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80% Won’t Pay For Online Content, The Other 20% Are Lying
8:40AM Ryan Tate | Forrester Research has a new study out that Rupert Murdoch should probably download: Of 4000 people polled, 80 per cent will not pay for online newspapers or magazines, and the rest are divided on how they want to pay. More »
Big Screen
2:03AM Gabriel Snyder | — explaining why he doesn’t read newspapers at the book party for Harry Evans’ My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times, to Daily Intel. (For what it’s worth, he doesn’t like computers or BlackBerrys either.)
Martin Scorsese —
2:03AM Gabriel Snyder | — explaining why he doesn’t read newspapers at the book party for Harry Evans’ My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times, to Daily Intel. (For what it’s worth, he doesn’t like computers or BlackBerrys either.)
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Don’t Invest In Newspapers
3:25AM Hamilton Nolan | You may be aware that deathly newspaper company stocks have experienced a brief resurgence recently, amidst speculation that things aren’t so bad after all for the newspaper industry. If you benefited from this resurgence at all, lucky you. Now sell. More »
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Wall Street Journal Takes On Local News
6:12AM Hamilton Nolan | The Wall Street Journal is planning to hire a dozen new staffers to cover local news in NYC, Media Decoder reports. Let us point out every last implication to this news! More »
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The Great Newspaper Firewall Is Coming. And?
1:57AM Hamilton Nolan | Newsday is going to start charging for its awful website. One columnist there quit over it. The New York Times says it will make a decision on charging for its (good) website “within weeks”. Then what happens? More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
7:06AM Jess McGuire | As I picked up my free copy of the Evening Standard on my way home from a highly pleasant day frolicking around Hampstead Heath, I glanced at the front page and briefly believed two of the Spice Girls had been taken hostage! More »
Spice Girls Kidnapped By Pirates!
7:06AM Jess McGuire | As I picked up my free copy of the Evening Standard on my way home from a highly pleasant day frolicking around Hampstead Heath, I glanced at the front page and briefly believed two of the Spice Girls had been taken hostage! More »
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Old Media’s eReader Saviours: A Comprehensive Guide
7:50AM Ryan Tate | Barnes & Noble is making an eReader; Gizmodo published the first pictures today. With similar media-tech fusions out or anticipated from Amazon.com, Apple, Hearst, Time Inc. and others, it’s tough to keep track. No worries; here’s a list. More »
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Was Gourmet’s Death The Magazine Bottom?
4:54AM Hamilton Nolan | In today’s media column: a sunny theory about Conde Nast, and the AP’s crazy scheme, for money. More »
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New York Times : ‘We Are So Old’
3:17AM Hamilton Nolan | Charming ad in today’s NYT: a 100 year-old Times front page, with a Corn Flakes ad at the bottom. ‘Statue of Purity For Times Square,’ says one typically laughable old-timey headline. How unlikely! More »
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