Mediagazer: Old media tackle the challenge of the tablet (Financial Times)

4:15 PM ET, November 27, 2010

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Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

Court Says UK Papers Can Command Levies From Pay-For News Monitor Customers — In an important first-instance ruling, the UK High Court has upheld a stipulation that operators and customers of paid digital news monitor services should pay newspapers for crawling their stories.

Discussion: bailii.org, Telegraph, paidContent, TechCrunch Europe, Press Gazette, Editor's Blog, Wired.co.uk and NetNewsCheck Latest, more at Techmeme »

Mashable!:

How Investigative Journalism Is Prospering in the Age of Social Media … In a society that is more connected than ever, investigative journalists that were once shrouded in mystery are now taking advantage of their online community relationships to help scour documents and uncover potential wrongs.

Discussion: Editors Weblog, BBC College of Journalism Blog and Bob Kaplitz Blog

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Vevo is gearing up for global expansion — Tweet — With 12 months of operations and steady growth under its belt, Vevo is staffing up and setting its sights on a global rollout of its music video service in 2011. — “Because it has been so successful. . .Vevo is accelerating plans,” …

Discussion: Beehive City and Associated Press

Dominic Ponsford / Editor's Blog:

Mail Online's meagre revenue dwarfed by turnover from Associated's print businesses — I was pretty revved up about the online future of the UK's national press after Mail Online publisher Martin Clarke's barn-storming Society of Editors speech last week. — He said his website was poised …

Discussion: Guardian, Media Money and Press Gazette

Boston Globe:

Vineyard Gazette sold to retired KKR co-founder Kohlberg — Mark Alan Lovewell/Vineyard Gazette Photo — Vineyard Gazette editor Julia Wells (left) stands next to the paper's new owners, Jerry Kohlberg and his wife, Nancy Kohlberg. — By Beth Healy, Globe Staff

Discussion: Romenesko

Financial Times:

Old media tackle the challenge of the tablet — Richard Branson, Rupert Murdoch's rival in UK pay television, has joined mix of speculation in the world of tablets

Discussion: The Now/ledge and Electronista, Thanks:tim

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

Three tablet-based media ventures preparing for take-off — As the old journalism adage goes: two's a coincidence, three's a trend, and three marks the number of forthcoming editorial launches tailored specifically for owners of the iPad and other mobile devices.

Discussion: J-Source

Kevin / Strange Attractor:

Journalism: Opening up the 'insider's game' — I met Jonathan Stray this past summer when I was speaking at Oxford, and I've really enjoyed keeping up with him on Twitter and on his blog. He's smart, and if you're thinking about journalism in new ways and thinking of how we can …

Discussion: Strange Attractor

New York Times:

Netflix's Move Onto the Web Stirs Rivalries — In a matter of months, the movie delivery company Netflix has gone from being the fastest-growing first-class mail customer of the United States Postal Service to the biggest source of streaming Web traffic in North America during peak evening hours.

Discussion: DailyFinance

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Associated Press (Or CBS) Surrenders Their Dignity — A lot of people out there still seem to think that all blogs do is riff off of major media content. Reblog it, or just plain plagiarism. Most people know that most major news is now broken by blogs, but the prejudice is still out there.

Chad Catacchio / The Next Web:

Flipboard's new FlipGifts section could redefine shopping catalogs — Right in time for Black Friday and with many of its users sitting around on sofas digesting their turkey, iPad news app Flipboard has just announced a new curated section called FlipGifts that allows you to flip through posts …

Thanks:trishussey

Conrad Walters / The Age:

What television will look like in 10 years — Fights over the remote control will be a thing of the past. Illustration By John Shakespeare. — Few people seek to look silly. In public. In perpetuity. So when The Guide decided to repeat an experiment from 10 years ago …

Discussion: Crikey