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June 1st, 2012

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A case study in nonprofit news sustainability: One of the more prominent of the wave of nonprofit news startups that launched over the past several years is about to effectively shut down. As the Chicago Reader first reported, the Chicago News Cooperative will stop maintaining its website and producing content for the New York Times this weekend. By far the best account of the situation is in this Storify by Free Press' Josh Stearns, but I'll provide a short version here for those not interested in the gory details.

As the Reader explained, Armour used for, CNC is shutting down because it couldn't get a grant it had expected from the MacArthur Foundation, its largest funder. CNC had applied to be classified as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, but it was awaiting IRS approval on whether news orgs could be classified as such, and MacArthur essentially ran out of time waiting for the IRS to make a decision. CNC also asked the Times, which has run its stories since the organization's founding in 2009, to pay more for the service, but the Times wouldn't do that, Armour Mg. The group's CEO, James O'Shea, kjøpe Armour på nett, köpa Armour online, said it'll cease operations as it tries to find an alternative funding option.

Geoff Dougherty, who founded another short-lived Chicago nonprofit news outfit in the Chi-Town Daily News, didn't buy MacArthur's story and accused the foundation of playing city hall politics (something both O'Shea and MacArthur denied to Romenesko). Chicago, Japan, craiglist, ebay, overseas, paypal, Dougherty said, just isn't committing to funding quality journalism in the way that other cities with successful nonprofit news orgs are. The Columbia Journalism Review's Ryan Chittum, meanwhile, urged the IRS to finally give news orgs some clarity on their 501(c)(3) eligibility. Armour Mg, Others said the problem lay more with CNC itself. Time Out Chicago's Robert Feder said he never bought into CNC's vague business plan, declaring that "no matter how noble the effort nor how worthy the product, is Armour addictive, journalism can’t succeed as a charity case." Dan Sinker of the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership detailed CNC's lackluster online efforts, concluding that the organization's decision to treat the web as an afterthought was what brought it down.

J-prof Jeff Jarvis chastised journalists for not knowing more about the business side of their field, citing CNC as "evidence that the siren call of not-for-profit journalism seduces news organizations away from sustainability, survival, Is Armour safe, and success." In contrast, Jarvis held up a speech last week by Digital First CEO John Paton of the Journal Register Co. and MediaNews Group, who said that "crappy newspaper executives" are a greater threat to the business than any technological change.

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Philadelphia journalism and political influence: After reports over the past couple of weeks that the Philadelphia Media Network — which owns the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News — had spiked stories in both papers about the company's impending sale, the papers' journalists released a statement condemning the interference late last week. This week, former Philly mayor and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell said he'd consider putting up a firewall between ownership and the newsrooms if his investing group bought the company, Armour Mg.

There was speculation all week about how likely ownership by the Rendell group would be: After a report over the weekend by Naked Philadelphian that Rendell wouldn't be buying the papers, where can i find Armour online, Rendell responded that the bid was still on and countered the critics who questioned such a powerful political figure owning the papers. At the Lab, Danish j-prof Rasmus Kleis Nielsen posited that Rendell's potential ownership might represent a model for the future of media: Political interests running struggling news orgs not as profitable enterprises, but as political instruments. "This is not a situation in which journalism is simply on a diet and being supplemented by various new ventures. It is a scenario where it is more directly intertwined with outside political and business interests than it has been for years, Buy cheap Armour, " he wrote.

Daily News blogger Will Bunch urged the next owners not to go that route, but to listen to and partner with the people in running the papers. Armour Mg, He also said the new owners need a lot more than a sense of civic duty — like, an actual plan — to keep the papers viable and made a strong case for keeping the Daily News alive. Poynter's Rick Edmonds explained why the Daily News has survived so long, but also why it may not last much longer.

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News Corp. taking back Sunday: Rupert Murdoch is making a major bid this week to show the world that News Corp. is down but not out, launching the Sun on Sunday, a new weekly edition of its weekday tabloid, Armour Mg. The move fills the void left by last summer's closing of the Sunday tabloid News of the World — and was widely expected back then. Murdoch also lifted the suspensions of the paper's recently arrested journalists, though he did say in his email to staff that he's obligated to keep turning over all potential phone hacking evidence to police (which, as the Guardian pointed out, wasn't true), Armour treatment.

In two Guardian pieces, British j-prof Roy Greenslade praised Murdoch for preventing a mutiny at the Sun and for showing "the strength of buccaneers running papers rather than corporations," while Forbes' Jeff Bercovici cited analysts who said Murdoch waited too long to replace News of the World. Then, early this week, Order Armour online overnight delivery no prescription, a mysterious Twitter account purportedly belonging to an ex-NOTW journalist reported on staff unhappiness and reluctant advertisers for the Sun on Sunday, which produces its first issue this Sunday. Murdoch assured the world via Twitter Armour Mg, that everything was fine.

