Mediagazer: Guardian Flips iPhone App To Subscription Model, Except In U.S. (Robert Andrews/paidContent)

Jessanne Collins / The Awl:

My Summer on the Content Farm — Remember that “I Love Lucy” episode where Lucy and Ethel take jobs in the chocolate factory and the conveyor belt starts pumping out candy faster than they can pack it in the wrappers so they start stuffing their faces and cleavage with the excess, cowering from the intimidating factory matron?

In Demand — I spent eight years at The Miami Herald, mainly writing features, and when the paper laid me off in 2009, I was humiliated and sad. But people told me getting laid off could be a good thing and I listened to them. “Invent” and “take charge” and “define” …

Rob Wong / Hulu Blog:

More Content, More Devices — Since we kicked off our preview of Hulu Plus, it's been our mission to continually add more devices and content to the Hulu Plus service. Over the past few weeks, we've added several titles to the Hulu Plus service, including new fall shows like Raising Hope …

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Hulu Plus Opens Up, Doesn't Go on Sale — If you've been waiting to pay $9.99 a month for Hulu Plus, but haven't been able wrangle an invite, your wait is over: The service is now open to the public. If you've been waiting to pay half that price for the video service …

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Dish Exec: Hulu Is Destroying the TV Industry — Hulu users would wait a lot longer to catch up on their favorite shows, if Dish Network VP of Online Content Development and Strategy Bruce Eisen had his way. “If I can watch Glee tomorrow morning and I don't have to pay a pay TV service …

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Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Guardian Flips iPhone App To Subscription Model, Except In U.S. — We had expected The Guardian to move its popular iPhone app, which has a one-off £2.39 ($3.99) download price, to a recurring payment. — Now the paper says it is introducing a new app, due in December …

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Illadore's House o Crack:

Copyright Infringement and Me — The tl;dr version of this post: My 2005 Ice Dragon entry, called “A Tale of Two Tarts” was apparently printed without my knowledge or permission in a magazine and I am apparently the victim of copyright infringement. — The story:

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Colby Hall / Mediaite:

Fox News On Christine O'Donnell: We Have ‘No Plans To Hire Her’ — The midterms are over, and while the GOP regained control of the House, the coronation of the Tea Party movement is still up for debate. Sure, a number of Tea Party candidates won their races, but perhaps the most visible …

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Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Behind The Scenes of CNN's Election Tech: iPads, Magic Walls, Holograms, Twitter

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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

Brokaw: 'There's Always a Reason to Turn Over a Rock & Find Out What's Under it — It's been six years since Tom Brokaw stepped down as anchor of “NBC Nightly News,” but he's just as committed to journalism as he ever was. — When I spoke with him by phone last week …

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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:

Exclusive: Andrew Breitbart Says ABC ‘Humiliated’ Him, ‘Damaged’ His Brand — Under pressure from groups like Media Matters and Color of Change, ABC News first scaled back, and then canceled, Andrew Breitbart's planned participation in its Election Day coverage.

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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Newsonomics of Kindle Singles — [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.] — Maybe the newspaper is like the old LP — you know, as in “Long Play.”

Zeke Turner / New York Observer:

At the Library, Sam Zell on Marriage, Barney Frank and the Tribune Company — This morning at the New York Public Library, Sam Zell sat for an interview with Bloomberg Television's Betty Liu.While the Local 46 Union protested Mr. Zell's use of non-union labor to finish an apartment building …

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Time Inc. Can't Wait For Google's Tablets — It's become standard issue for media executives to praise the iPad during public events. Today Time Warner's Jeff Bewkes added a twist, by taking time to talk up tablets made by people other than Apple. — Here are Bewkes's prepared remarks from Time Warner's earnings call this morning:

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Martin Belam / currybetdotnet:

“Saving money by being open”: Mike Bracken discussing innovation at The Guardian — At the risk of writing a blog post that looks like some very public sucking up to my boss...erm...you really should read the presentation my boss Mike Bracken gave to the Gartner 2010 Symposium in Orlando.

The Irish Times:

Sarkozy had ‘surveillance unit spy on journalists’ — FRANCE'S SOCIALIST Party has called for the head of domestic intelligence to be brought before a parliamentary commission after a newspaper claimed a specialist surveillance unit had been established to spy on journalists.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

News Corp. Puts Myspace on Double Secret Probation — That big Myspace relaunch we read about last week? That's all fine and good. — But the troubled Web property is a...really troubled Web property, its News Corp. parent stressed today. And it needs to get its act together before it gets kicked off campus.

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