Mediagazer: A new ‘Wizard of Oz’ could make its way down the Hollywood road (Steve Zeitchik/24 Frames)

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

“SF Weekly is not going out of business,” says owner — A memo to Village Voice Media employees says: “The near-manic intensity with which the [San Francisco Bay] Guardian is attempting to scrape together cash reflects the true nature of this case: That it is the Guardian, not the [Voice-owned] …

Discussion: The Latest Word and Editor and Publisher

Discussion: Editor and Publisher, Editors Weblog, Romenesko and Fitz & Jen

Tim Redmond / sfbg.com: SF Weekly owes us half its ad revenue

Aaron / YouTube Biz Blog:

YouTube calling: Now serving ads on the YouTube mobile site — Mobile phones are rapidly becoming essential tools for surfing the web, connecting with friends, and sharing and watching video online, and we're seeing these effects at YouTube. The YouTube mobile site is more popular than ever …

Discussion: NewTeeVee, MediaMemo, The Next Web, ClickZ, AdAge, Online, Silicon Alley Insider, paidContent, Internet2Go, Mashable! and VentureBeat

Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:

Rather Blames “Online & Cable Echo Chamber” For “Watermelon” Reaction — Dan Rather is responding today to the questionably-worded anecdote ("he couldn't sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic") - and he's doing so in a decidedly un-140-character way.

Discussion: Michael Calderone's Blog, TVNewser, Romenesko, New York Magazine, WebNewser, Gawker, Chickaboomer and NewsBusters.org

Pete Wells / Diner's Journal:

Wall Street Journal Sheds a Restaurant Critic — Raymond Sokolov, who has reviewed restaurants for The Wall Street Journal since 2006, is leaving the paper. Mr. Sokolov said his editors had told him The Journal was abandoning restaurant criticism, and asked him to report on food trends instead.

Discussion: Romenesko, FishBowlNY, Mediaite and New York Observer

Robert Feder / blogs.vocalo.org:

Memo puts WGN news staffers at a loss for words — Sure, you'd think the chief executive officer of a company struggling to emerge from bankruptcy and desperate to salvage an $8 billion buyout-gone-bad would have better things to do than pester his underlings with crazy proclamations.

Discussion: Tower Ticker, Romenesko, The Awl, The Wire, LA Observed, You Don't Say, The Huffington Post, Gawker and Mediaite

Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:

Sony Brings More Newspaper and Magazine Content to its E-Readers — Sony just announced that it is expanding its selection of newspapers and magazines in its e-book store. Starting today, users of Sony's e-readers will be able to subscribe to 20 new newspapers and magazines …

Discussion: Sony and TUAW

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Comcast Is Absent From Campaign to Change Retransmission Rules — On Tuesday many of the country's biggest television providers signed on to a petition that asked the government to revamp station retransmission rules. Cablevision, Charter, DirecTV, Dish Network Time Warner Cable …

Discussion: New York Times

Steve Zeitchik / 24 Frames:

A new ‘Wizard of Oz’ could make its way down the Hollywood road — EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off Disney's massive success with Tim Burton's “Alice in Wonderland,” Warner Bros. wants to remake another childhood classic. Like, really classic. — The studio is examining two existing “Wizard of Oz” …

Discussion: The Playlist, Movieline, /Film, Cinematical and Geekosystem

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

FNC VP of Digital Mike Straka Out — TVNewser has learned Mike Straka, the VP of Fox News Digital, has departed the network. We hear Straka is headed to HDNet where he is going to host a mixed martial arts program. — A Fox News spokesperson confirms Straka's last day was yesterday.

Discussion: Inside Cable News

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Long-Form Journalism Is Not “Entirely Dead” and e-Readers May Give Rise to Entirely New Forms, The Economist's Daniel Franklin — LONDON — In August, Josh Tyrangiel, then managing editor of Time.com and now editor of Business Week, told Beet.TV that long-form journalism on the Web is “not working.”

Discussion: Crikey

Nick Bilton / Bits:

TV May Be the New Google Reader Play's Best Venue — Google announced an experimental Web browsing feature on Wednesday that it will offer as an alternative view to explore content on the Google Reader Web site. The company is touting its simlplicity, but the advantage may be in the highly visual way it displays information.

Discussion: Official Google Reader Blog, louisgray.com and The Next Web

Felix Salmon:

Why did Nick Denton truncate Gawker's RSS feeds? — Yesterday, Gawker Media truncated its RSS feeds, and former Gawker editorial honcho Lockhart Steele immediately tweeted that “the only thing that excited me about Gawker's RSS truncation was picturing @felixsalmon's head explode when he heard the news”.

Discussion: Lifehacker

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Daylife And Demotix Partner On User-Gen Image Sales — News aggregator Daylife will begin reselling pictures posted by users of London-based citizen-photo journalism site Demotix to create an “open image wire service.” The arrangement is an expansion of Daylife's existing image programs.

Alex Weprin / Broadcasting & Cable:

Bravo Adding Fifth Night of Programming — Picks up four shows, announces seven in development — NBC Universal's Bravo network is adding a fifth night of original programming, boosting the number of originals hours by 20%. The network also announced that it picked up four shows …

Discussion: The Live Feed | THR, Gawker and Multichannel

Mauro Accurso / Online Journalism Blog:

The Human Journalism project in Spain — The journalist and photographer Javier Bauluz is the only Spanish winner of the Pullitzer. He has published a preview of his next project, focused on journalism and human rights, at periodismohumano.com. … Such is Bauluz's view of the current media crisis.

Mike Taylor / FishBowlNY:

CNN President Jon Klein More Afraid of Facebook Than Fox News — CNN President Jon Klein spoke with Bloomberg BusinessWeek Editor Josh Tyrangiel at the McGraw-Hill Building in Manhattan this morning. — In an interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek editor Josh Tyrangiel at BusinessWeek's annual media summit …

Discussion: Bloomberg

Carl DiOrio / Hollywood Reporter:

MPAA: Domestic boxoffice up 10% in '09 — 3D helped Hollywood post an almost 8% boost worldwide — Movies released in 3D accounted for 11% of domestic boxoffice in 2009, up from just 2% in 2008. — A total 20 films were released in 3D last year, compared with 8 the previous year.

Discussion: The Wire

WESH-TV:

Late Trainer's Family Wants Video Kept Private — Tilikum's Future At SeaWorld Uncertain — ORLANDO, Fla. — SeaWorld Orlando and the family of park trainer Dawn Brancheau are gearing up for a legal battle. — They want to prevent video footage and photographs of the Feb. 24 killer whale attack …

Discussion: Everyday Ethics and Al's Morning Meeting

Peter Robins / Guardian:

More regional newspaper awards cancelled — Press Gazette has confirmation from the Newspaper Society that it isn't doing its Circulation, Editorial and Promotions awards this year - despite the cancellation of the Regional Press Awards. So regional media are going to be missing a day out on the commercial side, as well as editorial.

Discussion: Press Gazette, Holdthefrontpage.co.uk and Editors Weblog

Lacey Rose / Forbes:

TV's Biggest Moneymakers — From Fox's “American Idol” to ABC's “V,” a look at prime time's biggest revenue generators. — LOS ANGELES — At this time last year, Madison Avenue didn't know what to make of the Fox musical dramedy Glee. Without a clearly defined genre (was it a musical? A comedy?

Discussion: Company Town and The Huffington Post