Mediagazer: My personal take: 3 reasons I don't like newspaper paywalls (Mathew Ingram/GigaOM)

3:17 AM ET, May 13, 2012

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

My personal take: 3 reasons I don't like newspaper paywalls — We've written a lot at GigaOM about the rise of newspaper paywalls, a trend that seems to be accelerating as the financial health of the industry continues to deteriorate, and in particular I've written a number of posts about what I see as the downsides of paywalls.

Discussion: The Buttry Diary, Dave Winer's … and Reuters

Steve Ladurantaye / Globe and Mail:
Globe to charge readers for online content

Discussion: Huffington Post Canada, Toronto Star and Techdirt

Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:

Jason Horowitz and ‘The Washington Post’ won, and the rest is political noise — There were lots of moments in Jason Horowitz's piece in The Washington Post yesterday morning about presidential candidate Mitt Romney's high-school days at the elite Cranbrook Schools in Michigan.

Discussion: Washington Post, ABCNEWS, Mediaite, The New Yorker Blog and Capital New York

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Washington Post adds Editor's Note to Romney bullying story; Ombud weighs in — The Washington Post has added an editor's note to its story about Mitt Romney's high school days. “We should have been clearer about it and we are adding an Editor's note to the story to explain the change,” …

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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:

Tamron Hall Reams Tim Carney, Cuts His Mic For Accusing Her Of ‘Media Trick’ — During a segment on the Mitt Romney campaign's poor handling of the fallout from the Washington Post bullying story, News Nation host Tamron Hall got into it with frequent MSNBC guest and Washington Examiner …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Inside Cable News and Politico

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Google's head of news: Newspapers are the new Yahoo — Google has a somewhat tense relationship with the traditional newspaper industry, since publishers like News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch still believe it is depriving them of revenue by “stealing” their content and aggregating it at Google News.

Discussion: MIT Center for Civic Media

Neal Ungerleider / Fast Company:

Twitter Developing Original Sports Content — @JohnMadden @MarvAlbert @BobCostas Watch your backs. #TwitterSports. — Sports fans are one of Twitter's core audiences. The microblogging giant hasn't been shy about their interest in working with established brands …

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Time's Perfect Controversy: Advertisers, Retailers Fine With Breast-feeding Cover — Gets More Subscription Orders in One Day Than the Whole Week Before — Time may have just stoked the perfect controversy: It got everybody talking but made very few people actually angry.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Forbes and Los Angeles Times

Julie Bosman / Media Decoder:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Enters Bankruptcy Process — Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the educational and trade publisher in Boston, has agreed with most of its creditors to eliminate $3.1 billion of debt and enter a prearranged Chapter 11 bankruptcy process, the company said on Friday.

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Beth Healy / The Boston Globe:

New York Times Co. sells its remaining stake in the Boston Red Sox — The New York Times Co. said it has sold its remaining share of Fenway Sports Group, which includes the Boston Red Sox, for $63 million. — The sale, to undisclosed buyers believed to be current minority owners of the team …

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New York Times:

Rebekah Brooks Testifies About Relationships With British Elite — LONDON — Offering a rare glimpse into the personal relationship between political power and the press in Britain, Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper subsidiary …

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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian: Rebekah Brooks tells the Leveson inquiry of more meetings with David Cameron

Reuters:

U.S. Senate to hold hearing on Universal-EMI deal — WASHINGTON, May 11 (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate antitrust subcommittee is planning a hearing to discuss Universal Music Group's plan to buy EMI's recorded music unit, a deal that would bring the market share of the No. 1 music giant to 40 percent.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Company Town and Wall Street Journal

Alan Duke / CNN:

Reporter, fired for stripping, charges gender discrimination — Los Angeles (CNN) — A part-time stripper fired from her full-time newspaper job covering Texas high society claims she's a victim of gender discrimination. — Sarah Tressler, 30, filed a complaint this week asking …

Discussion: CJR, The New York Observer, NY Daily News and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

No Tablet News From Nokia, But It's Launching A Reading App Powered By OverDrive — There are still some big question marks over what Nokia plans to do in tablets — a market where it is now possibly the only major smartphone maker yet to make a device — but at least Nokia is moving ahead with the launch of tablet-friendly services.

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