Mediagazer: Heads Roll at Station That Failed to Air Video (Richard Prince's Journal-isms)

11:10 AM ET, May 14, 2010

Top News:

Putting a Price on Words — Last year, Sam Apple got the idea into his head that what the world needed was a new kind of newspaper. This was, to put it mildly, at odds with the consensus of the marketplace. At the time, several large media companies were in bankruptcy …

Discussion: Media Decoder, The Reformed Broker, Shaping the Future …, New York Observer and MEDIA BEESWAX

Wall Street Journal:

New York Times to Begin Website Charges in January — The New York Times will begin charging for access to articles on its website in January, Bill Keller, executive editor of the newspaper, said at a dinner for the Foreign Press Association Thursday evening.

Discussion: Romenesko, Lost Remote, The Huffington Post, Fast Company, MarketWatch, Talking New Media, Gannett Blog and TheStreet.com

Joe Strupp / Media Matters for America:

Keller: Pay Model Will Affect Few Non-Subscribers — Executive Editor Bill Keller of The New York Times said most readers of the paper's website will likely never have to pay for access under the new pay model set to launch next January. — “Those who mainly come to the website via search engines …

Deadline.com:

NBC CANCELS ‘LAW & ORDER’ FLAGSHIP: Dick Wolf Furious That Net Reneged On Deal And May Take Show To TNT; Should NBC Reconsider? — BREAKING NEWS! KEEP REFRESHING! 3:30 PM UPDATE! Here's the latest news on this fast-moving story. A deal was in place if NBC picked up the Law & Order flagship …

Josef Adalian / New York Magazine:

Vulture Exclusive: NBC Offered to Renew Law & Order, But Did Dick Wolf Play Chicken? — Is Law & Order really over? After multiple reports suggesting that the iconic New York-based crime procedural would definitely be back for a 21st season next fall — allowing Dick Wolf his life-long dream …

Discussion: TheWrap.com, B&C, The Daily Beast and Gawker

Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

Murdoch-Owned Sun Online Blocks Meltwater Media Monitor — The Sun's website has fallen in behind its News International stablemate Times Online by barring the PR media monitoring service Meltwater from crawling its articles. — Sun Online used the robots.txt protocol to block the service on Thursday …

Discussion: Editors Weblog

Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:

Media execs embrace the iPad — Chase Carey, Brian Roberts praise device's earnings potential — When asked about digital technology last month on a stage in Beverly Hills, Chase Carey went off on the wonders of Apple's new iPad. — “Digital,” said former Warner Bros. and Yahoo honcho Terry Semel.

Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:

Gowalla Partners with National Geographic and Washington Post for Branded Trips — Location-sharing service Gowalla has just revamped its website and expanded its Trips feature. The Foursquare competitor is launching the new feature set with two big business partners …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, Poynter Online and TechCrunch

Richard Prince's Journal-isms:

Heads Roll at Station That Failed to Air Video — Seattle News Director Quits; Assignment Editor Fired — Seattle News Director Quits, Assignment Editor Fired — The Seattle news director whose station turned down the video of a police beating resigned, and an assignment manager has been fired …

Discussion: mediabistro.com, MyNorthwest.com, National Association … and Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Asmith / Richard Prince's Journal-isms:
Station Turned Down Video of Police Beating

Discussion: KIRO-TV, Washington Post and Al's Morning Meeting

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Adding Fuel to the Bloomberg/ABC News Rumors — So, we've been following the chatter about ABC News possibly joining up with Bloomberg TV. That meme took an interesting turn last night on “World News” as Diane Sawyer introduced a story about women CEO's salaries being higher than men's in 2009.

Al Tompkins / Al's Morning Meeting:

Journalists Should Celebrate Decisions by Two Top State Courts — As journalists, we complain about a lot. But in the past couple of weeks, two state supreme courts have given us something to cheer about. They recognized some foundational aspects of journalism and said we should keep them.

Crain's New York Business:

Ratings system highlights the reach of new media — Matthew Flamm - NBC's cult comedy The Office may have ranked 60th last year in the Nielsen ratings universe, among viewers over the age of 18. But in terms of overall impact and buzz, the show came in seventh, according to media buying and planning agency Optimedia U.S.

Discussion: MediaPost and AdAge

Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:

Microsoft, Yahoo Start Sorting Through Paid-Search Ad Problems — Acknowledging concerns from advertisers, Microsoft and Yahoo began answering questions Thursday about their paid-search ads and sales transition plan. Although the two have begun moving customers to Microsoft's ad platform adCenter …

Nick Summers / Newsweek Blogs:

As Facebook Takes a Beating, a Brutal Movie Is Set to Make Things Much Worse — A passage from Sorkin's The Social Network screenplay. — Ever since its launch in 2004, Facebook has rolled along like a juggernaut. Users occasionally protest its policies and privacy changes …

Discussion: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Technically Incorrect, Epicenter and tag me with a spoon

rbr.com:

NBC taps Microsoft for digital ads — NBC and Microsoft Advertising announced a unique digital marketing partnership designed to promote NBC's “More Colorful” Fall 2010 program lineup. The partnership will be executed through an extensive multi-screen advertising campaign that includes MSN, X-box, Microsoft Mobile and Bing.

Discussion: paidContent, MediaPost and MediaPost

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

You're Welcome, You Bastards — A week ago we posted two excerpts from Fortune columnist David Kirkpatrick's new book The Facebook Effect. We're big fans of Kirkpatrick and have been following his book progress since last year. When Fortune's PR department called to ask us to print the excerpts, we quickly agreed.

Discussion: Felix Salmon

Allison Schaefers / Star Bulletin:

Combined newspaper to employ up to 500 workers — Nearly 400 employees from both publications might lose their jobs in the consolidation — Oahu Publications Inc., which is consolidating the state's two largest daily newspapers into the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, expects to employ between 450 …

Discussion: The Biz Blog and Gannett Blog

Phil Rosenthal / Chicago Tribune:

‘Annie’ left a homeless orphan in newspaper world — Through more than 85 years of hardships and challenges — spanning the Great Depression, a world war, foreign cabals, corruption at home, several kidnappings and, well, being an orphan — she somehow always found a way to triumph.

Discussion: Romenesko, Jezebel, Speakeasy, FishbowlNY and The New Republic

comScore, Inc.:

Americans Received 1 Trillion Display Ads in Q1 2010 as Online Advertising Market Rebounds from 2009 Recession — Facebook Was Top Display Ad Publisher in Q1, AT&T Ranked as Top Advertiser — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released an overview …

Discussion: MarketingVOX, the Econsultancy blog, Tech Trader Daily, NetNewsCheck Latest, PC World and TechCrunch

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Media Meets Commerce, As Thrillist Buys JackThreads (Plus, 1,000 Invites) — It was only this past weekend that Dave Chase argued in a guest post here on TechCrunch that online media companies should get into e-commerce through group buying and flash sale sites.

Discussion: Speakeasy, Silicon Alley Insider, MediaPost, paidContent and FishbowlNY