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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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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, paidContent, Poynter, Guardian, Media News International, BBC 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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BBC, Guardian, BBC, Free Press, Globe and Mail, Wired.co.uk, Editors Weblog, The Next Web, GigaOM and FT tech hub, more at Techmeme »
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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Poynter, Gawker, Runnin' Scared, p2pnet, Epicenter, NYConvergence.com, CNET News, New York Magazine, SAI, C-Scape, Tech Report, Editors Weblog, Yahoo! News, FishbowlNY, The Huffington Post, mediabistro.com, Noted, @zseward, @lavrusik and VentureBeat
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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.
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.
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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TechCrunch and Fortune, more at Techmeme »
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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Regret the Error
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, @eug, @hirschorn and @megan
Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
HuffPo ‘fires’ unpaid blogger for participating in labor demonstration — On Wednesday, January 19, more than 200 union members stormed into a Mortgage Bankers Association conference in Washington, D.C., and held a guerrilla-style demonstration for about 10 minutes, protesting a home-builders' group …
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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
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, @iwantmedia and New York Observer
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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Mixed Media, GalleyCat, Gawker, FishbowlNY, Runnin' Scared and @jayrosen_nyu
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 Awl, The Informer, @iwantmedia, Media Buyer Planner and @lavrusik
David Chen / /Film:
Kevin Smith Buys His Own Film At Sundance Auction, Swears Off Distributors, and Announces Full Details for Self-Distribution — This evening, Red State premiered in front of more than 1,200 people at the Eccles Theatre at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. As you might have heard …
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Deadline.com, Techdirt, Boing Boing and GigaOM
Zeke Turner / WWD:
Dan Abrams in Talks With ABC News — ABC News is in talks with NBC News chief legal analyst Dan Abrams to take him away from the network where he has spent most of his career. “NBC News thanks Dan for his years of service and dedication. We wish him nothing but the best,” said NBC spokeswoman Lauren Kapp.
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The Politico, Poynter, Gawker, The Huffington Post, TVNewser, The Wire and Chickaboomer
Jim O'Neill / Online Video News:
ComScore: Online video ad views see big bump — comScore (Nasdaq: SCOR) reported some 172 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in December, almost identical to November viewing, for an average of 14.6 hours per viewer, down slight from November's 14.7 hours.
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GigaOM
Courtney Boyd Myers / The Next Web:
Forget apps, OnSwipe is the future of publishing. — Sporting sneakers and chugging sugar-free Red Bulls, OnSwipe founders Jason L. Baptiste and Andres Barreto may look like typical overworked kids right out of college. But get them talking about the future of publishing, the tablet market …
MinnPost:
A breakthrough year for MinnPost — In 2010, MinnPost ran its first surplus. — A $17,594 surplus on spending of $1.261 million may not sound like much. But this is tremendous vindication for our business model, because it resulted from 18 percent revenue growth, not budget-cutting.
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Poynter, KnightBlog and Community Information Needs
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, @markbriggs, @scootsmoon, Rhetorica and Media Law Prof Blog
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