Mediagazer: Court Rejects Google's Book Settlement With Publishers (Nicholas Carlson/The Business Insider)

3:35 PM ET, March 22, 2011

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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 …

Discussion: Lost Remote, Editors Weblog, Poynter. and 10,000 Words

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

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

NYTimes Paywall Limit To Extend Beyond Google To “All Major Search Engines” — more info (via: Wylio)When the details of the New York Times paywall/fence were announced on Thursday, Times PR representatives told press that it would be placing a five article a day limit on Google referrals, and only Google referrals.

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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?

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
That was quick: Four lines of code is all it takes for The New York Times' paywall to come tumbling down

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David Kaplan / paidContent:

WSJ Launching Single-Issue Downloads For iPad — Looking to get more subscribers for its iPad app, The Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) will start selling single-issue digital versions of its morning paper for $1.99 in the iTunes App store tomorrow. In a conversation with paidContent …

Discussion: Talking Biz News and BusinessJournalism.org …

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” …

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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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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.

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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: The Wire and Fast Company

New York Times:

A Dangerous Pursuit — In a world where most people consume their news safely, perhaps in a comfortable chair on some electronic device, it is worth remembering how dangerous news-gathering has become. Monday's release of four New York Times staff members in Libya was a powerful reminder …

Discussion: Yahoo! News and Guardian

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Freed Times Journalists Give Account of Captivity

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Kadafi, Gaddafi, Qaddafi: In The Age Of Search, News Publications Still Struggle With Libya Leader's Name — A decades-old dispute involving Libya remains unresolved. How do news organizations spell the name of Libya's leader, Muammar Gaddafi? The exact spelling has a bigger impact these days, where people search for news.

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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 …

Discussion: Bits, Microsoft, GigaOM and TeleRead, more at Techmeme »

Mark Walsh / MediaPost:

Report: CBS News Top-Performing Media Site, MSNBC Most Improved — CBS News was named the top media Web site in 2010, followed by Yahoo News and The New York Times, according to an annual report rating sites based on actual Web performance rather than content....

Discussion: Noted

Nicholas Carlson / The Business Insider:

Court Rejects Google's Book Settlement With Publishers — A US District Court in New York just rejected Google's book settlement with publishers. — In a summary, Judge Denny Chin writes “many of the concerns raised in the objections would be ameliorated if the ASA were converted from an opt-out to an opt-in settlement.”

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.

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Committee to Protect Journalists:

In Ivory Coast, journalists pick sides or flee — Reporting on the power struggle in Ivory Coast is increasingly perilous, with journalists facing a climate of threats, intimidation, and attacks that has forced many to choose between adopting partisan coverage or fleeing to safety.

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Jennifer 8. Lee, Matt Thompson join CPI Board — Romenesko Misc. — Former New York Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee “thinks and works at the cutting edge of our digital 21st century journalism,” says Center for Public Integrity executive director William E. Buzenberg.