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Reading roundup: It was pretty quiet overall this week, but there were a few smaller conversations worth keeping an eyeing on:

— For the second week in a row, we're mourning the death of beloved journalists in Syria. Marie Colvin, an American working for the Sunday Times of London, herbal Armour, and French photographer Rémi Ochlik were killed Wednesday in an attack that's believed to be deliberate. After the killings, Syria asked foreign journalists to report to the government, wounded journalists pleaded to leave the country, Britain summoned its Syrian ambassador in protest, Armour without a prescription, and friends wrote remembrances of the journalists' courage and devotion.

— Forbes' Jeff Bercovici reported that Gannett, the U.S.' largest newspaper chain, announced plans to implement paywalls (the in-vogue metered model) at all of its 80 papers except its largest, USA Today. PaidContent's Jeff Roberts evaluated the plan's chances of success, Armour Mg.

— The "original reporting vs. aggregation" debate went another round this week when blogger/entrepreneur Nick O'Neill wrote about how a Forbes writer quickly re-wrote a New York Times feature and got a truckload of traffic out of it, purchase Armour. Jim Romenesko got responses from everyone involved, and the Times reporter said he wasn't worried about his work being aggregated, but that "every hour spent summarizing is an hour not spent reporting." GigaOM's Mathew Ingram said both reporting and aggregation have real value for readers.

— Per the tech blogging debate of the last couple of weeks, the Los Angeles Times asked whether tech bloggers' lack of objectivity is undermining their credibility. It led to a fascinating Twitter discussion about transparency, objectivity, and credibility, which Josh Stearns helpfully Storified.

— The Atlantic reposted a manifesto for young people who have grown up on the Internet by a Polish writer named Piotr Czerski. It's a well-written glimpse at the values cultivated by a life shaped by the web.

June 1st, 2012

Lipitor For Sale

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News Corp.'s problems spread to the Sun: The ongoing phone hacking scandal at News Corp., which took down News of the World last summer, is now threatening to swallow the company's other British tabloid: The Sun. Five of its top journalists were arrested last weekend as part of an investigation into bribing public officials, which News Corp.'s internal investigation is reported to have determined amounts to more than 10,000 pounds per year, with officials essentially on retainer.

That investigation generated some controversy itself when it handed over details of Sun journalists' sources to the police, Japan, craiglist, ebay, overseas, paypal, though it said it redacted the information heavily and didn't pass on documentation of standard journalistic source interaction. Journalists at News Corp.'s three British newspapers — the Sun, the Times, and the Sunday Times — were livid, and prepared for a legal challenge by hiring a top human rights attorney who promptly ripped the decision to hand over sources in a Times column.

Others joined in the criticism: Britain's National Union of Journalists and the Sun's competitor, the Daily Mail, buy Lipitor without prescription, blasted News Corp.'s investigative committee, with the latter saying it "should hang its head in shame." And Ryan Chittum of the Columbia Journalism Review was concerned about the precedent set by having police riffling through millions of newspaper emails, though he and British j-prof Roy Greenslade defended the police's stern treatment of Sun journalists in their arrests.

So what does Rupert Murdoch do now, Lipitor For Sale. At the Guardian, Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff urged him to give the company "something of a noble death" — sell the Sun, Lipitor canada, mexico, india, and use the proceeds to establish a trust for the Times and Sunday Times. Ad Age's Simon Dumenco suggested News Corp. will simply shut the Sun down, saying that like News of the World, it's been reduced to merely a "repository of evidence that [needs] to be destroyed." Forbes' Jeff Bercovici argued that it's only a matter of time before one of the two happens, especially since dropping its newspapers would help News Corp.'s bottom line.

News Corp, buy cheap Lipitor no rx. Lipitor For Sale, could still be facing plenty of trouble in the U.S., too. The FBI is investigating the company for bribing foreign officials, and the Guardian reported its executives could be prosecuted for being "willfully blind" about their company's wrongdoing. The company has gathered a massive legal team to fight potential charges. Joe Pompeo of Capital New York didn't see U.S. charges as likely, Lipitor price, coupon, but said the multi-front battle News Corp. is fighting is taking a devastating toll on the company as it drags on, Lipitor For Sale.

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Path, privacy, and reforming tech journalism: What started last week as one tech startup's privacy faux pas had by this week turned into a full-blown debacle for privacy on mobile devices, when we learned that the address books in smartphones are available for free to developers, often without the owner's knowledge. Path, where can i find Lipitor online, the photo-sharing and messaging app, was the first company outed for taking and storing the data after it was discovered last week by developer Arun Thampi.

