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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Goodbye, NYTClean, hello new name? A Canadian coder gets a letter from the NYT's legal department — Remember David Hayes, the Canadian coder who, when confronted with the new New York Times paywall, figured out a way to evade it with four lines of JavaScript? (Technically, only three lines of code and one line of comment.)
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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
“Trimming the Times”: The Atlantic Wire's new feature wants you to make the most of your 20 clicks — Add another entry into the growing group of New York Times meter-beating strategies: The Atlantic Wire is now providing a daily summary of the best content in the paper.
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Michael Walker / Los Angeles Times:
Why should writers work for no pay? — Contributors to the Huffington Post have begun to chafe at the no-pay policy. They could take a lesson from stand-up comedians who faced a similar insult in the 1970s. — Arianna Huffington, president and editor in chief of Huffington Post Media Group.
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New York Times:
Arianna Huffington's Next Move — You've called your father a newspaperman. What did he do? — I grew up with my father starting small newspapers in Greece. None of them survived. Maybe this has something to do with the fact that I've never had any desire to have Huff Post have a print component.
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Google Answers Viacom in YouTube Appeal (Exclusive) … Google has filed its brief to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the closely-watched $1 billion lawsuit brought by Viacom over alleged copyright infringement on YouTube. — In the 94-page document, Google outlines why it believes it qualifies for …
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Alfred Hermida / Reportr.net:
Studies find journalists use Twitter for broadcast — The final research paper at the ISOJ focused on how newsrooms were using Twitter. — Dale Blasingame from Texas State University, San Marcos, looked at how Twitter was changing TV news. — He started by saying that a web first approach …
Owen Thomas / The Wire:
My Plan To Build The Next Great Media Brand — As many of you know, today I leave my post as executive editor of VentureBeat for a new opportunity. I've joined the Daily Dot, a media startup, as its founding editor. — What's that, you ask? The Daily Dot is a bold experiment …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Q&A: MLB.com Boss Bob Bowman on Android Owners, Facebook Video and Apple's Subscription Rules — It's odd to talk about baseball when part of the country is still getting fresh snow. But yesterday was indeed opening day, which makes it a good time to check in with Bob Bowman …
Bill Keller / New York Times:
Secrecy in Shreds — Last year, Gabriel Schoenfeld, a veteran of the conservative magazine Commentary, published a book that explained how The New York Times could be prosecuted under the Espionage Act. The book said a lot of other things too, but you'll understand why that particular proposition stuck in my mind.
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Pamela Chelin / Rolling Stone:
Exclusive: Rebecca Black Fighting Ark Music Factory Over ‘Friday’ — The singer alleges that Ark promised her control of the master recordings — It didn't take long for everyone involved in the Rebecca Black story to start squabbling. Black - whose song “Friday” hit Number 38 …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
Guardian.co.uk Picks Current Editors To Reboot Its U.S. Odyssey — Guardian News & Media will dispatch part of its existing Guardian.co.uk team from London to reboot its U.S. editorial foray from New York. — Guardian.co.uk's current editor Janine Gibson will lead the editorial team …
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Elizabeth Jensen / Media Decoder:
Bill Moyers Eyes a Possible Return to PBS — Bill Moyers' retirement from weekly television last year may not last long. He has received preliminary approval for a major grant to return to PBS with a half-hour show with the working title “Something Different With Bill Moyers.”
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Joe Mullin / paidContent:
AP Is First News Organization To Use ‘Do Not Track’ On Large Scale — Both Mozilla and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) are putting Do Not Track “headers” in their new web browsers; of course, those headers are just signals that users send to websites telling them they don't want to be tracked …
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