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Marco Arment / Marco.org:
The next generation of Instapaper — When I launched Instapaper in 2008, it was a very basic web app. It quickly expanded to define the pillars of the read-later market: a one-click “read later” bookmarklet, a web sync service, an adjustable text view optimized for reading, and an iPhone app with offline saving.
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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Digg Owner Betaworks Buys Instapaper To Go Big On Social Reading And Discovery — Last summer, New York-based hybrid investor / incubator / holding company thing Betaworks acquired social news site Digg and relaunched it soon after, hoping to bring back some of its mojo in the process.
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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
NY Times Overhauls Its Strategy With Tiered Pricing, Live Events and...Games? — Two years ago, the conventional wisdom in the newspaper business said people wouldn't pay for online news. — By a year ago at this time, the consensus had shifted, largely thanks to the success of The New York Times's …
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Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
The New York Times paywall has hit a growth wall
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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
New York Times Co.'s Sales Miss Estimates as Ad Revenue Dives
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The New York Times Company and New York Times
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
SpinMedia Adds Vibe Magazine to Its Digital Portfolio, Minus the Magazine — Last year, Steve Hansen bought Spin magazine, killed the print edition, and kept the website. — Now he's singing the same song with a new title: Hansen's SpinMedia is buying Vibe, the 20-year-old hip-hop and R&B magazine …
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Folio, New York Times, Media & Entertainment, AdAge and FishbowlNY
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Newspapers' alternative regulation plans: the key differences — There are seven key differences between the government and industry plan for a royal charter — In a surprise move a large bulk of the newspaper industry has announced it is rejecting the government's plans for press regulation agreed …
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John Cook / Gawker:
A Judge Told Us to Take Down Our Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Post. We Won't. — Yesterday the Hon. Pamela A.M. Campbell, a circuit court judge in Pinellas County, Fla., issued an order compelling Gawker to remove from the internet a video of Hulk Hogan f**king his friend's ex-wife …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
First, the good news: ‘Daily News’ promotes two in digital — Daily News editor Colin Myler has announced two high-level promotions on the digital side of his newsroom. — The first is Lauren Johnston, promoted from digital managing editor to digital editorial director …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
At the ‘Times,’ the future of blogs is uncertain: Some shuttered, some dormant, all under review — The New York Times is deciding what to do with its dozens of blogs. — Sources tell Capital that a review of the blogs is underway ahead of the paper's planned web relaunch later this year.
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BuzzFeed:
Lisa Tozzi Joins BuzzFeed As News Director — New York Times Veteran To Lead News Coverage For The Social Web — Social news site BuzzFeed announced today it has hired Lisa Tozzi as News Director. Joining BuzzFeed from The New York Times, Tozzi will lead the site's news coverage …
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Jason Koebler / US News:
ACLU: CISPA Is Dead (For Now) — The Senate will not take up the controversial cybersecurity bill, is drafting separate legislation — Sen. Jay Rockefeller says CISPA's passage was “important,” but its “privacy protections are insufficient.” — CISPA is all but dead, again.
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Associated Press:
Mexican Newspaper Photographer Found Dead — MEXICO CITY (AP) — The hacked-up bodies of a newspaper photographer and another young man have been found in the northern Mexico city of Saltillo, the newspaper Vanguardia reported Thursday. Photographer Daniel Martinez Bazaldua had recently …
Matthew Flamm / Media & Entertainment:
Fast Company puts twist on advertiser's content — The fast-growing trend of content marketing—in which publishers turn over editorial space to marketers—is taking a new turn with a content partnership between a Fast Company website and the advertising and marketing agency Ogilvy & Mather.
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Startup BookShout raises $6M; no longer lets users import their Kindle and Nook books — Dallas-based book startup BookShout has raised $6 million in its second funding round. When the company launched, it allowed users to import their Nook and Kindle books onto the platform, but that function has been turned off.
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Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter:
ABC News Unveils TV App That Registers Emotional Reaction of Viewers — The product allows users to click emoticons for applause, booing or laughing during programming and see how others are responding. — ABC News is introducing an app that aims to create a communal TV experience …
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Forbes, ABCNEWS, Variety, TechCrunch, TVNewser, Broadcasting & Cable, App Advice and NewscastStudio
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
iTunes Sales Are Huge! But Growth May Be Slowing. — Apple sold $2.4 billion worth of apps, music, movies and books via its iTunes store last quarter. That's almost twice what the company was doing two years ago. And no matter how you look at it, it means Apple is a giant force in digital media retail.
Matt Buchanan / New Yorker:
The Medium of the Moment — After the Boston Marathon bombings, the process by which breaking news and information are generated and disseminated looked more ragged and exposed than ever: CNN stumbled, the New York Post painted a target on a high-school track athlete; Reddit launched …
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