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Now that Apple-publisher relations have thawed, the New York Times' David Carr moved to the next issue: Negotiations between publishers and advertisers over how valuable in-app ads are, and how much those ads should cost. Time.com's Chris Gayomali wondered why magazines are more than giving away app subscriptions with print subscriptions, and concluded that it's about getting more eyeballs on the print product, not the app, in order to maintain the all-important ad rate base. In other words, Carr said in another post, publishers are following the old magazine model, where the product is priced below cost and the money is made off advertising instead. 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— Your iPad update for this week: AdWeek looked at why most media companies' iPad apps have been disappointing, and New York and Newsweek magazines released their iPad apps — Newsweek's with a subscription option.

— The Columbia Journalism Review ran a short but sharp editorial urging news organizations to work toward earning authority based on factual reporting, rather than cowering in ideological niches, and Free Press' Josh Stearns connected that idea to the concept of "talking to strangers."

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NPR CEO Vivian Schiller explained why Williams was booted (he engaged in non-fact-based punditry and expressed views he wouldn't express on NPR as a journalist, she said), but, of course, not everybody was pleased with the decision or its rationale. (Here's Williams' own take on the situation.) Much of the discussion was pretty politically oriented — New York's Daily Intel has a pretty good summary of the various perspectives — but there were several who weren't pleased with the firing along media-related lines. The American Journalism Review's Rem Rieder said the move came too hastily, and The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg said he doesn't like the trend of news organizations firing reporters over statements about Muslims or Jews.

Glenn Greenwald of Salon didn't care for this firing in particular, but said if you cheered the firings of those other reporters, you can't rail about this one for consistency's sake. The Columbia Journalism Review's Joel Meares, meanwhile, argued that Williams' firing sent the wrong message, especially for a news outlet known for taking advantage of controversial moments as opportunities for civil discourse: "Say something off-key, and you’re silenced, Buy Bromazepam Without Prescription. Expect that from CNN, but we thought better of NPR."

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Newsweek and The Daily Beast's deal dies: With rumors swirling of a merger between Newsweek and the online aggregator The Daily Beast, we were all ready to start calling the magazine TinaWeek or NewsBeast last weekend. But by Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal had reported that the talks were off. There were some conflicting reports about who broke off talks; the Beast's Tina Brown said she got cold feet, but new Newsweek owner Sidney Harman said both parties backed off. (Turns out it was former GE exec Jack Welch, an adviser on the negotiations, who threw ice water on the thing.)

Business Insider's Joe Pompeo gave word of continued staff shuffling, and Zeke Turner of The New York Observer reported on the frosty relations between Newsweek staffers and Harman, as well as their disappointment that Brown wouldn't be coming to "just blow it up." The Wrap's Dylan Stableford wondered what Newsweek's succession plan for the 92-year-old Harman is. Buy Bromazepam Without Prescription, If Newsweek does fall apart, Slate media critic Jack Shafer said, that wouldn't be good news for its chief competitor, Time.

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Reading roundup: We've got several larger stories that would have been standalone items in a less busy week, so we'll start with those.

— As Gawker first reported, The Huffington Post folded its year-old Investigative Fund into the Center for Public Integrity, the deans of nonprofit investigative journalism. As Gawker pointed out, a lot of the fund's problems likely stemmed from the fact that it was having trouble getting its nonprofit tax status because it was only able to supply stories to its own site. The Knight Foundation, which recently gave the fund $1.7 million, handed it an additional $250,000 to complete the merger.

— Nielsen released a study on iPad users with several interesting findings, including that books, TV and movies are popular content on it compared with the iPhone and nearly half of tablet owners describe themselves as early adopters. Also in tablet news, News Corp. delayed its iPad news aggregation app plans, and publishers might be worried about selling ads on a smaller set of tablet screens than the iPad, Buy Bromazepam Without Prescription.

— From the so-depressing-but-we-can't-stop-watching department: The Tribune Co.'s woes continue to snowball, with innovation chief Lee Abrams resigning late last week and CEO Randy Michaels set to resign late this week. Abrams issued a lengthy self-defense, and Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass defended his paper, too.

— J-prof Jay Rosen proposed what he calls the "100 percent solution" — innovating in news trying to cover 100 percent of something. Paul Bradshaw liked the idea and began to build on it. Buy Bromazepam Without Prescription, — It's not a new debate at all, but it's an interesting rehashing nonetheless: Jeff Novich called Ground Report and citizen journalism useless tools that can never do what real journalism does. Megan Taylor and Spot.Us' David Cohn disagreed, strongly.

