She is so uncouth.
Gannett’s Paywall Gamble »
I’ve been rocking the publishing beat these days. Here’s today’s piece on Gannett’s move to a metered model.
The New York Times has seen success with its subscription system, but can such a strategy work for the hard-hit local-news business?
Gannett, the nation’s largest newspaper publisher with more than 80 outlets, is about to find out. It’s following the likes of the New York Times, taking a metered approach — allowing a certain amount of content to be read for free (Forbes reports five to 15 articles a month, depending on the publication) before requiring readers to buy a subscription. Gannett is exempting its flagship USA Today property from the ambitious experiment, which seeks to add up in direct reader payments what local papers have lost in classifieds and ad revenue as news consumption has shifted online. The company expects to generate $100 million through this metered model starting in 2013. It’s a risky bet as any paywall, even a porous one, is bound to cut into the lifeblood of Internet advertising: traffic.
Lollipopping. All the kids are doing it.
*applause*
(via tallwhitney)
The New York Times, one of a number of media organizations that had requested the records, plans to publish the ratings on its education blog, SchoolBook, and has asked teachers to respond online. On Thursday, several posters on SchoolBook called the reports deeply flawed and criticized the city as well as the news media for making them public. »
Marie Kallo, a sixth-grade English and social studies teacher at Intermediate School 234 in Brooklyn, said that even though she had received an above-average rating, she was troubled by a significant error in her report: It said she had taught 120 students in 2007-8 when she had actually taught more than 200.
“That makes me question the accuracy of all the data reports,” Ms. Kallo said, adding that she also did not understand how the ratings were calculated. “How is it fair to be judged on information that is not accurate?”
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For the cynicism and lack of moral courage that have been so evident in the campaign wouldn’t suddenly vanish once Mr. Romney entered the Oval Office. If he doesn’t dare disagree with economic nonsense now, why imagine that he would become willing to challenge that nonsense later? And bear in mind that if elected, he would be watched like a hawk for signs of apostasy by the very people he’s trying so desperately to appease right now.
The truth is that Mr. Romney is so deeply committed to insincerity that neither side can trust him to do what it considers to be the right thing.
”“Today, however, an Academy spokesperson rephrased the statement for CNN’s report: “We would love to have Sacha Baron Cohen at the Oscar show,” the spokesperson said. “We have expressed [to Cohen] that we don’t like our red carpet to be used as a promotional stunt. We’re waiting to hear from him. We’ve put the ball in his court.”
People!
Maryland is about to become the eighth state to legalize same-sex marriage, after the state senate passed the bill Thursday night. »
A bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland was approved by the state Senate, which advanced a measure that narrowly cleared the House of Delegates last week.
The final vote by the state Senate ended a yearlong drama in Annapolis over the legislation, and marked the first time an East Coast state south of the Mason-Dixon line has supported gay nuptials.
With the vote, the measure moves to Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), who has said he will sign it.
Gov. Martin O’Malley is expected to sign the bill as soon as next week.
Another small step towards being on the right side of history.
New York Magazine's List of Other "Seinfeld" Quotes That Apply to Mitt Romney: »
- George Costanza: “I lie every second of the day. My whole life is a sham!”
- Jerry Seinfeld: “You’re going to really see me being a phony, now. I hope you can take this. Maybe you should go in the other room.”
- George Costanza: “Just remember. It’s not a lie … if you believe it.”
- Jerry Seinfeld: “If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.”
- George Costanza: “We’re just trying to come up with the best possible lie. That’s what this is all about.”
- Jerry Seinfeld: “I think I’m pretty much like you, only successful.”
- Morty Seinfeld: “I’ll tell you what I’m looking at: the next condo president of Del Boca Vista, Phase Three.”
Has anyone asked Puddy for his thoughts on the GOP field yet?
Worlds colliding.
“Social TV is a cross-functional effort at NBC News,” said Osborn, who leads a team of three. “To tell stories at scale across all platforms takes a lot of coordination. To make this happen, we bring together teams from editorial, marketing, ad sales and technology to help foster community around the programming that we distribute to a mass audience on television.”
Ryan Osborn, senior director of social media at NBC News. I spoke to Ryan about how NBC News views social TV and what the network is doing to embrace this old but new concept.
