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12:50 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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: AdAge and Company Town
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.
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
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:” …
Discussion: rbr.com and TVWeek.com
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 …
Discussion: Fast Company
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 …
Discussion: Jon Slattery and Press Gazette
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.
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.
Discussion: Epicenter and Poynter Online
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 …
Discussion: New York Observer
Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:
How to turn a paper of record into a website of record  —  Last week Arthur Brisbane, the new public editor of the New York Times, posted an illuminating exchange between a reader of the paper and one of its top editors.  —  The reader asked: What's with the way stories change all the time on the website?
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.
 
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Rachel Richardson / paidContent:
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Hunter Walker / The Wrap:
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Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and Variety
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Steve Smith / minonline.com:
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Ragnhild Kjetland / Bloomberg:
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Discussion: Media Buyer Planner
Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:
BBC produces online tests to help public understand editorial changes
Nick Fox / Diner's Journal:
Beard Awards Will Not Distinguish Between Online and Print Journalism
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Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
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Discussion: The Wire and New York Observer
The Wrap:
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