Mediagazer: Murdoch confirms $30M investment, already written off. Will cost less than half-mil a week to run. Inexpensive for $NWS. #thedaily ~@sdkstl (@paidcontent)

11:35 AM ET, February 2, 2011

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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:

News Corp.'s ‘The Daily’ to debut Wednesday (live blog) — There hasn't been this much buzz about a News Corp. digital product since the heyday of MySpace, but we're sure that the people behind “The Daily”—a highly anticipated daily news publication designed for the iPad—are hoping for better long-term sustainability.

Discussion: Poynter, VentureBeat, paidContent:UK, The Loop, @jennydeluxe, @mflamm_reporter, @sdkstl, @colbyhall, @reckless and Engadget

Mark Milian / CNN:

A peek at The Daily's iPad news app — (CNN) — News Corporation owns several publications that are more than a century old. On Wednesday, the company will announce and then begin distributing its brand-new take on a news outfit built for the 21st century.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Poynter, @caro, Guardian, Fortune, @katierosman, @katierosman, @carr2n, @pkafka, @jyarow, @joshhalliday, @daily, Faster Forward, Yahoo! News, New York Magazine, App Advice, MacStories, TelecomTV, VentureBeat, The Wrap, NYConvergence.com, New York Observer and Poynter

Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:

All The Daily Details Leaked — Just minutes before the presentation, here are all the details of Murdoch's The Daily iPad newspaper, sent by Rupert himself. $40 a year will get you a subscription to 365 days of these contents: More »

Discussion: Mixed Media, 9 to 5 Mac and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »

Kit Eaton / Fast Company:

Apple and News Corps. “The Daily” Newspaper Hits The iPad, For $0.99 a Week or $40 a Year — The media world has been impatiently waiting for Apple's iPad daily newspaper, built as a collaboration between Steve Jobs' company and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for months.

Discussion: TechCrunch, PC World, eMedia Vitals and Fortune, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

The Daily Is Doomed! the Daily Is a Hit! — The Daily's formal debut is in a few hours, at which point we'll have no shortage of pro/con opinions about News Corp.'s new iPad newspaper. — But until then, here are the reasons the Daily won't work, followed by the reasons it will.

Discussion: Telegraph, Los Angeles Times, @clayman, Poynter and Garcia Media

@paidcontent: Murdoch confirms $30M investment, already written off. Will cost less than half-mil a week to run. Inexpensive for $NWS. #thedaily ~@sdkstl

Dan Duray / New York Observer:

The End of Blogging … “I don't really see a blog business,” said Nick Denton over gchat. He still wasn't sold on the idea of an interview regarding his sites' redesign, scheduled to debut tomorrow, and seemed to be attempting an escape. “I should find you that old post …

Discussion: Fimoculous, New York Magazine, Future of Journalism, Poynter, @sdkstl, @rachelsklar, NetNewsCheck Latest, @mathewi, @fredwilson, @anildash, @chanders, @editorialiste and @mathewi

Ben Popper / New York Observer:
Nick Denton on Gawker Redesign: Only Facebook Matters

Discussion: The Next Web, The Social, NetNewsCheck Latest, New York Observer, The Wire, Runnin' Scared, Jalopnik and Village Voice

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Exclusive: An Early Look At News.me, The New York Times' Answer To The Daily — Tomorrow, all eyes will be on the launch of News Corp's iPad newspaper The Daily, but huddled away in a downtown loft in New York City's meatpacking district a team from betaworks and the New York Times …

Discussion: Guardian, MediaMemo, eMedia Vitals, TUAW, NetNewsCheck Latest, Fortune, MacStories, IntoMobile, Electronista, 9 to 5 Mac and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

New York Times Staffers Using Apple iPhone 4 for Video News Gathering, “A Huge Game Changer” Says Paper's Video Chief — WASHINGTON, DC — The New York Times is providing reporters with the Apple iPhone 4 to record and upload videos via an Aspera App to the paper's server.

Discussion: WebNewser

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:

I Worked on the AOL Content Farm & It Changed My Life — Five years ago this week I began writing for AOL's blog network Weblogs Inc. I wrote 5 technology news stories each day and was paid a mere $5 per article. It was grueling, that was just one of 3 jobs I had at the time - and it was great.

Discussion: SAI, The Next Web, CNET News and Future of Journalism

Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
LEAKED: AOL's Master Plan

The Huffington Post:

Anderson Cooper Attacked By Pro-Mubarak Mob — Anderson Cooper and his crew were attacked by supporters of Hosni Mubarak in Cairo on Wednesday. CNN's Steve Brusk tweeted that Cooper was punched in the head ten times. — The incident came as pro-Mubarak supporters attacked protesters calling for the Egyptian president to step down.

