Mediagazer: Sidestepping Apple: From Amazon to Condé Nast, Companies Rethink App Strategies (Tim Carmody/Epicenter)

8:55 AM ET, July 26, 2011

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Tim Carmody / Epicenter:

Sidestepping Apple: From Amazon to Condé Nast, Companies Rethink App Strategies — We all knew that once Apple starting enforcing new rules for in-app purchases, it would change how media companies do business on the iPhone and iPad. Now, we're beginning to see just what that looks …

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The Daily Beast:

ABC Bans Paying News Subjects — After the embarrassment of giving Casey Anthony a huge payday, the network is effectively ending the practice. Howard Kurtz on why ABC is breaking from the pack. — ABC News has quietly decided to get out of the business of paying news subjects in connection with exclusive interviews.

Discussion: WWD Media Headlines, Erik Wemple, Future of Journalism, Mediaite, TVNewser, The New Yorker Blog, Gothamist, Most Recent Home Page Posts …, Gawker, Kirk LaPointe's …, Metropolis, The First Post, New York Times, Media Decoder, Newsweek and Runnin' Scared

Julie Bosman / Media Decoder:

British Journalist Sells Book on Hacking Scandal — The hacking scandal in Britain has caught the attention of the publishing industry. — Nick Davies, a journalist who has covered the story extensively for The Guardian, sold a book about the scandal at News International to Faber & Faber …

Discussion: Guardian, The Wire, Journalism.co.uk, GalleyCat, The Book Bench, The New York Observer, Publishers Weekly, The Wrap, Jacket Copy and New Yorker

Paul McNamara / New York Times:

News of the World's Desperate Final Hours — As day broke over Libya a few weeks ago, so did reports that News of the World hacked the phones of a murdered teenager, the victims of the 7/7 London bombings and possibly soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

New York Times:

Murdoch Veterans Portray a Fully Engaged Boss — LONDON — It was the political scoop of the year, a damning, serialized exposé in The Daily Telegraph about how British politicians were abusing their parliamentary expense accounts to pay for things like moat-cleaning and wisteria-trimming.

Discussion: paidContent and Guardian

Financial Times:

Hacking fears prompt Trinity Mirror review — Trinity Mirror, the Daily Mirror publisher, has launched a review of its editorial controls amid investor anxiety that phone-hacking allegations could spread

Discussion: Jon Slattery, Future of Journalism and Guy Fawkes' blog

Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:

Crunch Time at Thomson Reuters — CEO Glocer Is Under Pressure After Restructuring Backed by Controlling Family — The family that controls Thomson Reuters Corp. has grown impatient with the company's performance and pressed for a recent shake-up, putting pressure on Chief Executive Tom Glocer …

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Live In the U.S.? No Cool Netflix Facebook Integration for You. — Netflix has been talking up its plans for a big Facebook integration for some time now, and given that CEO Reed Hastings is now on the Facebook board, it ought to be here any day. — Right? — Nope. I mean: Not if you live in the U.S.

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Lauren Rabaino / 10,000 Words:

Problems with AP's new “linking” policy — If anything, the AP's decision to start linking to original sources is a hindrance. Because now, in addition to news outlets everywhere reproducing the same exact stories, they will all include unlinked bit.ly URLs. — Trust me, I'm all for hyperlinking.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, eBookNewser and FishbowlNY

Los Angeles Times:

Hollywood awaits how Peter Chernin will fare with new venture — The upcoming ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ film and ‘Terra Nova’ TV series form the foundation of the former News Corp. president and longtime Hollywood power broker's media company, Chernin Entertainment.

Joe Flint / Company Town:

Plan to move cancelled ABC soaps to Web looks for union label — Moving television shows from the TV screen to the computer screen is not easy, as the folks who want to give new life to soap operas “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” are learning. — Prospect Park, a company headed …

Discussion: Online Video News and Media Decoder

Julie Moos / Poynter:

FCC study: Cross-ownership may increase some local news — New studies commissioned by the Federal Communications Commission suggest media consolidation has not harmed local news; in some cases, cross-ownership may help. The studies are part of the FCC's mandate to review media ownership rules.

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Hulu, Billed as Tomorrow's TV, Looks Boxed In — PICTURE this: TV anyway, anywhere. — Every sitcom. Every drama, documentary, reality show. — All of it — everything — Right Here Now. — This is the radical potential of the Internet. And this is the implicit promise of Hulu …

John Cook / Gawker:

Gawker v. Christie [Updated] — Today, with the help of the New Jersey ACLU, Gawker filed a civil complaint against the office of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie under the state's Open Records Act. We're seeking records of Christie's communications with Fox News chairman Roger Ailes.