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Margalit Fox / New York Times:
Obituary for Vincent Musetto, the New York Post editor who wrote the famous “Headless Body in Topless Bar” headline — Vincent Musetto, 74, Author of ‘Headless’ Headline of Ageless Fame — Vincent Musetto, a retired editor at The New York Post who wrote the most anatomically evocative headline …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
To increase online reach, Reuters will offer free content to web publishers on a metered basis — Reuters to offer free content to Web publishers — Reuters announced Tuesday a plan to offer free content — including pictures, video and text — to online publishers en masse for the first time in the news agency's 160-year history.
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Journalists at Trinity Mirror Midlands could be disciplined if they fail to meet traffic goals — Journalists to be given personal online audience growth targets after job cuts at Trinity Mirror Midlands — Journalists at Trinity Mirror's restructured Midlands newsrooms …
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George Winslow / Broadcasting & Cable:
US broadcasters, including Cox and Hearst Television, launch a free joint streaming news service called NewsOn — Stations Band Together for Streaming News App — Free streaming news service will offer newscasts from ABC, COX, Hearst, Media General and Raycom stations
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Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Micropayments startup Blendle signs up 18 daily newspapers, 15 weeklies in Germany, lets users pay for individual newspaper and magazine articles à la carte — All of Germany just signed up to this micropayment app that people think is the future of news on the web
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TechCrunch, @ejpfauth, Reuters and Poynter
Ken White / Popehat:
Department Of Justice Uses Grand Jury Subpoena To Identify Anonymous Commenters on a Silk Road Post at Reason.com — The United States Department of Justice is using federal grand jury subpoenas to identify anonymous commenters engaged in typical internet bluster and hyperbole in connection with the Silk Road prosecution.
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Linda Zebian / The New York Times Company:
New York Times launches Trending, a real-time list of what's popular on NYTimes.com, in beta, with cooking and in-case-you-missed-it categories — Introducing Trending: A Real-Time List of What's Popular on NYTimes.com, Now Available in Beta — The Times today introduced a beta version of Trending …
Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal:
Tencent tries to convert audience of its free QQ Music streaming service to Green Diamond, a paid membership with better sound and exclusive concerts — Tencent Customers Come for the Music, Stay for the Perks — Internet giant tries to pull off something few have achieved in China: get people to pay for digital music
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Selling packets of channels to subscribers once made sense, but not so much anymore — Selling packets of channels to subscribers once made sense, but not so much anymore — For four decades, the number of channels on the cable-TV dial has risen with seemingly unstoppable momentum, bringing consumers more choices than ever before.
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Micah Singleton / The Verge:
Dash Radio wants to bring FM radio into the modern age — Despite the proliferation of streaming music, somehow radio is still thriving: 91 percent of Americans still listen to old-fashioned AM/FM terrestrial radio. With those kinds of numbers, it's no surprise that Dash Radio …
Katie Richards / Adweek:
For The NYT, Digitizing 16,000 Recipes From Its Past Is Part of Securing Its Future — Specs — Current gig Food editor at The New York Times — Previous gig National editor at The New York Times — National editor to food editor seems like a big shift. How's that going?
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James Warren / Poynter:
A Q-and-A with Hamilton Nolan on Gawker Media's union vote — Organized labor scored a notable win last week as editorial staffers at Gawker Media voted to be represented by the Writers Guild of America, East. Could this be a potentially influential inroad by organized labor into the world …
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Capital New York
Brady Dale / The New York Observer:
News orgs pay $700 per month to crowdsourced news startup Fresco for access to local users ready to take photos of news events — Get Paid to Go to the Scene of News With Fresco Dispatch — Fresco News wants to turn iPhone users on the street into photojournalists.
Kelly McBride / New York Times:
Wikileaks decision to crowd-source $100,000 bounty for the text of TPP deal shows need to rewrite old conventions — When It's O.K. to Pay for a Story — St. Petersburg, Fla. — JOURNALISTS frown on paying sources. This decades-old principle stems from the belief that the tawdry practice corrupts …
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