Mediagazer: Judge to copyright troll: your “business model” isn't my problem (Nate Anderson/Ars Technica)

Michael Roberts / The Latest Word:

Brian Hill: Righthaven drops suit against autistic blogger, warns other targets not to rest easy — Righthaven LLC, the Nevada firm that's been suing for copyright infringement on behalf of companies like MediaNews Group, owner of the Denver Post, picked a sympathetic target when it went …

Discussion: paidContent and Poynter

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:

Judge to copyright troll: your “business model” isn't my problem — Ars Technica freelancer Eriq Gardner was recently sued over a photo that appeared in a piece he wrote for us last year. The flimsy lawsuit was quickly dismissed, but the company behind it lives on—and has sued 50+ people in Colorado for their use of the same photo.

Discussion: TeleRead and Righthaven Victims

Heather Dougherty:

Impact of paywall on NYTimes.com — After months of speculation, the paywall for The New York Times went live at 2pm on Monday, March 28th, which limits online readers (non-print subscribers) to 20 articles each month. For smartphone and tablet applications, only the top news section …

Discussion: paidContent, VentureBeat, Mashable! and ReadWriteWeb, more at Techmeme »

Keach Hagey / The Politico:

Jonathan Alter out at Newsweek — The final member of the “Newsweek Six” has left the building. — Jonathan Alter, the only remaining member of the gang of television-loving newsweekly scribes so dubbed by Slate's Jack Shafer, is no longer with the publication.

Discussion: Runnin' Scared, @romenesko, @rafat, The Atlantic Wire, FishbowlNY and New York Magazine

Discussion: Poynter

Tom Krazit / paidContent:

Amazon To Sell Ad-Supported Kindle For $25 Discount — Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) will sell its Kindle e-reader for $25 less than the lowest list price currently available—if customers are willing see ads and other types of sponsored content. — Most of the valuable real estate on Amazon.com's home page …

Discussion: PC Magazine, CNET News, VentureBeat, SocialTimes.com, TechCrunch, Fast Company and Bridget Carey, more at Techmeme »

Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:

Facebook for Journalists: More Work Than Twitter, but With a Bigger Payout — Last week, Facebook launched a Page called Journalists on Facebook in an effort to encourage the news community to use the site's Page feature as a distribution and research tool.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Maybe Cord Cutting Isn't Here Yet. What About Cord Shaving? — Here's an answer that might satisfy the two sides in the “Cord cutting is real! No it isn't!” debate: Perhaps Web video fans aren't dumping cable in favor of Netflix, Hulu, etc. Perhaps they're just dumping premium cable channels, like HBO.

Thanks:mikepilarz

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Arianna Huffington and Nick Denton Hug Out Their Beef — That's Bill Maher on the left, but it could totally be Nick Denton now that he and Arianna Huffington are all buddy-buddy again. Image by Getty Images via @daylife — Arianna Huffington, blog empress, does not have warm feelings toward Nick Denton, blog overlord.

Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:

Consolidation of Trade Publications Nears — The long-planned consolidation of three familiar trade publications into one is beginning at Prometheus Global Media. — Monday brought the final issues of two publications, Brandweek and Mediaweek, which have been published along with their sibling, Adweek, for almost 10 years.

Discussion: The Wire and Poynter

Alex Mindlin / New York Times:

More Media Time, on Various Screens — Americans are spending about 20 percent more time consuming radio, television and the Internet than they were a decade ago, according to a survey by two media measurement firms. — That jump reflects in part a rise by 26 percentage points in the number of Americans with access to the Internet.

Discussion: TVWeek.com and Noted

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Film shoots to farmers markets: Users respond to Everyblock's community-focused redesign — Late last month, Everyblock launched an overhaul of its site — its “first major redesign,” and one “driven by the feedback we've been getting over the past year.” The revamp marked a significant shift …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Ted Nesi / WPRI.com Blogs:

NYT's Nocera on paywalls, Providence and CEO pay — “Local boy makes good.” In the news business, few Rhode Island natives fit that hoary headline better than Joe Nocera. — Nocera grew up in Providence, graduating from Classical High in 1970 before attending Boston University.

