Mediagazer: Can a ‘Spotify for books’ really work? (Robert Andrews/paidContent)

1:10 AM ET, December 6, 2012

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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

The Times Should Have a Reporter at the Bradley Manning Hearing — In failing to send its own reporter to cover the fascinating and important pretrial testimony of Bradley Manning, The New York Times missed the boat. — Over the past several days, as compelling testimony over the harsh treatment …

Discussion: New York Times and Pressing Issues

Eliza Gray / The New Republic:

Bradley Manning Gets No Love From The New York Times — Last week, in a Grisham-like courtroom scene, Bradley Manning—the Army private charged with leaking hundreds of thousands of classified war logs and State Department cables to WikiLeaks—testified publicly for the first time since his arrest in May of 2010.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

David Dishneau / Associated Press: Bradley Manning Hearing On Confinement Resumes

R. Umar Abbasi / New York Post:

Anguished fotog: Critics are unfair to condemn me — I was on an assignment, waiting for a train at the 49th Street subway platform, when I suddenly heard people gasping. The announcement had come over the loudspeaker that the train was coming — and out of the periphery of my eye …

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David Carr / Media Decoder:
Train Wreck: The New York Post's Subway Cover

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Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:

Twitter Loses Ability to Properly Display Instagram Photos — Welcome to the Photo Wars. — Instagram on Wednesday disabled the ability for Twitter to properly display Instagram photos on its Web site and in its applications. The move escalates tensions between the two companies …

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:
Instagram CEO feels Twitter card removal is ‘the correct thing for our business’ …

Discussion: Wired, CNET, WebProNews, Quartz, TechCrunch, Electronista, VentureBeat and Mashable!

Patrick Smith / TheMediaBriefing:

The science of content subscriptions: Understanding lifetime customer value and price power — The great media business model debate of our time can be simplified into three words: free versus paid. — Can free-to-air websites and apps be monetised through advertising or is paid content the way to go?

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Why does the paywall debate always have to become a religious war?

Discussion: Poynter, The Buttry Diary, DCist, CJR, NetNewsCheck Latest and Matters of Varying …

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

John Walsh asserts a love triangle in Deadspin coverage of ESPN — Deadspin reporter John Koblin's been aggressively reporting on ESPN, and ESPN writer Lynn Hoppes' alleged “Wikipedia plagiarism,” in a series of items recently. — And today, ESPN executive vice president John Walsh offered …

Matt Thompson / Poynter:

Why journalists should explore the business side of news — Most of us still remember a time when revenue was enough of an incidental byproduct of journalism that journalists could ignore it almost completely. We just did our jobs, and then — somehow — money happened.

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

News App Circa Launches Web View And Twitter Feed So Everyone Can Read Stories Anywhere — We told you about Matt Galligan's news app for iOS, Circa, a few months ago. Basically, it breaks down “stories” into more consumable chunks so that you can follow something as it happens.

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Can a ‘Spotify for books’ really work? — Over the last year, we have reported on the emergence of Oyster, 24symbols and Bookboard - all planning to offer rental of multiple ebooks for a monthly subscription. — But, with the conventional ebook download craze still taking off …

Discussion: Melville House Books

Simone S. Oliver / On the Runway:

Everyone's an Editor With Glossi — We've already seen the democratization of the writer, with blogging and tweeting; the photographer, with iPhones; and the art director, with Polyvore. Now with Glossi, a publishing platform introduced today that enables its users to create …

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

Suicide Is Not the Media's Fault — Last Friday, the Tampa Bay Times published a nuanced and heartbreaking feature story about Gretchen Molannen, a 39 year-old Florida woman with a condition known as “persistent genital arousal.” Molannen described how her condition—likened to constant …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, Daily Download, Tampa Bay Times and Saint Petersblog

Jason Cherkis / The Huffington Post:

Julian Assange Bypasses Mainstream To Sell Book — WASHINGTON — Julian Assange is wasting little time while shut inside Ecuador's embassy in London. The WikiLeaks founder has recently released a book called Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet.

Brian Lowry / Chicago Tribune:

Media-ownership rules need new look — The prospect of the Federal Communications Commission relaxing media-ownership rules has produced predictable hand-wringing from the usual suspects. — Variety — The prospect of the Federal Communications Commission relaxing media-ownership rules …

Jack Messmer / NetNewsCheck Latest:

Gannett Puts Digital Efforts Into Overdrive — The pitch from Gracia Martore, Gannett's president and CEO, at today's presentation at the UBS Global Media and Communications conference was overwhelmingly about the company's digital media moves. “We are transforming Gannett into a digital powerhouse …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable

Jim Romenesko:

What you didn't see in the Gov. Brewer ‘where-the-hell-did-that-come- from?’ video — A video of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer getting testy with KTVK-TV's Dennis Welch after he asked about global warming has gone viral — “Where in the hell did that [question] come from?” she asked …

Discussion: Vanity Fair, The Hill, Gawker and The Huffington Post

Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal:

Accel, Jim Breyer, Yuri Milner Back ‘Social News’ Startup Prismatic — Revenue at publishing companies continues to plummet as readers cancel their newspaper and magazine subscriptions and get their information from the Web. — But no one so far has figured out how to replace that revenue …

Discussion: AllThingsD, VentureBeat, GigaOM and TechCrunch

Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:

KT McFarland Pushes Back Against Ailes, Petraeus Story: ‘I Know Now That Roger Was Joking’ — Fox News' national security analyst KT McFarland responded on Wednesday to the revelation that, during a conversation with David Petraeus, she told the former general that Fox News chief Roger Ailes wanted him to run for president.

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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Newspaper editors sign up to Leveson recommendations — Bosses of every significant Fleet Street paper back 40 out of 47 measures, but not proposals for statutory intervention — National newspaper editors signed up to implement all Lord Justice Leveson's non-statutory recommendations …

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