Mediagazer: Digital news is finally starting to pay (Robert Picard/Guardian)

3:55 PM ET, June 20, 2013

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Robert Picard / Guardian:

Digital news is finally starting to pay — Workable revenue models are emerging that make the future look brighter for publishers, a new report has found — Newspaper publishers beleaguered by digital developments for the past decade are starting to believe that business models to support digital journalism have emerged.

Discussion: Guardian, NetNewsCheck Latest, paidContent, Journalism.co.uk, Kirk LaPointe's … and eMedia Vitals

Neil Thurman / Press Gazette: Reuters Institute survey reveals growing global popularity of live blogs

Leo Kelion / BBC:
Online news is becoming easier to sell, suggests study

Discussion: Newsworks

Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:

Howard Kurtz Joining Fox News To Anchor New Version Of Fox News Watch — Mediaite has learned that Fox News is expected to announce today that Howard Kurtz will join the network. — Kurtz is currently the anchor of CNN's Sunday morning media criticism show Reliable Sources.

Discussion: Business Wire, TVNewser, New York Times, Mediaite, Variety, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Guardian, FishbowlDC, Erik Wemple, Broadcasting & Cable, FishbowlNY, The Wrap, The Huffington Post, @brianstelter, @jamisonfoser, @brianstelter, @jayrosen_nyu and @poniewozik

Marissa Mayer / Yahoo!:

Tumblr. + Yahoo! — It's Officially Official. — We're excited to announce that our deal to acquire Tumblr has closed... it's official! — As promised, Tumblr will continue to operate as a separate business, led by David Karp as CEO. Their product roadmap, their team …

Discussion: Guardian, NetNewsCheck Latest, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Next Web, Business Insider, AllThingsD, Mashable, ReadWrite and The Verge

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Closes Its Purchase Of Tumblr For $1.1B, Reconfirms Karp At The Helm Of Social Site — In a week where Tumblr CEO David Karp did the rounds at the Cannes Lions advertising confab in France, Yahoo has now confirmed that it has completed its acquisition of the social network and blogging site …

Discussion: CNET, AdAge, Business Wire, NYT Bits, AdExchanger and mUmBRELLA

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

The New York Times plans to limit non-subscribers to just 3 articles per day on mobile — The New York Times has announced new plans to limit the amount of content non-subscribing mobile readers can access each day with a new “mobile meter”. — The company announced the plans on Thursday …

Discussion: Poynter, The New York Times Company, New York Times, paidContent, Nieman Journalism Lab and Cision

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

The New York Times is making ads for the future — but where's the present day money? — The Idea Lab of the New York Times has cranked out a series of innovative ad products. Here's some examples — and a look at why the flashy ads haven't lifted Times' ad sales out of a rut.

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and eMedia Vitals

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

WomenEdsWeLove creator: Female editors ‘are not invisible’ & 'they're not that hard to find' — Port Magazine's recent cover, featuring all male magazine editors, prompted journalists to ask an obvious question: Where are all the female editors? — Wanting to show there are plenty of them …

Amanda Hess / Slate:

Here's Why Women's Magazines Don't Produce “Serious” Journalism — Last week, Port magazine ushered in “a new golden age” of print media by illustrating a cover story on the “increasing importance of print media” with the faces of six exclusively male magazine editors.

Mark Glaser / Mediashift:

Columbia J-School Looks to Shed ‘Old School’ Image with Curriculum Revamp — The slang term old school can have different connotations depending on its context. Going “old school” could mean doing something traditional and old-fashioned in a hip way. Or it could be someone who is stuck …

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Sree Sreenivasan to leave chief digital officer post at Columbia University

Discussion: AllThingsD, Columbia University …, @atompkins, @fbonacci, @jasonchupick, @rubinafillion, @columbiaspec, @ryanbeckwith and @columuniversity

Los Angeles Times:

Apple completes closing statement in e-books antitrust trial — Inside this federal courthouse in New York City, lawyers for Apple Inc. and the U.S. Department of Justice are making their closing statements in e-book price-fixing trial. (Stan Honda / AFP/Getty Images)

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Google, Amazon ask to shield sales in Apple ebook trial; judge says issues have “shifted”

Discussion: PublishersWeekly.com and Washington Post

Andrew Albanese / PublishersWeekly.com:
For Apple, Price-Fixing Trial Closes With a Win

Discussion: paidContent and Fortune

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

AP Takes A Stake In Bambuser, The Real-Time Mobile Video Service That Helps Eyewitnesses Tell Their Stories — Bambuser, the upstart mobile video service that has carved out a name for itself as a crucial tool for eyewitnesses to record and transmit footage of major events …

Discussion: Associated Press, Broadcasting & Cable, NetNewsCheck Latest, FishbowlNY, Beet.TV, The Next Web, Journalism.co.uk, Poynter and Mediashift

Aaron Mesh / Willamette Week:

Oregonian Publisher Says Paper is Reducing Home Delivery Days, Laying Off Staff — The Oregonian confirmed this morning that the paper will reduce print delivery to three days a week. — Publisher N. Christian Anderson III informed readers at 10 am that the paper will continue …

Discussion: Oregonian, JIMROMENESKO.COM, @aaronmesh, @editorswindler, @annargriff, @annargriff, @annargriff, @annargriff and @kacw

Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:

Michael Hastings, the FBI, and WikiLeaks: Death of Journalist Sparks Conspiracy Theories — The death of reporter Michael Hastings, best remembered for taking on General Stanley McChrystal and other powerful people, has been met with shock and grief in the journalistic community …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Rancid Honeytrap and The Huffington Post

Brian Bennett / Los Angeles Times: Michael Hastings researching Jill Kelley case before death

Ted Johnson / Variety:

Time Warner Cable Lawsuit: Another Attack on Channel Bundling — The cable industry's practice of bundling channels is facing pressure from plenty of consumer groups, upstart competitors and John McCain. But the question posed by a class action suit is whether there is a case to be had for the many customers who pay the bills.

Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley:
McCain, Blumenthal want FCC to move ball forward on sports blackout rule

Discussion: Adweek, Broadcasting & Cable and Radio & Television …

Alyson Raletz / bizjournals:

Sprint jumps ahead with $5 offer for Clearwire — Sprint Nextel Corp. has reclaimed Clearwire Corp.'s favor with a new offer of $5 per share. — Overland Park-based Sprint (NYSE: S) and acquisition target Clearwire (Nasdaq: CLWR) said Thursday that they'd agreed to the new deal, which values Clearwire at $14 billion.