Mediagazer: Arianna Huffington and Nick Denton Hug Out Their Beef (Jeff Bercovici/Mixed Media)

Impact of paywall on NYTimes.com — After months of speculation, the paywall for The New York Times went live at 2pm on Monday, March 28th, which limits online readers (non-print subscribers) to 20 articles each month. For smartphone and tablet applications, only the top news section …

Discussion: paidContent, VentureBeat, eMedia Vitals, Mashable!, Betabeat, ReadWriteWeb and Poynter, more at Techmeme »

New York Times:

Egypt Sentences Blogger to 3 Years — CAIRO — An Egyptian blogger was sentenced Monday to three years in prison for criticizing the military in what human rights advocates called one of the more alarming violations of freedom of expression since a popular uprising led to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak two months ago.

Discussion: Crikey, Runnin' Scared and Gawker

Michael Roberts / The Latest Word:

Brian Hill: Righthaven drops suit against autistic blogger, warns other targets not to rest easy — Righthaven LLC, the Nevada firm that's been suing for copyright infringement on behalf of companies like MediaNews Group, owner of the Denver Post, picked a sympathetic target when it went …

Discussion: paidContent and Poynter

Discussion: TeleRead and Righthaven Victims

Damon Kiesow / Poynter:

The New Yorker uses a ‘like-gate’ to find fans of long-form journalism on Facebook — The New Yorker is experimenting with Facebook this week, making a 12,000-word piece by Jonathan Franzen free behind a “like-gate” for a limited time. — When users “Like” the magazine's Facebook page …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Editors Weblog, MediaPost, FishbowlNY, New Yorker and The New Yorker Blog

Discussion: Mashable!, Inside Facebook and Journalism.co.uk, more at Techmeme »

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Arianna Huffington and Nick Denton Hug Out Their Beef — That's Bill Maher on the left, but it could totally be Nick Denton now that he and Arianna Huffington are all buddy-buddy again. Image by Getty Images via @daylife — Arianna Huffington, blog empress, does not have warm feelings toward Nick Denton, blog overlord.

Stuart Dredge / Apps blog:

ABC and NBC launch iPad apps with new angles on news and social TV — Video books and social TV to the fore for US networks' latest applications — US broadcasters NBC and ABC have launched new iPad apps, but neither focuses on streaming live TV. Instead, NBC Live offers second-screen social features …

Discussion: Beet.TV

Tom Krazit / paidContent:

Amazon To Sell Ad-Supported Kindle For $25 Discount — Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) will sell its Kindle e-reader for $25 less than the lowest list price currently available—if customers are willing see ads and other types of sponsored content. — Most of the valuable real estate on Amazon.com's home page …

Discussion: PC Magazine, mocoNews, SocialTimes.com, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, CNET News, Fast Company and Bridget Carey, more at Techmeme »

Violet Blue / ZDNet:

AOL/HuffPo Shuts Down Download Squad — In a surprise move Monday night, popular software blog Download Squad became the latest tech casualty in Huffington/AOL's so-called ‘consolidation’ of its content sites. In an end-of-the-day email, Download Squad's staff was told that the blog …

Discussion: Mixed Media, FishbowlNY, Chickaboomer and Poynter, more at Techmeme »

Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:

Consolidation of Trade Publications Nears — The long-planned consolidation of three familiar trade publications into one is beginning at Prometheus Global Media. — Monday brought the final issues of two publications, Brandweek and Mediaweek, which have been published along with their sibling, Adweek, for almost 10 years.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, The Wire and Poynter

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Maybe Cord Cutting Isn't Here Yet. What About Cord Shaving? — Here's an answer that might satisfy the two sides in the “Cord cutting is real! No it isn't!” debate: Perhaps Web video fans aren't dumping cable in favor of Netflix, Hulu, etc. Perhaps they're just dumping premium cable channels, like HBO.

Thanks:mikepilarz

Ben Popper / Betabeat:

10 Things the Media Either Gets Wrong or Doesn't Know About the Winklevoss Twins — The Winklevoss twins lost another round in their legal battle against Mark Zuckerberg today, but according to their lawyer, they aren't giving up yet. Our newest team member, Foster Kamer …

AdAge:

Is Social Media too Engaging for Its Own Good? — As someone who has been tasked with monetizing social media continuously since 2005, the single most important thing I've learned is this: The biggest problem is that the content is too engaging. Here's why.

Discussion: GigaOM

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Research: YouTube Beats iTunes For Consumers' Music Attention — The format digital music listeners are most likely to pay for... is the one they use least, according to new Nielsen research. — Only about 16 percent of consumers bought a digital download in the last three months …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Film shoots to farmers markets: Users respond to Everyblock's community-focused redesign — Late last month, Everyblock launched an overhaul of its site — its “first major redesign,” and one “driven by the feedback we've been getting over the past year.” The revamp marked a significant shift …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Forbes Blogs / Forbes.com:

A Vision for Unifying Access to Data and Documents — What do we really want when we start using technology for reporting and analysis of data? We want answers to our questions. We want to be able to discover and follow up on new questions that occur to us.

Discussion: CITO Research

Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:

How Twitter Could Bring About World Peace — On certain days, Twitter can feel like the world's biggest, fastest echo chamber. Since we tend to follow people who are similar to us, we often see our own views reflected back at us — meaning a gloomy cloud of irritation can rapidly swirl …

Thanks:bobbiejohnson

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

Jonathan Alter talks about his post-Newsweek plans — Jonathan Alter has left his post at Newsweek after almost three decades at the magazine. The news was first reported by Politico Monday morning. — Reached by phone, Alter told The Cutline he's “going to be doing other things,” …

Discussion: Poynter

Ted Nesi / WPRI.com Blogs:

NYT's Nocera on paywalls, Providence and CEO pay — “Local boy makes good.” In the news business, few Rhode Island natives fit that hoary headline better than Joe Nocera. — Nocera grew up in Providence, graduating from Classical High in 1970 before attending Boston University.

Discussion: The Big Lead and Talking Biz News

Alex Mindlin / New York Times:

More Media Time, on Various Screens — Americans are spending about 20 percent more time consuming radio, television and the Internet than they were a decade ago, according to a survey by two media measurement firms. — That jump reflects in part a rise by 26 percentage points in the number of Americans with access to the Internet.

Discussion: TVWeek.com and Noted

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Kiip Is An Entirely New Mobile Ad Model: Real Life Rewards For In-Game Achievements — Kiip, the seven month-old mobile ads startup, is finally coming out of stealth today and revealing an entirely new model for in-game advertising, one that offers users value instead of fighting an uphill battle for their attention.

Discussion: Marketing Pilgrim, Techland, Mashable!, GigaOM and Epicenter

The Wrap:

Viacom's Philippe Dauman Is America's Top-Paid CEO, Report Says — Recession? What recession? A New York Times ranking of the top-paid CEOs says media-conglomerate chief made $84.5 million in just 9 months last year

Jim O'Neill / Online Video News:

Ooyala launches Ooyala Everywhere, Ooyala Personal Playback — White label online video platform Ooyala is rolling out a suite of services designed to help content creators and distributors deliver rich, personalized viewing experiences directly to consumers, helping to bring more premium …