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10:05 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 …
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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
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:
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 …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Updated: Apple's Subs Rules Could 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 …
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Foster Kamer / Esquire:
Lara Logan Assaulted in Egypt: Notes from the Night Before
Discussion: Media Decoder, 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:
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.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
72 Hours: Inside Arianna's Mission To Change AOL
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 and LA Observed
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.
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
1,900 copies: How a top-selling Kindle Single is generating new audiences for ProPublica  —  Listing the eight big trends journalism will see over the next year, Josh highlighted the increasing role that the singles model will play in the news.  He was talking about the disaggregation …
Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
Yahoo Explores Deals Offering for Newspaper Partners  —  Yahoo's partnerships with newspaper publishers - including one of its biggest scores, Gannett - are chugging along.  The company continues to consider new ways of working with its so-called consortium of local media partners.
Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:
Does W Have a Carine Roitfeld Problem? … When Stefano Tonchi named Alex Gonzalez creative director of W magazine, we were relieved that the expecting father and newlywed would be getting a helping hand.  But a line at the end of the announcement gave us pause: “In addition to his role …
Philip B. Corbett / Times Topics:
Phrases We Love Too Much  —  Notes from the newsroom on grammar, usage and style.  (Some frequently asked questions are here.)  —  Almost two years ago, my colleague Adam Bryant noted in After Deadline our fondness for the “he/she is not alone” device.  As Adam said, it's a popular …
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!
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: Brow Beat, Poynter and Tuned In
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.
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 …
 
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Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
A US judge finds NSO Group liable for exploiting a bug in WhatsApp to spy on 1,400 users and that WhatsApp is entitled to sanctions against NSO

Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI's GPT-5, codenamed Orion, is behind schedule and faces technical hurdles, including high computing costs and limited high-quality training data
 
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