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8:20 PM ET, March 22, 2011

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
NY Times Asks Twitter to Shut Down Paywall Dodgers  —  There are plenty of ways to tunnel under or through The New York Times's new online paywall, but if you're not careful about how you do it, the Times will shut you down.  —  That's what's about to happen to FreeNYTimes …
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Glynnis MacNicol / SAI:
Lincoln Is Offering “Smarter” Readers Free Access To NYT.Com For The Rest Of The Year  —  Reader and frequent contributor Matt Kroll writes to inform us he just received an email from the New York Times offering them free access to the site once the paywall goes up, courtesy of Lincoln.
Discussion: The Wire and @scottkarp
Bob Buch:
Stop Calling it Content  —  With the New York Times finally erecting its paywall last week, I thought it was relevant to write about the subject of content, and how we value it.  A good friend of mine is a film director and the closest person I know to a professional creative person.
Discussion: Fast Company and The Wire
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
The Leaky New York Times Paywall & How “Google Limits” Led To “Search Engine Limits”  —  How did we go from the New York Times seeming to single out visitors from Google with a “5 free visit per day” policy to supposedly all search engines being limited in such a way?
Discussion: The Buttry Diary
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
NYTimes Paywall Limit To Extend Beyond Google To “All Major Search Engines”
David Kaplan / paidContent:
WSJ Launching Single-Issue Downloads For iPad  —  Looking to get more subscribers for its iPad app, The Wall Street Journal will start selling single-issue digital versions of its morning paper for $1.99 in the within the existing free app.  In a conversation last week with Alisa Bowen …
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
AOL Folds 30 Brands, Including Politics Daily  —  First it was the people.  Now it's the brands.  AOL just notified staffers of a major consolidation of its portfolio of content sites, undertaken as part of its merger with the Huffington Post.  All told, some 30 brands will be “integrated” …
Adrian Holovaty / The EveryBlock Blog:
EveryBlock's first major redesign  —  We've just launched the first major redesign of EveryBlock.  —  Driven by the feedback we've been getting over the past year, we've not only changed the way the site looks, we've also changed the site's focus.  In short, we're shifting from being a news feed …
Discussion: Poynter
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Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
Hyperlocal News Source EveryBlock Relaunches As Community Site  —  EveryBlock, a hyperlocal news site acquired by msnbc.com in August 2009, unveiled a new version Monday designed to encourage conversation and collaboration among neighbors.  —  “We're shifting from a one-way newsfeed …
Tim Carmody / Nieman Journalism Lab:
In two years, Amazon moved from journalism savior to afterthought; is today the day the trend reverses?  —  In the brief moment between last week's unveiling of The New York Times's new smartphone- and tablet-centered subscription plans and today's launch of Amazon's Android Appstore …
Romaine Bostick / Bloomberg:
Women Hold Fewer Than a Third of Top News Media Jobs, Foundation Reports  —  Women represent less than one third of the main decision makers at news companies worldwide as gender inequality leaves top management and governance dominated by males, the International Women's Media Foundation said.
The Huffington Post:
Howard Stern Sues His Bosses  —  LOS ANGELES — Howard Stern and his agent are suing Sirius XM Radio Inc. for failing to pay stock awards they say are due for helping it exceed subscriber growth targets on its way to becoming the dominant satellite radio service in the country.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
T-Mobile's $412 Million Media Hole  —  Those “AT&T is a crappy network” ads will go away if regulators sign off on the carrier's $39 billion deal for T-Mobile.  And so will some $412 million a year in ad spending.  —  Or, perhaps $600 million.  Depends on which estimate you want to use for T-Mobile's annual marketing outlay.
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
The Guardian Hires A New Business Head In The U.S.  —  As part of an effort to reboot its U.S. strategy, Guardian News & Media is adding a new chief revenue officer based in New York.  Steve Howe, a former advertising executive at the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, joins this week and will lead the GNM's U.S. sales effort.
Discussion: Future of Journalism
David Lieberman / USA Today:
In a renaissance for radio, more listeners are tuning in  —  Radio stations are receiving a surprisingly strong signal from audiences and the financial markets this year, even as they face intensifying competition from satellite and Web-based audio services including Sirius XM Satellite Radio XM and Pandora.
Discussion: rbr.com
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen Sues ComScore in Fight Over Web Traffic Measurement (Exclusive)  —  The battle between firms keeping score of Internet traffic is heating up as The Nielsen Company has just filed a lawsuit against ComScore for violating five patents relating to the collection, analysis and reporting of information concerning computer activity.
Joe Mullin / paidContent:
Some More Bad News For Copyright-Enforcer Righthaven  —  Righthaven, a company that has garnered controversy by suing 250 different blogs and websites over newspaper copyrights, has lost its second case.  The company lost a lawsuit on Friday in a ruling that, if upheld on appeal …
 
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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
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Mark Walsh / MediaPost:
Report: CBS News Top-Performing Media Site, MSNBC Most Improved
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
In Ivory Coast, journalists pick sides or flee
Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
Jennifer 8. Lee, Matt Thompson join CPI Board
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
INM discovers the digital world...
Discussion: Media Week and The Irish Times
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Discussion: Speakeasy
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Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
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Discussion: New York Times
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Kadafi, Gaddafi, Qaddafi: In The Age Of Search, News Publications Still Struggle With Libya Leader's Name
Discussion: Editors Weblog
Robinsloan / Twitter Media:
The #TrumpRoast record  —  Last week, Comedy Central scored two records:
Discussion: MediaMemo and Splitsider
Los Angeles Times:
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Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy

Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November
 
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