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Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Newspapers With Extra Space Look for Boarders — BOSTON — Among the many changes that Christopher M. Mayer wanted to make when he became publisher of the Boston Globe in 2010 was to transform a particularly unattractive section of the newsroom. — Mr. Mayer wanted to fill in what he called …
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@pottsmark, @counternotions and @zimbalist
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Condoleezza Rice joins CBS News as contributor — Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has joined CBS News as a contributor, appearing Sunday on “Face the Nation” to launch her new gig. — Host Bob Schieffer made the announcement at the start of a roundtable discussion.
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MiamiHerald.com, The Huffington Post, Chickaboomer and Media Decoder
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Katie Couric to Interview Manti Te'o — 1:42 p.m. | Updated Katie Couric has landed the first television interview with Manti Te'o, the Notre Dame football star who said he was tricked into believing first that he had a girlfriend and then that the girlfriend died of leukemia. The girlfriend never existed.
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Deadspin, Reuters, Rolling Stone, Chickaboomer, @david_schwab, Digital Spy, SBNation.com, TVLine, Forbes and NPR
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of the body shop — We can look at the first 15 years or so of newspapers on the web as a slow-motion car wreck: agonizing to live through, fascinating to watch. — As we pull the pieces apart, we find one key culprit: misalignment. Now, in the age of paywalls, membership …
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Why online book discovery is broken (and how to fix it) — Figuring out how to get their books discovered online isn't a new problem for publishers, but it's one that is becoming more pressing as channels and competition proliferate. New research shows that frequent book buyers visit sites …
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Publishing Perspectives
Mike Taylor / Guardian:
Hiding your research behind a paywall is immoral — As a scientist your job is to bring new knowledge into the world. Hiding it behind a journal's paywall is unacceptable — Publishing science behind paywalls is immoral. There, I said it. — I know, I know. It's an easy trap to fall into - I've done it myself.
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Globe and Mail
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Magazines Use Digital Editions to Ramp Up Pricing — Cosmopolitan readers can get their first year's subscription to the print magazine for $10. But if they want the digital edition on their iPads, they will have to fork over $19.99. — That's a pricing maneuver so bold it may make even Cosmo readers blush.
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LNR Journalism
C.W. Anderson / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How journalists' self-concepts hindered their adaptation to a digital world — Editor's note: CUNY professor and long-time Nieman Lab contributor C.W. Anderson is out with a new book, Rebuilding the News: Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age. It's an exploration of the evolution …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Elsevier In Advanced Talks To Buy Mendeley For Around $100M To Beef Up In Social, Open Education Data — The world of ed-tech is ramping up another notch, and getting a lot more open in the process: educational publishing giant Elsevier is in advanced talks to buy Mendeley …
Shalini Ramachandran / Digits:
Despite Media Companies' Best Efforts, ‘TV Everywhere’ Is Nowhere — People are streaming online video more than ever before but only 17% of pay TV subscribers have watched cable programming online using so-called “TV Everywhere” services, according to a new study.
Jim Romenesko:
Memo: The Atlantic president explains Scientology advertorial ‘screw-up’ — The Atlantic president Scott Havens sent this staff memo about the Scientology advertorial “screw-up” shortly after 6 p.m. Friday: — From: Havens, Scott — To: companywide.TheAtlanticMonthly — Dear Atlantic Staff,
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@jayrosen_nyu, @jackshafer and @ckrewson
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
Digital First goes the Newhouse route in upstate New York — The three-day-a-week newspaper model pioneered by Advance Publications in Michigan is now spreading to Digital First Media. The company will move its Oneida Daily Dispatch from six days a week to three, including a new a Sunday edition, on February 3.