Mediagazer: How live blogging has transformed journalism (Matt Wells/Guardian)

5:30 PM ET, March 28, 2011

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Steve Myers / Poynter:

Nisenholtz: Paywall part of New York Times strategy to ‘manage the link economy’ — The New York Times plans to implement its much-anticipated, much-debated paywall Monday at 2 p.m. ET. — Hours before, Martin Nisenholtz, the Times' senior vice president for digital operations …

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Philg / Philip Greenspun's Weblog:

How did the New York Times manage to spend $40 million on its pay wall? — Aside from wondering who will pay more than the cost of a Wall Street Journal subscription in order to subscribe to the New York Times, my biggest question right now is how the NY Times spent a reported $40-50 million writing the code …

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Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

New York Times announces $1 trial for new subscription service — The New York Times, which is due to begin charging for online content later today, is offering a heavily discounted subscription rate of $0.99 on all of digital packages for the first four weeks.

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New York Times:
A Letter to Our Readers About Digital Subscriptions

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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
The NYT Pay Plan's Most Dangerous Foe: Perception

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Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
The NYT's Melting Iceberg Syndrome

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Simon Dumenco / AdAge:

Let's Pray for the Safe Release of the BoingBoing Bloggers — Or, Why Knee-Jerk Hating on Pay Walls Is Profoundly Myopic — Given all the turmoil around the world, it's an incredibly harrowing time to be journalist. Case in point: Four bloggers from BoingBoing, as you've probably already heard …

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THE OUTSIDER:
Journalism needs pollinators

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Matt Wells / Guardian:

How live blogging has transformed journalism — The benefits and the drawbacks of the open-to-all digital format — 10.57 GMT: Hello and welcome to an article about live blogging, a discussion of a format that has been derided as murdering traditional reporting but is almost certainly …

Discussion: realtime.arktan.com, Editors Weblog, The Wall Blog, currybetdotnet and eMedia Vitals

David Carr / New York Times:

Long-Form Journalism Finds a Home — In 2009, Evan Ratliff, a freelance writer for Wired, and Nicholas Thompson, a senior editor there, had just concluded a particularly satisfying article in which Mr. Ratliff tried to drop off the grid for a month and obscure his whereabouts in the digital age …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, GalleyCat, MediaPost, Poynter, Editors Weblog, mediabistro.com, The Awl, Noted and eMedia Vitals

Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:

Hollywood makeover for YouTube — Google is deepening its ties with Hollywood by enlisting top stars to supply original content for YouTube in a bid to boost profits and user engagement at the company's online video site. — Google has been making the rounds of Hollywood's biggest talent agencies …

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Amir Efrati / Digits:
Yahoo Executive Talks Acquisitions, Slams YouTube Buy

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Marc Hustvedt / Tubefilter:

‘Know Your Meme’ Acquired By Cheezburger in Seven-Figure Deal — By now, it's pretty clear there's a real business in the hocking of internet culture. And when it comes to the business of documenting—and merchandising—the latest memes bubbling up from the internet's underbelly and straight …

Discussion: Dembot, SAI, paidContent, TechCrunch, CNNMoney.com, GeekWire, NetworkEffect, Geekosystem, The Next Web, Betabeat and Know Your Meme Blog, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Huffington Post Co-Founder Ken Lerer Wants You to Watch His Next Company — What do you do once you sell your digital media business for $315 million? — Start another digital media business! — Huffington Post co-founder Ken Lerer, who sold his company to AOL earlier his month …

Discussion: Betabeat and SAI

Jillian C. York / Global Voices in English:

An Interview with Andy Carvin — With 40,000 Twitter followers and a dedicated stream of local sources, Andy Carvin has become a first stop on Twitter for news throughout the Middle East and North Africa. An NPR strategist, Carvin has approached social media-and Twitter in particular-as a platform for real-time reporting.

Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:

Warner Brothers Expands Facebook Rentals to “Harry Potter,” “Inception” — After a successful run renting “The Dark Knight” over Facebook, Warner Brothers has decided to offer five more movies over the social network, the studio announced on Sunday. — The studio will offer …

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Jane Martinson / Guardian:

Tina Brown interview: remaking the news — Tina Brown's return to print media with Newsweek surprised many. Here, she explains her plans for the loss-making title — The last time Tina Brown launched a magazine - Talk in 1999 - she held a celebrity-stuffed party on an island off Manhattan …

Discussion: Mediaite and New York Observer

Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:

Building Loyalty on Web — Online Video Programs Remix Promotional Tactics to Draw Regular Audiences — Hulu's ‘Trailer Trash’ episodes are released on Mondays. — Companies rushing to develop original video series for the Web are scrambling to solve one of the industry's biggest problems: building an audience.

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Flixster Update: Warner Bros. Very Interested, as Yahoo Drops Out of Bidding for Social Movie Site — Recently, BoomTown reported that Flixster-the popular social movie site whose brands include the Rotten Tomatoes premium reviews site-was in early acquisition discussions with several suitors.

Discussion: Company Town

The Wrap:

News Budgets Busted By Cost of Covering Disasters — From Japan to Libya, disasters and political upheavel around the globe are wreaking havoc on the already-skeletal budgets of cable and broadcast news organizations. — “We've already had a year's worth of breaking news coverage …

Discussion: TVNewser, Mediaite and Inside Cable News

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Twitter as Media: Yes, Celebrities and Brands Still Matter — One of the most disruptive aspects of Twitter as a communications medium is that it allows anyone to instantly publish and distribute information to potentially thousands or even millions of people — something that seems inherently democratic …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, Future of Journalism, ReadWriteWeb, Digital Trends, thinq_ and SAI