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Mediatwits #23: Occupied Wall Street Journal; Netflix Backs Down

The Mediatwits podcast is sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which offers an intensive, cutting edge, three semester Master of Arts in Journalism; a unique one semester Advanced Certificate in Entrepreneurial Journalism; and the CUNY J-Camp series of Continuing Professional Development workshops focused on emerging trends and skill sets in the industry.

Welcome to the 23rd episode of “The Mediatwits,” the weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift’s Mark Glaser and entrepreneur Rafat Ali. The main topic on this show is the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement, how the media has covered it, and the remarkable “Occupied Wall Street Journal” newspaper. Special guest Arun Gupta is the co-founder of the newspaper and explains the importance of a print publication in political circles. Plus, the head of audio at SoundCloud, Manolo Espinosa, explains how Occupy protesters and journalists have been using the service to capture audio at the protests.

Meanwhile, Netflix backed down on its plan to spin off a separate DVD rental service, Qwikster. So what does that mean in the streaming video wars? And a Pennsylvania newspaper decides to keep its pay wall up even during a flood when residents were clamoring for emergency information. Was the publisher really serving the public by not bringing down the wall at least temporarily?

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Intro and outro music by 3 Feet Up; mid-podcast music by Autumn Eyes via Mevio’s Music Alley.

Here are some highlighted topics from the show:

Intro

1:10: Updates on #OccupySF and #OccupyWallSt

3:00: Not all of us can be activists

4:05: Rafat has the OccupyWSJ.com domain and will donate it

4:55: Rundown of topics for show

Arun Gupta

Occupy Wall Street

5:40: Special guest Arun Gupta

7:40: Gupta: No one was paid a penny to write for the newspaper

9:20: Gupta: Print newspaper can build political community

13:10: Adbusters played key role in starting movement

15:10: Gupta visits various occupations outside of New York

16:30: Special guest Manolo Espinosa

Manolo Espinosa

17:20: People use SoundCloud for reporting, make field reports at protests

19:40: Political candidates using SoundCloud to tell audio stories

Netflix drops Qwikster idea

22:40: Bizarre moves from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings

26:00: Why is Netflix so tone-deaf to customers?

27:30: Netflix will announce an updated subscriber number soon

Newspaper keeps pay wall during flood

29:20: Bloomsberg (Pa.) Press-Enterprise’s stubborn pay wall

31:20: Mark: Will new competing free online-only site survive?

32:10: Paper should consider value of serving the public

More Reading

CHARTS: Here’s What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About… at Business Insider

Why Occupy? Here’s Why at Forbes

Audio reports from ABC Radio’s Dan Patterson on Occupy Wall Street on SoundCloud

Occupy Wall Street Protest Songs group at SoundCloud

A Protest’s Ink-Stained Fingers at NY Times

Occupy Wall Street, shows power of small groups by Robert Scoble on Google+

Qwikster Is Gonester: Netflix Kills Its DVD-Only Business Before Launch at AllThingsD

DVDs Will Be Staying at Netflix at the Netflix blog

Bloomsburg Press-Enterprise’s post-floods paywall a folly or financially sound? at Romenesko

Why floods couldn’t break through Pennsylvania paywall, while New York Times created leaks in theirs at Poynter

Weekly Poll

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Mark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and Idea Lab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Association. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter @mediatwit. and Circle him on Google+

The Mediatwits podcast is sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which offers an intensive, cutting edge, three semester Master of Arts in Journalism; a unique one semester Advanced Certificate in Entrepreneurial Journalism; and the CUNY J-Camp series of Continuing Professional Development workshops focused on emerging trends and skill sets in the industry.

Mark Glaser :Mark Glaser is founder and executive director of MediaShift. He contributes regularly to Digital Content Next’s InContext site and newsletter. Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. From 2001 to 2005, he wrote a weekly column for USC Annenberg School of Communication's Online Journalism Review. Glaser has written essays for Harvard's Nieman Reports and the website for the Yale Center for Globalization. Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter during the dot-com heyday, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column. Glaser won the Innovation Journalism Award in 2010 from the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication. Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife Renee and his two sons, Julian and Everett. Glaser has been a guest on PBS' "Newshour," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the College Media Assocation's national convention. He has been part of the lecture/concert series at Yale Law School and Arkansas State University, and has moderated many industry panels. He spoke in May 2013 to the Maui Business Brainstormers about the "Digital Media Revolution." To inquire about speaking opportunities, please use the site's Contact Form.

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