Mediagazer: Interview: Guardian's Bell Sees Mixed-Model Future On Way To Columbia (Robert Andrews/paidContent)

10:05 PM ET, April 22, 2010

Top News:

Gillian Reagan / The Wire:

New York Times Executives Take On Wall Street Journal In Earnings Call (NYT) — The New York Times Co. (NYT) executives aren't afraid of Rupert Murdoch. On the earnings call this morning, CEO Janet Robinson addressed the competition, with the Wall Street Journal's new New York section debuting on April 26th.

Discussion: Romenesko, The Atlantic Online and Silicon Alley Insider

Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Times Company Swings to a Profit

Discussion: Sacramento Bee, Romenesko, DailyFinance, Crain's New York Business and Gawker

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
New York Times Reports Q1 Profit, Digital Ad Revenues Now 26% Of Total

Discussion: MediaPost, Business Wire, FishbowlNY, paidContent, Seeking Alpha, The Wrap, The Wire, eMedia Vitals and Editors Weblog

Choire / The Awl:
‘NYT’ 1st Quarter: Online Growth Totally Eroded by Print Tailspin

Discussion: New York Magazine

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Why $10 a Month for Hulu Is Too Much. And Too Little. — Is ten bucks a month too much to pay for “Hulu Plus”? Or too little? — Perhaps both. — The Web video site is getting ready to roll out its much discussed subscription offering of $9.95 a month, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Discussion: NewTeeVee, Company Town and The Next Web

Dawn Chmielewski / Company Town:

Hulu pushes forward with $9.95 subscription service — Hulu, the popular online site for watching television shows, plans to begin testing a subscription service as soon as May 24, according to people with knowledge of the plans. — Under the proposal, Hulu would continue to provide …

Katie Benner / Fortune:

Bloomberg's ambition … (Fortune) — BusinessWeek relaunches this week with a new name, a new design, and a new editorial vision, just four months after it was bought by financial information giant Bloomberg LP. Viewed through the lens of an acquisition, it's therefore perplexing …

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Bloomberg launches new Businessweek, ballyhoos its influence

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Romenesko

Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Cheat Sheet on BusinessWeek's Relaunch, Under Bloomberg

Discussion: FishbowlNY, MinOnline, Media Week, Romenesko, Wall Street Journal, Folio, Gawker, Talking Biz News and The Wire

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Making the case for fact-checking the Sunday chat — The audience for Sunday morning public affairs shows traditionally skews older. But two college students are now trying to shake up the longest-running Sunday talk franchise of them all: NBC's “Meet the Press”

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Meet The Facts

Chris Ariens / WebNewser: Group Launches “Meet the Facts” to Pressure NBC Show to Bring on Fact-Checkers

Michael Triplett / Mediaite:

Washington Post Swings, Misses in Ramp Up for Rival TBD.com — With former Washington Post online executive editor Jim Brady getting closer to launching his local D.C. news operation TBD.com, WaPo announced a new local blogger opinion feature yesterday to tap into the news on the streets …

Discussion: All Opinions Are Local, Washington Post, Zombie Journalism and Romenesko

Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
Hoax or Legit? AllBritton's New Local Site Gets a Name: ‘TBD’

Discussion: jeffsonderman, Lost Remote and Editor and Publisher

Mark Fitzgerald / Editor and Publisher:

McClatchy Turns to Profit in Q1 on ‘Improving’ Advertising Environment — CHICAGO The McClatchy Co. Thursday reported first-quarter net income including discontinued operations of $2.2 million, or $0.03 per share, compared to a loss of $37.52 million, or $0.45 a share, in the year-ago period.

Discussion: Fitz & Jen and NetNewsCheck Latest

Dylan F. Tweney / Gadget Lab:

26 Percent of Wired's Mobile Traffic Comes From the iPad — Less than three weeks after its launch, Apple's iPad already accounts for 26 percent of the mobile devices accessing Wired.com. — Overall, mobile devices account for between 2.3 percent and 3.5 percent of our traffic.

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Maurice Lévy to leave Publicis — Chairman and chief executive of French advertising giant Publicis Groupe will not seek to renew contract at end of 2011 — Maurice Lévy, the chairman and chief executive of the French advertising giant Publicis Groupe, is to step down after 40 years.

Discussion: Media Buyer Planner, Advertising Analysis RSS, paidContent, PRNewser and ClickZ

Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:

‘South Park’ Episode Is Altered After Muslim Group's Warning — A message posted on SouthParkStudios.com, the Web site of Trey Parker and Matt Stone's production company. — 8:56 a.m. | Updated — An episode of “South Park” that continued a story line involving the Prophet Muhammad …

Discussion: Mediaite, ANIMAL, The Huffington Post, Hit & Run, Big Hollywood, The Daily Dish, New York Times, Show Tracker, The New Yorker Blog, This Just In, mediaelites, The Wire, Geekosystem, PopEater, The Wrap, New York Magazine, Underwire and Hot Air

Guardian:

James Murdoch at the Independent: ‘like a scene out of Dodge City’ — In common with so many problems involving young men in modern London, it was a squall about reputation and respect — After a lifetime at the helm of the world's most powerful media organisation and in the crosshairs of the left …

Discussion: Financial Times, Newser, Gawker, Indecision Forever, The Wire and The Huffington Post

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Interview: Guardian's Bell Sees Mixed-Model Future On Way To Columbia — They say people who can do, and people who can't teach - but Guardian News & Media's veteran digital content director Emily Bell, who has spent the last two decades doing, says she will now marry both industry …

Discussion: George Dearing, Guardian, paidContent and Columbia University …

Jan Schaffer / J-Lab:

Exploring a Networked Journalism Collaborative in Philadelphia — An Analysis of the City's Media Ecosystem with Final Recommendations — In the nation's sixth largest city, a vibrant media landscape exists with niche reporting sites, legacy newspapers and an active community of creative technologists.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals blogs, Citizen Media Law Project and Romenesko

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

History Channel Turns Foursquare Into A Real World Pop-Up Video — For all the talk about Foursquare, one of the coolest features that gets very little buzz is the Tips area. Here, you'll find suggestions about venues from other users of the service. And if you're friends with a user …

Choire / The Awl:

The New Media and the Attention Economy: “Syndication” — A couple of times in the last month, Gawker Media sites have been all, “Hey that piece on your site was great, can we syndicate it?” Now, I am old. And for us olds, “syndication” is a term of art in the world of publishing things.

Discussion: Jezebel

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Clay Shirky: On the necessity of waste, the power of institutions, and the safety of the infinite time horizon — Internet thinker Clay Shirky and veteran investigative journalist Walter Robinson came to Harvard this week to talk about how the Internet has changed the art of digging up dirt on powerful institutions.

Discussion: Romenesko, Big Journalism and Harvard Kennedy School

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

MXP4 Raises $4 Million Funding For Its Interactive Music Widgets — VCs are still keen to put their money in to online music startups, it seems. Paris-based MXP4, which makes web players that let users remix and otherwise “engage” with songs, is taking a $4 million third round.

Discussion: TechCrunch Europe

Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:

Charlie Gasparino: “I Want To Turn This Into A Fight With Our Competition” — Charlie Gasparino may be one of the most high profile hires in Fox Business Network history, if only because he is so keyed into the business world, and previously was keyed in for CNBC.

Discussion: New York Times, Talking Biz News, Wall Street Journal and The Politico