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Debating the Times’ pricing structure: There was really only one big news story in the media world this week: The New York Times’ paid-content plan, which is live in Canada now and coming to everyone else on Monday. I divided the issue into two sections — the first on general commentary on the plan, and the second specifically about efforts to get around the paywall.

We learned a bit more about the Times’ thinking behind the plan, with a story in the Times about the road from its last paid-content system, TimesSelect, to this one, and an All Things Digital interview with Times digital chief Martin Nisenholtz, in which he said, among other things, that the Times didn’t consider print prices when setting their online price levels. Former Times designer Khoi Vinh also looked at the last couple of years, lamenting the lost opportunity for innovation and the legacy of TimesSelect.

There were a couple of pieces written supporting the Times’ proposal: Former CBS digital head Larry Kramer said he’d be more likely to pay for the Times than for the tablet publication The Daily, even though it’s far more expensive. The reason? The Times’ content has consistently proven to be valuable over the years. (Tech blogger John Gruber also said the Times’ content is much more valuable than The Daily’s, but wondered if it was really worth more than five times more money.) Nate Silver of Times blog FiveThirtyEight used some data to argue for the Times’ value.

The Times’ own David Carr offered the most full-throated defense of the pay plan, arguing that most of the objection to it is based on the “theology” of open networks and the free flow of information, rather than the practical concerns involved with running a news organization. Reuters’ Felix Salmon countered that the Times has its own theology — that news orgs should charge for content because they can, and that it will ensure their success. Later, though, Salmon ran a few numbers and posited that the paywall could be a success if everything breaks right.

There were more objections voiced, too: Both Mathew Ingram of GigaOM and former newspaper journalist Janet Coats both called it backward-looking, with Ingram saying it “seems fundamentally reactionary, and displays a disappointing lack of imagination.” TechDirt’s Mike Masnick ripped the idea that people might have felt guilty about getting the Times for free online.

One of the biggest complaints revolved around the Times’ pricing system itself, which French media analyst Frederic Filloux described as “expensive, utterly complicated, disconnected from the reality and designed to be bypassed.” Others, including Ken Doctor, venture capitalist Jean-Louis Gassee, and John Gruber, made similar points about the proposal’s complexity, and Michael DeGusta said the prices are just too high. Poynter’s Damon Kiesow disagreed about the plan structure, arguing that it’s well-designed as an attack on Apple’s mobile paid-content dominance.

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Are paywall loopholes a bug or feature?: Of course, any barrier online is also a giant, flashing invitation to get around said barrier, and someplace as influential as the Times was not going to be an exception. Several ways to bypass the Times’ pay system popped up in the last week: There was @FreeNYT, the Twitter account that will aggregate Times content shared on Twitter, and NYTClean, a browser bookmarklet that strips the Times’ paywall coding, allowing you to read the Times just like normal. The Lab’s Josh Benton noted how easy the hack was to come up with (four lines of code!) and speculated that the Times might actually want nerds to game their system, “because they (a) are unlikely to pay, (b) generate ad revenue, and (c) are more likely to share your content than most.”

So how has the Times responded to all this? A bit schizophrenically. Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said the people who would find ways around the system would be “mostly high-school kids and people who are out of work.” And the Times asked Twitter to shut down the aggregating Twitter accounts (for a trademark violation) and extended its limit on daily search-engine referrals beyond Google. But the Times is also widening some pathways of its own, making it so you can’t hit the wall directly from a blog link, and offering 200,000 regular readers free online access for the rest of the year through an advertiser.

Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan mocked the Times’ behavior toward wall-jumpers as an effort to have its paid-content cake and eat it too: “This wall is designed, as best I can tell, only to be a barrier to your most loyal — and most stupid — readers.” Slate’s Jack Shafer made a similar argument to Benton’s, pointing out that online free-riders aren’t keeping paying customers from reading the Times (like, say, someone who steals a paper edition, as Sulzberger analogized) and are actually help the paper continue its influence and reach.

