Mediagazer: Showing Polar Ice Melting, TV Program Is Silent on Why (Brian Stelter/New York Times)

10:35 PM ET, April 21, 2012

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Patrick B. Pexton / Washington Post:

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Wall Street Journal:

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Showing Polar Ice Melting, TV Program Is Silent on Why — “Frozen Planet,” the seven-hour series that has attracted millions of viewers to the Discovery Channel in recent weeks, shows Earth in extremis. On this planet, the poles are violently cold, yet are also atypically vulnerable …

Ryan Chittum / CJR:

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Boston Globe raises prices on 7-day delivery, but protects Sunday circulation

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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

NY tabloid's new South Asian section shows ‘local’ is cultural not geographic — What do local New Yorkers really want to read about? Well, cricket and Bollywood, of course. — One of New York's longtime tabloids The Daily News has added a news section to its website called Desi that targets the city's large South Asian community.

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

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MediaShift Idea Lab:

Pay Walls and Social Media Could Shift the Public Agenda — If conversations around digital journalism have been dominated by anything in the first quarter of 2012, it's probably been about subscriptions, also known as pay walls. Walls are going up at the L.A. Times and Gannett papers, and getting higher at The New York Times.

The Huffington Post:

Limbaugh Battles New Campaign To Get Him Off Airwaves — Rush Limbaugh has a new headache on his hands: the National Organization of Women is launching another campaign to get him off the air. — The advocacy group announced its renewed efforts in an initiative called “Enough Rush” on Thursday.

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