— Finally, former Los Angeles Times intern Michelle Minkoff wrote a great post about the data projects she worked on there and need to collaborate around news as data. As TBD's Steve Buttry wrote, "Each of the 5 W’s could just as easily be a field in a database. ... Databases give news content more lasting value, by providing context and relationships.".

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So what has this meant for The Independent. Despite the relatively meager revenue, it's come out a plus in the paper's cost-benefit analysis; the initial setup is simple, and the project requires even lower maintenance after that point. The paper had initially discussed a much more intensive program in which Romanski would actually run the social-media efforts for local businesses, but that idea was scrapped because of ethical (the newspaper's web editor also being the online voice of numerous advertisers) and time issues. This project has struck a much happier balance, Sheard and Romanski said. Buy Chlorpromazine (Zycloran) Without Prescription, The network won an award this year for best new revenue idea in the online group of The Omaha World-Herald Co., The Independent's owners, and The Hays Daily News in Kansas has picked up the idea after talking with Romanski.

But don't expect the giNetwork to look the same a few months from now; the paper plans to keep incorporating new technologies and services into it, such as Foursquare and Shoutback, a Groupon competitor. In a late-adopting social media city like Grand Island, that means the paper itself plays a role in pioneering those new products — a refreshingly unfamiliar role for the local paper. And while the numbers are small, Sheard and The Independent's executives are excited about the fact that they're making real money directly from their social media efforts. "We've started, and that's the key," Sheard said.

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Tumblr trends upward: The social blogging service Tumblr got the New York Times profile treatment this week, as the paper focused on its growing popularity among news organizations who are trying to jump on it as the next big social media trend — a form of communication somewhere between Twitter and blogging. The article noted that several prominent media brands have Tumblr accounts, though many of them aren't doing much with theirs. Over at Mediaite, Anthony De Rosa, who runs the Tumblr account for the sports blog network SB Nation, said we can expect to see still more media outlets jump on the Tumblr bandwagon, especially because it rewards smart media companies who have a distinctive voice.

New York's Nitasha Tiku tried to douse the hype, arguing that Mark Coatney's often-mentioned Tumblr success for Newsweek "wasn't thanks to the distribution channel on Tumblr, it was his irreverent, conversational style — and that will be difficult for the fresh-faced interns that old-media publications don't pay to run their Tumblrs." And Gawker gave us a graded rundown of traditional news orgs' Tumblr accounts, Buy Thorazine Without Prescription.

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Two Internet freedom scares: From The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times this week came two stories that have had many people concerned about issues of freedom and the web. First, the Journal ran a series on the alarming amount of your online data and behavior that companies track on behalf of advertisers. Cluetrain Manifesto co-author Doc Searls argued that while the long-held ideal of intensely personal advertising is getting closer to reality, "the advertising business is going to crash up against a harsh fact: 'consumers' are real people, and most real people are creeped out by this stuff." Jeff Jarvis was much less moved by the Journal's reporting, mocking it as scaremongering that tells us nothing new. Salon's Dan Gillmor fell closer to Searls' outrage than to Jarvis' nonchalance, and media consultant Judy Sims said this series is a window into a complex future for display advertising, one that media executives need to become familiar with in a hurry. Buy Thorazine Without Prescription, Second, the Times unleashed an avalanche of commentary in the tech world with a report that Google and Verizon are moving toward an agreement that would allow companies to pay to get their content to web users more quickly, which would effectively end the passionately held open-Internet principle known as net neutrality. The FCC quickly suspended its closed-door net neutrality meetings, and despite denials from Google and Verizon (which Wired picked apart), a whole lot of whither-the-Internet concernensued. I'm not going to dig too deeply into this story here (I'd rather wait until we have something concrete to opine about), but here are the best quick guides to what this might mean: J-prof Dan Kennedy, Salon's Dan Gillmor and ProPublica's Marian Wang.

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Reading roundup: Just a couple of quick items this week:

— Thanks to Poynter, we got glimpses of a couple of softer paid-content options being tried out by GlobalPost and The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington, that might be sprouting up soon elsewhere, too. The Lab's Megan Garber profiled one of the new companies offering that type of porous paywall, MediaPass, and All Things Digital's Peter Kafka sifted through survey results to try to divine what The New York Times' paywall might look like.

— Google's social media platform Google Wave officially died this week, a little more than a year after it was born. Tech pioneer Dave Winer looked at why it never took off and drew a few lessons, too.

