Mediagazer: Judge Dismisses Suit Over Variety Review (Brooks Barnes/Media Decoder)

Clifford J. Levy / New York Times:

It's Open Season on Journalists Near Moscow — Journalists have been attacked in a region along the M-10 highway. More Photos » — “Last spring, I called for the resignation of the city's leadership,” Mr. Beketov said in one of his final editorials. “A few days later, my automobile was blown up.

Discussion: mediabistro.com

Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:

GQ's Men of the Year Issue on iPad: 365 Copies Sold — GQ, one of the first magazine titles to appear on the iPad, has sold 365 copies of its December 2009 Men of the Year issue, according to publisher Pete Hunsinger. — The issue was priced at $2.99 per download — $2 less than the newsstand price …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, Guardian and New York Magazine

New York Times:

Cable Takes a Front-Row Seat at Upfront Week — FOR decades, the upfront week in mid-May — devoted to previewing the coming television season for advertisers — was reserved for the big broadcast networks. Recently, however, the cable channels, emboldened by gains in ratings and advertising revenue …

Discussion: The Wire and Media Decoder

Discussion: Media Buyer Planner, B&C, Speakeasy, Moraes on TV and Media Decoder

Brooks Barnes / Media Decoder:

Judge Dismisses Suit Over Variety Review — The trade paper Variety has escaped from a legal tangle over a negative review for the independent film “Iron Cross.” — A Los Angeles Superior Court last week dismissed a lawsuit that charged Variety of illegally damaging the movie by luring …

Discussion: Romenesko, Gawker and LA Observed

Andrew Romano / Newsweek:

Tweet the Press — A NEWSWEEK reporter risks public embarrassment by attempting to profile controversial Congresswoman Michele Bachmann in 140-character bursts. — Cameron Wittig for Newsweek — Reaching Out? Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann listens to a voter's concerns after a recent ‘jobs forum’ in her district

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

“It's a totally new universe”: Digital media expert Mario Tedeschini-Lalli on the way forward for Italian media — While attending the International Journalism Festival in April, I met Mario Tedeschini-Lalli, one of Italy's premier new media thinkers. Co-chair of the Online News Association's …

Discussion: George Brock

Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:

Mediagazer Leaderboard: A Ranking System That Isn't Insulting, That Actually Works — When Dan Abrams' media news site Mediaite debuted, they also unveiled a proprietary ranking system of media personalities they called the Power Grid. It was met with a mixture of jeers and boos …

Discussion: Techmeme News and TNW Apps

Josef Adalian / New York Magazine:

The Glee Effect: How the Hit Show Reminded Fox Not to Be Boring Next Season — Fox didn't add another musical comedy to its 2010-11 schedule, but make no mistake: The success of Glee had a major impact on the network's new lineup. After a couple of years in which it seemed hellbent on aping CBS (remember 'Til Death?

Discussion: Company Town, Media Decoder and Show Tracker

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:

Rahm opened backchannel to Murdoch — Even as the White House waged war on Fox News last fall, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel kept a backchannel open to News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch, telling him the White House “welcomed his ideas,” Jonathan Alter reports in his new book on Obama's first year.

Discussion: New York Observer

Spencer Bailey / CJR:

Everyone's the Wine Expert — Wine critics and bloggers, professional and amateur, are mixed up in a social media web — In late 2003, just as wine blogging was starting up on the Internet, Eric Arnold, currently the editorial director of BottleNotes.com, had never written a word about wine.

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Why Bill Simmons isn't the cash cow you might think — Our own Jason Fry wrote a post worth reading on web economics at Deadspin, the Gawker Media sports site. It's about Bill Simmons, the star columnist for ESPN.com and one of the bigger web-native journalism stars the Internet has produced.

Discussion: ESPN

Media Week:

Magazine distributor MMC poised to fall into administration — LONDON - Magazine distributor the Magazine Marketing Company is expected to fall into administration within days, placing specialist publishers at risk of bankruptcy. — The Spectator is one of The Magazine Marketing Company's most high-profile contracts

Hunter Walk / The Huffington Post:

RIP Online Video; Long Live Video — 5 Predictions for the Next 5 Years — What's Your Reaction: … For many, online video has become a part of our daily lives. It's become so pervasive that it's the talk around the water cooler and every day a new meme is captured by a camera and uploaded …

Discussion: YouTube Blog

Robert Seidman / TVbytheNumbers:

Gleek Delight: “Glee” Gets Coveted Post-Super Bowl Time Slot — Fox's scheduling geniuses have completely nixed any need for fans to wring their hands about what will air after the Super Bowl. Simultaneously, Fox has deprived the TV media/blogs of dozens of posts between now and December weighing …

Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:

CBS Picks Up Sitcom ‘Bleep My Dad Says’ — The William Shatner starrer Bleep My Dad Says based on the Twitter account becomes CBS' second new comedy series, joining Chuck Lorre's Mike & Molly. For those keeping score, it's been one comedy (Bleep) and four new drama series pickups …

Discussion: From Inside the Box and Movieline

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

Jonathan Alter vs. Michael Wolff: The Pissy Email War — Last Friday, professional media beef-starter called Newsweek's Jonathan Alter “the most pompous man in American journalism.” Today, Wolff's column dismissively cited Alter's new book about Barack Obama.

Discussion: Newser and Newsweek

rbr.com:

Targeted web ads: a look at how they're regulated — With recent news that broadcasters are finally monetizing their web pages and selling advertising, in some cases doing better with online advertising than newspapers, more attention may also be focused on broadcast online advertising by regulators.

Liz Jones / Daily Mail:

To all 4,100 of you who answered my cry from the heart - thank you — I wrote last week in You magazine how I felt close to suicide. The final straw had come at NatWest when Paula refused to let me withdraw £20 to get me through the next few days. I begged. I reminded her I'd been a customer since 1978.

Discussion: Guardian and Press Gazette

Michael Cieply / Media Decoder:

Once P.R. Allies, Now Foes — Grab the flak jackets: Allan Mayer, a partner in the public relations powerhouse 42 West, has joined in a lawsuit against his old associate Michael Sitrick, the Hollywood crisis king. — Mr. Mayer on Friday aligned with an earlier plaintiff, Richard Wool …

Discussion: LA Observed

Guardian:

Tabloid tales: journalists' memoirs from kiss ‘n’ tell to quit ‘n’ tell — Why should tabloid writers let truth get in the way of a good memoir? Plus, Sharon Marshall's Tabloid Girl digested by John Crace — Sharon Marshall's Tabloid Girl is the latest showbiz-journalism memoir …

Bill Mitchell / Poynter Online:

200 Moments that Transformed Journalism — Funny thing about the transformation of media: there's often no way to tell, in the moment, whether any given development signals a passing fancy, a seed of destruction or a glimpse of tomorrow. — Thus were most of us puzzled, at the time …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk