Mediagazer: Apple Launches Subscriptions For Content-Publishers On The App Store (Leena Rao/TechCrunch)

6:25 PM ET, February 15, 2011

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Trudy Muller / Apple:

Apple Launches Subscriptions on the App Store — Apple® today announced a new subscription service available to all publishers of content-based apps on the App Store℠, including magazines, newspapers, video, music, etc. This is the same innovative digital subscription billing service …

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Popular Science Accepts Apple's Terms, Starts Selling iPad Subscriptions — Apple Asks In-app Subscribers: ‘Share Your Information?’ — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Popular Science has become apparently the first magazine to accept the iPad subscription plan that Apple detailed this morning.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and MacStories

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Apple Launches Subscriptions For Content-Publishers On The App Store — As we heard at the Daily's launch a few weeks ago, Apple was planning to launch a new subscriptions model for content-publishers on the App Store. And today, Apple is officially announcing the new service for magazines …

Discussion: MediaMemo, MediaPost, NetNewsCheck Latest, CNET News, New York Observer, AdAge and Noted

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

What Apple's new subscription policy means for news: new rules, new incentives, new complaints — Apple has announced its long-awaited subscription policy for newspapers, magazines, and other outlets who want to sell content for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The high points:

Discussion: SAI, GigaOM, Computerworld and Faster Forward, more at Techmeme »

Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Apple's Subs Rules Would Suck $1 Million From Financial Times

Discussion: Future of Journalism

CBS News:

CBS News' Lara Logan Assaulted During Egypt Protests — CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent Separated From Her Crew And Brutally Assaulted on Day Mubarak Stepped Down — On Friday February 11, the day Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS correspondent Lara Logan was covering …

Foster Kamer / Esquire:

Lara Logan Assaulted in Egypt: Notes from the Night Before — CBS released this photo of Logan “moments before she was assaulted.” In her final public comments before the incident, she told Esquire.com that “I haven't had a chance to even address” traveling without private security.

Discussion: Mediaite and Yahoo! News

Adam Pasick / New York Magazine:

Daily Editor Rallies the Troops — Jesse Angelo, editor-in-chief of Rupert Murdoch's iPad-only tabloid, The Daily, sent out a memo to his editorial team this week, urging them to go beyond “scraping the web and the wires” and do some actual reporting: … The memo continues:

Discussion: CJR, Vanity Fair, Runnin' Scared, FishbowlNY, The Daily Caller, ThinkProgress, MediaPost, On Media's Blog and Gawker

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

It's not all about content and work — In his column complaining about Huffington Post and the new economics of content competition, I think David Carr makes two understandable but fundamentally fallacious assumptions about news and media: that the value in journalism is in content and that making content must be work.

Discussion: NPR, MediaPost, Burst Media Company Blog, Online Journalism Blog, Techdirt and The Huffington Post

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

72 Hours: Inside Arianna's Mission To Change AOL — Late Monday afternoon, Arianna Huffington tweeted a picture from AOL (NYSE: AOL) headquarters with the note “Valentine's Day transition meeting with ice cream sundaes afterward.” She's already sent one from the AOL gym.

Discussion: MediaPost, L.A. Times Tech Blog and NYConvergence.com

Ryan Chittum / CJR:
AOL's HuffPo Premium Doesn't Mean Much For the NYT

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
First AOL Q1 Luge Update Since HuffPo Acquisition: We've Got Work To Do (No Kidding)

Discussion: SAI, LA Observed, Guardian and The Daily Beast

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Content Farming: Is Online Media Just a Digital Sweatshop?

Discussion: Guardian, Metamedia, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, NetNewsCheck Latest, Poynter, paidContent, The Daily Dish and FiveThirtyEight, Thanks:mathewi

Zombie Journalism:

First try at using Xtranormal for news at TBD — In a wjchat a few weeks ago, we were brainstorming ways to use non-traditional new media tools for news. One of those tools was Xtranormal, an animation site that allows you to make cartoon videos with no offsite tools or experience.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab and TBD All News

Nat Worden / Wall Street Journal:

Web-Video Viewing Jumps — Internet-video viewing data for January show Netflix Inc. building substantial momentum with its paid streaming video service, which has become a disruptive force in the TV and film industry as consumers migrate online. — Netflix was No. 1 by a wide margin …

Discussion: Venture Capital Dispatch, Online Video News and Shelly Palmer Digital Living

ETHAN BAULEY / Data Central:

HP research shows mainstream media drive Twitter ‘trends’ to a surprising degree — Who gets to determine the big topics of conversation on social media? And how do they do it? Looking to find out, HP researchers recently examined how popular subjects get to be listed among the top ‘trending’ topics on Twitter.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Lost Remote, Mashable!, Depth Reporting, eMedia Vitals, Epicenter, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Noted, MarketingVOX, Reportr.net, AOL News, SAI, ReadWriteWeb and Fast Company, Thanks:hpnews

Kunur Patel / AdAge:

WPP to Roll Up Digital Agencies Into New Unit — Schematic, Bridge and Others Combine to Create Top 20 Digital Network — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — WPP will roll up multiple digital agencies into a new agency with a yet-to-be-released name, according to multiple people familiar with the plans.

Discussion: AdScam/The Horror!

Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:

Michael Wolff Vs. Elizabeth Spiers: The Anatomy Of A Media Feud — From the “What New York Media Types are Fighting About This Week” file comes a(n ongoing) feud between Rupert Murdoch biographer and Vanity Fair columnist Michael Wolff and Elizabeth Spiers, Gawker founding editor and current editor in chief of The New York Observer.

Discussion: The Wire, New York Magazine, Michael Gross and New York Observer

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Hulu Plus Gets an Art House Upgrade With Criterion Collection — Hulu's primary appeal is for people who want to watch TV shows on the Web, but the joint video venture does offer a selection of movies, too. Now that selection just got a bit bigger, and more appealing to cinephiles …

Discussion: Hulu Blog, The Criterion Current, Brow Beat, The Consumerist and GigaOM