Mediagazer: Media Moves: Gawker's Newest Hire Poached from The Daily Beast (Foster Kamer/Runnin' Scared)

11:20 AM ET, May 9, 2010

Top News:

They Don't Report. You Don't Have to Decide. — “DESPITE the major environmental disaster unfolding in the Gulf and the attempted terror attack on New York's Times Square, President Obama spent his Saturday night laughing it up at the White House Correspondents Dinner,” griped Sean Hannity of Fox News last week.

Discussion: On Liberty and Soup

Rachel Sklar / Mediaite:

From “Lone Wolf” to Taliban: The Disconnect In The Developing Times Square Bombing Story — Yesterday I wrote a piece for AOL News about the Times Square Bomb story (or, almost-bomb story), and the trip it had taken from “Lone Wolf” to dude with the wherewithal to hop an Emirates flight to Dubai by paying cash at the airport.

Discussion: Chickaboomer, The Daily Beast, Soup, On The Media, mediabistro.com, The Huffington Post and Romenesko

Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:

Media Moves: Gawker's Newest Hire Poached from The Daily Beast — The Gawker masthead's been pretty busy in the last few months, and they haven't even had any of their doors kicked in! It's about to see a little more action, though, as they've now added another name to their editorial team.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:

Is it time for news websites to stop using Flash? — By Robert Niles: Like many tech-geek online journalists, I've been spending more time with my iPhone in recent months. I use the phone's Web browser to update my various sites from wherever I am on the road, or even around the house.

Steven Zeitchik / Los Angeles Times:

Short films can be a shortcut to Hollywood success — More and more, big-name directors and producers are thinking small. — ‘Alma’: Top producers are interested in expanding the animated short. (Rodrigo Blaas) — When Barbara and Andres Muschietti, two television-commercial veterans …

TechCrunch:

Why Media Companies Should Become More Like Merchants — Editor's note: Should media sites become group buying sites as well? Guest author Dave Chase thinks so. He was a marketing executive and general manager at Microsoft in the 90's including starting Microsoft's healthcare business.

Liesl Schillinger / New York Times:

Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough: The Odd-Couple Hosts of ‘Morning Joe’: — LAST week on the north lawn of the White House, the morning after the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski held court on the grass, presiding over a special Sunday edition …

Discussion: TVNewser, Chickaboomer, Mediaite and Inside Cable News

Dru / Current: Public Media:

Robert Siegel left his head and his heart on the dance floor — We don't want to spoil this video for you, so all we'll say is you'll go gaga over this one from NPR. Robert Siegel is definitely a highlight, but we like those “Directors” too. Stay tuned to the Current blog …

Discussion: Above the Law and Romenesko

The Wrap:

NBCU to Sell KWHY-TV as Comcast Deal Advances — NBCU has agreed to sell one of its three Los Angeles TV stations before going ahead with its deal with Comcast. — Besides owning KNBC-TV, NBCU owns independent KWHY-TV and Telemundo station KVEA-TV. It is the independent station, KWHY-TV that will be sold.

Mike Vilensky / New York Magazine:

Real Housewives' Sonja Morgan: 'Bravo Told Me, Don't Read the Blogs' — It is always sort of jarring to see a Real Housewife out in the wild, but that's what happened to us again last night at the preview party for Richard Meir and Nic Berggruen's new apartment complex in Tel Aviv.

Discussion: Fimoculous.com

Steve Herrmann / The Editors:

A new record — As post-election events continue to unfold, we've just got some preliminary figures in for traffic to the BBC News website across the whole of yesterday, Friday 7 May. So, according to the data we have in so far: — We had 11.4m individual users to the BBC News website on Friday …

Meghan Keane / The Awl:

Smarkland: Nic Rad — If you're looking for publicity, getting other people to do the work for you is a pretty good trick. In the case of Nic Rad, he simply painted portraits of people who are known for self-promoting. It appears that The New York Academy of Art grad subscribes to an age-old adage …