Mediagazer: News Of The World's Digital Editor On Going Paid (Rachel Richardson/paidContent)

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, B&C, Big Journalism, The Wrap, FishbowlDC, New York Observer and mediabistro.com

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: Shaping the Future …, Lost Remote, 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 »

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

Discussion: Romenesko, EditorandPublisher.com, Shaping the Future …, Gawker and Kirk LaPointe's …

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: The Wire, CJR, Lost Remote, The Big Lead and Nieman Journalism Lab

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: Strange Attractor, WebNewser and New Media Age

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.

Discussion: Guardian and Gawker, 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 …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

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 …

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

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

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and Guardian