Mediagazer: T-Mobile's $412 Million Media Hole (Peter Kafka/MediaMemo)

6:45 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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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.

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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.

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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?

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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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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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.

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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 …

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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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Kunur Patel / AdAge:
Why Media Companies Will Feel the Pinch if AT&T and T-Mobile Seal the Deal

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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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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.