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6:00 AM ET, March 7, 2011

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Felix Salmon:
The FT's decline  —  I had a hard-to-follow Twitter debate yesterday about the FT's paywall, where a couple of FT types — Alan Beattie and John Gapper — told me that the latest numbers for digital subscribers show that I was wrong when I criticized the FT's strategy in October 2007.
Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu
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Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
Financial Times Digs Gold Out of Data  —  PARIS — For newspapers, connecting with readers is the ultimate challenge.  At newsstands, many customers choose a paper only after they see the headline on the cover.  The lady in hair curlers and a bathrobe might choose “Toe job to no job,” …
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Digital Media Milestone: News Consumption via Mobile Reaches Nearly Half for Financial Times
Discussion: Future of Journalism
Tim MacMahon / ESPN:
Mark Cuban, Charlie Sheen in talks  —  DALLAS — Mark Cuban, the outspoken billionaire owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, and controversial actor Charlie Sheen could soon be business partners.  —  Cuban confirmed Sunday evening that he's had several conversations with Sheen recently …
Dylan Tweney / Epicenter:
Al Jazeera English Plans Show Centered on Social Networking  —  As the Arab world reels with revolutions fomented in part online, Al Jazeera English is planning a new talk show that has social networking at its heart.  —  It's just lucky timing, says Ahmed Shihab-Eldin …
John Koblin / WWD Media Headlines:
Memo Pad: Joanne Lipman's Newsweek Debut  —  JOANNE LIPMAN RETURNS: Joanne Lipman, the former Portfolio editor in chief — who has held a relatively low profile since the business magazine was shut down 23 months ago — will write regularly for Tina Brown's new Newsweek.
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Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Mobile First, and a Mag  —  Two French journalists come to me with a question: which business model for their new project?  They are about to resuscitate a fairly well-know trade journalism brand, planning to go mostly online — and marginally on dead trees.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Comments Have Silenced The Trolls — But Is It Too Quiet?  —  As you've noticed by now, we're about a week into our latest experiment in troll-slaying with Facebook Comments.  So far, the reactions have been very mixed and very interesting.  Publicly, many of the reactions were initially negative.
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
‘Today’ Show Moves to Today.com and Stresses Video Clips  —  The “Today” show on Tuesday morning will produce a second show just for the Web — something that seems inherently competitive with its main telecast.  —  But the webcast, called “The Today.com Show,” is largely a promotional affair …
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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:   NBC's ‘Today’ Going Behind the Scenes Tuesday
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Twitter's “Quickbar Uprising” Is Nothing: Wait Till The Ads Really Show Up  —  Some people hate Twitter's new iPhone app, and Twitter is listening: It's going to change the app slightly.  —  Which won't appease the people who hate Twitter's new iPhone app at all.
Mike Swift / Mercury News:
In YouTube, Google finds a nimble model to compete with Facebook  —  Once derided as Google's folly, the home of cheesy cat videos and the money-losing stepchild of an otherwise wildly profitable company, YouTube is emerging as a model for the more nimble, faster-paced company Google co-founder …
New York Times:
China Tracks Foreign Journalists  —  BEIJING — Western journalists have lately been tolerated in China, if grudgingly, but the spread of revolution in the Middle East has prompted the authorities here to adopt a more familiar tack: suddenly, foreign reporters are being tracked and detained …
Discussion: Big News Network.com
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Writers Get Close on Web  —  Simon & Schuster Bets Authors' Video Interviews Can Build Readership, Sales  —  It's the kind of quirky fan question—"Would you ever shave your head?"—that authors might ignore.  But teen novelist Lisa McMann, in a simulated Web-based video conversation …
Wall Street Journal:
The Dictator's Wife Wears Louboutins  —  Vogue magazine missed the trend: Middle Eastern tyrants are out this season.  —  Maybe it takes a fashion dictator to know a fashionable dictator.  How else to explain Vogue editor Anna Wintour's decision this month to publish a 3,000-word paean to that …
 
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Charles Apple:
What will the top of page one of YOUR Gannett paper look like Monday?
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On Language: Hugo Lindgren's New NYT Magazine Rewrites “Lives” Column, Cuts Use Of “F**k,” “S**t” And “Dude.”
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Juby Babu / Reuters:
Sebastien Bubeck, Microsoft's VP of GenAI research who is known for his work on Microsoft's Phi small language models, is leaving the company to join OpenAI

Jennifer Hiller / Wall Street Journal:
Google signs an agreement to purchase nuclear energy generated from multiple small modular reactors developed by Kairos Power, targeting 500 MW by 2035

Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
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