Mediagazer: Swear words ban leaves Russian media in a muddle (Miriam Elder/Guardian)

4:25 PM ET, April 10, 2013

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Aereo Has TV Networks Circling the Wagons — When Chase Carey, Rupert Murdoch's top deputy at News Corporation, told broadcasters on Monday about his contingency plan to turn the Fox network into something available only on cable, he knew policy makers would be listening, too.

Discussion: Forbes, VentureBeat, Electronista, TVNewsCheck.com, Los Angeles Times, Policy Blog, FierceCable, @samgustin, The Verge, @dannysullivan, CyberJournalist.net and TIME

Steven Musil / CNET:
CBS joins Fox in considering subscription-only model

Discussion: New York Times and FishbowlNY

Alan D. Mutter / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Why paywalls are scary — The case for paywalls would seem to be compelling: Staunch the decline in print circulation, get paid for producing valuable local content and tap into a fresh source of sorely needed revenue at a time advertising sales continue to shrink. — All good? Not necessarily.

Discussion: American Journalism Review, @jeffjarvis and @jayrosen_nyu

Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

The trouble with Tumblr's journalism experiment — To understand why Tumblr suddenly brought an end to its original-journalism project, Storyboard, after just a year, it helps to consider what outgoing Facebook managing editor Dan Fletcher told an audience at Washington State University last month.

Discussion: Mashable, Mashable, The Huffington Post and The Loop

Adam Weinstein / Gawker:
If Tumblr 'Couldn't Be Happier' With its Journalists, Why'd it Just Fire Them All?

Discussion: Businessweek, Daily Dot, TechCrunch and reach for the sky

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
Tumblr Axes Its Editorial Team Behind Storyboard On The Way To Profitability

Discussion: Tumblr Staff Blog, paidContent, Betabeat, Poynter, One Man & His Blog, @nicknotned, good girls finish last, Business Insider, FishbowlNY, CNET, Digital Media Wire, @lindsayism, THE BAD DEAL, @adamweinstein, @mattboggie and @antderosa

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

Alec Baldwin Said to Be in Talks to Join NBC's Late-Night Lineup — A well-known name is the latest to surface in the populated field of late night television hosts: Alec Baldwin. — The Emmy-winning actor is in the mix for a spot in NBC's late-night lineup, one executive involved in the network's program planning said.

Discussion: Mediaite, Radio & Television …, Business Insider, Deadline.com, Splitsider, The Daily Caller, Vanity Fair, The Corsair, The Wrap, Inside TV, Forbes, Gothamist, Digital Spy and TVLine

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

USPS won't end Saturday delivery — The U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday it will not end Saturday delivery, something it announced in February that it planned to do. — The USPS hoped curtailing delivery on those days would help it control costs. Unlike many other government bodies …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, CNNMoney.com, Bloomberg, Home Media Magazine, USA Today, Associated Press, Washington Times, The Hill, U.S., nbcnews.com and The Verge

John Harris / Guardian:

Tim Waterstone: ‘If reading is going be all digital in 50 years, so be it’ — Thirty years ago, Tim Waterstone founded one of the UK's best-known booksellers, and is still in love with the idea of bookshops. So what is he doing starting a new ebooks venture?

Discussion: The Bookseller

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Waterstones founder to help launch new e-singles subscription site, Read Petite

Discussion: Retail Week

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

MEMO: The New York Times Replaces Its Tech Editor Two Months After He Got The Job — Only two months after he got the gig, the new New York Times tech editor is already the old New York Times editor. — On January 16, the Times replaced tech editor Damon Darlin with assistant managing editor Glenn Kramon.

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

Jeff Zucker is remaking CNN. Are viewers tuning in? — For a few minutes the other night, the hot topic on CNN was . . . bacon. The panel on a new prime-time show called “(Get to) The Point” came out boldly in favor of it. — “I had a double order this morning at breakfast …

Discussion: TheBlaze.com, TVNewser and Inside Cable News

Miriam Elder / Guardian:

Swear words ban leaves Russian media in a muddle — Confusion over new law that leaves media facing hefty fines if they break ban despite no list of prohibitive words being issued — Russian media outlets that print swear words face heavy fines under rules signed into law on Monday by the president.

Charlie Savage / New York Times:

Military Tightens Media Rules in Case of Private Who Leaked Files — FORT MEADE, Md. — The military on Wednesday tightened rules on reporters covering the court-martial proceedings against Pfc. Bradley Manning because of a bootleg recording of him speaking at a pretrial hearing in February that surfaced online.

Discussion: Guardian

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:

Disney Studios Lays Off 150 Employees — LOS ANGELES - Walt Disney Studios, which employs 7,000 people, on Wednesday laid off 150 workers, including a few relatively senior executives in movie publicity and the DVD department. — The layoffs followed a yearlong review by the company.

Discussion: LA Biz Observed, Hollywood Reporter, Bloomberg, Reuters, Variety and Los Angeles Times

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Circa's Matt Galligan on Building a Different Kind of News Reader (Video) — Earlier this week, I went for a visit to the San Francisco HQ of Circa, the startup that always seems to get lumped into the mobile news reader aggregation category with others such as Pulse, Zite and Flipboard.

Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat:

Roku's reach: 5M set-top boxes, 8B pieces of streaming content — Roku announced today that it has sold five million of its video and music streaming set top boxes, claiming that 25 percent of its users are using Roku as the primary way of viewing television.

Discussion: The Official Roku Blog, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Forbes and Engadget

John Paul Titlow / ReadWrite:

Why I Need Aereo TV — And You Do, Too [Review] — The first time you launch Aereo, you start to see why TV network executives are losing their minds. It's not because the service feels like it's doing anything wrong. Quite the opposite. For the consumer, it's doing almost everything right.

Discussion: AllThingsD and The Week

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Medium Adds Collaboration Tools To Its Publishing Platform, Allowing People To Add Notes To Your Posts — Today, Ev Williams' latest startup, Medium, added some tools to bring people together while they're writing. The collaboration tools are similar to what you'd find in Google Docs …

Discussion: Medium

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

BBC staff have £750,000 worth of gadgets lost or stolen in three years — Laptops, tablet computers and mobile phones among the 785 electrical items lost by corporation staff since 2010 — BBC staff have lost 785 laptops, tablet computers and mobile phones in the past three years, a Freedom of Information request has revealed.

Caroline Winter / Businessweek:

Would You Tweet This Article if It Earned You Points? — Is it possible to coerce virality? Won Hee Chang, a young Korean tech entrepreneur, is looking to find out by reviving her grandfather's magazine with a new model for monetizing online journalism: Readers who share content via social media …