Mediagazer: The Daily Dot Wants to Be the Web's Hometown Paper (Mathew Ingram/GigaOM)

12:25 PM ET, April 3, 2011

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Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:

Standards That Everyone Can See — LAST week The Times reached a strategic frontier with the full introduction of paid subscriptions for digital access to its content. Perhaps less visibly, but also importantly, the newsroom has moved toward a remarkable integration of its print and electronic operations.

Discussion: Rhetorica and For the Record

Felix Salmon:

NYT vs HuffPo, cont. — The NYT's declared war on the Huffington Post shows no sign of dissipating, and as ever the new-look NYT Magazine is at the front lines of the attack. Andrew Goldman's interview with Arianna Huffington is quite astonishing, but first it's worth looking at other news of the week.

Discussion: Poynter, The New Republic, New York Magazine and Runnin' Scared

Bret J. Schulte / CJR:

The Hacker, Off the Couch — Brian Boyer and the rise of “hacker-journalists” — Back in May 2007, Brian Boyer was just another computer guy short-circuiting from ennui sitting on a friend's couch, reading blogs. Then he noticed a post on BoingBoing about Northwestern University's Medill School …

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Sorry, Bloggers, but Huffpo Isn't Like a Comedy Club — Michael Walker, writing in the Los Angeles Times, compares the Newspaper Guild-led boycott of the Huffington Post to the famous 1979 boycott of the Comedy Store, the seminal L.A. stand-up venue. Like Arianna Huffington …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Mediaite and The Huffington Post

Michael Walker / Los Angeles Times:

Why should writers work for no pay? — Contributors to the Huffington Post have begun to chafe at the no-pay policy. They could take a lesson from stand-up comedians who faced a similar insult in the 1970s. — Arianna Huffington, president and editor in chief of Huffington Post Media Group.

Discussion: Opinion L.A., Random Pixels and Loose Talk, Poynter, MediaPost and The Atlantic Wire

Bloomberg:

Click to Buy That Handbag in Vogue as Fashion Magazines Become E-Tailers — Vogue and Elle have long influenced what clothes and handbags image-conscious consumers buy. Now, in a bid to reverse flagging sales and stay relevant, fashion magazines may sell the products they feature in their articles.

Discussion: Noted

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

The Daily Dot Wants to Be the Web's Hometown Paper — People often talk about how the social web makes the Internet seem like a small town, and now former VentureBeat and Valleywag editor Owen Thomas says he wants to give the web “its own hometown newspaper” called The Daily Dot.

Discussion: Poynter, The Huffington Post and The Wire, Thanks:davidfg

James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:

On the Media: A small-town reporter's big influence — A black businessman was burned to death in tiny Ferriday, La., in 1964. Justice may finally be served, thanks to the reporting of Stanley Nelson of the weekly Concordia Sentinel. — from ferriday, la.

Tom Huang / Poynter:

Coverage of Japanese citizens' ‘stoic’ response to tragedy both accurate, stereotypical — A master narrative has developed around the media's coverage of Japan's earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, leading us to believe that there are cultural roots in the Japanese citizens' stoic response …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

The More Bill Keller Says, the Worse He Gets — Bill Keller, the editor of America's greatest newspaper, continues to systematically dismantle his professional reputation by writing an unnecessary, vainglorious, and ill-advised column in the New York Times Magazine, in which he demonstrates …

Bill Keller / New York Times: Secrecy in Shreds — Last year, Gabriel Schoenfeld …

Martin Belam / currybetdotnet:

News innovation isn't just about writing code, it is about how we use that code to tell stories — This blog post is my contribution to the third Carnival of Journalism — Nick Petrie on the Wannabe Hacks blog recently asked why news organisations were only getting to grips with the concept of online community now in 2011.

Mike Spector / Wall Street Journal:

Icahn, Dish Submit Bids for Blockbuster — Billionaire investor Carl Icahn and satellite-television provider Dish Network Corp. have each submitted bids for Blockbuster Inc. ahead of a bankruptcy court auction next week, said people familiar with the matter.

Discussion: GigaOM, Electronista and Voices on All Things Digital