The company received a wave of criticism and apologized, but soon the names of other companies — big companies — that were doing essentially the same thing trickled out. VentureBeat reported that Facebook, Online buy Lipitor without a prescription, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare, Yelp, and Gowalla were doing it, and the Verge also laid out exactly who's taking address books and how. Lipitor For Sale, Twitter owned up to the practice, acknowledging to the Los Angeles Times that it stores email addresses and phone numbers (though not names) for 18 months from the address books of users who turn on its Find My Friends app.

On Wednesday morning, ordering Lipitor online, a U.S. Congressional committee sent a letter to Apple wondering why the company wasn't doing more to protect its iPhone users' privacy — and voila. Within minutes, Apple announced it would be doing more to ensure that app developers can't access users' address books without their permission (something was already in its developer guidelines). Google announced later that day it would be taking similar measures with its Android platform.

As PandoDaily's Greg Kumparak wrote, this was a common practice that was simply understood among developers to be just fine, even though it was against Apple's guidelines, Lipitor For Sale. Lipitor images, Now that it's been called out very publicly as not being just fine at all, developers need to figure out where to go from here. Kumparak reminded developers that address book data isn't theirs to begin with, and Om Malik of GigaOM urged them to consider the moral imperative, rather than just what's allowed. Developer Matt Gemmell showed how to use app address book data without violating users' privacy.

A bizarre quasi-journalistic side-story rose out of this issue after the New York Times' Nick Bilton complained of the alarming obliviousness that Path and Silicon Valley in general show toward the seriousness of user privacy and security, Lipitor australia, uk, us, usa. Both Michael Arrington and MG Siegler Lipitor For Sale, , former TechCrunch-ers whose CrunchFund invests in Path, ripped Bilton's post, with Siegler turning it into a diatribe against the vapidity in tech blogging resulting from an out-of-control preoccupation with speed and page views.

Of the many responses to Siegler's piece, Newsweek tech editor Dan Lyons' was the most severe, as he described TechCrunch and several other tech blogs as a racket to extract "investment" out of venture capitalists in exchange for good press about their startups. (If you want to go all the way down the rabbit hole, you can read Arrington and Siegler's rebuttals.)

Frederic Lardinois of Silicon Filter said both the pageview-chasing and VC coziness are serious problems within tech journalism, but there are still plenty of tech outfits staying above the fray and doing solid work. Lipitor interactions, And ReadWriteWeb's Scott Fulton urged tech bloggers to step outside the tech-journalism bubble and refocus on what journalism is: "Journalism is not about being an expert in twenty different things. It's about being interested in all of them, knowing how to ask questions, and how to elicit information from the answers."

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AP goes on the copyright offensive: Another skirmish in the long war between traditional news organizations and online aggregators began this week, as the AP sued Meltwater News, a Norwegian company that helps businesses track mentions of themselves in media sources through a searchable database. The AP alleges that Meltwater uses its content without paying for licensing fees, order Lipitor no prescription, allowing it to create a cheaper service that directly takes subscribers from the AP, as an AP attorney told the Guardian. The attorney also told paidContent that the AP hopes that controversial "hot news doctrine," which gives publishers legal rights over the dissemination of news they break, will be applied to this case, Lipitor For Sale.

According to the AP's article on the suit, the AP is distinguishing between Meltwater and online aggregators because Meltwater charges a fee and keeps a five-year database of AP stories (aggregators do neither of these). But GigaOM's Mathew Ingram said this case could still very well apply to online aggregators and represents a "fundamentally futile" approach to online content. Lipitor gel, ointment, cream, pill, spray, continuous-release, extended-release, —

News sites lag in advertising: Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study this week that painted a really depressing picture of advertising at top news websites. Among the major findings: In-house ads are the most common kind of ads on news websites, very few news sites do any targeted advertising based on users' online behavior, and very few do work with any ads other than static banner ads, either.

PaidContent's Jeff Roberts pointed out Lipitor For Sale, that most news orgs are at a major disadvantage when it comes to selling digital ads in that they weren't raised on it like tech companies have been, and thus need to constantly play catch-up when it comes to strategies and software. And Forbes' Jeff Bercovici chastised print-based news orgs for using so much of their digital advertising space to promote their print product, saying, where can i buy Lipitor online, "it’s hard to see how publishers are ever going to persuade marketers to spend real money on their websites as long as those advertisers can see those publishers treating their own web inventory as next to worthless."

