[A2k] Media COntent Cartels COlluding?

[Miles Teg]

Media Talk USA: Content cartels

Publishing executives have met to discuss online news pricing. Jeff
Jarvis asks whether that's collaboration or collusion? Plus an interview
with the New York Times' social media editor


    * Jeff Jarvis and Andy Duckworth
    * guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 2 June 2009 01.53 BST

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Newspaper publishers get together at a not-so-secret meeting to talk
about pricing. We analyse the antitrust issues that raises.

Jennifer Preston, the social media editor at The New York Times, stops
tweeting long enough to tell us what she will be doing in her new job.

As Conan O'Brien takes over from Jay Leno on NBC's The Tonight Show, we
ask how relevant the programme is in the current media environment.

The White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, criticises British
newspapers. How dare he.

The panel also discusses whether Google's latest offering Wave is the
'new news', why AOL and Time Warner are to demerge, hyperlocal blogging,
as well as plans for Google's e-book.

We have a media marriage in the studio this month. The husband and wife
team of Jon Fine and Laurel Touby.

Laurel is founder of mediabistro.com.... the hugely influential website
that keeps an eye on all things media. Jon is media columnist at
Business Week.

They rarely pause for breath.

WARNING: contains very strong language (mostly right at the end in the
outtakes)

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Thanks to City University New York for allowing us to use their
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Media Talk USA podcast: Jeff Jarvis looks at antitrust issues as
newspapers discuss charging for web content | Media | guardian.co.uk (3
June 2009)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/audio/2009/jun/02/media-talk-usa-podcast-newspaper-cartels