Mediagazer: Why Newspapers Were Doomed All Along (Justin Fox)

10:50 AM ET, June 15, 2012

Top News:

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Microsoft Is Doing Its Own Tablet. How Do You Like Them Apples? — Tired of losing ground to the iPad, Microsoft is poised to serve up its own entry in the suddenly booming tablet market. — After signaling for months that it would attack the market only through its traditional hardware partners …

Discussion: Forbes, VentureBeat, The Wrap, Mashable!, ZDNet, Fast Company, Business Insider, Softpedia News, The Verge, Macgasm, CNET, The Next Web, Techland and Engadget

Reuters:

YouTube chief mulls paid subscription — (Reuters)-YouTube is exploring selling subscriptions to access to some of its video offerings, potentially providing a way for certain cable channels to be available outside the traditional “bundles” offered by cable network providers, said YouTube boss Salar Kamangar.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, SocialTimes, The Next Web and Engadget

BBC:

NeverSeconds blogger Martha Payne school dinner photo ban lifted — Martha's NeverSeconds blog started as a writing project with her dad — A council has lifted its controversial ban on a nine-year-old girl taking photographs of her school meals. — Martha Payne, from Argyll …

Discussion: Gawker, neverseconds.blogspot.co.uk, CNET, Argyll and Bute Council, Boing Boing, Daily Dot, Guardian, ZDNet, Telegraph, The Next Web, Wired and The Verge

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Sly Bailey to leave Trinity Mirror immediately — Chief executive to step down from troubled Daily Mirror publisher six months earlier than planned — Trinity Mirror chief executive Sly Bailey is to step down six months earlier than planned, as the troubled Daily Mirror publisher looks to speed up an overhaul of senior management.

Discussion: Kleinman, Telegraph, Media Week, Guardian, Press Gazette, BBC and Media Week

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Twitter's expanded tweets are a double-edged sword — As we reported on Wednesday, Twitter is in the process of rolling out what it calls “expanded tweets,” a new feature on both the web and mobile version that shows additional content for certain publishers and services, such as the New York Times and ABC News.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, Twitter Developers, Journalism.co.uk, API Voice, The Content Strategist, Marketing Pilgrim and GigaOM

David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:

Russian Official Apologizes for Threatening Journalist — MOSCOW — Russia's chief federal investigator apologized on Thursday for an “emotional breakdown,” a day after he was publicly accused of threatening the life of a journalist. — The apology, by such a high-ranking public official …

Discussion: Big News Network.com

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

‘Daily News America’ to launch by end of June — The latest Daily News digital editor, Ted Young, arrived in the paper's newsroom this week, and he already appears to have made a splash. — Readers of dailynews.com today may have noticed a design feature that's not all that common on the homepage …

Justin Fox:

Why Newspapers Were Doomed All Along — The best job I've ever had was as an editorial writer at The Birmingham News in Alabama in the early/mid 1990s. It was a perfect combination of boss, colleagues, place, subject matter, and time of life. I left in 1995 because my then-fiancée …

Discussion: Poynter, TeleRead and @ckrewson

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Why the updated ABC News iPad app changes by time of day — Building a good app starts with asking yourself the right questions. — The most fundamental one: What does my audience want? That's the problem that people at ABC News have tried to solve since launching an iPad app almost two years ago.

Discussion: paidContent, eMedia Vitals, NewscastStudio Blog, Lost Remote, Radio & Television … and TVNewser

Dylan Byers / Politico:

The New York Post bumps price to $1 — Hold the presses: The New York Post is getting a price bump. — On Monday, the Post will bump its weekday newsstand price from 75 cents to a dollar, a subscription services representative with the company confirms. The Saturday newsstand price …

Discussion: New York Magazine and @dylanbyers

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

WordPress, Tumblr and Facebook: Threading Social Through the Blogosphere — Matt Mullenweg and Toni Schneider of Automattic, speaking at the Le Web conference. — For today's blogging platforms, hosting a compelling set of publishing tools is no longer enough — you've got to get social.

Associated Press:

News organizations ask Supreme Court for live audio, video coverage of health care ruling — WASHINGTON — News organizations are asking the Supreme Court to allow cameras in the courtroom for the first time for its eagerly awaited decision on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

Discussion: The BLT, Mediaite, rcfp.org and Associated Press

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Dept. of factually accurate but nevertheless misleading tweets … The above tweet — a reference to Mitt Romney's Business Roundtable with CEOs and other business leaders at the Newseum in Washington — has been retweeted at least 50 times, and by some rather influential tweeters …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Guardian