 | May 10, 2013 |
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Top HeadlinesThere are plenty of reasons for pessimism about the state of the media and journalism, including repeated layoffs, bankruptcies and so on. But there are also many reasons to be optimistic about the current environment. Read More »YouTube's long-rumored paid channels are live: The Google-owned service started its new subscription offering with select partners Thursday. Read More »Politico announced Thursday that it will test a metered paywall this week in six states, as well as abroad. But readers in the Washington, D.C. area remain exempt because Politico gets so much advertising revenue from them. Read More »The chairman of Dish Networks toned down some of his recent rhetoric against broadcasters on today's earnings call, and said he is in favor of a subscriber-advertising model for TV. Read More »Self-publishing platform and distributor Smashwords analyzed ebook sales for nearly a year. CEO Mark Coker draws some interesting conclusions on the best way to price a self-published ebook. Read More »Apple has won one of its many lawsuits involving "i" products -- a federal judge threw out a case in which a New York publisher claimed that it, not Apple, has the rights to use "iBooks." Read More »Microsoft already has a stake in Nook Media, and now it is reportedly seeking to buy out the entire company. In Nook, Microsoft sees a shot at competing against Amazon and Apple -- in a way it might not be able to do from scratch. Read More »LinkedIn has been making some significant moves towards becoming a media entity focused on business news, and the launch of new magazine-style channels of content is just the latest example of this. Read More »News Corp COO Chase Carey spoke about Fox's digital strategy in an earnings call Wednesday afternoon. The company saw strong growth in home video, thanks to digital downloads. Carey also acknowledged that Hulu will have to adapt in coming years to compete with Netflix. Read More »The long-running fight over Google's decision to scan the world's library books took a new twist on Wednesday as an appeals court pushed the parties over copyright law's "fair use" doctrine. Read More »Zach Braff is raising money for his next movie on Kickstarter. That's wrong, argues writer, producer and director Ken Levine. Read More »Startup founder Chad Whitacre caused a fuss recently when he suggested that a reporter do an "open interview" that would be available to everyone -- but why is that approach seen as such a threat by some media outlets? Read More »Popular politics blog The Dish, which went independent and added a metered paywall at the beginning of this year, is probably not going to reach its $900,000 goal, founder Andrew Sullivan says. 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 »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 »Follow paidContent:   |  |
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