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Dana Davis Rehm / NPR:
Why Can't NPR Staff Go To ‘Rally To Restore Sanity’ Or ‘March To Keep Fear Alive’? — The answer is they can - if they are assigned to cover the events. — But news staff and others covered by NPR's ethics policy should not go. — We've received enormous attention from media …
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
NPR: Love ya, but you're wrong — NPR has told its staff they may not attend the Stewart/Colbert rallies in Washington at the end of the month. I think they're terribly wrong here, following the journalistic worldview Jay Rosen calls the view-from-nowhere to its extreme and forbidding employees to be curious.
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The Huffington Post and Romenesko
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
New York Post to Sell Subscriptions on the iPad — The New York Post is the latest newspaper to cross the iPad barrier, with a new, full-content tablet edition readers will be able to purchase as a monthly or annual subscription. Why is this interesting? Because the Post is, to my knowledge …
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Lost Remote, Shaping the Future …, mediabistro.com, paidContent:UK and Soup
David Kaplan / paidContent:
NYT Replaces Editors' Choice iPad App With Full Version—Free For Now — You expected more from The New York Times on the iPad? You're getting it—and eventually, you'll have to pay to get all of it. The NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) flagship is updating its Editors' Choice iPad app with an expanded version …
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Lost Remote and Media Week, more at Techmeme »
Mindy McAdams / Teaching Online Journalism:
Journalism education: Irrelevant, or lacking context? — Journalism students around the world seem to be very similar. Many of them say this: … That comes from a June 2010 column at MediaShift, written by Australian j-school grad Tammi Ireland. Probably two-thirds of our students …
Bill Simmons / ESPN:
The case of the accidental tweeter — I could give you a thousand guesses. Wouldn't matter. You'd never guess what I was doing when I accidentally tweeted “moss Vikings” last Tuesday night, inadvertently breaking news that the Patriots and Vikings were discussing a Randy Moss trade.
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CJR, Lost Remote, The Big Lead, The Wire and Nieman Journalism Lab
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Gawker boss: ‘We overtook Huffpo (temporarily)’ — Memo to Gawker Media staff — From: Nick Denton — Subject: We overtook Huffpo (temporarily) — To: edit@gawker.com
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The Wire and New York Observer
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Viral Video: CollegeHumor's Move From “Viral One-Offs” to Web Series — The national broadcast television networks aren't the only ones debuting a fall series season. — CollegeHumor Media, the online comedy video site, is also trying out three longer-term, weekly series rather than the more typical “viral one-offs,” it said.
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NewTeeVee
Rachel Richardson / paidContent:
News Of The World's Digital Editor On Going Paid — News Corp.'s UK Sunday tabloid has introduced web fees. Digital editor Rachel Richardson explained the philosophy in a webchat with journalists. Here's the edited transcript... The reason we think we will attract customers is because our stories …
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WebNewser and New Media Age
Hunter Walker / The Wrap:
Warner Bros. Television Group Acquires Shed Media — Warner Bros. Television Group has acquired a majority stake in Shed Media, a major production and distribution company based in the UK. — Warner Bros. announced the deal Thursday morning. — Shed includes six different companies …
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Broadcasting & Cable and Variety
Nick Fox / Diner's Journal:
Beard Awards Will Not Distinguish Between Online and Print Journalism — Do you write about food online or in print, for a magazine or a newspaper? It no longer matters to the James Beard Foundation. — Starting next year, the Beard journalism awards — nominations for which will be …
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Romenesko and FishbowlNY
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Newsonomics of replacement journalism — [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] — Finally, we're seeing light on the horizon. Journalism hiring is picking up.
Steve Smith / minonline.com:
A Review and a Dinner Deal: NY Media's App Adds New Revenue Model — Blending polished critical content with geo-location and mobility has already proven to be a winning recipe for New York Media's MenuPages iPhone app. The mobile restaurant finder and reviewer is fueled with ratings …
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MinOnline, MinOnline and NYConvergence.com
Dominic Ponsford / Editor's Blog:
The News of the World's paywall and why, for Rupert Murdoch, the internet is so over — The Times' all-or-nothing paywall was a shock to the system - but the News of the World's paywall move today was even more extreme. — Both are examples of the fact that, for Rupert Murdoch the internet is so over.
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Journalism.co.uk, Strange Attractor, Editors Weblog and paidContent
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Oliver Luft / Press Gazette:
News of The World relaunches behind the paywall
News of The World relaunches behind the paywall
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Journalism.co.uk, Guardian, Media Buyer Planner, Media Week and Strange Attractor