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Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:
New York Times Readies Pay Wall — Paper Will Charge for Bundled Digital Service, Allow Some Free Access — The New York Times is preparing to introduce multiple subscription packages for access to the paper's website and other digital content, kicking off the biggest test to date …
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Felix Salmon:
The NYT's bizarre iPad paywall — Russell Adams has some inside dope on the price the NYT is intending to charge with its paywall: … This strikes me as peculiar. The idea seems to be that if you want to use the NYT iPad app at all, that'll cost you a hefty $240 per year, over and above the cost of the iPad itself.
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Despite Distinctions, Los Angeles Times Loses Standing at Home — LOS ANGELES — Big city newspapers all across the country have suffered one indignity after another in the last few years. But few of them have been as hard hit — or gotten as much grief for it — as The Los Angeles Times.
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CJR, LA Observed, The Informer, Media Buyer Planner, On Media's Blog, @iwantmedia and @lavrusik
New York Post:
Google's Schmidt eyeing TV — Google honcho Eric Schmidt, who announced his plan to hand over control of the tech giant last week, is eyeballing a career in TV, Page Six has learned. — Sources say the outspoken chief, who broke the news that he's passing the CEO title …
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Yahoo! News, Digital Daily, TVWeek.com, TVNewser, The Huffington Post, GMSV, Search Engine Land, The Wire, Deal Journal and Josh Braun's Blog, more at Techmeme »
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
BBC's Big Online Cuts: Full Details Announcement — Here is the BBC's full announcement of its online cutbacks...
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Media Week, Guardian, paidContent, paidContent, Poynter, BBC, Media News International and WebNewser
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Erik Huggers / About the BBC blog:
Reshaping BBC Online — The BBC has always created and embraced emerging technologies to remain relevant. Text based journalism, through Ceefax, didn't really feature in the BBC until the late 1970s, which later evolved into BBC Red Button and the BBC News website, the backbone of BBC Online.
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Guardian, BBC, BBC, Free Press, GigaOM, Wired.co.uk, FT tech hub, Editors Weblog and The Next Web
New York Times:
Olbermann Split Came After Years of Tension — MSNBC never had any doubt about what it was getting when it made Keith Olbermann the face of the network in 2003: a highly talented broadcaster, a distinctive and outspoken voice and a mercurial personality with a track record of attacking his superiors and making early exits.
Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
NSFW: On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're A Journalist — So here's an odd thing. Since TechCrunch was acquired by AOL, there has been a slight but appreciable uptick in the number of stories we've run about our new parent company. In the last month alone, we've reported their Q1 goals …
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Nicole LaPorte / The Daily Beast:
Exposing the New York Times Newsroom — A new documentary peers into the workings of the New York Times, depicts the struggle between old and new media—and features a feisty David Carr. Nicole LaPorte reports from Sundance. — In 1969, Gay Talese's The Kingdom and the Power was published …
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Poynter, New York Observer and @megan
Paul Armstrong / paidContent:
@Themediaisdying: The Brutal Truth From Two Years In The Twitterverse — The facts for the publishing industry are clear - the vast majority of media outlets are declining in one or more ways. — Two years ago, I registered @themediaisdying - a Twitter account through which I tweet links illustrating …
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@jayrosen_nyu and Editors Weblog
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Apple's bet on publishing — Apple's upcoming subscription plan is making large publishing companies hysterical. Rightfully so. Some of them built a complete business model for the iPad based on a commercial agreement that is now being revoked. Apple is not only changing the rules …
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Fortune
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
An Irreverent Campaign From Bon Appétit — ADVERTISERS have long used cheeky entreaties to pique the curiosity of consumers. For example, Doral cigarettes urged smokers to “Taste me,” the Preakness horse race asked bettors to “Get your Preak on” and current ads for Celebrity Cruises proclaim, “X the rules.”
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The Fix, MediaPost, New York Observer, New York Times and @iwantmedia
Tim Stelloh / New York Times:
Not Quite a Reporter, but Raking Muck and Reaping Wrath — Daniel Cavanagh was nervous. — He paced the living room of his duplex apartment collecting his things: a large digital camera, an iPhone, a black leather jacket. — “I'm about to get crushed,” he said, running his hands through his hair.
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WebNewser, @scootsmoon, @markbriggs, Rhetorica and Media Law Prof Blog
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Harper's Union Spat Intensifies As Big-Name Authors Weigh In [Updated] — John “Rick” MacArthur. — The war of words between Harper's publisher John “Rick” MacArthur and the magazine's union is intensifying. Today, the union is circulating an open letter to MacArthur signed by 84 writers …
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Gawker, FishbowlNY, Runnin' Scared and @jayrosen_nyu
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
SeedSpeak: A geolocation app for better civic engagement — We're all too familiar with terms like “community” and “engagement” when talking about online news. But what if we take it back to the root? Not Twitter followers, blog comments, or Quora questions, but instead a group of people trying to do something together?
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