Mediagazer: NBC's fall schedule, upfront revealed (The Live Feed

4:05 AM ET, May 17, 2010

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Taylor Momsen Did Not Write This Headline — Don't know who Taylor Momsen is? Neither to do I, beyond that she is the mean one on “Gossip Girl.” But Facebook knows her well, Twitter loves her, and she and Google have been hooking up, like, forever. — One more fact about Ms. Momsen …

Discussion: thefutureofpublishing.com and Kirk LaPointe's …

The Live Feed | THR:

NBC's fall schedule, upfront revealed — Exclusive: This fall, NBC will have an action-adventure Monday night, a crime drama Wednesday and an all-comedy Thursday. Despite expectations, NBC will not launch a new comedy block. — The network's Monday upfront presentation will begin …

Discussion: Variety, Media Decoder, Broadcasting & Cable, Deadline.com, TVbytheNumbers, Hitfix.com, Gawker, From Inside the Box, The Wrap and New York Magazine

Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:

NBC Bans Hollywood Trade After Reporter Sneaks Into Upfront Rehearsal And Reveals All, Including 2010-2011 Schedule And Jokes — It does seem that NBC always keeps fumbling. So I'm not sure which is funnier this morning: that NBC didn't have any security keeping journalists away from its tech rehearsal at a NYC Hilton hotel.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, The Wire and The Wrap

Ed Caesar / Times of London:

Hold the front page, I want to be on it — As tens of thousands of journalism graduates clamour for increasingly rare jobs, what makes them think they can do it - and why would they want to? — A good job in journalism is a licence for nosiness, a soapbox on which to perorate and a backstage pass to the live performance of history.

Discussion: Adam Westbrook

Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:

Fans of Gourmet Magazine Accept No Stand-Ins — Loren Shlaes, a pediatric occupational therapist in Manhattan, is the kind of amateur cook who bakes cakes for her friends' weddings and makes her own spaetzle. She's an avid reader of food magazines, and, over the years, has subscribed to Cook's Country …

Fran Spielman / Chicago Sun Times:

Daley to post all investigative reporter requests online — In the name of “transparency,” Mayor Daley on Thursday got some measure of revenge against the investigative reporters who've made his life miserable by digging up dirt on the Hired Truck, city hiring and minority contracting scandals.

Discussion: Chicagoist

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

The Oxymoronic Citizen Journalism — Let's fire a few missiles at politically correct ideas such as “Digital media makes all of us journalists”, “citizens will soon displace professional reporters”, and so on. That's nonsense (I have more explicit words in mind). Does it means public input in news should be kept at bay?

Michele Mclellan / RJI:

Bay Citizen: Partners welcome — Editor Jonathan Weber says the new San Francisco regional news site will rely heavily on local content partners for highly local and culture content when it launches May 24. — The Bay Citizen, a regional news Web site for the San Francisco Bay Area …

Magda Abu-Fadil / The Huffington Post:

Fifth Estate, Censorship Battles at Dubai's Arab Media Forum — Citizen journalism is the fifth estate and media censorship is an exercise in futility, experts said this week at Dubai's 9th Arab Media Forum despite objections from traditionalists resisting the inevitable.

Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:

Business school ditches Kindle DX after trial run — The Kindle isn't doing as well in academic environments as Amazon—and educators—had originally hoped. The Darden Business School at the University of Virginia is near the end of its Kindle “experiment,” already concluding that students …

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Howard Kurtz explores how oil spill, bombing news trumped Nashville flood — As Nashville anchor Bob Sellers watched his city submerged and spent time helping colleagues whose homes were utterly ruined, he was struck by how the disaster remained a largely local story.

Discussion: Gannett Blog

Jamal Khashoggi / The Huffington Post:

Saudi Arabia's Most Daring Newspaper Loses Its Top Man — What's Your Reaction: … Al Watan, arguably Saudi Arabia's most daring newspaper, seems to have lost its top man after Jamal Khashoggi, the publication's editor in chief, resigned earlier today. — In a press release …