Mediagazer: Slovakian Publishers' Paywall Appears to Be Success (Emma Hall/AdAge)

1:20 PM ET, July 5, 2011

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DSK accuser sues NY Post for “prostitute” report — (Reuters) - The hotel maid who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault sued the New York Post and four of its reporters for libel on Tuesday for reporting that she was a prostitute.

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Brett Pulley / Bloomberg:

Sun Valley Moguls Shift From Acquisitions to Sales to Refine Media Models — Media executives gather at Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley conference this week looking to shed assets such as the Hulu LLC video website and G4 game channel amid a declining global stock market and slowing economic growth.

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Alex Howard / O'Reilly Radar:

Data journalism, data tools, and the newsroom stack — MIT's recent Civic Media Conference and the latest batch of Knight News Challenge winners made one reality crystal clear: as a new era of technology-fueled transparency, innovation and open government dawns, it won't depend on any single CIO or federal program.

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

‘Vogue’ Reigns on Newsstand — It's no secret that magazines' newsstand sales have been dismal. But Anna Wintour's Vogue has been bucking the trend, and not by a little. — For the first five months of the year, newsstand sales for the Condé Nast title have averaged 370,000 …

BBC:

Police to meet NoW executives over Milly hacking claims — Schoolgirl Milly Dowler went missing nine years ago — Police are to meet News of the World executives to discuss allegations that a private investigator working for the paper hacked into the mobile phone of murdered girl Milly Dowler.

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Guardian:
News of the World hacked Dowler's voicemail

Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Why newspapers can't stop the presses — With newspaper ad sales falling at an unexpectedly abrupt rate, many publishers at mid-year were laying off staff, requiring unpaid furloughs, consolidating plants and taking other measures to buttress their bottom lines.

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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

What Google+ adds to news — To paraphrase Mark Zuckerberg, it is too soon to know what Google+ is. But I've been trying to imagine how it will and won't be useful to news. You should add rock salt to anything I say, as I thought Google Wave would be an important journalistic tool.

Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:

iPhone Photography Finds Its Way Into Print [PICS] — It's not just iPhone-created art that's making its way into magazines. iPhone photography is beginning to make somewhat frequent appearances as well. — The latest of these is an eight-page spread in Everyday Food magazine.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Thanks:laureni

Emma Hall / AdAge:

Slovakian Publishers' Paywall Appears to Be Success — Unique Visitors to Most Publications Have Increased Since Introduction — When nine of Slovakia's leading news organizations went behind a collective paywall in May, the world's eyes turned on this small eastern European country and waited impatiently for the public's response.

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Condé Nast's Scott Dadich on reinventing mags for the iPad and why partnering with Apple matters — As the man tasked with giving new life to magazines on new platforms for Condé Nast, Scott Dadich says there are some things, old-school things, that don't change whether you're dealing with print or tablets.

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

“There is a Dark Side” to Online Video Advertising, Adap.tv President — While most of the online video ecosystem is fine, “there is a dark side,” where some companies artificially increase view rates, while others place inventory in unwanted locations, says Toby Gabriner, President of Adap.tv.

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Exit music: David Cho on leaving The Awl, joining Grantland, and building a business from high-quality writing — The world of online publishing, or at least upstart online publishing, got a surprise on Wednesday when David Cho, publisher of The Awl, announced he was leaving the 2-year-old site …

Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:

Can we go beyond ‘Share on Facebook’? — ProPublica have created a rather wonderful news app around education data. As Nieman reports: … This is exactly what data journalism is great at. — What's more, the Nieman article talks breathlessly about ProPublica aiming to make data “more social”.

Discussion: Editors Weblog and Personanondata