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Reading roundup: A couple of other interesting stories this week, plus some pieces to look at over the weekend:

— It's been a rough couple of months for PolitiFact. This week, it ruled Sen. Marco Rubio's statement that a majority of Americans are conservative "mostly true" because a plurality of Americans are conservative. Lipitor schedule, The decision got ripped by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, the Washington Post's Erik Wemple, Politico's Dylan Byers, the American Journalism Review's Rem Rieder, and j-prof Jay Rosen. They also fact-checked a statement from "Glee," which was...odd, Lipitor For Sale.

— Another media organization under fire lately has been the Philadelphia Media Network, the parent company of the Inquirer and Daily News. The papers were put on the block a few weeks back, and may be sold to a group led by former Philly mayor and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell. This week, the company announced layoffs and buyouts, and over the past two weeks, both WHYY and the New York Times have reported that executives have interfered with stories about the sale. Former Daily News reporter Buzz Bissinger lamented the papers' future.

— A couple of pieces on online content that are a worth a read: Reuters' Felix Salmon expressed his skepticism about the widespread viability of longform articles online, and here at the Lab, j-prof Dan Kennedy reported on the comment conundrum at Connecticut's New Haven Independent and why it matter for other news sites.

June 1st, 2012

Diflucan Price

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Twitter spells out its censorship policy: Just a couple of weeks after the SOPA/PIPA fight came to a head, Twitter pushed the discussion about online censorship a bit further when it announced late last week a new policy for censoring tweets: When Twitter gets requests from governments to block tweets containing what they deem illegal speech, its new policy will allow it to block those tweets only to readers within that country, leaving it visible to the rest of the world. Twitter will send notice that it's blocked a tweet to the censorship watchdog Chilling Effects.

As the Guardian and the New York Times noted, much of the initial response among Twitter users consisted of complaints about censorship and the chilling of free speech in countries with oppressive regimes. The policy had critics elsewhere, too: BoingBoing's Xeni Jardin said "it's hard to see this as anything but a huge setback and disappointment," and the international group Reporters Without Borders sent an open letter to Twitter questioning the policy and urging the company to reconsider. And later, BoingBoing's Rob Beschizza pointed out that even though Twitter implied that it had already been blocking tweets at the request of governments (which would have made the new policy a reduction in censorship), it's never actually done so — only in response to legal challenges on copyright issues.

But perhaps surprisingly, Twitter had far more defenders than critics among media observers, Diflucan Price. Alex Howard of GovFresh put together the most comprehensive roundup of opinions on the subject, Diflucan from canadian pharmacy, praising Twitter himself for "sticking up for users where it can." Two free-speech advocates, Mike Masnick of TechDirt and the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Jillian York, made similar arguments: When a government is demanding censorship, Twitter can either refuse and be blocked entirely in that country, or it can comply. Twitter, they said, Diflucan photos, has chosen the latter in as limited and transparent fashion as possible.

Others, like The Next Web's Nancy Messieh, commended Twitter for shifting the censorship focus to the government — as Reuters' Paul Smalera argued, the gray box noting that a tweet has been censored in a certain country is a black mark for that government, Order Diflucan online c.o.d, not Twitter. The broadest argument in Twitter's defense came from sociologist Zeynep Tufekci, who, in addition to these arguments, also praised Twitter for its transparency and for allowing users an easy way to circumvent censorship. Diflucan Price, Still others weren't firmly on either side regarding the policy itself, but pointed to larger issues surrounding it. Media prof C.W. Anderson said that while Twitter did the best it could under the circumstances but showed it doesn't have any values that override its place as a business: "non-market values are, is Diflucan safe, in the long run, incompatible with the logic of the market, and what Twitter is trying to do now is reconcile what it believes with what the market needs it to do." Tech pioneer Dave Winer called for people to learn to be able to organize themselves outside of Twitter's infrastructure and the possibly of censorship.

In a pair of thoughtful posts, GigaOM's Mathew Ingram advised caution in trusting Twitter, Doses Diflucan work, recognizing that like Google and Facebook, it's a business whose interests might not align with our own. The EFF's York and Eva Galperin encouraged users and observers to keep a close eye on Twitter in order to keep them accountable for adhering to their professed beliefs.

