Mediagazer: Bob Garfield: Mad Prophet of Madison Avenue (Steve Rosenbaum/Silicon Alley Insider)

6:25 PM ET, March 22, 2010

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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:

Effort at Wall Street Journal to Attract More New Yorkers — Maybe newspapers really are dying, as some media analysts have been predicting for decades, but apparently that does not apply to newspaper wars. A doozy is shaping up at the moment between The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

Discussion: Editors Weblog, Fitz & Jen, The Wire, Media Decoder, Romenesko, Gothamist, Michael Calderone's Blog, City Room, Crain's New York Business, New York Times, New York Magazine, New York Observer and Gawker

Ryan Chittum / CJR:

Murdoch's Unhealthy Obsession — Taking on The New York Times isn't risk-free for the Journal — Richard Pérez-Peña has several interesting bits in his piece on the soon-to-commence Battle for New York between his own New York Times and Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.

Media Buyer Planner:
WSJ's Attempt to ‘Kill’ New York Times Debuts April 12

Discussion: Media News International, New York Observer, The Wire and Fitz & Jen

Rafat Ali / paidContent:

Local Blog Network Gothamist Being Bought by Cablevision's Rainbow Media — Gothamist, the local city blog network that is best known for its New York City edition, is being acquired by Cablevision-owned Rainbow Media, paidContent has learned. The price is between $5 million to $6 million …

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, Lost Remote, WebNewser, Media Decoder, Gawker, Runnin' Scared, State of the Fourth Estate, New York Observer, FishBowlNY and DealBook

Richard Perez-Pena / Media Decoder:

The Times Introduces a Daily Video Report — The New York Times on Monday began producing a daily video on its Web site, summarizing the big news stories of the day. — The program, called TimesCast, lasting a few minutes, will appear on the nytimes.com home page at 1 p.m. each day …

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, BusinessJournalism.org … and Agence France Presse

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:

TechCrunch Poaches Forbes Anchor To Launch Video Product — TechCrunch has hired former Forbes video anchor Evelyn Rusli to launch a Web video product, we've learned. — Beyond whatever video she makes for the site, we imagine she'll also represent TechCrunch on TV as well.

Discussion: TechCrunch

The Official Google Blog:

A new approach to China: an update — On January 12, we announced on this blog that Google and more than twenty other U.S. companies had been the victims of a sophisticated cyber attack originating from China, and that during our investigation into these attacks we had uncovered evidence …

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Chinese Media On The Google Situation: Nothing To See Here, Move Along

Discussion: Guardian and The Next Web

Media Decoder:

Perseus Signs an EBooks Deal for the iPad — Apple's iBookstore on the forthcoming iPad is set to get larger. The company has just signed a deal with the largest distributor of independent publishers to sell electronic versions of it books on the new device.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, The Stranger …, Electronista and Snarkmarket

New York Times:
The iPad App Derby Gets Under Way

Discussion: paidContent, New Yorker, Online, Engadget, GMSV, Silicon Alley Insider, TeleRead, MediaMemo, Gizmodo, TUAW, VentureBeat and TechFlash

Nielsen Wire:

Americans Using TV and Internet Together 35% More Than A Year Ago — Americans increased their overall media usage and media multitasking according to The Nielsen Company's latest Three Screen Report, which tracks consumption across TV, Internet and mobile phones.

Discussion: Gawker, Reuters, Podcasting News, Company Town, NewTeeVee, The Business Insider, The Live Feed | THR and Mashable!

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Paywall On-Ramps Get A Workaround — Remember BugMeNot.com? The site was started in 2003 to let users, peeved by a growing crop of news site registration walls, borrow someone else's login. — Seven years on - for registration wall workaround, read pay wall hack.

Discussion: Editors Weblog, Inquirer and eMedia Vitals

Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:

Fake Area Newspaper Gets Real Television Show — The Onion, the satirical news organization that broke the fake story that the smoke monster from “Lost” would receive its own spin-off series and cheekily reported that television critics who praised “The Wire” had never seen the show, is itself headed to the small screen.

Discussion: The Wire, Romenesko and FishBowlNY

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Managing the magazine component of newspapers — This is the second part of a series about the evolution of print media. Part I here. — A few years ago, the founder of the French daily Liberation was asked what he would do if he had unlimited resources to run his paper: “I would do a magazine everyday”, he said.

Discussion: Editors Weblog

Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:

My chat with Google News founder, Krishna Bharat, with video — Krishna Bharat, the creator of Google News, has never been a journalist. Though he's often asked what is more important for the search giant's news site: editorial judgment or Google's famous attention to its algorithms.

Discussion: The Business Insider

Hollywood Reporter:

Conan-Fox talks resume amid ‘Idol’ offer — THR EXCLUSIVE — After a two-week stall, Fox and Conan O'Brien have resumed talks about a potential late-night talk show fronted by the former “Tonight Show” host. — But a wrinkle in the courtship has emerged that involves the biggest show on television …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, The Huffington Post, The Wire, E! Online, TVWeek.com, EW.com and New York Magazine

Brian Steinberg / AdAge:

Online TV-Watching Becomes Interactive Experience — NBC to Unveil Video Viewer Placed Amid Brand-Sponsored Web Content — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Is a computer terminal like a movie screen? Well, for the past few years, TV networks and other purveyors of TV programs online have tried …

Discussion: WebNewser

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Media Notes: Journalism's slide into health-debate weariness — It was the story that refused to die. — Sunday's last-gasp passage of President Obama's health care bill will finally liberate the journalists who have been chained to this complicated, arcane, often tedious story for 14 long months.

Discussion: Gawker, The Wrap, Reuters, New York Times and FishBowlNY

Patricia Sheridan / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

Patricia Sheridan's Breakfast With ... Bill Hemmer — Co-host of “America's Newsroom” on Fox News Channel, Bill Hemmer started his broadcast career as a sportscaster before being plucked from local markets to work as an anchor on various CNN programs, including “American Morning.”

Discussion: Romenesko and Inside Cable News

Steve Rosenbaum / Silicon Alley Insider:

Bob Garfield: Mad Prophet of Madison Avenue — Bob Garfield has spent most of his professional career in and among the makers of what is now mostly called “Old Media.” TV shows, magazines, television commercials, and advertising. — So when The Mad Prophet of Madison Avenue wandered …

Discussion: AdPulp and ChasNote

Jane Martinson / Guardian:

Elisabeth Murdoch on Shine, family succession and ambition — Interview: Elisabeth Murdoch reveals her plans for her independent producer, Shine — Elisabeth Murdoch sits down, eyes the voice recorder, and says “I have to be careful”. The head of Shine, the UK's largest independent producer …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter