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12:40 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 …

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: AdAge, New York Observer, CNET News, Engadget and The Next Web

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: GigaOM

Nitasha Tiku / 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: MediaPost, On Media's Blog, FishbowlNY, Vanity Fair, ThinkProgress, The Daily Caller and Gawker

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Content Farming: Is Online Media Just a Digital Sweatshop? — The recent sale of Huffington Post to AOL for $315 million has focused a lot of attention on the economics of online media. Many seem concerned that the sale of Arianna Huffington's creation — along with other recent developments …

Discussion: BuzzMachine, The Huffington Post, Online Journalism Blog, paidContent, Poynter, Free Press, The Daily Dish and Stowe Boyd, Thanks:mathewi

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: New York Times and FiveThirtyEight, more at Techmeme »

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

First AOL Q1 Luge Update Since HuffPo Acquisition: We've Got Work To Do (No Kidding) — It's rare that we get access to insider information as AOL employees here at TechCrunch HQ, so we have to rely on our mad reporting skills and the strength of our inboxes in order to figure out the goings on over in Dulles and at 770 Broadway.

Discussion: SAI, Guardian and LA Observed

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

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

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: Depth Reporting, VentureBeat, Lost Remote, Mashable!, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Epicenter, eMedia Vitals, Reportr.net, MarketingVOX, ReadWriteWeb, SAI and Fast Company, more at Techmeme », Thanks:hpnews

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Eight trends for journalism in 2011: A Nieman Lab talk in Toronto — A couple weeks ago, I had the pleasure of being asked to speak at the Canadian Journalism Foundation's speaker series at the University of Toronto. (I also had the pleasure of being introduced by Nora Young, host of the CBC's excellent program/podcast/site Spark.)

Discussion: Media Nation

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

How the AP Vetted a Citizen Video of a Death in Cairo.....and the Arduous Task of Verifying UGC — WASHINGTON — During the unrest in Egypt, CNN iReporters uploaded 1600 videos and photos,of which 44 were vetted for use on CNN. — While there is value having citizen reporting out on the streets …

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, /Film and GigaOM

Josh Levin / Slate:

The TV Guide — Alan Sepinwall started writing about television in 1993, as a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania. He stank at it. In 2004, Sepinwall characterized his early work thusly: “Misspellings, bad grammar and, even worse, observations that make me cringe and wonder exactly when …

Discussion: Poynter and Tuned In

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

How ‘Morning Joe’ picks its music & uses it to capture the show's vibe, connect with audience — When you watch “Morning Joe,” you can't help but notice the music. Every commercial break is book-ended with tunes from a mix of bands — the Rolling Stones, Smashing Pumpkins, Rilo Kiley, The Grateful Dead and Arcade Fire, to name a few.

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

Patrick Smith / TheMediaBriefing:

Weasel words and journalism: It's either true or it isn't — The problems with the use of anonymous sources in the UK media - GrabMore — The CBS journalist Serene Branson has become world-famous, but not in the way she would have liked. — The twice-Emmy nominee was presenting from LA …

Discussion: Telegraph, CBS Los Angeles, The Wire, Dave Lee and Online Journalism Blog, Thanks:rorybrown

Wall Street Journal:

Online, Small Voices Become Sparks of Revolution — For most of the last century, the world operated on the big-man theory of politics: Towering personalities were required to drive big changes. — We now seem to have moved into the small-person era of history, in which seemingly insignificant people …