Mediagazer: NY Times Asks Twitter to Shut Down Paywall Dodgers (Jeff Bercovici/Mixed Media)

11:20 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 …

Discussion: The Understatement, Media & Entertainment, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Mashable!, FishbowlNY, @dannysullivan, @freenyt, @dandotlewis, @doctorow, SAI, @jeffbercovici, Techdirt, Poynter, Future of Journalism, The Awl, broadstuff and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »

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, @scottkarp and Betabeat

Bob Buch:
Stop Calling it Content

Discussion: Fast Company, The Wire and MediaNama

New York Times:

4 Times Journalists Held Captive in Libya Faced Days of Brutality — As the four of us headed toward the eastern gate of Ajdabiya, the front line of a desperate rebel stand against the advancing forces of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, a car pulled up alongside. — “They're in the city!” the driver shouted at us.

Discussion: Poynter

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 …

Discussion: MacStories, Talking Biz News, BusinessJournalism.org … and FishbowlNY

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” …

Discussion: BoomTown, Mediaite, Yahoo! News, FishbowlNY, @nick, Pulse2 and The Wrap, more at Techmeme »

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

Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
Hyperlocal News Source EveryBlock Relaunches As Community Site

Discussion: Editors Weblog and Lost Remote

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.

Discussion: Digital Daily, paidContent, TMZ.com, Mixed Media, Runnin' Scared, Pulse2 and The Wire

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, SAI, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Microsoft, Folio, Marketing Pilgrim, MediaPost and TeleRead, more at Techmeme »

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

Samantha Critchell / Associated Press:

WSJ. profile: The power of Anna Wintour — NEW YORK - In fashion circles and beyond — in the worlds of business, politics and entertainment — she's just Anna, a worthy peer to Oprah and Martha. — And even though Anna Wintour's name might not be as instantly recognizable as Oprah Winfrey's …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

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.

Discussion: IWMF, mediabistro.com, The Wrap, Poynter, FishbowlNY and On Media's Blog

Noah Davis / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

Gary Vaynerchuk Joins The Daily — Gary Vaynerchuk — prolific tweeter, self-promoter, and wine connoisseur — will call the House That Rupe Built home. — He joins The Daily as a video host, contributing a weekly feature called “The Next Wave.” — The segment will cover the world …

Discussion: The Next Web and Betabeat

John Eggerton / Multichannel:

Libya Supplants Japan Atop News Coverage: PEJ — No-Fly Zone Announcement Swings Pendulum Back Toward Middle East — News organizations continued their two-front coverage last week of the crisis in the Middle East and the crisis in Japan, with the pendulum swinging back toward the former …

Discussion: Mediaite

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.

Discussion: Techland, Online Video News and paidContent, more at Techmeme »

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.

Discussion: Deal Journal, Media Decoder and Betabeat