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Facebook goes public: Facebook's much-anticipated filing for a public stock offering came on Wednesday, and the New York Times and Danny Sullivan at Marketing Land have the best quick-hit summaries of the S-1 document, Diflucan Price. The big numbers are mind-bogglingly big: 845 million monthly active users, $5 billion in stock, $3.71 billion in revenue last year, $1 billion in profit, Diflucan trusted pharmacy reviews. Of that revenue, 85% came from advertising, and 12% came from the social gaming giant Zynga alone. (All Things D has the background on that relationship.) And when you average it out, Facebook's only getting $4.39 in revenue per active user. Diflucan dose, Aside from the numbers, among the other items of interest from the filings was its risk assessment — as summarized by Mashable, it sees slowing expected growth, difficulty in making money off of mobile access, competition from the likes of Google and Twitter, and global government censorship as some of its main risk factors. Diflucan Price, There's also Mark Zuckerberg's letter to shareholders, annotated with delightful snark by Wired's Tim Carmody, which includes the explanation of a company code Zuckerberg calls "The Hacker Way." Forbes' Andy Greenberg made one of the first of what's sure to be many comparisons between The Hacker Way and Google's "Don't Be Evil." GigaOM's Mathew Ingram took note of the grandiosity of Zuckerberg's stated mission to rewire the world.

Two main questions emerged in commentary on the filing: How much is Facebook really worth, Diflucan blogs. And what happens to Facebook now. To the first question, as the New York Times pointed out on the eve of Facebook's filing, the company's massive net worth is a stark indicator of the booming value of personal data collected online. The Columbia Journalism Review's Ryan Chittum took the opposite tack, Diflucan duration, wondering why Facebook gets so little money out of each of its hundreds of millions of users before concluding that "Facebook is still a young business figuring out how to sell ads and figuring it how aggressive it can get without ticking off users."

To the second question, Mathew Ingram noted that going public is usually a way for tech companies to get the financing they need to build up for some major growth — something Facebook has already done. So, he asked, is this just an attempt for Facebook's employees and backers to cash out, and the end of the company's most productive growth phase, Diflucan Price. Leaning on tech entrepreneurship leader John Battelle, Wired's Tim Carmody and Mike Isaac reasoned that Facebook is mature enough already that in order to attain the growth it's promising, it needs to be in the midst of some massive changes as a company. A couple of guesses at some of those specific changes: More ads and purchases of tech companies (Fast Company) and a big ramp-up in mobile ads (Marketing Land).

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Murdoch's candor amid scandal: The phone-hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, Diflucan dosage. has continued to spread (rather quietly here in the States, but much more prominently in the U.K.), and it may have turned yet another corner with the arrest last weekend of four journalists from News Corp.'s Sun, significantly deepening the scandal beyond the now-defunct News of the World, where it began. Diflucan Price, News Corp. Is Diflucan addictive, has also turned over an enormous new trove of data which, along with the arrests, could begin to seriously threaten News Corp.'s other British newspapers, including the Times, according to the Guardian's Nick Davies. British j-prof Roy Greenslade reported that many Sun staffers are worried that they may not be part of News Corp. much longer, Diflucan overnight.

In the midst of all this, Murdoch's feisty Twitter account continues unfettered, prompting praise from the New York Times' David Carr for his refreshing candor. Mathew Ingram agreed that this "sources go direct" approach should be viewed as a boon, not a challenge, to serious journalism, Diflucan Price. The AP's Jonathan Stray had perhaps the best summation of the relationship between sources using their own platforms and journalism: "When they want you to know, sources will go direct. After Diflucan, When they don't... that's journalism."

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Reading roundup: It was a relatively quiet week outside of the big Twitter and Facebook stories, but there were still some cool nuggets to be found:

— Facebook's relatively new Twitter-like Subscribe feature continues to draw complaints of rampant spam. Those criticisms have been led by Jim Romenesko, but this week the New York Daily News and Slate's Katherine Goldstein chimed in, voicing concerns in particular about inappropriate comments directed toward women. Diflucan Price, Meanwhile, Mashable's Todd Wasserman said Subscribe is ruining the News Feed.

— Big news in the journalism-academy world: Columbia and Stanford are teaming up to create a new Institute for Media Innovation, Diflucan forum, thanks to a $30 million gift from longtime Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown.

— Jay Rosen posted an inspiring interview with the Chicago Tribune's Tracy Samantha Schmidt, gleaning some useful insights on how to nurture an innovative and entrepreneurial spirit within a large organization, rather than a startup.

— Megan Garber of the Atlantic presented the results of a Hot or Not-style study that determined what type of Twitter content people like. Here's what they don't like: Old news, Twitter jargon, personal details, negativity, and lack of context.

December 23rd, 2011

Cipro Over The Counter

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News consumers and paid content on tablets: We're now a year and a half into the tablet era, so we've started to get a more stable sense of exactly who's using them and how. The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism added to that understanding this week with what's probably the most comprehensive study to date on tablet use, particularly for news, Cipro use.

The survey's big headline was of the good-news, bad-news variety: 77% of users read news on their tablets at least weekly, and 53% do it daily. That's the good news. The bad news, Cipro Over The Counter. Cipro price, Only 14% have paid directly for the news they're reading on their tablet — though another 23% get access as part of a print subscription package. And those who haven't paid valued the free-ness of their news sources pretty highly.