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Adding community to local data: EveryBlock, a three-year-old site owned by MSNBC.com that specializes in hyperlocal news data, unveiled its first major redesign this week, which includes a shift in focus toward community and location-based conversation, rather than just data. All place pages now allow users to post messages to those nearby, using what founder Adrian Holovaty called the “geo graph,” rather than the “social graph.” Mashable added a few valuable details (notably, the site will bring in revenue from location-based Groupon displays and Google ads).

Holovaty answered a lot of questions about the redesign in a Poynter chat, saying that the site’s mission has changed from making people informed about their area as an end in itself to facilitating communication between neighbors in order to improve their communities. GigaOM’s Mathew Ingram applauded the shift in thinking, arguing that the main value in local news sites is in the people they connect, not in the data they collect. At 10,000 Words, Jessica Roy noted that the change was a signal that hyperlocal sites should focus not just on the online realm, but on fostering offline connections as well.

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NPR on the defensive: Two weeks on, the hidden-camera attack on NPR continues to keep it in the middle of the news conversation. Following last week’s vote by the House to cut off NPR’s limited federal funding, several media folks made cases to keep NPR’s federal funding alive, including the Washington Post’s Len Downie and Robert Kaiser and Poynter’s Roy Peter Clark. NPR host Steve Inskeep argued that NPR’s most important work has nothing to do with any liberal/conservative bias. “Think again of my colleagues in Libya, going forward to bear witness amid exploding shells. Is that liberal or conservative?” he asked.

Elsewhere, James O’Keefe, the producer of the gotcha video, and Bob Garfield of NPR’s On The Media had it out on the air, and DailyFinance gave a picture of NPR’s financial situation. Howard Kurtz of Newsweek and The Daily Beast wrote that some NPR journalists think that NPR management’s passive, reactionary defense of their organization is damaging it almost as much as the attacks themselves.

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Reading roundup: Not too busy of a week in the media world outside of Timesmania. A few things to take note of:

— A quick news item: Journalism Online, Steve Brill’s initiative to help media companies charge for their content online, is being snatched up by the Fortune 500 printer RR Donnelley, reportedly for at least $35 million. PaidContent broke the story, and Ken Doctor wrote about the unexpected difficulties the startup encountered.

— At the New York Review of Books, Steve Coll wrote a thoughtful piece on the competing claims regarding technology’s role in social change.

— For the stat nerds: The Lab’s Josh Benton looked at the latest of the continual stream of depressing graphs flowing from the newspaper industry, and Peter Kafka of All Things Digital analyzed the source of traffic for some major sites across the web, comparing the influence of Facebook and Google.

— For the academic nerds: Here at the Lab, USC Ph.D. candidate Nikki Usher talked to media sociology rock star Herbert Gans about targeted and multiperspectival news, and Michigan Ph.D. candidates William Youmans and Katie Brown shared a fascinating study about Al Jazeera and bias perception.

