Mediagazer: Daylife And Demotix Partner On User-Gen Image Sales (David Kaplan/paidContent)

1:30 AM ET, March 11, 2010

Top News:

Guardian awarded half of SF Weekly's ad revenue — (03-09) 18:13 PST SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Bay Guardian is entitled to half the advertising revenue of the rival SF Weekly to help collect $21 million in damages after a jury verdict of illegal price-cutting, a Superior Court commissioner ruled Tuesday.

Discussion: East Bay Express, Editor and Publisher, Editors Weblog, SFist, Romenesko and Fitz & Jen

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

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
“SF Weekly is not going out of business,” says owner

Discussion: The Latest Word, The YES! Weekly Blog, Slog and Editor and Publisher

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, paidContent, ClickZ, The Next Web, Mashable!, AdAge, Online, Silicon Alley Insider, Internet2Go 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.

Dan Rather / Media on HuffingtonPost.com:
Watermelons, Washington, and What We Call News Today

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

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: Associated Press, New York Times, USA Today, The Atlantic Online, The Wire and TVWeek.com

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

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

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

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: Mashable!, Bloomberg, Agence France Presse and paidContent

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 and Editors Weblog

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: The Official Google Blog, Official Google Reader Blog and louisgray.com

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

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.

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Clifford thrashed out privacy deal with Brooks — Press Gazette understands that publicist Max Clifford thrashed out a deal with News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks to settle a privacy action which could have brought further revelations about News of the World phone bugging.

Discussion: Agence France Presse, This Is London, The Register, The Independent, Guardian and Journalism.co.uk

Abby Brownback / American Journalism Review:

New News for Philly? — A plan to strengthen public affairs coverage in the region — Abby Brownback is an AJR editorial assistant. — Zack Stalberg, the former longtime editor of the Philadelphia Daily News, fielded a reporter's call recently — and told him he was asking the wrong question.