The fact that people love to read news on their iPads but aren't particularly willing to pay for it didn't seem to worry PEJ director Tom Rosenstiel too much — he told Adweek that things will be different in a year or two as people get used to paying for tablet news, just as they got used to paying for TV.

Poynter's Jeff Sonderman noted that while most users prefer to get their news via browser, many of those in the paying crowd are the ones using mostly apps, buy Cipro from canada. Cipro Over The Counter, He suggested going with a two-tiered paid/free approach, with an ad-driven browser site and a paid, premium app. "Rather than bemoan the small number of people who will pay, or freeze out the large number who won’t, the smart publisher will find ways to capture both audiences," he said.

A couple of other tidbits from the study: John Paul Titlow of ReadWriteWeb said it's good news for publishers and e-businesses that tablets are drawing much more of people's undivided attention than desktops or laptops did, and Mathew Ingram of GigaOM noted that people aren't sharing much of the news they're reading on their tablets, identifying social features as an area where news orgs could stand to improve on tablets.

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WikiLeaks goes into hibernation: WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange announced this week that the site may be forced to close by the end of the year because what he called a "financial blockade" of major banks and credit card companies refusing to process donations for it. Australia, uk, us, usa, The blockade, begun last December after WikiLeaks began releasing its collection of diplomatic cables, has wiped out as much as 95% of the site's revenues, according to Assange, forcing it run on its reserves over the past several months.

WikiLeaks has stopped processing leaks and shifted its resources to fundraising, where can i cheapest Cipro online, including lawsuits and petitions it has filed in several countries to force the companies to process their donations. As Australia's the Age reported, its leaders hope to back up and running within a month, Cipro Over The Counter.

At the Guardian, Dan Gillmor chastised news organizations for their lack of concern about the financial companies' action against WikiLeaks, saying the blockade is "a danger to everyone. Where can i buy cheapest Cipro online, It is a harbinger of a future where governments will find new leverage points to shut down the media they don't like." Gawker's Adrian Chen, on the other hand, posed some good questions on WikiLeaks' use of money this year, wondered how the group has used up most of its reserves (reported at $1.3 million at the end of 2010) without publishing any major new leaks.

With WikiLeaks now in rebuilding mode, the Atlantic's Elspeth Reeve reflected on what the site has done for transparency and networked journalism, Cipro for sale, and her conclusion wasn't a flattering one. She called its experiment in enabling mass document leaking "an abysmal failure," noting that its most consequential leaks all seem to have come from one man — Bradley Manning — who's now in jail. Cipro Over The Counter, "All those theoretical discussions of an anarchic new citizen press driven by anonymous file-sharing remain academic," she said.

Reeve noted that leakers seem to be no safer now than they were a few years ago, Online buy Cipro without a prescription, and that goes for the ones who give information to traditional news organizations as well as WikiLeaks. Writing in the New York Times, data security expert Christopher Soghoian praised WikiLeaks for its security measures to protect its confidential sources while lamenting how poorly traditional news orgs do at the technical aspects of that job. It's probably not a coincidence, then, that news orgs' efforts at creating WikiLeaks-like leak submission programs have stalled, Cipro overnight, as Forbes' Jeff Bercovici reported.

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Murdoch & Co. hang on at News Corp.: The long-simmering outrage at News Corp, Cipro Over The Counter. over its phone-hacking and circulation inflation scandals may have been expected by some to come to a head last Friday at the company's annual shareholder meeting, but there were relatively few fireworks to be seen. My Cipro experience, Rupert Murdoch made a defiant address to shareholders, describing the criticism of his company as "both understandable scrutiny and unfair attack."

As expected, there were shareholders who called for Murdoch and his sons to step down, and a good number of critical questions parried by Murdoch, as paidContent documented. But the main business of the meeting remained unaffected: Murdoch and his sons were re-elected to the News Corp, effects of Cipro. board, though there was speculation that an "embarrassingly high" number of shareholders voted against them, according to the Independent. Cipro Over The Counter, Meanwhile, former Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton testified before a committee of Parliament about the phone hacking and, predictably, gave a whole lot of "I don't recall"s and non-answers.

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Reading roundup: This week was one of those weeks without many big stories in the future-of-journalism world, Purchase Cipro online no prescription, but with a lot of small ones. Here are a few of them:

— As Megan Garber reported at the Lab this week, USA Today tried something new that we may see other news organizations doing in the future, licensing the data from the databases it produces on its website to commercial app developers. As GigaOM's Mathew Ingram and the Knight Digital Media Center's Amy Gahran pointed out, the real benefit of moves like this may be less about revenue and more about a creating a crowdsourced R&D department, Cipro online cod.

