Mediagazer: Annenberg Foundation gives $50M to USC j-school (Jim Romenesko/Romenesko)

1:45 PM ET, October 15, 2010

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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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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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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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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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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 …

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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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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Columbia developing a year-round news outlet to let students learn how to build and serve an audience — It's only a slight exaggeration to say that journalism schools, even more than other media institutions, are experiencing an existential crisis under news' new conditions.

David Goetzl / MediaPost:

CBS Closes Signature Store, Grows Online Presence — A fixture on Broadway with its art deco façade, the CBS Store in New York has closed after an apparent failure to agree on new lease terms. Located at the corner of West 53rd Street, CBS posters outside and “CSI:” …

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Audrey Watters / ReadWriteWeb:

Borders Partners with BookBrewer to Turn Blogs into eBooks — As eBooks have become increasingly popular, many major eBookstores have created ways to fill those eBookshelves not just with the titles of well known authors but with the works of any author willing to cough up the fees …

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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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Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

Annenberg Foundation gives $50M to USC j-school — USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism — The gift will pay for a new 90,000-square-foot building with studios and newsrooms for the digital age. Read the release.

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

Kelly to retire as Seattle Times Co. president — Seattle Times President Carolyn Kelly to Retire — Carolyn S. Kelly, President and Chief Operating Officer of the Seattle Times Company has announced her plans to retire effective December 30, 2010. Kelly has served as President and Chief Operating Officer from 2001 to the present.

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 …

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 …

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