Mediagazer: Sports Illustrated Is Testing a New Type of Paywall (Lucia Moses/Adweek)

8:55 PM ET, October 8, 2013

Top News:

Government presses on with Parliament-backed press regulation plan - but offers compromise on libel arbitration — The Government has rejected a press regulation plan put forward by newspaper and magazine publishers and is instead press ahead with the ratification of a Royal Charter …

Discussion: Guardian

Guardian:
Press plans for post-Leveson regulation rejected by ministers

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, Guardian, @arusbridger, @lisaocarroll, @newsviewer, Kirk LaPointe's …, Media Law Prof Blog, @richpeppiatt, Spectator and The Drum

Hugh Grant / Guardian:
Ignore the press barons: a royal charter is not ‘state regulation’

Discussion: @hackedoffhugh and CNN

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Government gives press three days to get behind regulation plans

Discussion: @lisaocarroll, @dbanksy and @michaelwolffnyc

Fraser Nelson / Spectator:
Sorry, Maria Miller. We still won't sign

Discussion: @misterjorgensen, @douglascarswell, @leshinton, @drwollastonmp, @alexmassie and @make_trouble

Paul Vale / UK - The Huffington Post:
Maria Miller Rejects Newspaper Industry Proposal For Royal Charter On Press Regulation

Discussion: Guardian, @skynewsbreak and @bbcnormans

Alex Kantrowitz / AdAge:

Flipboard Hits 90 Million Users, Nearly Doubles Since April — Just two weeks after announcing a $50 million dollar round of funding, mobile news reader Flipboard revealed growth numbers that may explain investors' eagerness to get behind it. — The company now claims 90 million users …

Discussion: Fast Company and GigaOM

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Flipboard, Currents are “scams against publishers”

Discussion: GigaOM, @bmorrissey, @jakerome, @vb2b and @michaelroston

Steve Volk / Philadelphia Magazine:

Exclusive: Internal Documents Tell the Tale of Inquirer Editor Bill Marimow's Dismissal — Inquirer editor Bill Marimow was fired after many months of infighting with publisher Bob Hall, according to internal documents anonymously delivered this afternoon to Philadelphia magazine.

Philly.com:
Inquirer editor fired because of “philosophical differences” over direction of newspaper

Discussion: @nycjim, The New York Observer, @huffpostmedia, @bydanielvictor, @mathewi and @bydanielvictor

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

BBC Launches Playlister, A Social Music Service With Spotify, YouTube And Deezer To Tag Tracks Heard On BBC — On the heels of the BBC ramping up its iPlayer on-demand video and music player as the go-to place for all its digital assets, the UK's public broadcaster is also gearing up to take its music service up another notch.

Discussion: bbc.co.uk, Home Media Magazine, Softpedia News, Digital Spy, Engadget, The Next Web, Pocket-lint and blogs.ft.com

Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Tony Hall: BBC should give public access to shows online before broadcast

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Pocket-lint, Trust.org, TheMediaBriefing.com, Charlie Beckett and Spectator

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Sports Illustrated Is Testing a New Type of Paywall — Sports Illustrated is testing a paywall that lets readers access its print articles early if they watch a 30-second video ad first. — The provider is Selectable Media, which has been testing consumers' willingness to watch video ads for free WiFi, music and games.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and Top Digital Journal News

Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:

2 Companies in Web Video Are Expected to Merge — In another sign that the world of digital video production may be entering an era of consolidation, two significant participants in the market, Alloy Digital and Break Media, are expected to announce on Tuesday that they will merge.

Discussion: VideoInk, AdAge, VentureBeat and Media & Entertainment

Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:

‘PBS NewsHour’ Looks to Change Ownership — WASHINGTON — MacNeil-Lehrer Productions will give up its ownership of the “The PBS NewsHour,” which has struggled financially in recent years, its two longtime co-anchors told the staff on Tuesday. — In an internal memo, the two co-anchors …

Politico:

No healthcare questions at Obama presser — President Barack Obama sustained an hour-long press conference today without a single question about his signature healthcare law and the glitches that continue to plague the insurance exchanges — a point that frustrated several conservatives.

Discussion: TVNewser, Talking Points Memo, @whpresscorps, @tommyxtopher, @allahpundit, @ethanklapper, @tommyxtopher, @tommyxtopher, @ethanklapper, @tvnewser, @ethanklapper and @ethanklapper

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

Fox, Sinclair and Local TV file suit against Aereo in Utah — The fight over Aereo is moving to Utah. On Monday afternoon, Fox Broadcasting Co., Sinclair Broadcast Group and Local TV filed suit in federal court in Utah against Aereo, the start-up company that streams broadcast TV signals to consumers via the Internet.

Discussion: GigaOM, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Plagiarism Today and Hollywood Reporter

Stephen Gandel / Fortune:

Twitter's shady accounting — Why is Twitter using the same accounting tricks that have been criticized so many times before? — FORTUNE - When it comes to its bottom line, Twitter would like potential investors to put on some heavily tinted rose-colored glasses.

Discussion: @moorehn, New Statesman, Bloomberg, Computerworld, @mccarthyryanj, @jeffjohnroberts, @shannybasar, @fortunemagazine, Los Angeles Times, ZDNet and The Reformed Broker

Sara Morrison / The Wrap:

President Obama Shuns TV Reporters During Shutdown Press Conference — President Barack Obama blamed Republicans in Congress for putting the country on the brink of financial disaster in a Tuesday press conference about the government shutdown that clocked more than an hour …

Discussion: Erik Wemple and Politico

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Hearst UK reports tripled profits — Hearst UK, the British arm of the US company that publishes magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Esquire and Good Housekeeping, has tripled its pre-tax profits to £17.4m, reports The Independent. — And it attributes part of that rise to digital sales …

Discussion: The Independent

Lauren Kirchner / Columbia Journalism Review:

Why journalists can still trust Tor — Despite the Silk Road bust, the Freedom Hosting attack, and even the latest Snowden scoop, it's still one of the most reliable tools for anonymity online — I'm not going to bury the lede. Yes, Tor is still the recommended method for journalists …

Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

Why the Globe and Mail is ‘incentivising newsroom staff’ — The Canadian national newspaper rewards ‘half a dozen’ staff for creating compelling content that results in paywall sign ups — Copyright: Image by vonsorb on Flickr. Some rights reserved — Canada's Globe and Mail …

Discussion: @hermida, @peggylcurran and Big News Network.com

Evan Hill / Al Jazeera America:

In Egypt, an unhappy medium … CAIRO, Egypt — In early September, local journalist Ahmed Abou Draa went looking for a relative he believed was being held in a military facility in the northern Sinai Peninsula. Instead, Draa himself was arrested, held for investigation, and sent before a military tribunal.