearing in their mailboxes as if heard and saved.
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Nick Davies / Guardian:
Report links Coulson to phone-hacking
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Press Gazette, The Staggers, New York Observer, Crikey and Media Law Prof Blog
Vanity Fair:
Rupert Murdoch's War On The New York Times — Photo illustration by R. Mutt Studios. “I read the Journal a little less now. I find that I can skim it in a way I couldn't before. If the Journal is gaining market share I'd guess it is more at the expense of USA Today than the Times,” …
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Yahoo! News, Gawker, Romenesko, The Wire, Ben Smith's Blog, New York Magazine and Gothamist
Andrew Wallenstein / Hollywood Reporter:
Why Apple rental plan alienated most studios — Holdouts fear 99-cent price endangers business model — Don't look for rival studios to join Disney and News Corp. for Apple's announced 99-cent TV rental offering anytime soon. — Unveiling a new Apple TV product Wednesday …
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Reuters, Company Town, Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Here's The Difference Between Apple TV And Google TV
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Epicenter, Search Engine Land, Fortune, TomsTechBlog.com, broadstuff, Gadget Lab and The Wire, more at Techmeme »
Avner Ronen / Boxee Blog:
How Boxee Sees the Apple TV
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Mashable!, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Light Reading, Engadget, paidContent, Faster Forward, Washington Post, Fast Company, The Next Web, CrunchGear, Gizmodo and Apple, more at Techmeme »
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:
Apple To Offer ABC & Fox Shows For $.99; Other Networks & Studios Oppose Rental Plan
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Already Spending ~$45 Million Per Year On New Patch Employees — AOL made 900 hires over the summer with 50% of the new people going to local blogs network Patch, CEO Tim Armstrong just told employees in a company wide meeting. — Figure all-in costs for each new employee is $100,000 per year …
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Romenesko
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Twitter breaks story on Discovery Channel gunman — The news broke around 1 p.m. with a few sketchy details. Gunman. Shots. Hostages. Discovery building. — Within minutes, there were photos, including an astonishing one of a man clad in shorts, carrying a rifle and stalking through what looked like an office courtyard.
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Hit & Run, The Nation, Technology Liberation Front, TBD All News, Romenesko, Post Now, CyberJournalist.net, eMedia Vitals and Chickaboomer
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Dave Levy / State of the Fourth Estate:
Discovery Channel Stand Off: The Day The Old/New Media Line Ceased to Exist
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TBD All News and DCist
Josh Kosman / New York Post:
Trib creditors zero in on Zell — Tweet — Tribune Chairman Sam Zell's bid for immunity from legal claims arising from the disastrous buyout of the company could be slipping away. — The judge overseeing the Tribune bankruptcy case yesterday appointed a mediator to try to hammer …
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Bloomberg and NewscastStudio Blog
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Joe Pompeo / Silicon Alley Insider:
Forbes Is Going To Start Digging Up Dirt On Everyone On Its Billionaires List — It's been a month since Forbes.com launched a new landing page for its blogs, to which every editorial staffer and a growing number of external writers now contribute. — As part of that expansion …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
AOL And Google Renew Search Deal For 5 Years, Expand Partnership To Mobile, YouTube — AOL CEO Tim Armstrong hinted that this was coming, but this morning Google and AOL announced a five-year renewal of the search deal between the two companies. Google will continue to power search across AOL's content network and properties.
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GigaOM, paidContent, Crain's New York Business, BoomTown, NewTeeVee and Fortune, more at Techmeme »
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
AOL and Facebook Get the New Yorker Treatment — Within the next several weeks, the New Yorker magazine will be publishing big pieces about a pair of digital icons located on the East and West coasts-an assessment of the turnaround at AOL by staff writer Ken Auletta and a profile …
Stefanie Chernow / Editors Weblog:
AFP goes mobile? — L'Agence France-Presse (AFP) has announced it plans to offer readers direct access to AFP content on digital devices rather than just a “Business to Business” model. AFP is the third largest news agency in the world, tailing the Associated Press and Reuters …
Andrew Vanacore / Associated Press:
Review: News app that lets you choose your editor — NEW YORK — Most of the articles that show up in your newspaper or magazine are chosen by professional editors. What if they are picked out by a friend from college instead? Or a colleague from work? Or your mom? Anyone you know, really?
Lisa de Moraes / Washington Post:
Martha Stewart wants to take Barbara Walters place as next important interviewer — Martha Stewart, whose talk/crafts show is moving to cable's Hallmark Channel in two weeks, coinciding with the launch of her prime-time interview specials for that network, wants to become the new Important Interviewer in the television firmament.
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New York Post and Chickaboomer
James Macintyre / New Statesman:
“There was massive left-wing bias at the BBC” — In his first major interview since giving the MacTaggart Lecture in Edinburgh, Mark Thompson talks about political pressures, the need for budget cuts, and how his religion affects his role — My first conversation with Mark Thompson …
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The Staggers
Adrianne Jeffries / ReadWriteWeb:
Billboard Magazine, Est. 1894, Tries to Boost Its Digital Cred — Billboard is best known for charts that rank the most popular music and musicians, which the weekly industry magazine started publishing in 1913 as a list of the most popular sheet music. Since then, topping the Billboard Hot 100 …
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
WSJ's digital ops will eventually be larger than print — TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE — Editor's note: This is the third in a series of interviews with major players in business journalism to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Talking Biz News. — As executive editor of WSJ.com …
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The Wire
Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:
Mafia Sourcing - How Insiders Game User Generated News for Money — The Web. Open, democratic, leveling, freeing information from closed networks. The wisdom of the crowds. Or so it seems. — I originally came from the entreprise software world (for 10 years) and before that I was …
Mike Oreskes / ap.org:
AP announces editorial guidelines for credit and attribution — Associated Press Senior Managing Editor Michael Oreskes has announced a new set of guidelines for credit and attribution to the AP staff. His policy document is below. — Colleagues, — In the age of the Web …
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