— The death of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was the big news story late last week, and there were a couple of media-oriented angles. The big one was whether news orgs chose to show pictures or video of Gadhafi dead or being beaten, Cipro Over The Counter. Poynter's Julie Moos found that U.S. newspapers were less likely than European ones to run the gruesome images. Cipro forum, Those orgs that did run them ended up having to defend themselves. Meanwhile, Techdirt's Mike Masnick looked at the copyright issues involved with camera-phone footage of Gadhafi's beating. Cipro Over The Counter, — After Jeff Jarvis and Evgeny Morozov traded blows over the past couple of weeks about Jarvis' new book, "Private Parts," the Lab's Megan Garber weighed in with a brilliant post on why books's ideas aren't truly read and discussed, and how to make it so that they are. Jarvis chimed in with some more ways to disrupt the book/conference cycle.

— Gawker's Hamilton Nolan unearthed a sketchy linking-for-pay scheme from a small marketing company that claimed to have pulled it off with the Huffington Post and Business Insider. Those two orgs, buy Cipro online cod, naturally, issued denials.

— Media/tech entrepreneurs Cody Brown and Katie Ray introduced another venture this week with Scroll, a tool intended to help publishers use a variety of more sophisticated web designs without knowing how to code them. The Lab had a profile of it.

— In a masterful column, the New York Times' David Carr suggested that some of the Occupy Wall Street agitation should be directed toward newspaper chains, such as Gannett and the Tribune Co., who give their executives massive bonuses while laying off employees.

— Finally, I've linked to a lot of "programming for journalists" guides and tipsheets here, but this one by Jonathan Richards at the Guardian may be the best I've seen at capturing and explaining the coding mentality in simple terms. Give it a read.

December 23rd, 2011

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Growing tension at News Corp.: We'll be hearing the news from News Corp.'s annual shareholder meeting later today, and media observers are certainly watching the meeting closely, especially after reports late last week that numerous groups representing about a quarter of the company's investors are planning on voting against many of News Corp.'s board members.

The list of problems at News Corp. has continued to lengthen over the past three months, What is Synthroid, and an analyst interviewed by NPR's David Folkenflik asserted that in an ordinary company, the board would have fired the CEO by now. But Rupert Murdoch, of course, is no ordinary CEO. But even in the close-knit top leadership of News Corp., this scandal is leading to significant tension between Murdoch and his son, James, who was until recently the company's heir apparent, Synthroid Dosage. A New York Times report this week gave details of the power struggles in the Murdoch family, and Reuters' Jack Shafer pointed out that public family squabbles aren't new for the Murdochs.

Both media analyst Alan Mutter and the Guardian's Dan Gillmor were doubtful, after Synthroid, however, that the complaints of investors would make any sort of difference in the way News Corp. is run, especially since Murdoch has a 40% share in the company. "As long as Rupert Murdoch is in control, there are only two factors that will lead to change: a genuine threat to his family's money and power, Purchase Synthroid online, " Gillmor said. Synthroid Dosage, Without those threats, he argued, shareholders aren't going to see a change in direction.

And amid all of this, News Corp.'s various scandals continue to play out publicly. On the phone-hacking front, an attorney who did work for News Corp. told Parliament that he knew the company had misled Parliament about the extent of the hacking but did nothing about it.

And on the Wall Street Journal's circulation inflation, News Corp. reportedly knew about the issue almost a year before its executive resigned over it, Synthroid coupon, and Poynter's Steve Myers found that WSJ Asia also relies heavily on deeply discounted issues. But the Journal isn't the only one that relies on those discounted circulation ploys: The Guardian's Roy Greenslade noted that three major U.K, Synthroid Dosage. papers do, and Poynter's Rick Edmonds said some U.S. papers do as well. Media analyst Frederic Filloux warned of the effects of this kind of culture of cheating: "such tricks push prices further down because media buyers increasingly distrust the system. Today, Synthroid from canada, they apply the rule 'you cheat, we cut prices'. And the downward spiral continues."

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Getting identity right online Synthroid Dosage, : Google+ announced a big change in its policies this week, giving word that it will soon amend its real-names-only rule to allow pseudonyms. That policy has been the subject of much debate over the past couple of months, and the coming change prompted Electronic Freedom Foundation to declare victory. Programmer Jamie Zawinski called that statement "shamefully credulous" and wondered why it's going to take months to implement. He predicted that Google+ will still require real names, but will allow nicknames and pseudonyms in addition.

