Mediagazer: Author-specific paywalls let publications cash in on journalists' personal brands (Kira Witkin/Editors Weblog)

3:55 PM ET, April 9, 2013

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

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The Huffington Post:

Mother Jones Responds To FBI Investigation Into Article — Mother Jones magazine responded on Tuesday to an FBI investigation into the source of its article about a private meeting held by Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell. — The magazine's David Corn obtained a recording of the meeting …

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Felix Salmon:

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Mathew Ingram / paidContent:

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Kira Witkin / Editors Weblog:

Author-specific paywalls let publications cash in on journalists' personal brands — News is no longer anonymous — and readers don't want it to be. In an era where a Google search can instantly connect you to hundreds of articles on the same topic, all reeling off the same facts …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab

Margalit Fox / New York Times:

McCandlish Phillips, Longtime Times Reporter With Flair, Dies at 85 — McCandlish Phillips, a reporter considered one of the finest stylists on The New York Times, who wrote one of the most famous articles in the newspaper's history — exposing the Orthodox Jewish background …

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Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

Doubling its U.S. member base in 2 years, Pandora hits 200M registered users — Streaming radio service Pandora has crossed the 200-million-registered-user mark, a major milestone for the company coming just a month after CEO Joe Kennedy resigned. — Pandora's impressive reach stems …

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Alastair Reid / @AlastairReid3:

AOP census predicts 15% rise in digital revenue this year — Research by the Association of Online Publishers reveals optimism in sector but diversification in revenue streams — Copyright: Image by Images_of_Money on Flickr. Some rights reserved — Digital revenue growth among online publishers …

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Parmy Olson / Forbes:

This Simple App Could Put E-Books On Millions Of Phones In The Third World — It sounds counterintuitive, but in certain developing nations it's easier to get hold of a cell phone than a good book. — More than one in three adults cannot read in sub-Saharan Africa, yet almost every home …

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Ted Greenwald / Adweek:

How Wired Magazine Changed the Way We Talk About Technology — Imagine a time before smartphones. Before laptops. Before Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and even the mighty Google. A world without Web browsers, when the Internet belonged to universities and going online meant logging onto a local electronic bulletin board.

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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

What next for The Week? The content curator's plans for the digital domain — The Week surprised the publishing industry by carving out a profitable place in the competitive world of magazine news. Now, it is building up its operations for the digital long term.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Big Media Loves Promoted Trends, Twitter's Big-Dollar Digital Billboards — Twitter has been building up its ad business for three years, but early on it figured out that it had a hit with “Promoted Trends.” That's the ad unit that lets a brand occupy the top spot on Twitter's “Trends” …

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Lauren Indvik / Mashable:

With Google's Help, ‘Glamour’ Monetizes Hangouts — In the two years since its launch, publishers large and small have experimented with Google Hangout to host group video chats with well-known guests, readers and staff, hoping to engage readers and attract new followers.

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