— Finally, the Lab's Jonathan Stray took a look at some very cool things that The Guardian is doing with data journalism using free web-based tools. It's a great case study in a blossoming area of journalism.

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Should papers charge for obits online?: We've written a whole bunch about Steve Brill's paid-online-news venture Journalism Online around these parts, and the company's first Press+ system went live on a newspaper site this week, with Pennsylvania's LancasterOnline obits section going to a metered pay model for out-of-town visitors. Cod online Truvada, PaidContent has a good summary of how the arrangement works: Out-of-towners get to view seven obits a month, after which point they're asked to pay $1.99 a month or $19.99 a year for more access, next day Truvada. Truvada in usa, Obits make up only 6 percent of the site's pageviews, but the paper's editor is estimating $50, real brand Truvada online, Truvada over the counter, 000 to $150,000 in revenue from the paywall, Truvada buy. Truvada discount, Poynter's Bill Mitchell offered a detailed look at the numbers behind the decision and said the plan has several characteristics in its favor: It has valuable content that's tough to find elsewhere, flexible payment, where to buy Truvada, Buy Truvada online without prescription, and doesn't alienate core (local) readers. (He did note, fast shipping Truvada, Online buy Truvada without a prescription, though, that the paper isn't providing anything new of value.) Most other media watchers on the web weren't so impressed, Truvada tablets. MinnPost's David Brauer was skeptical of Lancaster's revenue projections, but noted that obits are a big deal for small-town papers, Buy Truvada Without Prescription. Truvada medication, Lost Remote's David Weinfeld was dubious of the estimates, too, online buying Truvada hcl, Buy no prescription Truvada online, wondering how many out-of-towners would actually be willing to pay to read obit after obit. GrowthSpur's Mark Potts' denouncement of the plan is the most sweeping: "Every assumption it's based on—from projected audience to the percentage of readers that might be willing to pay—is flawed."

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TBD's Steve Buttry (who must have had a lot of free time this week) delivered a point-by-point critique of the site, making a couple of salient points: The study ignores the recent spate of professional online-only news organizations and vastly over-represents traditional news sites' relative numbers, and, of course, the long-argued point that the question of whether one type of journalism can replace another is silly and pointless. One of the Mizzou scholars responded to Buttry, which he quotes at the end of his post, that the researchers had no old-media agenda, Buy Truvada Without Prescription.

After hearing about all of that debate, it's kind of strange to read the study itself, because it doesn't actually include any firm conclusions about the ability of citizen-led sites to replace newspapers. In its discussion section, the study does make a passing reference to "the inability of citizen news sites to become substitutes for daily newspaper sites" and briefly states that those sites would be better substitutes for weekly papers, but the overall conclusion of the study is that citizen sites work better as complements to traditional media, filling in hyperlocal news and opinion that newspapers have abandoned. That's quite similar to the main point that Buttry and Sonderman are making. The study's guiding question may be deeply flawed, as those two note, but its endpoint isn't nearly as inflammatory as it was publicized to be.

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Looking at a BBC for the U.S.: A few folks went another round in the government-subsidy-for-news debate this week when Columbia University president Lee Bollinger wrote an op-ed column Buy Truvada Without Prescription, in The Wall Street Journal advocating for a stronger public-media system in the U.S., one that could go toe-to-toe with the BBC. Bollinger argued that we're already trusting journalists to write independent accounts of corporate scandals like the BP oil spill while their news organizations take millions of dollars in advertising from those companies, so why would journalism's ethical standards change once the government is involved.

The Atlantic's Derek Thompson agreed that government-funded journalism doesn't have to be a terrifying prospect, but several others online took issue with that stance: CUNY j-prof Jeff Jarvis said we need to teach journalists to build self-sustaining businesses instead, and two British j-profs, George Brock and Roy Greenslade, both argued that Bollinger needs to wake up and see the non-institutional journalistic ecosystem that's springing up to complement crumbling traditional media institutions. But the people who do want an American BBC are in luck, because the site launched this week.

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Reading roundup: A few cool things to think on this weekend:

— Curtis Brainard of the Columbia Journalism Review has a long story on what is a safe bet to be one of the two or three most talked about issues in the industry over the next year: How to bring in revenue from mobile media.

— French media consultant Frederic Filloux asks what he rightly calls "an unpleasant question": Do American newspapers have too many journalists, Buy Truvada Without Prescription. It's not a popular argument, but he has some statistics worth thinking about.

— Adam Rifkin has a well-written post that's been making the rounds lately about why Google doesn't do social well: It's about getting in, getting out and getting things done, while social media's about sucking you in.

— The New York Times and the Lab have profiles of two startups, Techmeme and Spotery, that are living examples of the growing role of human-powered editing alongside algorithmic authority. And Judy Sims urges newspapers to embrace the social nature of life (and news) online.

— Finally, news you can use: A great Poynter feature on ways news organizations can use Tumblr, from someone who used it very well: Mark Coatney, formerly of Newsweek, now of Tumblr.

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Pew's paywall findings: The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism released its annual "State of the News Media" study, and it's a smorgasbord of statistics about every major area of journalism, purchase Provera online, Purchase Provera online no prescription, from print to TV to the web. A summary of summaries: The study's six major emerging trends (expanded on by Poynter's Bill Mitchell), order Provera from mexican pharmacy, Provera prescriptions, some of its key statistical findings, and the Columbia Journalism Review's seven eye-popping statistics from the study, Provera in australia. Delivered overnight Provera, The biggest headline for most people was the study's finding that only 7% of the Americans who get their news online say they'd spring for a favorite news source's content if it went behind a paywall. (The AP writeup has a few more statistics and some analysis about online loyalty and advertising.) Jeff Jarvis, Provera overseas, Provera in us, a longtime paywall opponent, wondered why newspapers are spending so much time on the paywall issue instead of their "dreadful" engagement and loyalty online, Provera from international pharmacy. Former WSJer Jason Fry breaks down the study to conclude that the basic unit of online journalism is not the site but the article — thus undermining the primary mindset behind the paywall, Buy Provera Without Prescription. Provera over the counter, Poynter's Rick Edmonds, who writes the study's section on newspapers each year, buy Provera from canada, Buy cheap Provera no rx, said he's done with dead-and-dying as an industry theme. Instead, where to buy Provera, he said, the problem with most newspapers is that they are becoming insubstantial, shells of their former selves."They lack the heft to be thrown up the front porch or to satisfy those readers still willing to pay for a good print newspaper." Editor & Publisher pulled some of the more depressing statistics from Edmonds' chapter. Yet Lee Rainie, who co-authored the study's section on online economics, said he was still optimistic about journalism's future.

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A bleak look at local TV news: Another fascinating journalism study was released late last week by USC researchers that found disappointing, though not necessarily surprising, trends in Los Angeles local TV news: Crime, sports, weather and teasers dominate, with very little time for business and government. USC's press release Buy Provera Without Prescription, has some highlights, and co-author Martin Kaplan offers a quick, pointed video overview of the report, concluding with a barb about wants and needs: "I want ice cream. I need a well-balanced meal. Apparently the people of Los Angeles want 22 seconds about their local government. Maybe if they got more than that, they'd want more than that."

FCC Commissioner Michael Copps was "flat-out alarmed" by the study and vowed some vague form of action. Jay Rosen was ruthless in his criticism on Twitter, and Los Angeles Times critic James Rainey used the study as the basis for a particularly well-written evisceration of local TV news. Rainey had the most promising suggestion, proposing that a cash-strapped TV station find a newspaper, nonprofit or j-school interested in partnering with it to build an audience around more substantive, in-depth TV news.

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The iPad, magazines and advertising: As we expected, lots and lots of people have been ordering iPads since they went on sale — 50,000 in the first two hours and 152,000 in three days, according to estimates, Buy Provera Without Prescription. We're also continuing to get word of news organizations' and publishers' plans for apps; this week we heard that the AP will have an app when the iPad rolls out next month, and saw a nifty interactive feature for the digital Viv Mag. (The Guardian has a roundup of other video iPad demos that have come out so far.)

SXSW also had at least three sessions focusing on media companies and the iPad: 1) One on the iPad and the magazine industry focused largely on advertising — here's a DigitalBeat summary and deeper thoughts by Reuters' Felix Salmon on why advertising on the iPad could be more immersive and valuable than in print; 2) Another focusing on the iPad and Wired magazine, with Salmon opining on why the iPad is a step backwards in the open-web world; 3) And a third on iPad consumption habits and their effects on various industries.

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The conversation sparked by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreesen's advice for newspapers to forget the printed paper and go all-in with online news continued this week, with Frederic Filloux noting that "there are alternatives to envisioning the transformation of the print media as only a choice between euthanizing the paper product or putting it on life support." Steve Yelvington looked at setting up separate print and online divisions (been there, done that, he says), Tim Kastelle spun Andreesen and Google's Hal Varian off into more thoughtful suggestions for newspapers, and Dorian Benkoil took the opportunity to marvel at how much things have changed for the better.

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