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In case you missed it… links

By Julie Starr | Published: December 7, 2011
Australia’s Financial Review slashes paywall prices The new regime at Fairfax Media’s Financial Review Group will cut online subscriptions prices by 40% from next Monday for The Australian Financial Review, allow print subscribers full access to online content for free and launch an iPad app early in the new year as part of a major overhaul of [...]
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‘A New York Times story is tweeted every 4 seconds’

By Julie Starr | Published: November 6, 2011
New York Times chairman Arthur Sulzberger gave a speech a few days ago at Polis LSE, which Charlie Beckett kindly posted in full. In it, Sulzberger talks about why the NY Times (which recently said it now has 325,000 digital subscribers) is engaging with its readers. The main Facebook page of The New York Times [...]
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Canadian court rules that posting hyperlink ‘doesn’t constitute publishing defamation’

By Julie Starr | Published: November 6, 2011
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that posting a hyperlink to defamatory material does not constitute publishing the defamation: In its unanimous decision to dismiss the [Crookes vs Newton] case, the court said a hyperlink, by itself, should never be considered “publication” of the content to which it refers. But that doesn’t mean internet [...]
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Link wrap: Hari’s apology, Hearst turns to html 5, Boston Globe’s new paywall site

By Julie Starr | Published: September 18, 2011
A few links from the past week or so. The Guardian Launches a New US Homepage The Guardian revealed a new url for the US – guardiannews.com – marking the start of its digital operation in New York. The new venture – headed up by Janine Gibson, formerly editor of guardian.co.uk – will create a [...]
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Te Waha Nui spruces up its website as more NZ journalism students get online

By Julie Starr | Published: August 29, 2011
Te Waha Nui, the news publication created by journalism students from AUT University, has revamped its online presence in the past couple of weeks and is looking the better for it. Alex Winkler, a postgrad journalism student who has been working on the website’s redesign, told me by email that one of the aims of [...]
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