Mediagazer: Reviving Obituaries, Death Notices Before it's Too Late (Rich Gordon/E-Media Tidbits)

Gillian Reagan / The Wire:

Financial Times Goes After Younguns With New Foursquare Deal — The Financial Times is aiming straight for consumers with this one: The FT working with Foursquare on a new partnership that would give free subscriptions to FT.com to users who “check-in” to select spots.

David Kaplan / paidContent:

FT Deal With Foursquare Lets Users ‘Unlock’ Paywall — The Financial Times' metered online paywall system is considered one of the more successful models, but a new partnership with location-based social net Foursquare is aimed at younger readers who are most resistant to paywalls.

Michael Calderone / The Politico:

New pundits: Prodigies or pipsqueaks? — When Washingtonian magazine recently profiled the Washington Post's Ezra Klein, the story contained a tidbit that ricocheted around the Post newsroom: Klein has his own assistant. — An assistant? For that new guy with the blog? — Turns out to be true.

Discussion: Mother Jones, The New Republic and Politics Daily

Discussion: Mediaite, The Wire, Richard Prince's Journal-isms and Romenesko

Alex Pham / Los Angeles Times:

NBC.com enlists the Filter to figure out what visitors to its site want to watch — The recommendation service, partly funded by rocker Peter Gabriel, tries to figure out the tastes of each person based on digital clues. — Call it tele-psychic. — NBC.com is deploying a technology …

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

Paywall Brigade: The Newspapers That Now Charge For Online Access — In the mid-90s, at least 45 U.S. newspapers charged for online access, though almost all of them later hopped over the fence to the free side. Now, the paywall brigade is rising again—albeit slowly.

Discussion: Romenesko

Craig Silverman / CJR:

Inside the World's Largest Fact Checking Operation — A conversation with two staffers at Der Spiegel — Late last month, I had an experience unlike any other in my professional life. For two days, I was surrounded by people who work in, or have a specific interest in, fact checking.

Discussion: Romenesko, The Huffington Post and Regret the Error

Simon Houpt / Globe and Mail:

'Yes, I have a sugar daddy. " Tina Brown, DailyBeast.com — 'Yes, I have a sugar daddy. At a lunchtime gathering yesterday during the Canadian Media Directors Council conference, Ken Whyte of Maclean's enjoyed a softball chat with Tina Brown, the former editor of Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and Talk magazines.

Editor and Publisher:

‘Philadelphia Inquirer’ Web Site Launches ‘Fantasy’ Sports Betting that Pays Real Money — CHICAGO The Philadelphia Inquirer's Web site, Philly.com, has become the first newspaper to offer online sports betting in the United States. — In a partnership with FanDuel, a British online betting company …

Claire Cain Miller / Bits:

Twitter Acquires Atebits, Maker of Tweetie — Twitter, which has flourished thanks to tools built by outside developers, is taking more of those tools under its own wing. In a move that is sure to rattle its developers, Twitter has agreed to acquire Atebits, the start-up that makes …

Discussion: Mashable!, Twitter Blog, paidContent, VentureBeat and Gizmodo

NY Daily News:

Suspect's mother faults Fox News for son's threats against Pelosi — SAN FRANCISCO - Gregory Giusti, charged with making threatening calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, cried Thursday during his first court appearance. — The suspect's mom, Eleanor Giusti, said her son may have gotten worked …

Discussion: New York Magazine and Chickaboomer

Rich Gordon / E-Media Tidbits:

Reviving Obituaries, Death Notices Before it's Too Late — The Newspaper Association of America's annual conference (MediaXchange) starts Sunday, and some newspaper executives attending the event will be talking about death — that is, obituaries and death notices.

Discussion: Journalistopia

Bill Mitchell / Poynter Online NewsPay:

Gene Roberts: Newsrooms Must Tell Their Own Cutback Stories for Democracy's Sake — Gene Roberts said Thursday that American news organizations have an obligation tell a story they've been sitting on for too long: the consequences to democracy of the budget-driven cutbacks in their news coverage.

Discussion: Romenesko

Ezra Klein:

What makes NPR (and the Economist) so special? — I've been thinking a bit about this NPR graph that's been floating around. I wish it included another data point: The Economist magazine. Their explosive growth over the last decade is well known, but consider that the publication had a record year in 2009.

Discussion: Snarkmarket and Romenesko

Ryan Flinn / Bloomberg:

Silicon Valley Plots TV Takeover as Web Connections Become Norm — After 15 years of trying, Silicon Valley is getting ready to take over your television. — Most TV sets for sale by 2013 will be able to connect to the Internet right out of the box, setting the stage for companies such as Google Inc. …

Discussion: NewTeeVee

Financial Times:

Google accused of YouTube ‘free ride’ — By Andrew Parker in London and Richard Waters in San Francisco — Some of Europe's leading telecoms groups are squaring up for a fight with Google over what they claim is the free ride enjoyed by the technology company's YouTube video-sharing service.

Discussion: Mashable!

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Citizen Journalism Platform AllVoices Sets Up News Desks In 30 Cities Around The World — AllVoices, a fast-growing citizen journalism platform, is announcing significant expansion today. The startup is launching global news desks in 30 different cities around the world …

Discussion: StarkSilverCreek, Romenesko and mediaelites

Jeff Eckhoff / Des Moines Register:

Meredith cuts 20 positions in realignment — Meredith Corp. shed roughly 20 jobs this morning in what the company said is a management realignment to better organize some of its online and offline components and better prepare for an increasingly digital world.

Discussion: paidContent

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Guardian News & Media to outsource commercially funded supplements — Job losses expected after deal with Seven Squared Publishing, but promotional supplements stay in-house — Guardian News & Media has struck a deal to outsource all its commercially funded supplements and website work to Seven Squared Publishing.

Discussion: Press Gazette

Adam Westbrook:

Online ad revenue: what journalists are getting wrong — Image credit: DavidDMuir (cc) — How much money has your website made you recently? — For all but the lucky ones, the figure is rarely enough to buy a latte, let alone support a family. And for all but the smart ones, the figure is usually from Google Adwords revenue.

Editor and Publisher:

$1 Million ‘N.Y. Times’ iPad Ad? Not Even Close, Chase Says — CHICAGO Chase Card Services said Friday that it paid less than half the reported $1 million to have its Chase Sapphire card as the exclusive sponsor of The New York Times iPad app for the first 60 days of its launch.

Discussion: MediaPost