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One day after The New York Times announced an "NYT Everywhere" strategy that will extend subscriber content to Flipboard, The Wall Street Journal stepped up its own "Journal Everywhere" plan by selling premium content within the Pulse news aggregation app.

While the Times is offering full access to existing subscribers through Flipboard, the Journal will sell alternative subscriptions in Pulse to three narrower channels: WSJ Political Report or WSJ Technology Digest for $3.99 a month each, or a daily editors-choice section called WSJ Water Cooler for 99 cents a month. (more...)

Recent stories about the pending merger between The Bay Citizen and the Center for Investigative Reporting in California have raised the question of whether the merged group would continue to work with The New York Times. The Bay Citizen produces stories for the Times edition in the Bay Area, similar to arrangements between the Times and the Chicago News Cooperative and The Texas Tribune.

Describing Phil Bronstein's presentation to The Bay Citizen's board in January, Peter H. Lewis wrote: (more...)

NetNewsCheck
Michael Depp examines the close, complicated relationship between The New York Times and three nonprofit news operations that provide local coverage for certain editions: Texas Tribune, The Bay Citizen and Chicago News Cooperative. While the partnerships have kickstarted the nonprofits' operations and boosted their credibility, it's tough to balance the Times' need for content (they're responsible for two pages, twice a week) with their own missions and editorial voices. The partners spend a lot more time on journalism for the Times than they get in licensing revenue, and they don't get a cut of the money that the Times makes selling ads next to their stories. Times assistant national editor Jill Agostino sometimes has to fend off requests from within the Times for help on developing stories. "We can’t treat these groups as though they’re our stringers in these areas because they’re not,” she says. She compares working with the Times to "being married to a famous spouse"; Jim O'Shea of the Chicago News Cooperative says it's "sort of a halo and a cloud at the same time.” Subscriptions have increased in the partner markets, Agostino says. Anyone tracking content partnerships like this will find the post thought-provoking. || Related: Sometimes Times editors should remain behind the scenes (Gawker)

St. Petersburg Times
PolitiFact, the St. Petersburg Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking operation, will now allow newspapers to syndicate its content through what it calls the PolitiFact News Service. Already the Times (which Poynter owns) has been franchising PolitiFact to news outlets to do state-level fact-checking; nine of these are underway. PolitiFact Editor Bill Adair tells me that the syndication offer applies to print only, and right now only to the national operation. TechCrunch reports that PolitiFact hasn't disclosed syndication rates. || Related: PolitiFact takes lesson from fast-food industry as it franchises fact-checking (Poynter.org) | Adair calls the operation "a true cooperative in the model of the Associated Press ... where we are sharing all our fact-checking among all our partners" (Nieman Journalism Lab) (more...)

Monday Note
Frédéric Filloux speculates how publishers could take advantage of opportunities presented by Amazon's new lineup of Kindle products. One idea is for publishers to give readers an e-ink Kindle (any model except the new Fire) with a two-year subscription — if Amazon lets them sell the "Special ScreenSavers Offers" ads that display when the device is idle. Another idea is for the device to come pre-loaded with with free e-books or trial subscriptions in order to retain new Kindle owners as long-term customers. Neither of these is possible now, but Filloux writes that publishers willing to work creatively with Amazon might be able to enact programs like this. || Earlier: Media companies may have a love-hate relationship with Amazon; 5 key questions about the Kindle Fire