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Top HeadlinesYahoo CEO Marissa Mayer addressed video, working from home and the company's future goal during a chat in New York with Stephen Levy of Wired. Read More »Jill Abramson, the executive editor of the New York Times, addressed media trends at Wired's conference in New York City. Read More »When the NPR show Planet Money wanted to put together a project about the economic life-cycle of a T-shirt, Kickstarter seemed like the natural approach -- and it showed how much crowdfunding has in common with public media. Read More »BitTorrent wants more artists to give away stuff to file sharers - which is why they just gave those artists an option to also sell stuff to file sharers. Read More »Evan Williams sees Medium, the blogging platform that he and Biz Stone launched last year, as a modern-day magazine. While Medium will eventually open to everyone, Williams said he wants the site to be "a great place for professional writers." Read More »Local papers will get a heaping of Major League Baseball highlights thanks to a new syndication deal with NDN, a company backed by Reggie Jackson. Read More »The Huffington Post rolled out its first Asian edition in Japan on Tuesday. Read More »The new weekend editor at Gawker's auto-focused Jalopnik blog got hired because he was a knowledgeable commenter on the site, an example of how the feedback loop between writers and readers can pay off for blogs. Read More »YouTube is reportedly close to launching paid channel subscriptions on its site - and we've found a number of clues that hint at kids content being part of this initiative. Read More »Aereo, which sells $8 a month subscriptions to watch TV on mobile devices, has responded to lawsuits from broadcasters by filing an unorthodox suit of its own this week. The suit may be for PR purposes more than legal ones. Read More »There is a conventional wisdom in the media industry that micropayments for online content don't work, but Greg Golebiewski of Znak It says that this isn't true, and that media companies need to experiment with the model. Read More »Digital library distributor Baker & Taylor launched an app Monday that will let library patrons read ebooks on iOS and Android devices. Read More »The New York Times is launching a series of short, web-only documentaries with nonprofit Retro Report. The weekly 10- to 15-minute documentaries will run on the NYT's baby boomer blog and will examine events of the past. Read More »Follow paidContent:   |  |
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