Mediagazer: BBC hampers Johnston Press's paid content ambitions (Amanda Andrews/Telegraph)

8:15 AM 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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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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Dana Davis Rehm / NPR:

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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
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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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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 …

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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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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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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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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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 …

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 …

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 …

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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.

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