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Mera Szendro Bok's picture

Exploring new experiments in journalism: Newsday paywall fails, while Spot.us lets readers decide what news to pay for

Submitted by Mera Szendro Bok on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 11:15

Are paywalls working? Or are there other experiments out there finding solutions to journalism's funding dilemma? New Media Rights covers the Newsday paywall failures, and explores on an innovative journalism venture based here in California, Spot.us.

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Mera Szendro Bok's picture

The mega-merger of Comcast and NBC: a lethal marriage

Submitted by Mera Szendro Bok on Mon, 12/07/2009 - 18:31

Read about the Comcast-NBC merger and what's at stake. Some public interest groups that are calling this the beginning of the media "mega-merger" era warn that consumers will be losing out because this deal will lead to higher prices, fewer choices and less innovation. The deal will certainly alter the media marketplace and merging the country's largest cable company with a large TV broadcast company, giving Comcast control of 20% of American television viewing hours according to the latest Daily Finance reports.

The largest building in Philadelphia

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pete fuentes's picture

"Twitter Journalists" stoke the flames of revolution in Iran using citizen media

Submitted by pete fuentes on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 13:48

The picture flashed around the world could ignite a revolution in Iran, and a news revolution.

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"Change is gonna come"

Submitted by pete fuentes on Fri, 06/19/2009 - 14:29

Just like the old soul hit, "A change is gonna come." People are out to change the media world.

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Room for Solid News at 702.tv?

Submitted by pete fuentes on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 00:23
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michael donahue's picture

French Internet Law: "3 Strikes" and you're out?

Submitted by michael donahue on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 14:03

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art neill's picture

The AP is going stop bloggers from pirating content (or quoting in fair use for legitimate reasons)

Submitted by art neill on Tue, 06/02/2009 - 15:00

The AP says it is taking aim at "wholesale theft" with new technology that is aimed at targeting reposting of "entire articles." The new technology is supposed to simply flag questionable articles for lawyers and paralegals to then review.

The question is will the new technology be so limited, or will the AP use the technology to follow the same path it took filing DMCA takedown notices falsely characterizing the law regarding the Drudge retort's postings as follows:

"...the use is not fair use simply because the work copied happened to be
a news article and that the use is of the headline and the first few
sentences only ."

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pete fuentes's picture

The Citizen Journalist Strikes Back

Submitted by pete fuentes on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 12:50

While news organizations shrink in size, the public is armed to shoot and tell their stories via Citizen Journalists

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TV stations fire their high priced talent

Submitted by pete fuentes on Mon, 05/25/2009 - 10:42

TV stations across the country cutting Veteran, experienced talent, "The bigger they are become the first to fall."

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Government tries to STIMULATE your mind

Submitted by pete fuentes on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 09:24

New trends, The government tries to help TV/Newspapers, and A new book from a couple of consultants stimulates thought about the future of TV

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