Mediagazer: The NY Post, the iPad and the web (Dave Winer/Scripting News)

2:50 AM ET, June 20, 2011

Top News:

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

New York Post Blocks iPad Access Via Safari To Sell Subscriptions — It must have sounded like a great idea to someone at News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) at the time: “Hey, I know how we can sell more subscriptions through the New York Post iPad App! Let's block access through iPad Safari and make them go to the app instead.”

Discussion: I4U News, Examiner, App Advice, Engadget, 9 to 5 Mac and @felixsalmon, more at Techmeme »

Dave Winer / Scripting News:

The NY Post, the iPad and the web — First, I don't care about the NY Post. It's always been a crap paper. In the old days it was a crap liberal paper, now it's a crap Murdoch paper. — On the other hand, I sometimes click on links that take me to the Post. — Permalink

Discussion: AppleInsider, PC Magazine, One Man & His Blog, Garcia Media, Electronista, SAI, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, The Loop and @mathewi

Oliver Miller / thefastertimes.com:

AOL Hell: An AOL Content Slave Speaks Out — I got the job through a friend. The job was this: I would write about TV for a section of the AOL Television website. In theory, this sounded great. In exchange for writing about “The Simpsons” and other TV shows, I would be making $35,000 a year …

Discussion: Crikey, Adweek, Future Journalism Project, The New York Observer and Future of Journalism

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Losing value in the “Process” — Digital media zealots are confused: they mistake news activity for the health of the news business. Unfortunately, the two are not correlated. What they promote as a new kind of journalism carries almost no economic value.

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

The article and the future of print — This week, Guardian Editor-in-Chief Alan Rusbridger declared that the paper would go “digital first,” following John Paton's lead and stopping a step short of his strategy at Journal Register: “digital first ... print last.”

Discussion: New York Times, Editors Weblog and Soup

Gordon Rayner / Telegraph:
Riches to rags as Guardian bleeds £33m in a year

Discussion: Jon Slattery and Future of Journalism

Kevin / Strange Attractor:
The Guardian needs an intervention

Discussion: (Re)Structuring Journalism, Nieman Journalism Lab and Journalism.co.uk

Lauren Rabaino / 10,000 Words:

How To Run A News Site And Newspaper Using WordPress And Google Docs — A former colleague of mine, William Davis, understands what a “web first” workflow is, and has made it happen through software at his newspaper in Maine. The Bangor Daily News announced this week that it completed …

Discussion: @jonathanstray and Future of Journalism

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

At New Network, Olbermann Sets Sights on MSNBC — Starting on Monday, there will be new competition for progressive attention spans on television. — Challenging MSNBC, which has a stable lineup of left-leaning hosts, will be Current TV, where Keith Olbermann will start anchoring the 8 p.m. hour, his former time slot on MSNBC.

Discussion: Inside Cable News

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Olbermann Wants to Make Current a 24-Hour News Network

Discussion: The Wire, TVNewser, Multichannel, On Media's Blog and B&C

Keach Hagey / The Politico:
Cable after Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann

Discussion: mediabistro.com, Poynter, The Huffington Post, On Media's Blog, TVNewser and Yahoo! News

Edmund Lee / AdAge:

Display's New Kingpin: Facebook's No. 1 — Social Network's $2.19 Billion Puts It at Top of the Digital Heap, Leaping Google, Yahoo — but It's Still a Bit Player When Compared to TV — Facebook doesn't really have to try to become the biggest player in digital media; it simply is.

Magda Abu-Fadil / The Huffington Post:

Newsroom Summit Highlights Digital Engagement — The newsroom cafÃ© concept was music to my ears when Journal Register Company's (JRC) Jonathan Cooper explained how his organization had taken the bold step of engaging its audience. — “The legacy definition of engagement is wrong …

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

The storyteller strikes back — When I dared question the article's monopoly as the atomic and only acceptable form of news, I honestly did not imagine the reaction I would get. I thought I was observing a trend and an opportunity. I have tried to provoke plenty of times.

Discussion: Skye Doherty

Media & Entertainment:

Movers & Shakers: Mark Edmiston makes a digital comeback — A former president of Newsweek and a longtime media industry adviser, Mark Edmiston recently got back in the magazine game with the launch of digital publisher Nomad Editions. The low-overhead operation publishes weekly magazines …

Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:

Sony Films Leave Netflix — Movies distributed by Sony Corp.'s Sony Pictures Entertainment were removed from Netflix Inc.'s on-demand Internet service Friday, a Netflix executive wrote in a blog post, adding that the absence was “temporary.” — The removal of an unspecified number …

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Spotify, Gearing Up for U.S. Launch, Closes Its $1 Billion Round — More momentum for Spotify: The streaming music service has finalized a huge funding round that gives it a valuation of about $1 billion. — The European company has raised around $100 million from DST, Kleiner Perkins and Accel.

Discussion: I4U News, GigaOM, VentureBeat, App Advice, MacRumors, ReadWriteWeb, paidContent, broadstuff, Guardian, Betabeat, Softpedia News, PC Magazine, SAI and The Next Web

Matt Wardman / Anna Raccoon:

Won't talk to bloggers, no more, no more — We live in interesting times for independent news media. The regional media has been in crisis for years, and councils which used to run their own newspapers have been slapped down by Eric Pickles. — There has been an explosion of local news blogs …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Brad McCarty / The Next Web:

Should user comments dictate online content? — You might not think about the comments section on a website very often. Heck, more often than not I glance over them as if they don't exist, except for a few notable exceptions. Between the error-filled ignorance of YouTube comments …

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New York Times:

A Watchdog Professor, Now Defending Himself — For the last two years, David Protess, a renowned journalist and professor who spent three decades fighting to prove the innocence of others, has been locked in a battle to do the same for himself. It hasn't gone as well.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Following Departures, Murdoch's iPad Paper Makes A Big Hire — The Daily made a big hire Friday, scooping up Varietyâs Tom Lowry as the tablet publicationâs new business editor. — Daily editor-in-chief Jesse Angelo announced the hire Friday in a memo to staff obtained by The Huffington Post.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, FishbowlNY and The Wrap