Newspaper publishers are raving about Apple Newsstand, saying they have seen a drastic increase in app downloads since its Oct. 12 launch.

Newsstand, a feature included in iOS 5, provides a portal for tablet users to select which newspaper and magazine apps they want to read on a daily basis, and automatically downloads them in the background to users' tablets and smartphones. It also brings renewed importance to the newspaper cover.

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Feeling a little stressed about tomorrow? Given the stress of company budgeting, the stress of wider economies turned upside down, the stress of stress itself (Time helpfully chirped in this week with an "Anxiety: Why It's Good for You" cover this week), many media tomorrows have turned out to be less fun than the days preceding them. Tomorrow just seems to offer a tougher challenge than today.

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The Pulitzer board, which administers the journalism awards named after newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, has changed the terms of submission to require digital entries only, and has also changed the description of the "breaking news" category to stress that real-time reporting will be the main criteria for that award. That has led some -- including the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard -- to speculate we could see a Pulitzer Prize for live-tweeting of the news. Whether that ever comes to pass or not, there's a case to be made that Twitter is the best tool for breaking news that the world of journalism has seen in a long time.

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Are you pricing your content intelligently? Or is your pricing model lacking a scientific approach? Jimmy Gasteen is the CEO and founder of Precursive, a new media business consultancy and workflow tools firm, and previously a pricing analyst at Reed Elsevier.

He thinks a lot of media businesses have got it wrong when it comes to price and that a little analytical thinking will go a long way for both B2B and consumer media products.

Source: TheMediaBriefing