Mediagazer: Sally Singer Talks T (John Koblin/WWD Media Headlines)

11:45 AM ET, February 16, 2011

Top News:

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.

John Gapper / John Gapper's blog:
Apple's battle for control with Amazon

Discussion: Editors Weblog, Ars Technica, NAA Community, blogs.telegraph.co.uk and thebookseller.com/news …

Antony Bruno / Billboard.Biz:
Apple's New Subscription Rules Could Kill Streaming Music Services

Discussion: Company Town, SAI, hypebot, Newsonomics and Mashable!, more at Techmeme »

Nat Ives / AdAge:
Popular Science Accepts Apple's Terms, Starts Selling iPad Subscriptions

Discussion: MediaMemo, eMedia Vitals, Popular Science, Nieman Journalism Lab, MacStories and FishbowlNY

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

Discussion: paidContent:UK

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 …

Suzi Parker / Politics Daily:
Lara Logan Assault: For Female Reporters, the Added Peril of Turbulent Places

Discussion: The Huffington Post, TVNewser and Mediaite

Foster Kamer / Esquire:
Lara Logan Assaulted in Egypt: Notes from the Night Before

Discussion: TV Squad, Media Decoder, Mediaite and Yahoo! News

The Official Google Blog:

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.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, mocoNews, Nieman Journalism Lab, paidContent:UK, Fortune, Fast Company, SAI, Download Squad, GigaOM, @zseward, The Next Web and Search Engine Land, more at Techmeme »

Leena Rao / TechCrunch: Powered By Google Checkout, One Pass Is A Payment System For Content Publishers

Dan Duray / New York Observer:

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.

NPR:
Is Writing Online Without Pay Worth It?

Discussion: Metamedia, MediaPost, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard and Burst Media Company Blog

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
It's not all about content and work

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Public Knowledge, The Huffington Post and Techdirt

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

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.

Discussion: Beet.TV, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, AdAge, CNET News, paidContent and ClickZ, more at Techmeme »

Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:

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 …

Discussion: AdPulp

Kunur Patel / AdAge: WPP to Roll Up Digital Agencies Into New Unit

James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:

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 …

Discussion: Reuters and Poynter

Andrew Adam Newman / New York Times:

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 …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and eMedia Vitals

Joe Mullin / paidContent:

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.

Scott Libin / Poynter:

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 …

John Koblin / WWD Media Headlines:

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 …

Discussion: Poynter and The Awl

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

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 …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, @jayrosen_nyu and WebNewser

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: Guardian, Editors Weblog, CJR, Runnin' Scared, WHAT'S NEXT, The Atlantic Wire, Pocket-lint, Vanity Fair, ThinkProgress, FishbowlNY, The Daily Caller, MediaPost, Gawker and On Media's Blog

Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:

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.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Andrea Morabito / Broadcasting & Cable:

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.

Discussion: Multichannel

Jeff Bliss / Bloomberg:

Texas Attorney General Seeks Google Ad Rate Formula — Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott's office has requested an array of information from Google Inc., including the firm's formula for setting advertising rates, according to a demand for documents by state antitrust officials.

Discussion: Bits, Fortune, Digital Daily and CNET News, more at Techmeme »