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4:30 PM ET, February 17, 2011

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ABCNEWS:
Bahrain Protests: At Least 2 Dead in Crackdown; ABC's Miguel Marquez Roughed Up  —  “There was a canister that looked like — No!  No!  No!  Hey!  I'm a journalist here!” he yelled.  —  “I'm going!  I'm going!  I'm going!  I'm going!,” he said.  “I'm hit. ”
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Taimur Khan / GQ:
How I Survived an Attack in Cairo
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Dueling Paywalls: Brill & Crovitz's Journalism Online vs. Google's One Pass  —  One company set to face new competition now that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is rolling out its paid content system is Journalism Online, which to date has helped roughly 24 publications, predominately smaller-circulation newspapers …
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
With Google's One Pass, Two More Newspaper Chains Join The Paywall Brigade  —  Included in the announcement of Google's long-expected One Pass paid content system for publishers is news that two more U.S. newspaper chains are planning to put up online paywalls at some of their newspaper sites this year …
Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Wired will add iPad subscriptions ‘as soon as we can’  —  It's been three days since Apple debuted its digital-subscriptions iPad app for periodical publishers.  And in that time, handful of iPad-equipped magazines have signed up for it, even though Apple's agreement involves several major concessions …
Discussion: @pkafka and Poynter
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Next New Networks SEC Filing Pretty Much Confirms YouTube Buyout  —  While Google's YouTube is reportedly in talks to buy Web content producer Next New Networks, the New York-based startup has just filed with the SEC in relation to $19.4 million in equity financing.
Discussion: paidContent and NYConvergence.com
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google And Facebook Continue To Lead Referral Traffic For Videos On Media Sites  —  In the third quarter of 2010, BrightCove and Tube Mogul's Online Video & The Media Industry report showed that Facebook passed Yahoo to become the No. 2 source of traffic to online videos at media sites.
Discussion: MediaPost
New York Times:
Borders' Bankruptcy Shakes Industry  —  After Borders, the 40-year-old retail chain that helped define the age of the book superstore, filed for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday, the struggling book industry was left wondering what was next — and maybe even who was next.
Rem Rieder / American Journalism Review:
Reporting to Conclusions  —  Journalists shouldn't shrink from making judgments about factual disputes.  Posted: Wed, Feb. 16, 2011  —  Rem Rieder (rrieder@ajr.umd.edu) is AJR's editor and senior vice president.  —  When Larry Platt took over as editor of the Philadelphia Daily News on January 31 …
Discussion: @romenesko
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch Europe:
Tweetminster prepares to move beyond politics - relaunches as a ‘News Platform’  —  Tweetminster, which we've been describing as a UK politics tracker powered by Twitter, has undergone another revamp today with the launch of the Tweetminster News Platform, which will replace the current version of the site.
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Hugh Hefner Is No Longer on Top at Playboy  —  Hugh Hefner may not be the big dog at Playboy anymore, but he still enjoys certain perks.  Image via Wikipedia  —  Last month, Playboy Enterprises announced that “a limited partnership controlled by Hugh M. Hefner” had made a $207 million deal …
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Wall Street is Bullish on (Its) Online Video Programming and Thomson Reuters is Delivering a Global Audience  —  WASHINGTON - Many top financial institutions are producing original video programming in-house, from 90-second equity analyst reports to market analysis and extended discussions.
Discussion: WebNewser
TAC ANDERSON / New Comm Biz:
Is Any Media Not Tech?  —  Today's post comes from the no-duh department.  Techmeme has been a tech staple for many, many years.  For many of us it's one of our firsts stops of the day.  Late last year the Techmeme network launched Mediagazer, which is the Techmeme of the media industry.
Matthew Belloni / Hollywood Reporter:
MPAA's Top Lawyer Leaving to Join Viacom (Exclusive) … Daniel Mandil, the MPAA's top antipiracy executive and a key player in its efforts to fight global movie theft and counterfeiting, is leaving the organization for a big job at Viacom, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.
Discussion: paidContent and Film News Briefs
NPR:
Google Digitizes Back Issues of ‘Spy’ Magazine … Spy magazine, the defunct satirical publication that launched a thousand magazine careers and dodged a thousand lawsuits, is now available digitally — thanks to Google.  —  digital life  —  The defunct satirical publication is now available digitally — thanks to Google.
Discussion: Runnin' Scared and @wired
Bill Mitchell / Poynter:
Thumbs up for Roger Ebert's new revenue model on Twitter  —  Six weeks into what some have billed “the year of paid content,” the most interesting ideas I've seen so far have less to do with corporate policy than they do with personal enterprise.  —  My colleague, Mallary Tenore …
Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu
Craig Morgan Teicher / PWxyz:
McSweeney's Launches ‘The Goods,’ A Newspaper Comics Page  —  In its ongoing effort to keep print journalism alive and breathing, McSweeney's has launched ‘The Goods,’ a standalone newspaper comics and activities page it is hoping newspapers will carry.  McSweeney's is partnering …
Lewis DVorkin / The Copy Box:
The Pains of Rebuilding  —  Search Engine Roundtable and TechCrunch posted yesterday about Forbes receiving a notification from Google related to “possibly artificial or unnatural links...pointing to other sites.”  This practice is commonly known as selling links and allows the purchaser …
Thanks:andreaitis
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Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
NYT says it's seeking ‘a modern contract’ with the guild  —  Romenesko Misc.  —  Shortly after the Newspaper Guild of New York's contract talks release was posted here, the Times sent statement saying that it's “seeking a modern contract with the Guild that addresses the new realities …
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Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Newspaper Guild of NY ready to launch $1 million campaign against NY Times
Discussion: Runnin' Scared
 
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TABLOID TAKEDOWN  —  In the chilly afternoon of December 3 …
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
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