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Apple's Subscription Rules Raise Possible Antitrust Issues — Apple Inc.'s new subscription service could draw antitrust scrutiny, according to law professors. — Apple will allow magazines, newspapers and other publishers to sell subscriptions of varying lengths to users of Apple's popular iPad, iTouch and iPhone products.
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Apple's New Subscription Rules Could Kill Streaming Music Services
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Popular Science Accepts Apple's Terms, Starts Selling iPad Subscriptions
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MediaMemo, eMedia Vitals, Popular Science, Nieman Journalism Lab, FishbowlNY and MacStories

Updated: Apple's Subs Rules Could Suck $1 Million From Financial Times
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paidContent and Media & Entertainment

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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Lara Logan Assault: For Female Reporters, the Added Peril of Turbulent Places
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Lara Logan Assaulted in Egypt: Notes from the Night Before
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Media Decoder, Mediaite, Yahoo! News and PopEater

A simple way for publishers to manage access to digital content — (Cross-posted on the Google News Blog) — At Humboldt University in Berlin today, Eric Schmidt announced Google One Pass, a service that lets publishers set their own prices and terms for their digital content.
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ReadWriteWeb, @zseward, The Next Web, SAI and Search Engine Land, more at Techmeme »
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From Mudslinger to Maverick! The Transformation of Kenneth Lerer — Just trust me. It's Kenneth Lerer's favorite line, and the 58-year-old general partner at Lerer Ventures and co-founder of the Huffington Post—"Kenny," as he's known to friends—employs it convincingly.
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Is Writing Online Without Pay Worth It?
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Metamedia, MediaPost, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard and Burst Media Company Blog

It's not all about content and work
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The Atlantic Online, The Huffington Post, Public Knowledge and Techdirt


Exclusive: Facebook Grabs Microsoft Global Ad Head Carolyn Everson — Apparently, it's not only in Google's pond where Facebook fishes for talent-the social networking giant has recruited Microsoft's global advertising head Carolyn Everson as one of its top sales execs.
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WPP to Unveil Interactive Ad Network — Advertising giant WPP PLC is preparing to unveil a new interactive ad agency network called Possible Worldwide, part of a broader push to reposition its business to tap global growth in digital ad dollars. — The network will stitch together four digital ad agencies …
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On the Media: Is a not-for-profit news website in the cards for L.A.? — Venture capitalist and former Times Mirror executive Tom Unterman is ‘very hopeful’ about launching the venture. First hurdle: $10 million. — I've been wondering for a couple of years whether someone would bring Los Angeles …

Competing for the Cover of the Rolling Stone — AS Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show famously sang in 1973, getting “your picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone” signaled that a band had officially arrived. But for the first time in its 44-year history, Rolling Stone editors are ceding …
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FishbowlNY and eMedia Vitals


Have Media Companies Destroyed Their Copyrights With The ‘Share’ Button? — Righthaven has become controversial by taking a sue-first-ask-questions-later approach to copyright enforcement on behalf of its newspaper clients, which include MediaNews Group as well as the smaller chain that owns the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Freedom Communications releases social media policy to staff — Romenesko Misc. — The Orange County Register parent says it “encourages its associates to participate in these [social] media as a means of generating interest in the Company's products and services and creating business opportunities …
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WJLA General Manager Bill Lord on future of TBD.com: ‘We need to be more cost conscious, and we need more page views’ — In retrospect, maybe choosing the name TBD was prophetic. — Six months after its birth, the fate of the Washington, D.C., metro news site now appears to be determined …


Premium VOD Is Doomed If This Piracy Study Is Correct — A new PricewaterhouseCoopers study casts serious doubt on consumer willingness to pay for movies on digital platforms. Warning: Film-industy executives interested in reading further may want to first increase dosage of any anti-depressants they might be taking.
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Future of Journalism

Panelists Tout Addressable Ads As Industry's ‘Holy Grail’ — But with implementation years off, 2011 will be the year of interactivity — New York — While the “holy grail” of advertising, addressable television, may be years off from becoming mainstream, it seems 2011 is going to be the year of the interactive ad.
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Multichannel


The O'Donnell Factor: A Hill Hack Goes Prime-Time Wacko — Last week, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell devoted an unseemly share of his airtime to blasting Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly for his “relentless barrage of interruptions” of Barack Obama during Mr. O'Reilly's pre-Super Bowl interview with the president.
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Sally Singer Talks T — NEW YORK — “There's just really, really amazing text,” said Sally Singer. “Amazing text.” — Last Thursday at 7:30 p.m., the editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine was sitting at the bar of El Quijote, a Spanish restaurant in her home at the Chelsea Hotel …
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