Mediagazer: New York Post to Sell Subscriptions on the iPad (Jeff Bercovici/Mixed Media)

2:26 AM ET, October 15, 2010

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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 …

Discussion: Yahoo! News, The Huffington Post, Big Journalism, The Wrap, FishbowlDC, New York Observer, mediabistro.com, Romenesko and Media Matters for America

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.

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: 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.

Discussion: 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

Discussion: 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.

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: 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.

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, Strange Attractor, Editors Weblog and paidContent