How much is news worth? The New York Times can’t decide. Getting the paper delivered turns out to be the cheapest option, as it comes bundled with access to the website, smartphone and iPad apps.
Newspaper delivery + all digital access: $5.85 per week
All digital access: $8.75 per week
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A group of Huffington Post bloggers, led by union organizer and journalist Jonathan Tasini are planning to file suit against the AOL-Huffington Post demanding they be paid for their volunteer writing, according to Jeff Bercovici at Forbes.
It seems like a thin case at first blush, since unlike AOL freelancers, there was never any expectation Read More
Until this morning, it wasn’t clear what would happen to freelance writers for AOL properties Moviefone and Cinematical in the wake of the Huffington Post takeover of the editorial side of the company–especially since editor-in-chief Erik Davis just resigned. But an email sent this morning, Subject: Moviefone/Cinematical – Status of Writers, somewhat cleared things up! Read More
Broadcastr, the audio social network from the bookish start-up Electric Literature, just inked a deal with Oxygen Media. Read More
Former Engadget Show netcasters Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel and Paul Miller hit the web yesterday with This is my next Podcast, a show and blog that will serve as an outlet for their collective tech wisdoms during the between-jobs period before the launch of the much-anticipated tech site at SB Nation. Read More
The New York Times has been sending out cease-and-desist letters hackers who created various clever tricks to get around the paper’s new paywall, including the @FreeNYT, @freeNYTimes accounts on Twitter as well as the NYTClean bookmarklet which negates the code on a page that brings up the paywall. This doesn’t mean the Times won’t sue or threaten over the functionality of the hacks under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but the paper doesn’t seem to have plans for that yet. NYTClean has been renamed NYClean; the free Twitter accounts have not switched over yet. –Bb. Read More
The New York Times paywall dropped today! Local taste mapper Hunch took a look at who is trying to avoid the fees by navigating to articles through the @FreeNYT Twitter account (the Times is letting social media traffic in) and compared the freeloaders to readers of The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal.
PCMag has an interview with a person purporting to be the mind behind the @FreeNYT Twitter account (interviews with anonymous Twitter account holders–This Is How We Journalism Now) which he or she set up to take advantage of one of the leaks in the upcoming Great Paywall Experiment. Who is this maverick? Read More
Gary Vaynerchuk will contribute to The Daily for a video feature called “The Next Wave.” It’s not about wine; it’s about Twitter!
“Beginning this week, best-selling author and radio host, Gary Vaynerchuk, will be an on-camera contributor for The Daily. In this role, he will offer analysis on the latest developments in business, technology and social media trends,” the iPad app announced today. Read More
