Mediagazer: 4 Questions for Nicholas Kristof about Technology and the Developing World (Steve Myers/Poynter Online)

3:30 AM ET, April 20, 2010

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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:

How Apple Lost the Next iPhone — The Gourmet Haus Staudt. A nice place to enjoy good German ales. And if you are an Apple Software Engineer named Gray Powell and you get one too many beers, it's also a nice place to lose the next-generation iPhone. — The 27-year-old Powell …

Discussion: paidContent, New York Times, The Awl, mediaelites, L.A. Times Tech Blog, The Next Web, TUAW, New York Magazine, TeleRead, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, Gadget Lab, The Moderate Voice, Silicon Alley Insider, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, Edible Apple and The Snitch

Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:

Gizmodo's iPhone Scoop: The Nick Denton Interview — Maybe you heard, but yesterday, Gawker Media's gadget site Gizmodo published quite a story. It might be short of hyperbole to note their “get” of a new iPhone prototype as one of the biggest scoops in tech reporting history.

Discussion: Gawker and The Awl

Choire / The Awl:

How Much Gizmodo Paid for the Next iPhone: $5K Plus Bonus — Engadget said that the “finder” (who some are referring to as a “stealer") was charging to see the “lost” new iPhone—pictures of which were published on Gizmodo this morning. Tech blogger John Gruber said the phone was a …

Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
How Checkbook Journalism Gave Gizmodo Its iPhone Scoop

Discussion: Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste …, TUAW, The Next Web and Fast Company

Ken Auletta / New Yorker:

PUBLISH OR PERISH — Can the iPad topple the Kindle, and save the book business? — On the morning of January 27th—an aeon ago, in tech time—Steve Jobs was to appear at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, in downtown San Francisco, to unveil Apple's new device, the iPad.

Discussion: Boing Boing, TeleRead, Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day and kottke.org

Steven Levy / Wired:

Steven Levy on Typos in the Kindle Age — Before a recent trip, I downloaded the latest Stephen Hunter novel to my Kindle. Hunter writes about shooters, so it's not surprising that the name of the book is I, Sniper. — Not that you'd know it from the title screen. The only words on that e-ink page were “I, Snipper.”

Discussion: TeleRead

Nat Ives / AdAge:

WSJ Plans to Pull No Punches in Turf War With New York Times — But Readership Numbers, Ad Dollars Suggest Fight for Crown Will Be Uphill Battle — Sources and notes: Circulation figures are according to Audit Bureau of Circulations audit reports covering 12 months ended Sept. 27, 2009.

Discussion: Globe and Mail, New York Magazine, Gawker and Romenesko

John Temple / TEMPLE TALK:

Wall Street Journal column incorrect about Peer News in column on comments on news Web sites — A column by Gordon Crovitz in Monday's Wall Street Journal mischaracterizes our approach to comments at Peer News, the start-up news service in Honolulu I'm working on with eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.

Discussion: Fitz & Jen

Wall Street Journal:
Is Internet Civility an Oxymoron?

Discussion: Romenesko

Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:

Did ‘Wall Street Journal’ Editor Fudge His Role in Sulzberger Photo Prank? — Rupert Murdoch's minions may have thought they were engaging in a bit of harmless fun when they used the face of Arthur Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The New York Times, in a photo illustration for a story …

Discussion: New York Magazine

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

Finalists in media reporting competition announced — Finalists announced in fourth annual Mirror Awards competition — Twenty-six finalists in seven categories have been named in the fourth annual Mirror Awards competition for excellence in media industry reporting.

Discussion: mirrorawards.syr.edu, CJR and The News About The News

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Bloomberg's Krim: Our Paywall Won't Be Like Everyone Else's — Bloomberg.com began showing off its new look earlier today, but sometime in the next few months, the site will also be sporting a paywall around some of its content. In an interview with paidContent, Kevin Krim …

Discussion: Talking Biz News

Jay Yarow / The Wire:
Bloomberg Redesigns Website As It Tries To Kill The Journal

Discussion: MediaPost, paidContent, TechCrunch, WebNewser and MinOnline

Steve Myers / Poynter Online:

4 Questions for Nicholas Kristof about Technology and the Developing World — New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has feet in both the First and Third worlds. He's observed and written about poverty, crises and humans rights abuses around the world.

Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:

People StyleWatch Gains as It Blurs Ad Lines — It may be a dreary time in the magazine business, but you wouldn't know it inside the offices of People StyleWatch, a bright spot in the industry. Here, on the 29th floor of the Time & Life building, it is girlie heaven …

Discussion: Romenesko, Jezebel, FishbowlNY and Gawker

Rachel Whetstone / The Official Google Blog:

Controversial content and free expression on the web: a refresher — Two and a half years ago, we outlined our approach to removing content from Google products and services. Our process hasn't changed since then, but our recent decision to stop censoring search on Google.cn has raised …

Discussion: Lifehacker and TechCrunch

MediaPost:

CNBC Hires 2 New ‘Business Day’ Reporters — CNBC announced that Herb Greenberg and Kate Kelly will join the network. Greenberg will be senior stocks commentator and Kelly will be a reporter focusing on Wall Street. Both will appear daily during CNBC's “Business Day” programming and on CNBC.com.

Discussion: Talking Biz News

Alexandra Fenwick / CJR:

Robot Journalism and the Future of Digital Media — More on Columbia's new dual degree in journalism and computer science — Starting in 2011, Columbia University will be offering a new combined degree between the journalism school and engineering school, which will aim to blaze a trail …

Discussion: Lost Remote

Gillian Reagan / The Wire:

CBS CEO Les Moonves Gets $43.2 Million For 2009 (CBS) — CBS Corp.'s CEO Les Moonves got a fat compensation package of $43.2 million for 2009, according to the company's SEC filing. On top of his $3.5 million salary, he pulled in a $15 million bonus, stock worth $7.6 million and stock options currently worth about $14.3 million.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and MediaWire Daily

Mike Stern / Media Life Magazine:

For radio, alas, fading of the shock jock — Indecency complaints to the FCC are down dramatically — Is the shock gone from shock jock radio? — So it appears. — Not so many years ago, much of American radio's mornings, indeed much of its day, were filled with off-color musings …

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

Microsoft Online Ad Exec Howe To Quit — Scott Howe, who oversees Microsoft's advertiser and publisher solutions group, is resigning—the latest former aQuantive executive to leave Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). Microsoft says Howe is departing “to spend some quality time with his family …

Lauren Goode / Digits:

Boxee, Roku Announcing Deals for Streaming Live Sports on TV — Watching live sports on television via the Web may have just gotten easier. … Starting Monday, Web-to-TV software company Boxee will distribute the National Hockey League's Game Center Live online video content.

Discussion: Boxee Blog

David Cay Johnston / TheWrap.com:

Daryl Gates: The Story the L.A. Times Didn't Tell — When Daryl Gates, who died on Friday, ran the LAPD from 1978 to 1992 he also ran a worldwide political spying operation. And he lavished time on it, sometimes several hours each day, including all the dossiers and reports he got …

Discussion: Romenesko and Los Angeles Times

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Updated: AdAge.com's Paywall Shifting To Metered Model — AdAge.com will significantly limit free access to articles on its website later this week, when it institutes a metered paywall. Starting Wednesday, non-subscribers will be able to access up to three stories in a given 24-hour period …