Mediagazer: FTC Considers Publishing Public Data Online to Support the Future of Journalism (Alexander Howard/The Huffington Post)

1:45 PM ET, May 30, 2010

Top News:

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

FTC protects journalism's past — The Federal Trade Commission has been nosing around how to save journalism and in its just-posted “staff discussion draft” on “potential policy recommendations to support the reinvention of journalism,” it makes its bias clear: The FTC defines journalism …

Discussion: Pursuing the Complete …

Alexander Howard / The Huffington Post:

FTC Considers Publishing Public Data Online to Support the Future of Journalism — The Federal Trade Commission released a discussion draft of policy recommendations to address the crisis in the newspaper industry and its relationship to the future of journalism. It's embedded below and can be downloaded as a PDF.

Nick Bilton / Bits:

One on One: Brian Lam of Gizmodo.com — It was just last month that Gizmodo.com, the gadget blog, published images of the next-generation iPhone that led to a chain of events that sound more like a soap opera than a gadget story. Since then, Gizmodo has been catapulted into the mainstream media …

Randall Stross / New York Times:

YouTube Wants You to Sit and Stay Awhile — TWO weeks ago, YouTube celebrated when the number of videos viewed daily on its site reached two billion, a milestone. — But it also used the occasion to express its envy of television's continuing hold on viewers: “Although the average user spends 15 minutes …

Liz Gannes / GigaOM:

Digg Wants to Be the Twitter of News — Digg founder Kevin Rose is close to his first major launch since taking over as CEO and instituting layoffs. He published a video today on his personal YouTube account laying out the site's upcoming version 4 release, due “very soon” (found via TechCrunch).

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Next Web, Soaring on a Pig … and Scripting News

Ryan Chittum / CJR:

Missing the Paywall Point — What do the Irish News and the Guardian teach us about paywalls? — The Guardian's Roy Greenslade thinks we should take a lesson about paywalls from the Irish News, a 45,000-circulation daily that charges (a lot) to access its work on the Web. … Yes, those are awfully small.

Discussion: Slugger O'Toole

Jarvis Coffin / Burst Media Company Blog:

Paywalls Don't Determine the Difference Between Good and Bad Media — My understanding of the whole paywall issue isn't that it's so much about making subscription money as it is about reasserting the value of proprietary content to advertisers. — It has been widely discussed, here and elsewhere, that content is substantially free.

Discussion: Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog

Kathy Haley / NetNewsCheck Latest:

Reinvent Your Business Now, Papers Told — The question for newspaper executives is not whether to erect an online paywall, says advertising industry veteran and media consultant Barbara Cohen. The question is how to restructure the way they think about their businesses, from top to bottom …

Kenneth Li / Financial Times:

How Jeff Bewkes is reinventing Time Warner — Media executives thrive on high-wattage company - Hollywood celebrities, publishing legends, fellow tycoons. The tycoons, at least, were in abundance last summer at the annual retreat sponsored by boutique investment bank Allen & Co in Sun Valley …

BabyBarista:

Welcome to the re-launch of BabyBarista - keeping it free of charge! — I have today withdrawn the BabyBarista Blog from The Times in reaction to their plans to hide it away behind a paywall along with their other content. Now don't get me wrong. I have absolutely no problem with the decision to start charging.

Discussion: The Barrister Blog

A Cpj / Committee to Protect Journalists:

In Zimbabwe, Daily News is on the way back — Zimbabwe's beleaguered independent media won a major victory when an official commission granted publishing licenses to four daily newspapers, including The Daily News, the nation's leading paper before it was outlawed seven years ago.