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5:25 AM ET, January 31, 2014

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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
The secret to having a successful paywall around your news is simple — it's about community  —  Everyone likes to point to the New York Times as the model for a news outlet with a successful paywall or online-subscription model, but as the authors of Columbia University's report on …
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Ciara Byrne / Co.Labs:
Inside The Ad-Free, Crowdfunded Publication That Is Upending The Newspaper Business  —  For two years, Rob Wijnberg was the editor of NRC Next, a Dutch daily newspaper.  After he was fired, he decided he would start over by launching his own publication—and using an entirely new business model.
Discussion: @fastcolabs, @mathewi and @mathewi
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Lance Ulanoff / Mashable:
Facebook Paper Is Content — But Don't Call Facebook a Media Company  —  Is Facebook Paper short for Facebook NewsPaper?  —  Thursday's unveiling of a new standalone content curation app, Facebook Paper, comes after weeks of speculation and rumors about Facebook hiring editors …
Donna Tam / CNET:
Amazon considers $40 increase in Prime subscription fee  —  Amazon may increase its US Amazon Prime membership fee by $40 dollars more, the company's chief financial officer announced Thursday during an earnings call.  —  CFO Tom Szkutak said growing transportation costs may cause …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
MSNBC president apologizes to RNC  —  MSNBC President Phil Griffin apologized to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Thursday for a tweet that suggested conservatives “hate” interracial marriages.  —  “The tweet last night was outrageous and unacceptable.
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Be Careful at the Book Club, the Author Might Be There  —  The living room in the plush apartment on Central Park West was filled with all the trappings of a traditional book club.  —  A dozen people, mostly women, perched on sofas and armchairs with paperbacks on their laps.
Discussion: Melville House Books
Beth Healy / Boston Globe:
John Henry appoints Mike Sheehan CEO of the Globe, names himself publisher  —  Well-known Boston advertising executive Mike Sheehan will become chief executive officer of The Boston Globe, and the newspaper company's new owner, John Henry, will assume the role of publisher …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Fox News once again most and least trusted name in news  —  PPP's 5th annual poll about trust in TV news continues to find what it does every year: Fox News is both the most trusted and least trusted name in news.  —  35% of Americans say they trust Fox News more than any other TV news outlet …
Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:
Net neutrality petition gets a million signatures  —  The advocacy group Free Press, along with a broad coalition of organizations, has delivered the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) a petition with a million signatures asking to restore the federal protections for net neutrality that were struck down in court two weeks ago.
Discussion: Free Press Blog
Josh Stearns / Groundswell:
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bite-Sized News  —  Last week the BBC launched Instafax, a short-form video newswire designed for Instagram where videos are limited to 15 seconds.  For now, the BBC is describing their project as an experiment, but the move is part of a much larger trend that, at one point, I scoffed at.
Discussion: @jcstearns
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Let's face it: social TV is dead  —  Okay, video startups, it's time to get real: That social TV thing you've been trying for the last couple years?  It's not working.  —  The evidence is all around us: A few days ago, Yahoo announced that it was shutting down Intonow, the social TV service it had acquired three years ago.
Adam L. Penenberg / PandoDaily:
Inside the mind of Jason Calacanis  —  Not long after Jason Calacanis raised $20 million in venture capital for Mahalo, his startup that was initially predicated on human-powered search, I flew to Los Angeles to profile him for a magazine.  I'm a native New Yorker who earlier in life …
Discussion: @sarahcuda and @pkafka
Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Uses Data to Charm Advertisers  —  Facebook Refined its Tools that Allow Advertisers to Target Users Based on Spending Habits in Brick and Mortar Stores  —  To make the journey from underachiever to advertising juggernaut, Facebook Inc. had to do some advertising of its own.
Discussion: @reedalbergotti
Sydney Morning Herald:
Australia's prime minister ready to pull the plug on public broadcaster's foreign service  —  Tony Abbott ready to pull the plug on ABC's foreign service  —  Prime Minister Tony Abbott has given a clear indication the government is moving towards stripping the ABC of its foreign broadcast service, the Australia Network.
Discussion: The Stream and Guardian
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
N.F.L. creating digital channel: ‘NFL Now’  —  The National Football League is creating a new HD digital video channel called “N.F.L. Now.”  The channel, which launches this summer, will be available on any device, though apps for iOS, Android and Windows systems, and on web browsers through NFL.com/Now.
Jennifer Silber / Folio:
La Presse+ Sees Significant Gains in First 9 Months  —  New digital edition installed on more than 400,000 iPads.  —  The free digital edition of Montreal-based daily newspaper La Presse has seen tremendous increases in the last nine months.  Since its launch in April last year …
P.J. Bednarski / MediaPost:
Machinima COO Reeves Leaves to Rejoin Start-Up  —  Nanea Reeves, Machinima's chief operating officer since March 2012, left the company at the beginning of the year, is no longer with the company, VideoInk is reporting.  —  VideoInk said multiple sources confirmed that Reeves left the online gamer network …
Discussion: VideoInk
Sarah Laskow / Columbia Journalism Review:
Pacific Standard is upping its Web game to “get the magazine in front of more eyeballs”  —  Pacific Standard is upping its Web game to “get the magazine in front of more eyeballs”  —  Pacific Standard has had an exciting January.  It's been the magazine's biggest traffic month ever, on track to hit 1.25 million uniques.
Bill Mickey / Folio:
Outside Magazine Gets into the Travel Business  —  Launches Outside Go to begin booking customized adventure excursions.  —  Mariah Media's Outside magazine has launched a new division that will begin booking the kind of adventure travel it's long been writing about.
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Former Hulu Head Jason Kilar's Stealth Startup Pitches Magazine Publishers  —  Jason Kilar made a big splash in Web video and TV when he ran Hulu.  —  Now he's trying do the same thing with Web publishing and magazines.  —  Kilar has yet to talk publicly about The Fremont Project, the startup he began staffing up last fall.
Discussion: @pkafka, @mathewi and @delrey
Wall Street Journal:
Time Warner Cable Subscriber Figures Called “Dismal”  —  Company to Up Spending on Technology as It Tries to Fend Off Suitor  —  Under takeover pressure from Charter Communications Inc., Time Warner Cable Inc. reported weaker subscriber results for the fourth quarter but outlined …
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
When Super Bowl Advertisers Compete For the Web, Google Wins  —  Winning the Pre- and Post- Super Bowl Is Increasingly What Counts  —  The big game isn't until Sunday, but for Super Bowl advertisers the first quarter is already over.  That's because increasingly the battle isn't for the game itself …
Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
NBC Universal to Start Selling Addressable Ads in Video on Demand  —  ‘NBCU+ Powered By Comcast’ Will Expand VOD Addressability  —  NBC Universal and parent company Comcast have formed an effort to allow marketers to better target campaigns across NBC Universal's portfolio and expand video on demand addressability.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Tim Franklin is Poynter's new president  —  The Poynter Institute announced Thursday that its new president will be Tim Franklin, the Washington managing editor for Bloomberg News.  Franklin was director of the National Sports Journalism Center at the Indiana University School of Journalism …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Times raises paywall a little higher on mobile  —  The New York Times has tweaked its pay meter for mobile apps.  The bottom line is you're likely, depending how you use them, to hit the paywall sooner.  —  Starting today, users reaching Times content on mobile apps will get free access …
 
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