Mediagazer: The Independent begins charging and launches £19.99 iPad app (Gordon MacMillan/The Wall Blog)

Nat Ives / AdAge:

What Matters Most in Magazine and Newspaper iPad Apps? Quality, Report Says — Too Many Apps Are Still Minimally Enhanced PDFs — Publishers, don't start skimping on your iPad editions now. Magazine and newspaper apps' quality seems to be the most important factor in their success with consumers …

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James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:

On the Media: Will computer tablets help save newspapers? — In the fragmenting media landscape, a Philadelphia publisher embarks on a bold experiment. — The Philadelphia Media Network's Arnova 10 G2 tablet computer. (Akira Suwa, MCT / September 12, 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 …

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 …

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Gordon MacMillan / The Wall Blog:

The Independent begins charging and launches £19.99 iPad app — by @gordonmacmillan, posted on 31 October, 2011 at 9:26 am, filed under Media Owners, Web and tagged Apple iPad, The Guardian, The Independent. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

CNN Is Said to Be Revamping Its Morning Lineup — CNN, which remodeled its afternoon and evening schedule earlier this year, is now on the verge of remaking its morning schedule. — The channel, a unit of Time Warner, is expected to announce as early as this week that Soledad O'Brien …

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Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Proof by Mask — Web design is in bad shape. In the applications boom, news-related web sites end up as collateral damage. For graphic designers, the graphics tools and the computer languages used to design apps for tablets and smartphones have unleashed a great deal of creativity.

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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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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Why Mitt Romney's Bypassing National Media — NEW YORK — When a group of national political reporters arrived at Mitt Romney's New Hampshire summer house in July 2010 for an off-the-record barbecue, the former Massachusetts governor greeted them warmly and handed out beers from a nearby cooler.

Bloomberg:

Hollywood Studios Said to Study 60-Day Ban on DVD Rentals — Some of Hollywood's largest movie studios may seek to double a 28-day delay on DVD rentals by services including Netflix Inc. (NFLX) and Coinstar Inc. (CSTR), four people with knowledge of the situation said.

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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of NYT's Sunday gain and paid content 2.0 — Editor's Note: Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab. — And on the seventh day, they didn't rest; they sped up.

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