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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on March 11, 2011.] A bad week for NPR execs named Schiller: For the second time in five months, NPR has found itself in the middle of a controversy that's forced it to wrestle with issues of objectivity, bias, and its own federal funding. This one started when the conservative prankster James O'Keefe orchestrated a hidden-camera video of a NPR fundraising exec bashing Tea Partiers and generally straying from the NPR party line while meeting with people pretending to represent a Muslim charity. (The "donors" also met with PBS, but their people didn't take the bait.) Reaction was mixed: The right, of course, was outraged, though others like Slate's Jack Shafer and Gawker's John Cook downplayed the significance of the video. NPR was outraged, too — "appalled," actually, and CEO Vivian Schiller said she was upset and that the two execs had put on administrative leave. Within about 12 hours, however, Schiller herself had been forced out by NPR's board. The New York Times has good background on the shocking turn of events, and Poynter summarized the six months of controversy that led up to this, stretching back to Juan Williams' firing (the American Journalism Review's Rem Rieder called Schiller's ouster "Williams' revenge"). Reaction to NPR's handling of the situation was decidedly less mixed — and a lot more scathing. In a chat and column, NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard ripped just about all parties involved, and the online response from media-watchers was just as harsh. NYU j-prof Jay Rosen called it "profoundly unjust," and several others blasted NPR's leadership. 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But, he said, "paying people a very low amount of money to write about stuff they don't care about — that doesn't work." And Dan Conover at Xark warned against turning content — especially hyperlocal — into a franchise formula. — Accountability and authenticity in online comments: TechCrunch was one of the first companies to try out Facebook's new commenting system, and after about a week, MG Siegler noted that the number of the site's comments had decreased, and they'd also gone from nasty to warm and fuzzy. Entrepreneur Steve Cheney proposed a reason why the comments were so "sterile and neutered": Facebook kills online authenticity, because everyone is self-censoring their statements to make sure their grandmas, ex-girlfriends, and entire social network won't be offended. Tech guru Robert Scoble disagreed, arguing that TechCrunch's comments have improved, and people know real change and credibility only comes from using their real identities. 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WikiLeaks vs. the world: The international leaking organization WikiLeaks has kept a relatively low profile since it dropped 92,000 pages of documents on the war in Afghanistan in July, but Spencer Ackerman wrote at Wired that WikiLeaks is getting ready to release as many as 400,000 pages of documents on the Iraq War as soon as next week, as two other Wired reporters looked at WikiLeaks' internal conflict and the ongoing "scheduled maintenance" of its site, Buy Bromazepam Without Prescription. WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange responded by blasting Wired via Twitter, Bromazepam prescriptions, Fast shipping Bromazepam, and Wired issued a defense.

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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.

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Google News gets a makeover: For the first time since it was launched in 2002, Nitrazepam to buy, Nitrazepam to buy online, Google News got a significant redesign this week. Buy Nitrazepam Without Prescription, Now, a little ways down from the top of the page is what Google called "the new heart of the homepage" — a personalized "News for you" section. That area can be adjusted to highlight or hide subjects, individual news topics, or certain news sources. The redesign is also emphasizing its Spotlight section of in-depth stories, order Nitrazepam from mexican pharmacy, Purchase Nitrazepam online, as well as user-bookmarked stories. Search Engine Land has a nice visual overview of what's changed, purchase Nitrazepam online no prescription. Buy generic Nitrazepam, The Lab's Megan Garber also has a helpful summary of the changes, noting that "the new site is trying to balance two major, saturday delivery Nitrazepam, Delivered overnight Nitrazepam, and often conflicting, goals of news consumption: personalization and serendipity." All Things Digital's Peter Kafka wondered how many people are actually going to take the time to customize their page, order Nitrazepam online overnight delivery no prescription, Nitrazepam medication, under the idea that anybody news-savvy enough to do so is probably getting their news through a more comprehensive source like RSS or Twitter. Jay Rosen wanted to know what news sources people choose to see less of, Nitrazepam in us. Meanwhile, in an interview with MediaBistro, Google News lead engineer Krishna Bharat gave a good picture of where Google News has been and where it's heading, Buy Nitrazepam Without Prescription. Ordering Nitrazepam online, —

