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John Cook / GeekWire:
Kindle readers of The New York Times to get free access of the newspaper's Web site — Here's one way to get access to The New York Times on the Web. Buy a Kindle, and then shell out $19.99 per month for the newspaper on the electronic reading device. Amazon.com said today that Kindle customers …
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Business Wire, VentureBeat and Reflections of a Newsosaur
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Henry Blodget / SAI:
WHO'S FULL OF CRAP? GE, The New York Times, And The Hazards Of “Tweeting The Record Straight” — We spent much of this afternoon sparring with GE's public affairs division on Twitter over a New York Times report that GE paid no US taxes last year. — GE had taken to Twitter to blast …
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ThinkProgress, PE Hub Blog, Scocca and The Atlantic Wire
Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
A Better Letter To New York Times Readers About Digital Subscriptions
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Mashable!, Search Engine Land, New York Times and Internet News
New York Times:
A Letter to Our Readers About Digital Subscriptions
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TechCrunch, Poynter, CNNMoney.com, TeleRead, paidContent, Electronista, Kindle Review, @nytdigitalsubs, Felix Salmon, Mashable!, Media Buyer Planner, Ubergizmo, Gothamist and Cision, more at Techmeme »
Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
New York Times announces $1 trial for new subscription service
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Media News, paidContent, Epicenter, Lifehacker, Tools, Mashable!, @nytdigitalsubs, Poynter, THE DRUM, Gearlog, Digital Trends, Geekosystem, Runnin' Scared and MediaMemo
Philg / Philip Greenspun's Weblog:
How did the New York Times manage to spend $40 million on its pay wall?
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Jean-Baptiste Soufron, The Atlantic Wire and Techdirt
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 …
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Dembot, paidContent, CNNMoney.com, SAI, USA Today, PE Hub Blog, TechFlash, GigaOM, CNET News, The Seattle Times, GeekWire, NetworkEffect, Geekosystem and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
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Ben Huh / Cheezburger Company Blog:
Know How To Pronounce “Meme” — Does “meme” rhyme with “Mimi”? Or is it like “mem” in “memory”? Well, it turns out, it has a silent “k” in front, as in “Know Your Meme”. — I'm very happy to announce that Cheezburger has acquired Know Your Meme. In addition to acquiring the popular site …
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VentureBeat, The Next Web and Know Your Meme Blog
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The power of...listicles? Yahoo Research tackles distribution and longevity data for Twitter — Who says what to whom on Twitter? That's the subject — and the title — of a just-released report from Yahoo Research. (You can read the abstract, and download the report's pdf, here.)
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Twitter as Media: Yes, Celebrities and Brands Still Matter
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SAI, Media News, Mashable!, Digital Trends, thinq_, Future of Journalism and ReadWriteWeb
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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New York Magazine, Media Money …, SAY Media, @dannysullivan, Boing Boing, AdPulp, @poniewozik and THE OUTSIDER
Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Planning Online Media ‘Locker’ — Amazon.com Inc. is planning to start a service that would let people store music and video online and access it from various digital devices, people familiar with the matter said. — The company could announce the effort as early as Tuesday, the people said.
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Amazon.com, All Things Digital, CNET News, SAI, ReadWriteWeb, GeekWire, Electronista, Digital Trends, Digits and parislemon, more at Techmeme »
Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Before Libya, White House Must Negotiate With ABC — President Obama had a message for the American people Monday night, an explanation of the government's intentions in Libya, one that he believed was important enough to request air time from the broadcast networks as well as the cable news networks.
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The Wrap, The Wire, The Huffington Post, Mediaite, Media Matters for America, Salon, The Daily Beast and Gawker
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Dispute Over Time Warner Cable's Streaming to iPad Bursts Into the Open — Companies like Time Warner Cable and Cablevision buy the rights to beam channels to customers' television sets. But do those rights extend to iPads? — That question has divided the television industry in recent weeks …
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Amir Efrati / Digits:
Yahoo Executive Talks Acquisitions, Slams YouTube Buy — Yahoo is “gearing up for a very big year” of acquisitions, said a senior director of corporate development at the Internet company. … Speaking on a panel at the Global Technology Symposium in Menlo Park on Friday …
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Media Maverick and Venture Capital Dispatch, more at Techmeme »
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Washington Post:
In Japan, disaster coverage is measured, not breathless — TOKYO — For the past two weeks, NHK, Japan's public broadcaster, has covered a triple disaster, appraising the damage with the help of 14 helicopters, 67 broadcasting vans and virtually no adjectives.
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TVNewser
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Eminem Lawsuit May Raise Pay for Older Artists — The most closely watched lawsuit in the music industry asks this question: how much should a song on iTunes or another digital music service be worth to the performer? — The artist at the center of the suit is Eminem …
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Rolling Stone, paidContent and The Atlantic Wire
Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
The Guardian embarking on significant U.S. expansion — The U.K. Guardian is on the verge of expanding its U.S. footprint. — “We will be announcing an American editor shortly,” Alan Rusbridger, The Guardian's editor-in-chief, told The Cutline in an interview last week.
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Guardian, Press Gazette, Journalism.co.uk, magCulture.com/blog and FishbowlNY
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Bloomberg launching Capital Intelligence this spring — Bloomberg Government, the new service from Bloomberg covering the intersection between business and politics, will bolster its coverage of Capitol Hill this spring with the introduction of Capitol Intelligence, a feature that will deliver news …
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New York Magazine:
62 Minutes With Pat Kiernan — Battling ennui with the beloved NY1 anchor, who not-so-secretly has his eye on Regis's job. — At a party at the Canadian consulate general's residence, Pat Kiernan, NY1 morning anchor and pride of Alberta, is confessing to some un-Canadian ambition.
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