Mediagazer: iPad strategies for publishers (Martin Langeveld/News after Newspapers)

6:30 PM ET, March 8, 2010

Top News:

Megan McCarthy / Mediagazer News:

Introducing Mediagazer — Mediagazer presents the day's must read media news on a single page. — The media business is in tumult: from the production side to the distribution side, new technologies are upending the industry. What do news organizations need to do to survive? Will books become extinct?

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Yet Another Media Aggregation Site? Yup. And You'll Read It: Techmeme Unveils Mediagazer. — Does the Web need yet another outlet dedicated to media coverage? Nope. How about another aggregation site? Plenty of those to go around too. — So what if you combined the two? Exactly.

Discussion: All Shook Down and TechCrunch

Kerry Lauerman / Salon:

The story behind Oscar's “Kanye moment” — We talk to the two filmmakers whose personal fight became one of the ceremony's weirdest moments … People are already saying you “pulled a Kanye.” What happened? — BURKETT: What happened was the director and I had a bad difference …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Stranger …, Hollywood Reporter, The Awl, MTV Movies Blog, PopEater, MTV Buzzworthy Blog, /Film, Speakeasy, Movieline, New York Magazine, ArtsBeat, Jezebel, The Big Lead, Gawker and The Washington Independent

Dirk Smillie / Forbes:

Digital Lift-Off — Web ads to get a 10% boost in 2010. For the first time advertisers will spend more on digital than print. — We've been waiting for this: A study by Outsell, to be released Monday, reveals that U.S. advertisers are spending more this year on digital media than on print.

Discussion: Mobile Marketing Watch, Gawker and Romenesko

Greg Bensinger / Bloomberg:
Online Ad Spending to Surpass Print in U.S. This Year

Discussion: Agence France Presse and btobonline.com

Steve Pond / The Wrap:

Analysis: How ‘Hurt Locker’ Became the $21M Movie That Could — It wasn't an Oscars for the unexpected. It was an Oscars for the unprecedented. — In the end, “The Hurt Locker” shrugged off the barrage of last-minute criticism and came out of awards season in exactly the same …

Discussion: The Big Picture, Media on HuffingtonPost.com, Multichannel, Broadcasting & Cable, The New Yorker Blog, MediaFreak, The Wire and Moraes on TV

Adalian / The Wrap:
Ratings: Oscars Most-Watched Since 2005

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, The Live Feed | THR and Movieline

Martin Langeveld / News after Newspapers:

iPad strategies for publishers — This is a white paper based on and expanded from my earlier post on the same topic, prepared for the Digital Publishing Alliance meeting at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri on March 7-9, 2010

Discussion: Poynter

Michael Cieply / Media Decoder:

Variety Lets Go of 2 of Its Top Critics — Neil Stiles, the president of Variety, said the entertainment industry trade paper was cutting from its staff two of its most prominent writers — the film reviewer Todd McCarthy and the theater critic David Rooney.

Discussion: The Wrap, 24 Frames, LA Observed, Romenesko and New York Magazine

Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:

The New York Times is hiring 12 techies and a social media whiz — While pundits climb over each other to predict the death of The New York Times Company, the NYT is looking to hire at least a dozen full-time software engineers and Web designers, plus one social media marketing manager.

David Carr / New York Times:

Breaking the Story That Isn't — Reporters have always kept an eye on other reporters. For a journalist, the only thing more interesting than what you are working on is what your competitor is working on. — But what if watching your competitor becomes your whole story?

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, Media Decoder and FishBowlNY

Ryan Tate / Gawker:

Inside the Low-Paying Cheezburger Empire — Ben Huh's media startup is focused on LOLcats and other internet animal memes. Things are less cute behind the scenes, where underpaid and overworked humans lurk, according to several company veterans who answered our recent request for information.

