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10:05 PM ET, February 17, 2011

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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Newsonomics of Apple/Press+/Google's pay-for-all  —  Editor's Note: Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab.  —  We could call this week a paid content free-for-all, but that's self-contradictory.
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Dueling Paywalls: Brill & Crovitz's Journalism Online vs. Google's One Pass
Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
Time Inc. Chief Executive Jack Griffin Out  —  Time Inc.'s chief executive, Jack Griffin, is leaving the company after less than six months on the job — forced out because of what one Time Inc. executive said was a widespread realization that his management style was not a good fit for the company.
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Keith J. Kelly / @media_ink:   Time Inc. CEO Jack Griffin fired after only five months on the job. Stunning development
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
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:   Is It Possible to Make Dangerous Reporting Safe?
Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
Tech firms help news sites with Mobile World Congress expenses  —  Romenesko Misc.  —  ReadWriteMobile discloses that “the author's travel, hotel and conferences expenses were paid for by Qualcomm.  They did not request this coverage, it's just interesting.”
Discussion: Upside Potential and ReadWriteWeb
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How public is public data?  With Public Engines v. ReportSee, new access standards could emerge  —  A recently settled federal court case out in Utah may affect the way news organizations and citizens get access to crime data.  —  Public Engines, a company that publishes crime statistics …
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
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: MediaPost and @pkafka
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
Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:
Vogue Uses Lady Gaga to Hatch its iPad Egg  —  Vogue launched its first iPad application on Thursday.  —  The app, called “Vogue Cover Exclusive,” is just that: extra content featuring the cover subject — videos, interviews, audio, etc. — not found in the magazine or online.
Marauder / Daily Marauder:
THE FUTURE OF NEWS: FLIPBOARD VS. THE DAILY  —  Taking a stance on Flipboard vs. The Daily, two iPad applications which supply news content to their audiences, highlights the friction between old media and new and distinguishes the ways two companies are bringing information to users.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Stephen Colbert Rips Rupert Murdoch, Rips Off Arianna Huffington  —  If you like metamedia criticism and Web media, then last night's “Colbert Report” was for you.  At least twice!  —  Colbert started out with an entire segment on the Daily, Rupert Murdoch's new iPad newspaper.
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.
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
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: @wired and Runnin' Scared
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.
The Raw Story:
Talking Points Memo editor moves to Raw Story  —  Megan Carpentier to lead Raw Story, Raw Replay  —  Raw Story is pleased to announce that Megan Carpentier, an editor with Talking Points Memo and the former politics and news director at Air America Radio, has been selected as the company's new executive editor.
 
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Discussion: Guardian
TAC ANDERSON / New Comm Biz:
Is Any Media Not Tech?  —  Today's post comes from the no-duh department.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google And Facebook Continue To Lead Referral Traffic For Videos On Media Sites
Discussion: MediaPost
Lewis DVorkin / The Copy Box:
The Pains of Rebuilding  —  Search Engine Roundtable …
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Matthew Belloni / Hollywood Reporter:
MPAA's Top Lawyer Leaving to Join Viacom (Exclusive)
Discussion: paidContent and Film News Briefs
Peter Lauria / The Daily Beast:
Mark Cuban Shoots Straight
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Wall Street is Bullish on (Its) Online Video Programming and Thomson Reuters is Delivering a Global Audience
Discussion: WebNewser
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Media Industry's Biggest Fear: How Do We Know Next Year Apple Won't Be Taking 50%?
Discussion: parislemon and Poynter
Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:
Arianna Online: AOL could use some of Huffington's cachet
Discussion: Editors Weblog and Poynter
Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
NYT says it's seeking ‘a modern contract’ with the guild