4 Minute Roundup: NYTimes.com Charging?; AP's Sotomayor Blog

Here's the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week's edition, I look at the latest move by the New York Times to survey print subscribers to see if they will pay for access to the website -- on top of what they're paying for the print edition. Plus, the Associated Press launched a Twitter feed and blog with Yahoo News to cover the upcoming Sotomayor confirmation hearings Monday. It's a departure for the wire service to include reader questions, feedback and input while covering a live event.\n\nCheck it out:\n\n\n\n

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\n\nBackground music is \"What the World Needs\" by the \"The Ukelele Hipster Kings\":http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=1930 via PodSafe Music Network\n\nHere are some links to related sites and stories mentioned in the podcast:\n\n\"New York Times to decide how to charge for its website by August\":http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/5786429/New-York-Times-to-decide-how-to-charge-for-its-website-by-August.html at the Telegraph\n\n\"New York Times Asks Subscribers: Is It Wrong to Charge for Online Content?\":http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=131&aid=166478 at Poynter\n\n\"NYT Tests Online Pay Scenarios On Print Subscribers; Decision By August?\":http://paidcontent.org/article/419-nyt-tests-online-pay-scenarios-on-print-subscribers/ at PaidContent\n\n\"The New York Times Asks Readers If They'd Pay For Online Version\":http://mashable.com/2009/07/09/new-york-times-online-subscription/ at Mashable\n\n\"AP_Courtside Twitter feed\":http://twitter.com/AP_courtside\n\n\"The Supreme Court and You\":http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20090709/ts_ynews/ynews_ts434 at Yahoo News\n\n\"The Associated Press tries courtside crowdsourcing Sotomayor coverage\":http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/07/the-associated-press-tries-courtside-crowdsourcing-sotomayor-coverage/ at Nieman Journalism Lab\n\n\"Gannett Blog's Hopkins Ends Run Today\":http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003992681 at E&P\n\nHere's a graphical view of last week's MediaShift survey results. The question was \"When did you believe Michael Jackson really died?\"\n\n

\n\nAlso, be sure to vote in our poll about what you would pay (if anything) to access NYTimes.com.\n\nMark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and \"Idea Lab\":http://www.pbs.org/idealab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the \"Online Publishers Association\":http://www.online-publishers.org. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter \"@mediatwit\":http://www.twitter.com/mediatwit.