Mediagazer: Apple makes its subscription rules more friendly to news organizations; but were they really the target? (Joshua Benton/Nieman Journalism Lab)

2:55 PM ET, June 9, 2011

Top News:

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

Apple Reverses Course On In-App Subscriptions — Apple has quietly changed its guidelines on the pricing of In-App Subscriptions on the App Store. There are no longer any requirements that a subscription be the “same price or less than it is offered outside the app”.

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Apple makes its subscription rules more friendly to news organizations; but were they really the target? — Interesting news on the Apple/news-biz front: Apple appears to have backed away from its requirement that subscriptions to content (such as a newspaper or magazine) …

Discussion: TeleRead and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »

Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
Apple loosens grip on subscription terms

Discussion: ZDNet and Future of Journalism

New York Times:

A Federal Study Finds That Local Reporting Has Waned — An explosion of online news sources in recent years has not produced a corresponding increase in reporting, particularly quality local reporting, a federal study of the media has found. — Coverage of state governments and municipalities …

Discussion: Associated Press, Nieman Journalism Lab, rbr.com, Gawker, Multichannel, Poynter, FishbowlNY, Gannett Blog, radioworld.com and The Rural Blog

fcc.gov:

Information Needs of Communities — The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age. In culmination of its work over the last year, the FCC Working Group on the Information Needs of Communities delivered a report on June 9, 2011 addressing the rapidly changing media landscape in a broadband age.

Derek Willis / The Caucus:

Help Us Investigate the Sarah Palin E-Mail Records — On Friday, the State of Alaska will release more than 24,000 of Sarah Palin's e-mails covering much of her tenure as governor of Alaska. Times reporters will be in Juneau, the state capital, to begin the process of reviewing the e-mails …

Discussion: Poynter and USA Today

Ryan Kellett / Washington Post:
Help analyze the Palin e-mails

Discussion: On Media's Blog and @mlcalderone

Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:

Jill Abramson: Our Lady of Gray — The climb to Valhalla is treacherous—but lawyers, babies, Howell Raines and a barreling truck couldn't keep Jill Abramson down. — LAST THURSDAY, Jill Abramson compared her appointment to executive editor of The New York Times to “ascending to Valhalla …

Discussion: Poynter, Poynter, Yahoo! News, CJR, The Atlantic Wire, Adweek and Guardian

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: Who'll Get The New York Times' Top Washington Job?

Clark Fredricksen / eMarketer:

Online Advertising Market Poised to Grow 20% in 2011 — New Forecast Shows Display on Trajectory to Overtake Search — The US online advertising market is poised for rapid growth this year, with spending expected to exceed $31 billion, according to a new forecast by eMarketer.

Discussion: paidContent, Forbes.com, TechCrunch, rbr.com and GigaOM

Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Online advertising explodes to $31B, but publishers getting squeezed?

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, the Econsultancy blog, Future of Journalism and comScore, Inc.

Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal: Big Pop Seen for Online Ads

Julie Moos / Poynter:

5 reasons broadcasters pay licensing fees for stories and why it corrupts journalism — When Ann Coulter congratulated ABC News for its reporting on the Anthony Weiner story, her high praise was this: “You guys own the Weiner story.” She may not have meant it literally, but she could have.

Discussion: TVNewser, Free Press, Chickaboomer and The Atlantic Wire

Nicholas Carlson / SAI:

Confessions Of Patch Salesperson: “It's Been A Disaster” — AOL is betting $120 million this year on a network of local news Websites called Patch. — It's overseen by Arianna Huffington. — Clayton Moran of the Benchmark Group says AOL's fate will “hinge on the success or failure of Patch.”

Discussion: Poynter, Yahoo! News, GigaOM, Street Fight, blogs.forbes.com and Future of Journalism

Noah Davis / The Wire:

The New York Observer Wants To Pay Someone With No Experience $30,000 To Run Its New Magazine — We really enjoy the New York Observer's redesign (honest). And we like what Elizabeth Spiers and her team are doing to bring back the Salmon-colored paper. — But we have less faith …

Discussion: New York Magazine and FishbowlNY

David Kaplan / paidContent:

CBS' Radio.com Gets A New Streaming Channel: Last.fm — Years after CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) acquired Last.fm, the personalized streaming music service will be added to Radio.com, the broadcaster's online player. Radio.com, which already hosts AOL's and Yahoo's streaming music as part …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Twitter now charges $120,000 a day for promoted trends — Businesses are paying Twitter $120,000 to sponsor a promoted trending topic for a day, director of revenue Adam Bain told marketing news site ClickZ. That's up from $25,000 to $30,000 when the feature was launched in April 2010.

Adweek:

Hearst Opens App Lab — Fresh from closing on the Hachette Filipacchi Media deal, Hearst Corp. this week opened the Hearst App Lab, a “think tank” for digital apps. — The lab, on the 41st floor of the Hearst Tower on Eighth Avenue and 57th Street, is a corporate initiative …

Discussion: Betabeat, FishbowlNY and Mashable!