Mediagazer: Newsroom Summit Highlights Digital Engagement (Magda Abu-Fadil/The Huffington Post)

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 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.”

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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.”

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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

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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 …

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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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.

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 …

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