Mediagazer: Anonymous Sources Postscript (Clark Hoyt/The Public Editor's Journal)

10:30 PM ET, April 17, 2010

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Clark Hoyt / The Public Editor's Journal:

Anonymous Sources Postscript — Unfortunately, there were more examples of anonymous sources that drew reader complaints than I could include in this week's public editor column. — Here are two more: — James Johnson of Silver Spring, Md., was upset by an article late last month …

Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:

Tumblr: 'We're pretty opposed to advertising' — NEW YORK — Tumblr is drawing up all kinds of off-the-wall methods to make money from its micro-blogging and social-networking website. Founder David Karp and his 11-person team hasn't quite struck gold yet, but they refuse to venture …

Jason Fell / Folio:

RBI to Shut Down Remaining 23 Magazines — Parent Reed Elsevier to hold onto Variety, other brands. — About nine months after putting the brands published under the U.S. arm of Reed Business Information on the block again, Reed Elsevier announced today that it is closing down the magazines …

Discussion: paidContent, Private Frazer's Doomed … and MinOnline

Brad McCarty / The Next Web:

Google Wave Helps Journalist Win Pulitzer Prize. — There have been a lot of discussions lately about how the Internet is changing traditional media. Viewpoints from either side tend to await the chance to discredit the other and we end up with story after story about how the Internet is going to be the death of pen and paper news.

Discussion: Google Wave Blog

Roger Ebert / Roger Ebert's Journal:

Video games can never be art — Having once made the statement above, I have declined all opportunities to enlarge upon it or defend it. That seemed to be a fool's errand, especially given the volume of messages I receive urging me to play this game or that and recant the error of my ways.

Discussion: EdCone.com

Mark Fitzgerald / Editor and Publisher:

More Upbeat News: Moody's Removes Negative Outlook on Newspapers — CHICAGO Moody's Investors Service — the big credit agency firm that over the past 18 months cut its ratings of nearly all newspaper publisher to junk levels — said Friday it had changed its sector outlook for U.S. newspapers to stable, from negative.

Discussion: Fitz & Jen

Monica Hesse / Washington Post:

For cutting-edge TV, look to the Web — The International Academy of Web Television revealed its selections last week for the best original online programming at the Streamy Awards in Los Angeles. Nearly 200 shows were nominated for 35 categories on the live-streamed show …

John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:

MAP Asks FCC to Reconsider Comcast/NBCU Comment Extension Decision — Commission denied group's 45-day extension request — Media Access Project (MAP) Friday (April 16) asked the FCC to reconsider its decision denying MAP's request for a 45-day extension on the comment period for the Comcast/NBCU merger …

Discussion: rbr.com

Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost:

Report: Android Ad Impressions Up Sharply — Android ad impressions increased by 72% from February to March, according to mobile ad network Millennial Media. Millennial, which claims that its mobile ad network reaches 83% of 72 million mobile Web users nationwide, reports that Android's OS …

Discussion: paidContent

David Cohen / WebNewser:

Main Street Connect Eyes Connecting with Entrepreneurs to Launch Hyper-Local News Sites — The Daily Norwalk, a hyper-local news site focused on Norwalk, Conn., that recently launched in beta, is the first example of what national community news company Main Street Connect is trying to accomplish.

Billy Silverman / The Huffington Post:

Regulators Approve Movie Box Office Futures Market — LOS ANGELES — U.S. regulators on Friday approved the creation of a futures market for trading in forecast box-office receipts, but major Hollywood studios immediately trumpeted a bill that would ban it.

Discussion: mediaelites

James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:

ON THE MEDIA: Don't close the door on The Entryway so fast — The blog by two young white journalists who have moved in with Latinos in a multi-family MacArthur Park apartment could yet yield good work. — We hear a fair amount about journalism's failure to cover local news, particularly in poor communities.