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For Journalists, a Call to Rethink Their Online Models — COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY has surveyed the state of digital journalism, and it has concluded that journalists must rethink their relationships — and their audiences' relationships — with advertisers. — That does not mean yielding editorial control …
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Introduction — The story so far: what we know about the business of digital journalism — To download the complete version of “The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism,” a new report on digital news economics from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, click here.
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The business of digital journalism — CJR, in its worthy manner, has come out with a 146-page report entitled “The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism”. It includes the story of Gabriel Sherman's 463-word story on nymag.com about Roger Ailes and Sarah Palin …

Huge Ellies upset — Harper's Magazine last night pulled an upset win for excellence in reporting over the heavily favored Rolling Stone and perennial winner The New Yorker at the National Magazine Awards in Manhattan. — The award was for “The Guantanamo Suicides” by Scott Horton, which appeared in the March issue of Harper's.
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC NAMED MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR AT 2011 NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS DINNER — Katie Couric Hosts Awards; Tom Wolfe Honored — The winners of the 2011 National Magazine Awards were announced tonight at the annual awards presentation at 583 Park Avenue in New York City.
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Matt Kinsman / Folio:
Liveblogging/Tweeting the 2011 Ellies
Liveblogging/Tweeting the 2011 Ellies
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Pulitzer winner Stewart to join NYT biz desk — TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE — James Stewart, the Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist, is joining the New York Times business desk to write a column in the Saturday business section, a source confirmed to Talking Biz News.
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About Group CEO Irvine Out; NYTCo's Nisenholtz Will Run Unit — After three years in the position, Cella Irvine is no longer CEO of the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Company's About Group. She is being replaced by Martin Nisenholtz, corporate SVP of digital operations. More to come
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The Sun may stay outside a paywall after all — Do I detect a change of policy at News International about paywalls? If I read correctly between the lines of statements made last night by the publisher's chief marketing officer, Katie Vanneck-Smith, then The Sun is not going to follow …
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
News Corp. Appears To Favour Softer Paid Model For Britain's Biggest Paper
News Corp. Appears To Favour Softer Paid Model For Britain's Biggest Paper
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The Associated Press's Case for Releasing the Bin Laden Photo — President Obama's decision to withhold the visual evidence of Osama bin Laden's death has created a fundamental disagreement between the White House and one of the largest journalism organizations in the world.
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HBO Go Gets It Right; More Than 1 Million Downloads On iOS, Android — HBO's best production this year may not be a program. I had a few doubts at times with the browser version but HBO Go as an app is everything Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes promised with TV Everywhere and then some.
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Senate Hearing On Mobile Privacy Marked By Confusion, Distractions — In a hearing marked by odd points and side-tracks, representatives from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) told a Senate committee today that their policies do, in fact, do a lot to protect users' privacy.
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Al Tompkins / Poynter:
Steve Kroft explains why he broke interviewing rules when questioning Obama about bin Laden death for ‘60 Minutes’ — When Steve Kroft interviewed President Obama last week about the raid on Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Pakistan, the “60 Minutes” veteran violated many of the guidelines …
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Google's Music Beta is official (update: details!) — Google has a page up at music.google.com/music for its brand spanking new “Music Beta” service. You can request an invite already, but you'll have to wait until Google announces the service onstage at Google I/O to know exactly what you're signing up for.
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FT Still Negotiating With Apple On iPad Subscriptions — With a month to go until publishers must either fall in with Apple's new in-app purchasing terms or quit iOS in June, The Financial Times is not yet amongst the small early group to have consented to the new rules.
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Time Inc. President John Q. Griffin Exiting The Company — Barely six months into the job, former National Geographic Society publishing exec John Q. Griffin is leaving Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) by “mutual agreement” between him and the company. Griffin, who was not related to ousted …
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