Mediagazer: Warning Shots? Glenn Beck To Poach Fox News Bigwig, Suggesting Big Plans (Colby Hall/Mediaite)

9:35 PM ET, March 21, 2011

Top News:

That was quick: Four lines of code is all it takes for The New York Times' paywall to come tumbling down — The New York Times paywall is costing the newspaper $40-$50 million to design and construct, Bloomberg has reported. — And it can be defeated through four lines of Javascript.

Discussion: Mixed Media, Associated Press, @chanders, Euri.ca Blog and Techdirt, more at Techmeme »

David Carr / Media Decoder:

Paying for The Times at SXSW — On Thursday, I had lunch with a pal at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference, that annual crush of media and technology people that descends on the lovely town of Austin. When he offered to pay, I said, “You don't need to do that.” — “That's all right,” he said.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, The Atlantic Online and Guardian

Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
The NY Times: Un-Free At Last!

Discussion: Daring Fireball

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
All Blog Links To The New York Times Will Be Freebies. This Could Get Ugly.

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, THE DRUM and Seeking Alpha

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
The Biggest Flaw in NYT Pay Plan: It's Backward-Looking

Discussion: ReveNews, Mediaite and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Thanks:mathewi

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Times's Online Pay Model Was Years in the Making

Discussion: Felix Salmon, Runnin' Scared, Poynter, On Media's Blog, Mixed Media, Yahoo! News, The Wire, Gothamist, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, Technologizer, TheAustralian, @stevebuttry, Business Week, @dangillmor and paidContent

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note: NYTimes' “Fair” Prices

New York Times:

Libya Releases 4 Times Journalists — TRIPOLI, Libya — The Libyan government released four detained New York Times journalists Monday, six days after they were captured while covering the conflict between government and rebel forces in the eastern city of Ajdabiya. They were released into the custody of Turkish diplomats.

Agence France Presse:
Two AFP journalists missing in Libya since Friday

Discussion: nppa.org, Press Gazette, New York Observer and Associated Press

Ben Dowell / Guardian:

World Service to sign funding deal with US — Low six-figure investment will aim to help combat censorship of TV and internet services in countries including Iran and China — The BBC World Service is to receive a “significant” sum of money from the US government to help combat the blocking …

Discussion: Fast Company, Editors Weblog, New York Magazine and Media Network

Brooks Barnes / Media Decoder:

A Glossy Take on Disney — LOS ANGELES — Ask executives at Disney Publishing to explain why they are trying to build a children's subscription magazine business in the United States, and the answer will involve marketplace analysis this and business model that.

Discussion: MediaPost, FishbowlNY, The Wire and Canadian Magazines

Colby Hall / Mediaite:

Warning Shots? Glenn Beck To Poach Fox News Bigwig, Suggesting Big Plans — It would be fair to say that the relationship between Fox News and Glenn Beck is being...tested. A recent NY Times column that suggested that Fox News was considering life without its controversial star has led …

Discussion: Deadline.com, The Huffington Post, TVNewser, The Atlantic Wire, Inside Cable News and The Wire

Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:

What's Killing NPR — It's not the conservative attacks. It's the network's complete lack of a strategy to save itself. In this week's Newsweek, Howard Kurtz describes how NPR reporters are pointing fingers at their own management. — Steve Inskeep, A veteran National Public Radio correspondent …

Discussion: The Hill, Media Matters for America and The Daily

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

If You Love Something, Set It Sort-Of Free: Condé Nast Mulling Reddit Spin-Off — Condé Nast, which bought Reddit five years ago, is considering spinning out the social news site. — The publisher would continue to own the site, but it's talking to investors about selling a stake.

Discussion: The Next Web

New York Observer:

Foster Kamer Named Senior Editor of ‘The New York Observer’ — Foster Kamer, currently the online news and features editor for Esquire, will join the staff of The New York Observer as a senior editor and Wall Street reporter. — Prior to Esquire, Mr. Kamer reported on media, culture …

Discussion: http://www.fosterkamer.com/ and FishbowlNY

Nikki Usher / Nieman Journalism Lab:

“News media are targeted but audiences are not”: Herbert Gans on multiperspectival journalism — Herbert Gans, a professor emeritus in Sociology at Columbia University, wrote perhaps the seminal book about news organizations. In Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News …

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Slip and slide: Newspaper industry increases production of scary charts — You may have come across the chart-making work of blogger Michael DeGusta last month, when he recrunched some numbers on the music business that illustrated that industry's financial decline.

Ethan Klapper / mediabistro.com:

Meet ‘Producer Matthew’ Keys: Aggregation Journalist — Uprising in Egypt. Earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Missile strikes in Libya. — Major news has broken in every corner of the world during the past few weeks. In that time, Matthew Keys has proven himself to be a must follow for the latest from these hot spots.

Ben LaMothe / 10,000 Words:

Why Newspapers Need Community Managers — The term “community manager” has been around for a while. However with the growth of social media in business, it's turned into more of a buzz term. Do a search online for “Community Manager Job” and you'll get hundreds, if not thousands, of results.

Discussion: eBookNewser

David Carr / New York Times:

The Evolving Mission of Google — Today's quiz: What company derives 96 percent of its revenue from advertising, has a video platform that is currently negotiating with the National Basketball Association, a movie studio and various celebrities, and is developing a subscription service …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Fortune and Noted

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Time Warner, Other Cable Cos. Stake Out Turf in Digital Frontier — IPad App Sets Off Tussle Over Content and Distribution — There's an epic tussle going on over the future of TV, and fusty old cable served notice last week — it won't be left behind.

Discussion: Company Town