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The Washington Post's Greg Sargent detailed the planned suit, buy Nitrazepam from canada, Buy Nitrazepam online no prescription, including a clear accusation from Kos' lawyer that the polls were fraudulent, not just sloppy: "They handed us fiction and told us it was fact, cod online Nitrazepam. Buy Nitrazepam Without Prescription, ... Buying Nitrazepam online over the counter, It's pretty damn clear that numbers were fabricated, and that the polling that we paid for was not performed." Research 2000 president Del Ali asserted the properness of his polls, next day Nitrazepam, Purchase Nitrazepam, and his lawyer called the fraud allegation "absurd" and threatened to countersue. Polling expert Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight, who began his blog as a Kos commenter, Nitrazepam san diego, Buy cheap Nitrazepam no rx, echoed the study's concerns, then was hit with a cease-and-desist letter from Research 2000's attorney, sale Nitrazepam. Buy Nitrazepam online without prescription, Meanwhile, Yahoo's John Cook laid out Research 2000's troubled financial history, Nitrazepam from international pharmacy. Nitrazepam from canadian pharmacy, This may seem like just a messy he-said, she-said lawsuit involving two individual organizations, but as Sargent and The New York Times pointed out, Research 2000's work is cited by a number of mainstream news organizations (including the Post), and this could cause people to begin asking serious questions about the reliability of polling data. As trust in journalistic institutions wanes, the para-journalistic institution of polling may be about to take a big credibility hit here, too.

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How much do reporters need to disclose?: Conversation about last week's Rolling Stone story on Gen, Buy Nitrazepam Without Prescription. Stanley McChrystal continued to trickle out, especially regarding that tricky relationship between journalists and their sources. CBS foreign correspondent Lara Logan stoked much of it when she criticized the article's author, Michael Hastings, for being dishonest about his intentions and violating an unspoken agreement not to report the informal banter of military officials. Salon's Glenn Greenwald saw the argument as a perfect contrast between adversarial watchdog journalism and journalism built on access, and Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi came out firing with a characteristically inspired rant against Logan's argument: "According to Logan, not only are reporters not supposed to disclose their agendas to sources at all times, but in the case of covering the military, one isn't even supposed to have an agenda that might upset the brass!"

The New Yorker's Amy Davidson backed Taibbi up, but DailyFinance's Jeff Bercovici rapped Taibbi's knuckles for his disregard for the facts. Military and media blogger Jamie McIntyre found a spot in between Logan and Taibbi in ruling on their claims point by point. Politico takes a look at the entire discussion Buy Nitrazepam Without Prescription, , paying special attention to how relationships work for other military reporters and what this flap might mean for them in the future. On another angle, the Lab's Jason Fry used the story to examine whether the fragmentation of content is going to end up killing some news brands.

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Reading roundup: We've had a longer-than-usual review this week, so I'll fly through some things and get you on your way to the weekend. There's still some really fascinating stuff to get to, though:

— A newly released Harvard study found that newspapers overwhelmingly referred to waterboarding as torture until the George W. Bush administration began defining it as something other than torture, at which point their description of it became much less harsh. (They still largely described it as torture when other countries were doing it, though.) The study prompted quite a bit of anger about the American media's "craven cowardice" and subservience to government, as well as its unwillingness to "express opinion" by calling a spade a spade, Buy Nitrazepam Without Prescription. James Joyner noted that it's complicated and The New York Times said that calling it torture was taking sides, though the Washington Post's Greg Sargent said not calling it torture is taking a side, too.

— I was gone last week, so I didn't get a chance to highlight this thoughtful post by the Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf on what it takes to replace the local beat reporter. As for the newspaper itself, the folks at Reason gave you a section-by-section guide to replacing your newspaper consumption habit.

— Finally, in the you-must-bookmark-this category: Former New York Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee put together an indispensable glossary of tech terms for journalists. Whether you're working on the web or not, I'd advise reading it and digging deeper into any of the terms you still don't quite understand.

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Bradshaw uses the case to ask the question, ordering Neurontin online, Neurontin discount, "Who owns the interview?" Steve Buttry says the reporter loses control over the interview as soon she hits the "send" guys and warns journalists not to put anything into writing that they're not willing to see published. I largely agree with Buttry on this, Neurontin from international pharmacy, Buy Neurontin online without prescription, though I don't go as far as he does: The journalist was within her rights to ask Bradshaw not to publish her side of the conversation (and he obviously complied). Buy Neurontin Without Prescription, That doesn't mean it wasn't an arrogant, controlling thing to do, though.

