Mediagazer: Aspen Institute to Advance Recommendations of the Knight Commission (Knight Foundation News Releases)

1:45 AM ET, March 19, 2010

Top News:

Broadcast Yourself — Around the globe, YouTube has become a metaphor for the democratizing power of the Internet and information. YouTube gives unknown performers, filmmakers, and artists new ways to promote their work to a global audience and rise to worldwide fame …

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Viacom, YouTube Make Their Case: Read Their Secret Papers Here — UPDATE: Here's my summary of the documents — great morsels, no smoking gun. — And we're off! Court filings in the YouTube-Viacom suit were just unsealed and both sides are distributing them now.

Discussion: MediaPost, Associated Press and Company Town

David Kaplan / paidContent:
YouTube-Viacom, Part Two: YouTube Founders' E-Mails Show Struggles …

Discussion: NewTeeVee and the Econsultancy blog

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
YouTube Defense: Viacom “Secretly Uploaded” Content, And They Tried To Buy Us

Discussion: MediaMemo, blog maverick and Fast Company

Kevin Allocca / TVNewser:

Christiane Amanpour Leaves CNN to Host ABC's ‘This Week’ — First on TVNewser: CNN's Christiane Amanpour is leaving CNN and will become the new anchor of ABC News' “This Week” TVNewser has learned. ABC News staff was informed internally Thursday afternoon.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Michael Calderone's Blog, Romenesko, Hollywood Reporter, FishBowlDC, The Huffington Post, ABCNEWS, mediabistro.com and EW.com

James Poniewozik / Tuned In:
Amanpour to ABC's This Week; A Good Change, or a Waste of Talent?

Discussion: Mediaite, New York Observer, blogs.tampabay.com and The Wire

Wall Street Journal:

Apple Races to Secure iPad Deals — Apple Inc. is still trying to secure media content for the iPad with just weeks to go before the tablet computer's release, said people familiar with the matter, as the company tempers some of its initial ambitions for the much-hyped device.

Discussion: Online, Silicon Alley Insider, paidContent, All Things Digital, NewTeeVee, Gizmodo Australia, Between the Lines, TUAW and Gizmodo

Etan Horowitz / CNN:

Family cashing in on ‘David After Dentist’ — Austin, Texas (CNN) — If you spend any time on the Internet, you've no doubt seen “David After Dentist,” the YouTube video of a woozy 7-year-old boy in the back seat of a car, struggling to understand the effects of anesthesia.

Discussion: Jezebel

Billboard.Biz:

UMG To Unveil New U.S. Pricing Structure For CDs — The Universal Music Group will rewrite U.S. music pricing following the debut of its new frontline pricing structure, which is designed to get single CDs in stores at $10, or below. — The company is about to unveil its Velocity program …

Discussion: MediaMemo, Fast Company, Ars Technica, TeleRead, Gizmodo Australia, Gizmodo and Mashable!

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Lawyers Reveal ABC News Paid $200,000 to Casey Anthony Family — In an Orlando courtroom this morning, it was revealed that ABC News has paid $200,000 to the family of murdered toddler Caylee Anthony, with the money going to Casey Anthony's legal defense. — The bombshell was dropped …

Discussion: Ethics and Gawker

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Don't Let Your Website Ruin Your Magazine's Tablet Edition — Plus Other Advice on E-Readers and Tablets From Magazine Industry Meeting — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — A couple of weeks before people start receiving their iPad orders from Apple but months into publishers' period of great expectations …

Discussion: CJR

Choire / The Awl:

A Conversation with Paul Ford, the Now-Former Web Editor of Harper's Magazine — Choire Sicha: Dear Paul Ford: Why did you quit Harper's this week? — Paul Ford: I am leaving to pursue other opportunities. Not a euphemism! I'm working primarily with Activate, which is the amazing …

Discussion: Media Decoder, THE GURGLING COD, GalleyCat, The Rumpus.net and bookforum.com

City Room:

Paterson Claims He Was Article's Source — ALBANY — In a radio town hall appearance this morning in New York City, Gov. David A. Paterson claimed that he was the one who first told the news media that he had talked to a woman involved in a domestic violence complaint against one of his top aides.

Discussion: Runnin' Scared, Clusterstock, Associated Press, New York Observer and New York Magazine

Patrick Smith / psmith, journalist:

Is News Over? City University journalism chief George Brock says journalists should accept changed world — Journalists still have a vital role to play in society as independent, informed, editors, finders and defenders of facts. No amount of algorithmic authority will change the vital role …

Erik Hayden / Miller-McCune:

Quality Doesn't Ensure Success for ‘Best New Magazines’ — Since 1986, the Library Journal has contributed an authoritative annual compilation of the “Best New Magazines of the Year.” Recent publications lauded include Lapham's Quarterly , Monocle, BBC Knowledge, World Affairs and, yes, Miller-McCune.

Discussion: Romenesko and FishBowlNY

Knight Foundation News Releases:

Aspen Institute to Advance Recommendations of the Knight Commission — Aspen Institute Earns New Funding to Advance Recommendations of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy — Aspen Institute Earns New Funding to Advance Recommendations …

AdAge:

Dobrow Rolls His Eyes at New York Times' Style Magazine — Has anyone besides the pricey-pants advertisers who keep it solvent taken a look at T: The New York Times Style Magazine lately? Perhaps at one point the mag was a smudgier, slightly more articulate Vogue, but it has long since passed Monocle …

Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:

More News about Omidyar's Peer News — I'm at the NewsMorphosis Conference in Hawaii today locked in a day of debates about the state of news quality and how the hell we find a business model to keep paying for it. It's a big issue locally- earlier this year three of Hawaii's five largest …

Discussion: TEMPLE TALK

Alexx / Alexx Henry Blog:

Digital Magazine Motion Cover and Feature for the iPad — With the iPad release a mere few weeks away, it's only appropriate that we release our own bit of goodness. — Together with co-directors Cory Strassburger and Ming Hsiung, we produced a motion magazine cover and feature spread for Viv Mag …

Discussion: Bits, Geek.com, NewWork, Mashable!, Adam Westbrook, Erictric, Cult of Mac, The Huffington Post and Silicon Alley Insider

Jack Shafer / Slate:

The Worst “Pharm Party” Story Ever … - Spitzer: Only a Shareholder Revolution Can Fix Wall Street- I Want To Do Volunteer Work Abroad for My Vacation. Will It Do Any Good? - Why Won't Insurance Companies Cover Fertility Treatments for Single Women?

Discussion: The Stranger …