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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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The Understatement, The Paley Center for Media, Newspaper Death Watch, Media News, Mashable!, Editors Weblog, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Media & Entertainment, @freenyt, @dandotlewis, @doctorow, @jeffbercovici, Future of Journalism, @dannysullivan, Poynter, FishbowlNY, Techdirt, SAI, The Awl and Associated Press, more at Techmeme »
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Reuters:
How the NYT paywall could turn out to be a success — There's one aspect of the NYT paywall which hasn't got as much attention as it deserves — and that's the idea that the NYT will be able to charge higher CPMs for ads behind the paywall than it currently gets for ads on a free site.
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The Daily Dish
Glynnis MacNicol / SAI:
Lincoln Is Offering “Smarter” Readers Free Access To NYT.Com For The Rest Of The Year
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The Wire and @scottkarp
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.
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The Wire, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, Poynter, Guardian and The Daily Dish
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Glenn Beck Contemplates Starting Own Channel — The possibility that Glenn Beck will exit the Fox News Channel at the end of the year has prompted a big question in media circles: if he leaves, how will he bring his considerable audience with him? — Two of the options Mr. Beck has contemplated …
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New York Observer, On Media's Blog, ThinkProgress, Poynter, Inside Cable News and DailyFinance
Washington Post:
In Ishinomaki, news comes old-fashioned way: Via paper — Gallery: Massive rescue, cleanup efforts underway in Japan: After the earthquake and tsunami, entire towns in Japan are impossible to reach. But search-and-rescue teams are fanning out in what will be a lengthy, complex endeavor.
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On Media's Blog, Editors Weblog and magCulture.com/blog
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
New ranking combines print-digital reach of metro papers, reveals surprising winners — Which American newspaper reaches the most readers in its market if print and online audiences are combined? — That seems a fundamental question in an era of hybrid print/digital business models.
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LA Observed and The News About The News
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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MacStories, FishbowlNY, Talking Biz News and BusinessJournalism.org …, more at Techmeme »
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Amazon and book publishers' stupid attempts to curtail e-book lending. — As convenient as they are, I've long worried about the many ways in which e-book purveyors restrict readers' rights. You can't resell the books you purchase for the Amazon Kindle, and you can't read them on most other e-readers.
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GigaOM, The Next Web, paidContent and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
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Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:
Ad Spending Could Change With AT&T Deal — The advertising implications for the acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T will take some time to unfold. — Advertising for T-Mobile is created by the Seattle office of Publicis Worldwide, an agency that is owned by the Publicis Groupe of France.
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VentureBeat, rbr.com and paidContent
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Mark Memmott / NPR:
Remembering Mo Nabbous, ‘The Face Of Libyan Citizen Journalism’ — A reporter who lost his life trying to tell the world about what Moammar Gadhafi's forces were doing to the people of Libya is remembered today on All Things Considered. — NPR's Andy Carvin talks about Mohammed Nabbous …
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Libya February 17th
David Kaplan / paidContent:
NBCU Refines Integrated Media Division With Promotions — NBC Universal (NSDQ: CMCSA), settling into life with Comcast, is continuing to refine the structure of its Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media division with a flurry of executive promotions and new additions.
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MediaPost
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Businessweek Finally Becoming a Real Part of Bloomberg — Reorganization brings magazine closer to parent company's bosom — A little more than a year since Bloomberg LP bought the money-losing Businessweek, the newsweekly is finally integrating with the rest of its parent company.
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eMedia Vitals, Folio and BusinessJournalism.org …
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 …
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Gawker, Mediaite, New York Times and People-Press.org
Zeke Turner / WWD Media Headlines:
Jane Pratt Plots Her Comeback — Tavi Gevinson just finished a plate of spaghetti with her parents at home in the leafy Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Ill., on Monday night when the 14-year-old blogger got on the phone to talk about the Web site and magazine she's launching with Jane Pratt.
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FishbowlNY
Peter Duhon / New York Observer:
A Talk With Vanity Fair's Larry Fink, Snapper of Drunken Starlets — What are the ethics, if there are any, of photographing a dead-drunk starlet? Try running that question by Larry Fink. A successful photographer of boxers, jazz musicians and the 1970s Studio 54 scene …
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