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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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Bloomberg, MediaWire Daily, @vb2b, @drudge_report, @patkiernan, @sophiegg, Mashable and Poynter
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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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Gigaom, Crain's New York Business, @sorayadarabi, Columbia Journalism Review 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
Steve Jones / mUmBRELLA:
Bob Garfield predicts bleak future for legacy publishers and journalists in digital age — Media world ‘in chaos’ as journalism, publishing and agencies face grim future, according to US commentator — The future of traditional journalism, particularly at a regional level, is “f**ked” …
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mUmBRELLA, @wendy_squires and @adnh103
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
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 …
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 …
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.
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%.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Sam Sifton to head new ‘Food’ desk at Times — The New York Times is creating a new department called Food to be edited by former national editor and restaurant critic Sam Sifton. The department will include the dining section and the new NYT Cooking site and app that Sifton has been working on …
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@kimseverson, @qkatie, @nytedgerley, FishbowlNY, Poynter and Eater National
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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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, The Week UK, Metro.co.uk, PC Pro, The Drum, The Register, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk, Press Gazette, Guardian and Guardian
Alex Barinka / Bloomberg:
IAC Falls as Aereo Writedown Leads to First Net Loss Since 2010 — IAC/InterActiveCorp fell after reporting its first quarterly loss in more than four years as the company wrote down its investment in Internet-TV startup Aereo Inc. — IAC swung to a second-quarter net loss of $18 million …
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Hollywood Reporter, RTTNews, RTTNews and Wall Street Journal
Jeb Lund / Guardian:
The Sarah Palin Channel is full of bugs, but maybe that's the whole point — My free trial cost me $9.95. And then I found Palin's new intelligibility — Sarah Palin wants your money. Still via the Sarah Palin Channel — Given the content available and the affectedly simple presentation …
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Politico, The Wrap, Mediaite, @guardianus, @mobute, @ryanlcooper, Washington Post, The New York Observer, The Daily Beast and Business Insider
Arsalan Iftikhar / Quartz:
Twitter hashtags are finally neutralizing the Israeli government's propaganda — I told CNN during a recent television interview that there hasn't been a single hot-button topic treated with more intellectually dishonest, one-sided coverage than that which the American media has given …
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The Intercept
Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web:
Rhapsody expands its music streaming into Latin America and Europe, as it reaches 2m users — Established in 2001, Rhapsody helped start the music streaming business before Spotify, Rdio, the iTunes Store and even the iPod. And while the latest services have been waging a battle …
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CNET, Digital Trends, Digital Music News, Associated Press, Engadget, Gigaom, Forbes, GeekWire, Los Angeles Times and TechCrunch
Courtney Lowery Cowgill / Mediashift:
‘Last Best News’ Shows How Personal Brand Journalism Works in Local Markets — When we think of journalists who have built individual brands, national names are the first to pop — Nate Silver, Ezra Klein, Kara Swisher, Andrew Sullivan. — But the factors that have opened doors …
Wall Street Journal:
CEO Mike Fries, Chairman John Malone Talk About Media Consolidation — Cable magnate John Malone and his protégé Mike Fries helped light the fire in Europe's telecom consolidation. Now they are on the prowl for media. — Liberty Global PLC—of which Mr. Malone is chairman …
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Hollywood Reporter
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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