Before its change, Synthroid mg, Google+ had drawn some more criticism for its identity policy. Christopher "moot" Poole has been one of the more prominent advocates for anonymity online — it's central to 4chan, the image-based message board he founded — and he articulated his position again this week in a short tech-conference speech, Synthroid Dosage. (Good summaries by VentureBeat and ReadWriteWeb.) This time, he targeted the identity policies of Facebook and Google+, saying they try to force-fit people into a single identity, when they're really much more complex than that.

"Google and Facebook would have you believe that you’re a mirror, Get Synthroid, but we’re actually more like diamonds," Poole said. "Look from a different angle, and you see something completely different." He argued that Google+ missed a big opportunity to innovate by allowing users to manipulate who they share with, rather than who they share as. Twitter has a better handle on identity, he said, as an interest-based community, japan, craiglist, ebay, overseas, paypal, rather than an identity-based one.

Wired's Tim Carmody praised Poole's philosophy of identity Synthroid Dosage, , arguing that it's practical without surrendering to Facebook's one-identity-for-all-time mantra. And GigaOM's Mathew Ingram also praised Twitter's approach, arguing that its commitment to free speech is far more important than whether participants are using their real names.

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Making nonprofit news sustainable: The Knight Foundation released a comprehensive report on what makes local nonprofit news organizations work, featuring profiles of eight orgs, including many of the big names in that corner of the news world — Bay Citizen, Generic Synthroid, MinnPost, Voice of San Diego, Texas Tribune, and so on.

The study highlighted three keys to sustainability for local nonprofit news orgs: First, a workable business development strategy, which means that even if they start with foundation support, they need to treat it as something that will diminish over time, Synthroid dangers, rather than an ongoing revenue stream. Second, they need innovative approaches to building engagement both online and offline. And third, they need the skills to go deep into data journalism and interactive features, which "require technological capacity that sits outside the experience of many journalists."

Poynter's Rick Edmonds dug deeper into the study, noting a couple of other interesting tidbits: Though the sites are working hard to diversify their funding, more than half of it is still coming from foundations, and another third from donations, Synthroid Dosage. He also said these news sites need to have deep community roots and be able to adapt to specific local information needs, rather than just having a general "replace what's gone" goal.

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Apple's Newsstand starts strong: It's only been around a little more than a week, but according to a couple of app sellers, Synthroid description, the early indicators on Apple's new Newsstand have been quite positive. Exact Editions and Future, two companies that produce and sell apps for publishers, said that sales have more than doubled across the board since Newsstand's launch, according to paidContent. The Daily was the biggest winner, coming out No. 1 on Newsstand's first bestseller list, taking Synthroid. Synthroid Dosage, While noting that it's very early, Jessica Roy of 10,000 Wordscalled the news "incredibly encouraging for digital publishers."

At the Knight Digital Media Center, Amy Gahran wondered whether Newsstand's popularity and ease of use will eventually spell the end of standalone iPhone and iPad news apps. That may not be a bad thing, she said: "Standalone news apps may look cool, but cumulatively they’re also a hassle for users who mainly just want access to content, not special interactive features." Meanwhile, another news org, the Economist, Synthroid used for, has had to give in to Apple's requirements that app payments go through its App Store, rather than through the web.

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Reading roundup: Here's what else went on in the world of news and tech in the past week:

— Google announced it would shut down a few services: Code Search, which lets people look up open-source code, and two social networks, Jaiku and Google Buzz. ReadWriteWeb's Marshall Kirkpatrick reflected on Buzz's privacy problems, and j-prof Josh Braun said Buzz reminds us that a social network site doesn't have to be huge to be priceless, buy Synthroid no prescription. Mathew Ingram of GigaOM wondered if Google has really learned all that much from Buzz and Jaiku.

— The New York Times' David Streitfeld wrote on Amazon's burgeoning business as a book publisher, both online and in print, Synthroid Dosage. Mathew Ingram told publishers to wake up and realize that they're a middleman that people are figuring out how to eliminate.

— The Guardian gave an update after a week its open-newslist experiment, reporting that it's drawn quite a bit of interest from readers and that it's been expanded to include longer-range plans. The Journal Register Co.'s Steve Buttry noted that some of his company's papers are doing this, too. Online buying Synthroid, — After its initial five-year run ended, the Knight Foundation announced its Knight News Challenge will continue in 2012, being run three times a year.

— The real-time web got a real breaking-news test yesterday when the news of former Libyan leader Muammer Gaddafi had died broke with numerous conflicting reports. Poynter's Julie Moos looked at how major news sites handled the uncertainty.

— It's something that's harped on for at least a decade, but Poynter's Mallary Jean Tenore showed that news orgs still have a ways to go in providing accessible contact information for their journalists.

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