Discussion: broadstuff

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

In lean times, TV reporters must be jacks of all trades — Scott Broom turns his tripod toward the wall of gray mailboxes, adjusts the camera, walks into the shot and delivers his spiel. — “Here's how bad it is for the U.S. Postal Service,” the WUSA reporter says as a handful of customers at the Garrett Park post office look on.

Discussion: TVNewser

Nicholas White / Style Watch:

Betty White Confirms She'll Appear on Saturday Night Live — Betty White fans, your prayers have been answered. The former Golden Girl will appear on Saturday Night Live in the near future, she confirmed to PEOPLE at Elton John's annual Oscars viewing party on Sunday night.

Discussion: WebNewser, TVWeek.com, Movieline, Ministry of Gossip, Mashable!, All Facebook, PopEater and TV Squad

The Official Google Blog:

Statistics for a changing world: Google Public Data Explorer in Labs — Last year, we released a public data search feature that enables people to quickly find useful statistics in search. More recently, we expanded this service to include information from the World Bank, such as population data for every region in the world.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Mashable!, ResourceShelf, ReadWriteWeb, Top of the Ticket and Silicon Alley Insider

Chris / cdixon.org:

News is a lousy business for Google too — There is a widespread myth that search engines have taken profits away from news websites. A few months ago, Rupert Murdoch said: “Google has devised a brilliant business model that avoids paying for news gathering yet profits off the search ads sold around that content.”

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …

Joe Flint / Company Town:

Disney's deal with Cablevision is good news for broadcasters [Updated] — And the Oscar for biggest gamble goes to ... Walt Disney Co.'s ABC. — Risking political backlash and hits to its ratings, advertising revenue and public goodwill, Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger drew a line in the sand …

Discussion: New York Times, A VC, Media Decoder, Faster Forward, DailyFinance, MediaFreak, Multichannel, Variety, Mediaweek, Media Money …, Broadcasting & Cable, paidContent and NYConvergence

Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:

Bloomberg BusinessWeek's Bullish — Taking sharp aim at its rivals, Bloomberg BusinessWeek is prepping for a relaunch April 23 that it boasts will “reinvent” the category, with shorter stories, 20 percent more editorial pages and three more issues for a total of 50. — The moves come as others are retrenching.

Discussion: Editors Weblog

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

“OMG It's Steve Jobs! I'm the Only One Yelling at Him!” — That's the most excellent caption for this photo (below), posted Sunday night by blogger Wayne Sutton. — Squint and you can see the Apple (AAPL) co-founder and CEO in the middle of shot, standing to the right of the woman in a white dress (click to enlarge).

Discussion: MediaFile, VentureBeat, MacRumors, Brainstorm Tech, GMSV, Gadget Lab and Engadget

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Don't Blame Your Community: Ad Blocking Is Not Killing Any Sites — Every so often we hear about a random blog or website that freaks out and claims that ad blockers are “stealing” or somehow damaging websites. But it's quite a surprise to see a similar argument from a site like Ars Technica …

Discussion: PlagiarismToday, Digits and the Econsultancy blog

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Cable Channel to Offer Giant Octopi and Big Cats — Cable channels usually get their start in the United States, then branch out to the rest of the world. But this month, the News Corporation will import a foreign channel full of shows about a subject that knows no borders: natural history.

Discussion: Media Buyer Planner

Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:

The Real Reason AOL Can't Spend More Than $100 Million On An Acquisition (AOL) — AOL CFO Artie Minson and CEO Tim Armstrong keep telling analysts there will be no Bebo-esque, “hail mary” acquisitions in the company's near future. — Now we know the real reason why: AOL's creditors won't allow it.

Dan Le Batard / MiamiHerald.com:

Anything goes in gossip world of ‘journalism’ — I remember the first time I felt the shift. It was while viewing a photograph of Alex Rodriguez that made me feel dirty in June 2007. He was getting on a hotel elevator late at night with a curvy blonde woman who wasn't his wife.

Discussion: The Big Lead