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End of year: Editor & Publisher's Joe Strupp has the top 10 newspaper stories (40,000 jobs lost is appropriately #1); Lifehacker has a rather overwhelming list of all of Google's developments in 2009; and though I mentioned it last week, real brand Neurontin online, Where to buy Neurontin, C.W. Anderson still has the best year-end snapshot of media so far, purchase Neurontin. Sale Neurontin, End of decade: The Austin (Texas) Statesman's Robert Quigley has an insightful piece at Mediaite looking at how the Gawker media empire defined this decade; and About.com, not usually known as a font of quality media criticism, order Neurontin from United States pharmacy, Over the counter Neurontin, has a surprisingly solid roundup of the major developments in journalism this decade.

2010: Martin Langeveld Buy Neurontin Without Prescription, , Adam Westbrook and Sean Blanda all have predictions for 2010 — Langeveld's are more newspaper-centric, and Westbrook's more optimistic and presented in spiffy video format; Save the News has 10 New Year's resolutions for journalism organizations; and newspaper publishers think advertising will magically flatten next year after collapsing this year, prompting Alan Mutter to wonder, "What the heck are they thinking?"

— In tech-oriented news, Twitter's API (the interface that allows it to interact with other programs) was added to Wordpress last week and Tumblr this week. Combined with its integration with Facebook's status API and tons of other programs over the past year or so, purchase Neurontin online, Order Neurontin online c.o.d, that effectively means that, as tech thinker Anil Dash puts it, Neurontin in japan, Neurontin over the counter, Twitter's API is complete. I don't understand the implications of this quite well enough to summarize it, online buy Neurontin without a prescription, Neurontin in mexico, but fortunately, we have the renowned Dave Winer to explain it to us, Neurontin in uk. Saturday delivery Neurontin, So read what he has to say about Twitter's API becoming a new Internet standard here and here and listen to him here.

— In the Los Angeles Times, Neurontin for sale, Where can i buy cheapest Neurontin online, Tim Rutten makes an interesting point regarding the ratings rise of MSNBC and Fox News and decline of CNN. He says that it's not a sign that most Americans now want their news provided through an ideological lens, but that cable news instead attracts a relatively small niche of news junkies who follow news throughout the day, Buy Neurontin Without Prescription. When evening rolls around, Rutten says, "they're hungry for analysis rather than recycled reportage, and like most Americans today, they prefer interpretation that reinforces their own opinions." I think the truth lies somewhere in between conventional wisdom and Rutten's point of view, but it's still a valuable corrective.

— I missed this one last week, but Jim Barnett of the Nieman Journalism Lab has a helpful quasi-scientific study of the finances of several significant local and national nonprofit news organizations. He finds a pattern, then looks at why Mother Jones might be an exception.

— Three social media-related links before I send you off for the holidays: 1) The Bivings Group's study of newspapers' use of Twitter (would like to see someone look at smaller newspapers, too, but I'm sure that's coming from someone sometime), 2) A fun look at some reeeaaally early predecessors to modern social networking sites, and 3) Dan Schultz's nifty survey and map of the participatory web, focusing on scope and individual vs. group focus. Enjoy.

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— A few nice conference overviews: Poynter's Steve Myers and the Knight Digital Media Center's Jacqui Banaszynski on the trends at the Online News Association's conference, and MediaShift's Chris O'Brien on nonprofit news from the UC-Berkeley Media Technology Summit.

— This week in depressing media statistics: Poynter's Rick Edmonds crunches the numbers and estimates that newspapers are spending $1.6 billion less on news gathering each year.

— Finally, Steve Buttry says it's time for journalists to re-evaluate their impression and use of Wikipedia. (He's absolutely right.) And former Baltimore Sun copy chief John McIntyre has another remarkably simple reason that newspapers are failing: They're a bastion of really crappy writing. I suppose Occam's razor makes sense applied to newspapers.

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