Discussion: TVNewser, Gawker, The Wire, CNN, Yahoo! News, mediabistro.com, This Just In, Examiner, @latimesrainey, TPMMuckraker, newsfeed.time.com and On Media's Blog

Katie Couric / @katiecouric: Outside square Pro mubarak protestors very hostile...wouldn't let us shoot video, pushing etc another photog just got punched and maced

Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:

Comcast, Time Warner Expand TV Everywhere — It's been approximately 18 months since Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) first talked up TV Everywhere, but their authentication strategy has finally come to pass: a multi-year commitment to put hundreds of hours …

Discussion: Multichannel, Company Town and Future of Journalism

Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Two Hints at Stepped-Up Media Rivalry in Online Streaming

Discussion: Company Town, Ars Technica and Technologizer, more at Techmeme »

Dan Hodges:

Leaked Labour email: lay off Murdoch — Opposition leader attempts to turn down the heat on the phone-hacking scandal. — An email, forwarded on behalf of Ed Miliband's director of strategy, Tom Baldwin, to all shadow cabinet teams warns Labour spokespeople to avoid linking hacking with the BSkyB bid …

Discussion: Guardian and themediablog.typepad.com

Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:

Two authors' stories illustrate why some journalists profit online, and others fail — By Robert Niles: An e-mail and a tweet last week pointed me to two blog posts that expressed completely different ways that two writers have addressed the challenge of a changing media marketplace.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

“You are what you read”: NYT CTO Marc Frons on the paper's new article recommendation engine — The New York Times has been talking for a while about how it wants to create a more personalized, engagement-oriented user experience. And quietly, late last week, the paper took another step in that direction …

Discussion: Poynter and FishbowlNY

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Al Jazeera Finds New Paths In U.S. — New ways to watch Al Jazeera English in the United States keep popping up — but not on cable or satellite systems. — On Monday, YouTube started promoting a live stream of the channel, supplementing the channel's own Web stream.

Discussion: Multichannel, New York Magazine, B&C, ReadWriteWeb, BrauBlog, Poynter, Market Wire and LA Observed

Steve Safran / Lost Remote:
Al Jazeera now streaming on TV in U.S. via Roku

Discussion: SpringBoardMedia, NetNewsCheck Latest, War in Context and Al Jazeera Blogs

New York Times:

A Hacking Case Becomes a War of the Tabloids — LONDON — It was a classic tabloid scoop: a young woman's account of a two-year affair with the actor Ralph Fiennes, spiced up with racy details of what he liked to do and how he liked to do it. Three newspapers — The Sunday Mirror …

Discussion: Guardian

Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:

The Power Booker: Katie Thomson Is Piers Morgan's New Fixer — When The Observer met Katie Thomson at Landmarc restaurant in Columbus Circle, we wanted to congratulate her. We were beaten to it. — “Monica Lewinsky sent a note saying congratulations,” she said.

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Push Pop Press — My general policy is not to link to teaser sites, on the grounds that there's plenty of stuff that's actually shipping to write about and draw attention to. But, there are exceptions. — Push Pop Press is an exception. — Their teaser site, which opened today, offers this description:

Discussion: NetworkEffect and MacStories

Andrew Hampp / AdAge:

‘Angry Birds’ Flock to the Super Bowl — Secret Code for Popular Mobile Game to Be Embedded in 30-Second ‘Rio’ Spot — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The biggest craze in mobile games is coming to the biggest game on TV: 20th Century Fox is teaming up with Rovio's “Angry Birds” …

Discussion: Speakeasy, MacStories and App Advice

Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:

AOL Fourth-Quarter Profit Tops Analysts' Estimates — AOL Inc., the Internet company spun off from Time Warner Inc., posted fourth-quarter profit that exceeded analysts' estimates on reduced costs. — Net income climbed to $66.2 million, or 61 cents a share, from $1.4 million, or 1 cent …

Discussion: MediaMemo, Online Video News, Business Wire and Associated Press

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Interview: John Menzies Reboots Its Digital Publishing Business — John Menzies is returning to digital publishing by launching a consultancy agency to jump aboard booming publisher interest in digital editions. — In 2008, the UK newspaper and magazine distributor launched John Menzies Digital …

Bloomberg:

Apple Rejects Sony's E-Reader Software Amid Concerns About Sales Erosion — Apple Inc. rejected a proposed digital-book application by Sony Corp. amid concerns that the software's payment-handling system would erode Apple's sales. — Sony's e-reader application wasn't allowed …

Discussion: thebookseller.com/news …

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Time Warner Cable Buys Enterprise Hosting And Cloud Services Company NaviSite For $230M — Time Warner Cable has just announced that it has acquired NaviSite, a provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed application, messaging and cloud services, for $5.50 per share in cash, or $230 million.

Discussion: Multichannel, Business Wire and All Things Digital

Robinsloan / Twitter Media:

Tracking Egypt with Tweets on TV — If you've been following the news from Egypt on TV, chances are good you've seen some Tweets on air. If you haven't, here's a quick sampling of segments to give you a sense of how Twitter is being used to tell the story.