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Murdoch to Launch National iPaper

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Is there enough demand out there for a paid subscription to something like this?
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HERO

JERK

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NYT editor: Stop using the word "Tweet," it sounds stupid

Phil Corbett, the latest standards editor at the Times (maybe the greatest job in the world?), has issued a proclamation! Yesterday, the following memo went out, asking writers to abstain from the invented past-tense and other weird iterations of the magical noun-verb "Twitter." His case isn't terrible, actually—and he offers this terrifying vision: "Someday, 'tweet' may be as common as 'e-mail.'" Oh dear. Well, read for yourself and decide.
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52 Percent Of Bloggers Consider Themselves Journalists, are they?

52% percent of bloggers surveyed consider themselves journalists. This is an increase from 2009’s study, when just one in three had the same opinion. However, despite this, only 20% of bloggers obtain the majority of their income from their blogs; which is an 4% increase from 2009.
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FUNNY

SAD

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After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday's Web Site

In late October, Newsday, the Long Island daily that the Dolans bought for $650 million, put its web site, newsday.com, behind a pay wall. The paper was one of the first non-business newspapers to take the plunge by putting up a pay wall, so in media circles it has been followed with interest. Could its fate be a sign of what others, including The New York Times, might expect?
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INTERESTING

BORING

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5 reporters will only get news from facebook & twitter for days

Are these social media -- which between them have nearly 400 million users -- really the serious threat to established media they are often said to be? Those are the questions the five reporters hope to answer when they retire for five days from February 1 to a farmhouse in France's southern Perigord region.
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NY Times will start charging for access after a few free articles

Starting in early 2011, visitors to NYTimes.com will get a certain number of articles free every month before being asked to pay a flat fee for unlimited access. Subscribers to the newspaper’s print edition will receive full access to the site.
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WOW!

MEH

8 Pikks

LG Display Reveals News-Worthy, Flexible E-Paper

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LG Display Co., Ltd., a leading innovator of thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) technology, announced it has developed the 19-inch flexible e-paper – the world’s largest.
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France Considers ‘Google Tax’ to Pay Creative Work

rance could start taxing Internet advertising revenues from online giants such as Google, using the funds to support creative industries that have been hit by the digital revolution, a newspaper reported on Thursday. The proposal, put forward in a government-commissioned survey, is France’s latest challenge to the virtual free-for-all for Internet content. The country has previously caused controversy with some of the world’s harshest laws on online piracy.
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CARS

FREEDOM

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A Modest Proposal to Revive the Free Press

You can't have cars and freedom both anymore, so which one gets your pikk? The symbol of freedom or the real thing?
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Newspapers unite on climate change

Tomorrow 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency. Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security. The dangers have been becoming apparent for a generation. Now the facts have started to speak
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TERRIFYING

SO-WHAT?

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Lynne Stewart, Radical Lawyer Who Aided Terrorist, Is Jailed

Can this possibly be right? A lawyer now can be jailed for taking her client's side?
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About Half in U.S. Would Pay for Online News, Study Finds

Americans, it turns out, are less willing than people in many other Western countries to pay for their online news, according to a new study by the Boston Consulting Group.
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