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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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NetNewsCheck Latest, Media Week and Lost Remote, more at Techmeme »
John Cassidy / The New Yorker Blog:
Is Nick Denton Really the New Rupert Murdoch? — Kudos to my colleague Ben McGrath for finally eliciting some dollar figures for the revenues of Gawker Media. Back in early 2006, when I spoke to Denton about the possibility of writing an article about Gawker's rise, he was friendly enough …
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The D Files, Romenesko and eMedia Vitals
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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Shaping the Future …, Romenesko, mediabistro.com, Lost Remote, paidContent:UK and Soup
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp. approached about Yahoo buy — Private equity firms eye alternatives to AOL deal — NEW YORK — As Yahoo shareholders cheer a possible sale of the company to private equity firms, perhaps with the aid of AOL, private equity players also have approached News Corp. as a potential strategic partner, according to sources.
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Fast Company, Guardian and Gawker, more at Techmeme »
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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Yahoo! News, The Huffington Post, B&C, Big Journalism, The Wrap, FishbowlDC, New York Observer and mediabistro.com
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
NPR: Love ya, but you're wrong
NPR: Love ya, but you're wrong
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The Huffington Post and Romenesko
Newspaper Association of America:
NEWSPAPER WEBSITES REACH NEARLY TWO-THIRDS OF U.S INTERNET USERS IN SEPTEMBER — New data from comScore indicates one-in-four newspaper website visitors come from households earning at least $100,000 a year; Newspaper sites reach majority of 25-to-34-year-olds
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Romenesko, EditorandPublisher.com, Shaping the Future …, Gawker and Kirk LaPointe's …
Amanda Andrews / Telegraph:
BBC hampers Johnston Press's paid content ambitions — Regional newspaper groups will never be able to charge for digital content unless the BBC's local ambitions are controlled, according to John Fry, chief executive of Johnston Press. — Mr Fry says he has written to the BBC Trust calling …
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Jon Slattery and Press Gazette
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 …
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, Eatocracy and FishbowlNY
EditorandPublisher.com:
Conference Looked to Make E-Reading, Tablets Work for News Media — NEW YORK — Recognizing tablets and mobile e-readers as promising vehicles for news distribution, a recent gathering of publishers and digital platform experts considered how to exploit that potential.
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Poynter Online
Wall Street Journal:
On Basic Cable, TV's Alternate Universe — Without big budgets, basic cable shows are multiplying—and changing the way TV is made. Can the major networks learn from them? Plus: six new shows to watch. — Cable Dispute Heats Up — A dispute between Cablevision and Fox heated …
Edward Helmore / Guardian:
Friday interview: Jersey farmer's son sows seeds of Condé Nast's digital future — Low profile Condé Nast Digital boss Jamie Pallot has found success in New York dragging the publisher into the internet age — Compared with other British media editors in New York, Jamie Pallot …
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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The Wire, Lost Remote, CJR, The Big Lead and Nieman Journalism Lab
Paul Boutin / New York Times:
Sharing Online, but With More Than 140 Characters — The singer and guitarist John Mayer, whose prolific posts on Twitter drew nearly four million followers, shocked fans in mid-September by closing his account. — But Mr. Mayer hasn't gone away. He's switched from Twitter to Tumblr …