Mediagazer: The newsonomics of selling Main Street (Ken Doctor/Nieman Journalism Lab)

1:30 PM ET, March 3, 2013

Top News:

Yochai Benkler / New Republic:

The Dangerous Logic of the Bradley Manning Case — After 1,000 days in pretrial detention, Private Bradley Manning yesterday offered a modified guilty plea for passing classified materials to WikiLeaks. But his case is far from over—not for Manning, and not for the rest of the country.

Discussion: @antderosa, Guardian, Gawker and The Dish

Scott Shane / New York Times:

Manning to Face More Serious Charges in Leak — FORT MEADE, Md. — Military prosecutors announced on Friday that they had decided to try Pfc. Bradley Manning on the most serious charges they have brought against him and seek a sentence that could be life without parole …

Discussion: The Verge

Greg Gilman / The Wrap:

Washington Post Eliminates Ombudsman Position — The Washington Post has confirmed its own ombudsman's hunch and announced on Friday that it has cut the 43-year-old position. — “We have been privileged to have had the service of many talented ombudsmen (and women) who have addressed readers' concerns …

Patrick B. Pexton / Washington Post:
Signing off as Post ombudsman

Discussion: @jbrodkin

Katharine Weymouth / Washington Post:
A reader representative for The Post

Discussion: Washingtonian, NPR Ombudsman, Washington Post, Politico, JIMROMENESKO.COM and Tampabay.com

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of selling Main Street — Main Street is finally going digital. With the digitization of smaller business, newspaper companies believe they've found that elusive third leg of a business model — a model that could keep them standing, maybe even taller, into the second half of this decade.

Discussion: Street Fight

Andrés Cala / Christian Science Monitor:

Spain's economic crisis has an unexpected victim: journalism — The Spanish media has been ravaged by the country's recession, and not just economically. The crisis has also sparked serious challenges to its credibility. — MADRID — In Spain's transformational economic crisis, no industry has escaped unscathed.

Barbara Demick / Los Angeles Times:

Live China TV coverage of executions raises outcry — Chinese state TV broadcasts live images of four condemned killers shortly before they are executed. Human rights lawyers and others express outrage at the unprecedented coverage. — Naw Kham, a drug gang leader from Myanmar …

Discussion: The Verge, Mediaite and Gawker

Marco Arment / Marco.org:

“Did we just rip off Marco Arment and The Magazine?” — That's actually the title of the latest newsletter from TypeEngine, a startup promising a platform to easily make Newsstand magazines a lot like mine. — I don't really know what to think about things like this.

Discussion: @glennf

Joe Pompeo / New Republic:

The National: Abu Dhai's brief experiment in press freedom — In 2008, when a new government-owned newspaper debuted in the Persian Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi, it was greeted as the latest sign of the formerly sleepy oil town's cosmopolitan ambitions. The island city of around 900,000 …

Discussion: @sultanalqassemi, @tnr, @jessradio and @emile_hokayem

John Wihbey / Nieman Journalism Lab:

What's New in Digital Scholarship: Why can Facebook posts be super-memorable, and did tweets direct bombs in Libya? — Editor's note: There's a lot of interesting academic research going on in digital media — but who has time to sift through all those journals and papers?

Discussion: Journalist's Resource

Stephen Galloway / Hollywood Reporter:

Larry Flynt's Wild Life: Porn, Politics and Penile Implants — 25 years after his landmark Supreme Court win over Jerry Falwell, the Hustler magnate opens up about plans to out a closeted GOP congressman, his sex life at 70 and the future of his empire. — Larry Flynt sits by the window of his sleek …

Horace Dediu / asymco:

Measuring the iBook market — In June of 2011 Apple announced that 130 million ebooks were sold through iTunes. In October of 2012 it announced that 400 million sold. — That means 270 million ebooks were sold in 16 months. Or about 17 million units per month, on average.

Michael Berliner / Guardian:

Could online video consumption overtake linear TV viewing by 2020? — Will linear TV tank in the way that HMV and Blockbuster have? To survive, broadcasters need to pre-emptively evolve — John Farrell, director of YouTube Latin America, recently made the bold prediction …