Mediagazer: AOL Really Missed The Boat On Mobile, But Its Trying To Catch Up By Charging Big Rates For Its New iPad App (Noah Davis/Business Insider)

11:35 AM ET, October 31, 2011

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Lucia Moses / Adweek:

A Year of Tina Brown and Newsweek Still Needs a Savior — When the merger between Newsweek and The Daily Beast was announced almost a year ago, it seemed like it might, at least, have the makings of a good story: charming nonagenarian audio tycoon teams up with a media mogul and celebrity editor …

Discussion: Poynter

Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:

James Murdoch gets pay rise despite News Corp row — Fury over James Murdoch's chairmanship of BSkyB did not stop him accepting a £1,300 pay rise as the broadcaster took a £16m hit for its aborted takeover by News Corporation, where he is deputy chief operating officer.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Something New From Nook, Coming in a Week — Barnes & Noble will be announcing ... something at a New York City press conference in a week. — About what? The oblique invitation I just got in my inbox doesn't say a word, other than promising that it will be a “very special announcement.”

Marcus Vanderberg / FishbowlLA:

James Rainey Trading Media Column for Reporting — James Rainey wrote his last “On the Media” column for the Los Angeles Times Saturday, as the columnist will focus more on reporting on the media going forward. — LA Observed has the memo from the LAT announcing Rainey's new role at the newspaper:

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Disney Double Dips: Renews Netflix Deal for ABC Shows, Adds Amazon — Another example of why the Web video boom is (currently) a great boon to Big TV: Disney has announced not one but two deals to sell digital copies of its reruns. — Disney has re-upped a two-year-old deal with Netflix …

Discussion: Media & Entertainment, Forbes, rbr.com, Online Video News, Home Media Magazine, Business Wire, Fast Company, CNET News, Multichannel, Between the Lines Blog, VatorNews and NetNewsCheck Latest, more at Techmeme »

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

How Google is quietly experimenting in new ways for readers to access publishers' content — Google appears to be experimenting with a new paywall-esque content roadblock for publishers, and it's not One Pass. For lack of a better name, let's call it a “survey wall,” because instead …

Susan Krashinsky / Globe and Mail:

Postmedia plans to charge for online articles — Canada's largest newspaper publisher is the latest in the industry to say the future can't be free. — Postmedia Network Canada Corp PNC.A-T , publisher of the National Post and other daily and community papers across the country …

Discussion: Guardian and Future of Journalism

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Cable Is Holding Web TV at Bay, Earnings Show — This time a year ago, the television industry was rife with worry about so-called cord-cutting — people dropping cable subscriptions in favor of watching TV over the Internet. — But for the most part, the cords remain intact, the latest crop of earnings reports indicate.

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Noah Davis / Business Insider:

AOL Really Missed The Boat On Mobile, But Its Trying To Catch Up By Charging Big Rates For Its New iPad App — AOL has mobile problems. — Specifically, the company got only 0.8% of the mobile ad dollars last year, the Wall Street Journal reports. (Google topped the list with 59% of the market.)

Discussion: Digits and Wall Street Journal, more at Techmeme »

Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:

Conde Nast Traveler's iPad App Has a Size Problem — The inaugural iPad edition of Conde Nast Traveler has arrived at Apple's Newsstand — and it's hefty. — The issue is 784 megabytes — substantially bigger than even Wired's first issue, which attracted a fair number of comments …

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Mike Shields / Digiday:

Viacom Mines Social Media Buzz for Movie Site — Viacom thinks it has a better way to gauge which movies are generating heat than box office numbers or Rotten Tomatoes scores: online buzz. — The media conglomerate has partnered with the social media data/research firm Trendrr to launch MovieTracker …