Mediagazer: Who is The Daily trying to reach? What problem is it trying to solve? (Joshua Benton/Nieman Journalism Lab)

1:45 AM ET, February 3, 2011

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Introducing The Daily — New York, NY, February 2, 2011 - Today Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of News Corporation, unveiled The Daily — the industry's first national daily news publication created from the ground up for iPad. “New times demand new journalism,” said Mr. Murdoch.

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Kit Eaton / Fast Company:

Apple and News Corp's “The Daily” Hits the iPad for $0.99 Weekly, $40 Yearly [Video] — 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.

Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:

News Corp.'s Daily makes its debut (live blog) — Editor's note: This live event has concluded. For a brief rundown of what was announced, check out this summary post. You can also review the transcript of the live blog below or replay it in the Cover It Live module at the end of the transcript.

Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:

All The Daily Details — This morning we got all the details on Murdoch's The Daily iPad newspaper, leaked by Rupert himself. Now, the app is ready for download. $40 will get you a subscription to 365 days of these contents: — • Over 100 pages of original news, life, entertainment …

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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Daily economics — I have not seen News Corp's Daily (I was invited to the preview last night but travel, exhaustion, health, weather, and thus prudence had me take the train home and I couldn't get in today because of the ice). So I have nothing at all to say about the product.

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The Daily:

Welcome to the newspaper of the 21st century — New times demand new journalism. Modern technology has given us more ways to tell stories than ever before — words, pictures, audio, video and interactive graphics. The Daily will deliver them all. — These amazing times also demand new ideas, and The Daily will deliver those too.

Discussion: The Wire, Canadian Magazines and tag me with a spoon

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Who is The Daily trying to reach? What problem is it trying to solve? — Technically, I'm on vacation in warmer climes this week, far away from the northeast's snowpocalypse du jour. More honestly, I was checking out the launch of The Daily like every other future-of-news nerd.

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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
So, wait: The Daily uses AP content?

Discussion: Mashable!, Yahoo! News, Washington Post, Allen Weiner and Slate

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Murdoch Hopes Apple Will Lower Its Share Of ‘The Daily’ Take

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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Fox News Interrupts News Coverage To Promote Launch Of ‘The Daily’

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Mark Milian / CNN:
A peek at The Daily's iPad news app

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Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis:
Daily will not be free on the web. Linked article can be seen for free; rest not.

Discussion: @mathewi

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

Jason Kilar / Hulu Blog:

Stewart, Colbert, and Hulu's thoughts about the future of TV — We are extremely happy to announce a broad content agreement between Viacom and Hulu that brings The Daily Show and The Colbert Report back to Hulu and now also to Hulu Plus, beginning this morning.

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Hollywood Reporter:
Hulu, Viacom Announce Content Partnership

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New York Post:

Now, the real work begins at Brown's NewsBeast — The NewsBeast is ALIVE! — But it has problems aplenty, not the least of which is surviving Tina Brown's star system — great if you're enjoying most-favored reporter status and hell if you are not. — The inevitable result is staff discord …

Discussion: New York Observer

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News: Newsweek veteran Marc Peyser leaves magazine over ‘fallout’ from Beast deal

Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:

Appeals Court: free Internet porn isn't unfair competition to pay sites — One day in March of 2009, the proprietors of Redtube.com were minding their own business, streaming free pornographic videos to the public, when they received notice of a lawsuit against them in the mail.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, MetaFilter and Technology & …

Ingrid Lunden / mocoNews:

Apple's In-App Rules: ‘Betrayed’ European Publishers Convene A Summit — Publishers in Europe are up in arms over Apple's decision to reject Sony's Reader app. They say Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has left them “confused” with their charging policies, and are now gearing up to meet in London later this month to plan what to do next.

Discussion: Alan Quatermain, TeleRead, Journalism.co.uk and Daring Fireball

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:

Tynt Could be the Biggest and Best Web Data Source You've Never Considered — Hundreds of thousands of websites are using a new service to track when readers copy and paste content from their sites into an email, blog post or elswhere. The service, called Tynt, isn't just making sure …

Discussion: VentureBeat

Choire Sicha / The Awl:

Big Newspaper Just Dying on the Internet — “The number one video on MiamiHerald.com last year got about 26,000 views and was a feature on how to handle frozen iguanas.”

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
How The Miami Herald cultivates loyal audience for video …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Irin Carmon / Jezebel:

Fox News Makes Its Fortune On Bikinis And Bros — Fox News is about more than just pseudo-populist resentment. It's also about boobs, and bro-tastic guys who chuckle like adolescents when confronted with them. Just look at this mashup culled from the past few months.

Wojciech Moskwa / Reuters:

WikiLeaks among nominees for Nobel Peace Prize — (Reuters) - Anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks has been nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian politician behind the proposal said on Wednesday, a day after the deadline for nominations expired.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Snorre Valen and @daveweigel

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Search begins for new head of NPR News — NPR has hired a search firm and named a search advisory group from various parts of NPR News to find Ellen Weiss's replacement. “I will make the final decision on a candidate, likely sometime later this spring,” NPR CEO Vivian Schiller writes in a memo that's posted below.

Discussion: Gawker

James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:

On the Media: Joe Frank gets personal — The radio dramatist explains where some of this darkness comes from (but won't get into particulars on why he left KCRW). — A giant hunk of matzo and egg hangs there on the end of the fork. But every time the man wielding the gooey helping brings …

Discussion: LA Observed and The Big Picture

Nat Ives / AdAge:

People.com Gets 1 Billion Page Views, a First for People and Likely for Magazines — Why Milestone Only Translates Into 14% of Ad Revenue — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — People magazine's website generated 1 billion page views in January, a first for the magazine and, it's likely, a first for all magazine websites.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Gannett Blog and Poynter

Paul Sonne / Wall Street Journal:

U.K. Begins E-Book Price Probe — The U.K. trade regulator said Tuesday it is investigating antitrust complaints related to digital-book pricing, a move that comes about six months after state authorities in the U.S. began similar probes. — The Office of Fair Trading said in a statement …

Discussion: Fast Company, The Next Web, Brave New World and Electronista

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.

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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

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

AOL Chases Eyeballs as Core Advertising Business Disintegrates — AOL has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars on acquisitions aimed at boosting its content businesses, including the recent purchase of the GoViral video network and the addition of TechCrunch to its technology-content unit …