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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
NYT considering shorter print edition at roughly half the price with unlimited digital access — Shorter Times? — The New York Times is considering the introduction of a truncated version of its daily print edition at a discounted rate as the paper mulls new strategies for maximizing …
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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
The NYT's new paywall products flounder — Early problems for the paper's new apps — The New York Times's expanded paywall offerings are off to a poor start, and its three-year run of higher circulation revenue may be at an end. — The Times's digital-subscription strategy …
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New York Times Company, Poynter, TheJournal.ie, @joepompeo, @ryanchittum, @dancow, @ryanchittum, NetNewsCheck Latest and Capital New York
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Contently Launches A Nonprofit Arm To Do Investigative Journalism — In the new era of digital media, everyone's a publisher — celebrities, nobodies, spy agencies, house plants and, especially, brands. Building “the plumbing” for brands that want to be part of this new era …
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Crain's New York Business, Columbia Journalism Review, @sorayadarabi and @shanesnow
Richard Ackland / Guardian:
WikiLeaks gag order: open justice is threatened by super-injuctions — Australian courts have increasingly been issuing suppression orders preventing the publication of legal proceedings - and an implicit dislike of the media is partly to blame — Last month, an Australian judge issued …
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Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
Kodak Movie Film, at Death's Door, Gets a Reprieve — Tarantino, Abrams Mount Campaign to Get Studios to Promise Orders From Kodak — Faced with the possible extinction of the material that made Hollywood famous, a coalition of studios is close to a deal to keep Eastman Kodak Co. in the business of producing movie film.
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Hollywood Reporter, Sky News, Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, BBC, @harrymccracken, @benfritz, WXXI News, WXXI News, RochesterHomepage.net, Ubergizmo and The Verge
Owen Bowcott / Guardian:
Max Mosley sues Google over News of the World photos — High court challenge is aimed at enforcing court order made against tabloid after it printed pictures of F1 boss at sex party — Max Mosley, the former head of Formula One, has launched a legal action against Google in the UK demanding …
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Amazon Joins With Alloy Entertainment on Digital Publishing Imprint — Amazon Publishing and Alloy Entertainment, a book packager and division of Warner. Bros Television Group, are collaborating on a new digital publishing imprint dedicated to young adult, new adult and commercial fiction.
Jack Shafer:
Plagiarists' real crime? Ripping off readers. — The plagiarists are back in the news, taking public beatings for allegedly having filed refried copy at BuzzFeed, the New York Times, and the United States Army War College, where Senator John Walsh, (D-Mont.), has just been busted …
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New York Times, @moorehn, New York Magazine, Washington Post, PandoDaily and The Huffington Post
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Al Jazeera America's Gaza coverage boosts ratings — The crisis in Gaza has provided a ratings boost for Al Jazeera America. — Over the past two weeks, Al Jazeera America has seen its ratings grow by 30% compared with the previous four weeks. Its prime-time audience has jumped 40%.
BBC:
Peers say ‘right to be forgotten’ principle unreasonable — Demands for search engines to remove personal data from the web to respect people's “right to be forgotten” are unreasonable, a group of peers says. — The Lords Home Affairs EU Sub-Committee also said it was wrong to give search engines …
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TechCrunch, The Independent, PC Pro, Metro.co.uk, The Register, The Week UK, The Drum, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk, Press Gazette, Guardian and Guardian
Jason Deans / Guardian:
News of the World's former deputy editor and features editor to face charges over an alleged conspiracy to hack phones — Neil Wallis and Jules Stenson, the former deputy editor and features editor of the News of the World, are to be charged with an alleged conspiracy to hack phones.
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Gary Graham / The Spokesman-Review:
Associated Press Media Editors survey finds 56% use comment-hosting services, 46% allow anonymous comments — Editors concerned about online comments — Associated Press Media Editors recently conducted a survey of newspaper and online editors to ask them how they manage public comments on newspaper websites.
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niemanlab.org and @gjbarb
Amazon.com:
Amazon proposes 35/35/30 split, says cheaper e-book prices offer more profit to all — Update re: Amazon/Hachette Business Interruption — This discussion has reached the maximum length permitted, and cannot accept new replies. Start a new discussion — See latest post
Andy Fixmer / Mashable:
Netflix Signs Peering Deal With AT&T to Reduce Buffering — This story has been updated to include a statement from AT&T confirming the peering deal. — Netflix has reached an agreement with AT&T to give its streaming service direct access to AT&T's network, with the goal of reducing buffering …
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Leo Barraclough / Variety:
Sky Deutschland's Second Biggest Shareholder Rejects BSkyB's Offer — Rupert Murdoch's former son-in-law, hedge fund manager Crispin Odey, says, ‘No, thanks’ — LONDON — Hedge fund manager Crispin Odey, who is the former son-in-law of Rupert Murdoch, has turned down an offer …
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Ian Burrell / The Independent:
Tories accused of picking politically partisan shortlist for new BBC Trust chairman — Interviews to find the successor to Lord Patten as chair of the BBC Trust begin on Thursday amid deep concerns as to how the process is being conducted by the Government.