Discussion: The Big Lead and Talking Biz News

Ben Popper / Betabeat:

10 Things the Media Either Gets Wrong or Doesn't Know About the Winklevoss Twins — The Winklevoss twins lost another round in their legal battle against Mark Zuckerberg today, but according to their lawyer, they aren't giving up yet. Our newest team member, Foster Kamer …

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Kiip Is An Entirely New Mobile Ad Model: Real Life Rewards For In-Game Achievements — Kiip, the seven month-old mobile ads startup, is finally coming out of stealth today and revealing an entirely new model for in-game advertising, one that offers users value instead of fighting an uphill battle for their attention.

Discussion: Marketing Pilgrim, Techland, Mashable!, GigaOM and Epicenter

Violet Blue / ZDNet:

AOL/HuffPo Shuts Down Download Squad — In a surprise move Monday night, popular software blog Download Squad became the latest tech casualty in Huffington/AOL's so-called ‘consolidation’ of its content sites. In an end-of-the-day email, Download Squad's staff was told that the blog …

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Front-Runner for CBS Anchor Is ‘60 Minutes’ Reporter — Growing up, Scott Pelley's journalistic dream was very specific: he wanted to work at “60 Minutes,” which was and is the nation's pre-eminent television newsmagazine. — He checked all the television correspondent boxes — wars …

Discussion: Yahoo! News and New York Times

The Wrap:

Viacom's Philippe Dauman Is America's Top-Paid CEO, Report Says — Recession? What recession? A New York Times ranking of the top-paid CEOs says media-conglomerate chief made $84.5 million in just 9 months last year

Jim O'Neill / Online Video News:

Ooyala launches Ooyala Everywhere, Ooyala Personal Playback — White label online video platform Ooyala is rolling out a suite of services designed to help content creators and distributors deliver rich, personalized viewing experiences directly to consumers, helping to bring more premium …

Josh Tapper / Nieman Journalism Lab:

How Russia's top journalism school is revamping its curriculum to create a new culture of press freedom — The limitations on press freedom in Russia have been well-documented. With the Kremlin holding a stake in each of the country's six national television stations …

Wall Street Journal:

Time Warner Eyes Headquarters Move — Time Warner Inc. is considering moving its headquarters to Manhattan's far West Side as Related Cos. tries to kick-start its $15 billion Hudson Yards development planned there, people familiar with the matter said. — The talks are in preliminary stages and could fizzle.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and New York Observer

Simon Dumenco / AdAge:

How Twitter Can Stop Its Descent Into a Cable-News-Style Disinformation Network — It's Time to Make Sense of Those Disinformational Memes — Here's the ongoing problem with Twitter: It wants your love and respect, even as it wastes your time and insults your intelligence.

Andrew Hampp / AdAge:

How One Man Is Trying to Make YouTube Talent Rich — Fullscreen Founder George Strompolos Looks to Bridge Gap Among Viral-Video Stars, Advertisers and Distributors — Want to make money on YouTube right now? Talk to George Strompolos. — Mr. Strompolos, a former business-development …

The Wrap:

Mark Burnett, Hearst Announce Joint Venture — Hearst and Mark Burnett announced a media, production and events-based joint venture Monday that will focus on media content, producing events around it, and spinning off television shows and other programming based on Hearst brands.

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, Media Decoder, Media & Entertainment, Media News International, MediaPost, Adweek, rbr.com, Market Wire, FishbowlNY and Poynter

Adam Hochberg / Poynter:

Twitpic, Flickr use by eyewitnesses raises questions for news orgs about image rights, compensation — When a Southwest Airlines 737 developed a six-foot hole in the fuselage in mid-air recently, some passengers screamed, others prayed. — Shawna Malvini Redden tweeted.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Simon / Bloggasm:

The New Yorker allows Facebook fans access to its paywall content — Though some of the articles published in The New Yorker each week are free, it still shelves many of them behind a paywall. But on my Facebook news feed I just caught a glimpse of a new roll-out from the magazine: web content only available on its Facebook page:

Discussion: Mashable!, Poynter, Inside Facebook and Journalism.co.uk, more at Techmeme »

Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:

When to hyperlink within an online news story? — By Robert Niles: When to hyperlink within an online news story? — That's a question that challenges even the most experienced online writers. Hyperlinks imbue a news story with the power of the World Wide Web, allowing writers to source information …

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Tessa Jowell phone-hacking admission changes everything — Am I alone in being troubled by the fact that News of the World journalists targeted the former culture secretary, the minister responsible for media policy? — Two days ago it seemed that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp had finally seized …

Discussion: Telegraph, Journalism.co.uk, BBC, The Wire and Telegraph