Mediagazer: Chinese Official's Threat to Reporter Ignites Furor (New York Times)

3:05 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, CJR, The Wire, Media Decoder, New York Times, Crain's New York Business, New York Observer, Romenesko, Michael Calderone's Blog, New York Magazine, Fitz & Jen, City Room and Silicon Alley Insider

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

Discussion: Media Decoder, Media News International and New York Observer

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: 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.

Jxpaton / John Paton's Blog:

The Change So Far. And Still So Far To Change — Today marks my 49th day on the job as Chief Executive Officer of Journal Register Company. — I promised you, with your help, to craft a plan to transform our Company from a newspaper company to a multi-platform news and information company serving …

Discussion: Editor and Publisher and Romenesko

Mike Taylor / FishBowlNY: Journal-Register CEO John Paton: We Want Fewer Suits, More Gumshoes

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, FishBowlNY and eMedia Vitals

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: New York Times and FishBowlNY

Ravi Somaiya / Gawker:
Fox News Says Healthcare Reform is the Beginning of Armageddon

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

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

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: The Business Insider, The Live Feed | THR, NewTeeVee and Mashable!

New York Times:

The iPad App Derby Gets Under Way — It can be difficult to write software for a gadget without being able to touch it. But that has not stopped developers from rushing to create applications for the Apple iPad. — For small start-ups and big Internet and media companies alike, the iPad …

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

New York Times:

Chinese Official's Threat to Reporter Ignites Furor — BEIJING — In another era, the brusque response of Li Hongzhong, the governor of Hubei Province, to a reporter's question about a scandal on his home turf might have been the end of it. — Infuriated that the reporter would even ask about the case …

Discussion: Journalism and the World

Leah Betancourt / E-Media Tidbits:

TweetDeck Newsroom Rollout Continues at Sky News — Sky News is taking significant steps to require that its newsroom is literate in social media. In January, the media company began installing the Twitter desktop application TweetDeck on newsroom computers.