Mediagazer: Steve Jobs: I Can Help Save the Media Business, If It'll Wise Up and Cut Its Prices (Peter Kafka/D8 Conference)

10:15 AM ET, June 2, 2010

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Peter Kafka / D8 Conference:

Steve Jobs: I Can Help Save the Media Business, If It'll Wise Up and Cut Its Prices — Here's the pitch Steve Jobs is making to media companies: Cut your prices, and I'll help you move a lot of product. — Speaking at the D8 conference, the Apple CEO said he wants to help save journalism because …

Discussion: Guardian, VentureBeat, New York Observer, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, Engadget, Silicon Alley Insider, NewTeeVee, AppleInsider, Fortune and Gizmodo

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

@ D8: Murdoch: 'What's An iPod Without Music?' — It may not qualify as irony but it is a lovely coincidence: the same week that The Times and The Sunday Times go behind a paywall, News Corp (NYSE: NWS) Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch is at a Southern California resort celebrating a franchise …

Discussion: paidContent:UK

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
@ D8: Jobs: 'We Didn't Start Out To Have A War With Adobe'

Discussion: TechCrunch

Danny Sullivan / Daggle:

How The Mainstream Media Stole Our News Story Without Credit — On Friday, I broke a tasty story about a woman suing Google, claiming bad directions caused her to get hit by a vehicle. Today, I discover our story is everywhere, often with no attribution. Come along and watch …

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Hulu's Growth Curve Flattens Out — ComScore's newest video data are out. The takeaway: In April, Google's (GOOG) YouTube dwarfed every other site. And Hulu came in second, with about 960 million views. — Does that sound familiar? It should: YouTube has always been at the top of comScore's (SCOR) tallies.

Discussion: Online Video News and Silicon Alley Insider

comScore, Inc.:
comScore Releases April 2010 U.S. Online Video Rankings

Discussion: VentureBeat, Bits, Mashable!, TechCrunch, VideoNuze and hypebot

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Exclusive: Google Buys Invite Media — Google has indeed bought ad technology startup Invite Media, I've confirmed with multiple sources. — As I wrote last month, Invite is a three-year-old “demand side platform” designed to help buyers navigate high-volume display-advertising exchanges-like the one Google launched last year.

Discussion: TechCrunch and Silicon Alley Insider

John Koblin / New York Observer:

David ‘Mr. Paywall’ Remnick Defends His Turf — If you're an editor these days, grab a soapbox and talk about a paywall. — Last month, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger hit New York and went on Charlie Rose to talk about what a tragedy it would be for editors to charge readers for content.

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Hyperlocal Network Mainstreet Connect Raises $3.97 Million First Round — Mainstreet Connect, the latest entrant into the hyperlocal news space, has raised a $3.97 million first round, according to an SEC filing. Last month, the Connecticut-based company launched four sites in the northeast within the past three months.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, WebNewser and Fitz & Jen

C.W. Anderson / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Aggregators, curators, and indexers: There's a difference, and it matters — Aggregation. Curation. Indexing. They're all the same, aren't they? Ask any serious online journalist or new media entrepreneur, and the answer will be quick and obvious: of course not!

Discussion: The Atlantic Online

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

NBC boss eyes $30M+ exit deal from Comcast — General Electric has finalized details of Jeff Zucker's exit deal from NBC Universal, according to sources familiar with the situation. — Zucker will leave “a couple of months” after Comcast Corp. closes its agreement to acquire a 51 percent stake …

Discussion: The Wire

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Are Flashy iPad Apps What Publishers Really Need? — Adobe may have been stymied at every turn by Apple and its very public hatred of all things Flash, but that hasn't stopped the company from pushing its vision of interactive publishing for mobile devices like the iPad.

Discussion: MacRumors, TechCrunch, Ars Technica and FishbowlNY

Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Adobe reveals magazine iPad-izer software

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Adobe, Media Buyer Planner, Fast Company, Poynter Online and Gizmodo

Jon Friedman / MarketWatch:

Brian Williams: a Cronkite for the 21st century — Commentary: He is now the gold-standard for anchors — NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - With the speculation heating up about a CNN and CBS News combination, the individual most threatened would seem to be Brian Williams, the top-rated news anchor at 6:30 p.m.

Discussion: Romenesko

Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:

ABC's Potential Online Subscription Service — Who Wins and Who Loses — ABC may be considering rolling out an online subscription service soon, based on a consumer survey that was unearthed by Engadget. The survey, which details the possible terms of the subscription service …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

newsweek.tumblr.com:

Every Day is, Like, Sunday — June already! Where does the time go? Nothing like an uncertain future to telescope the hours. Remember, buyers: Bids are due Wednesday! — While we wait, we're thinking about David Carr's piece in the Sunday Times about the sale.

Discussion: Romenesko, the Econsultancy blog, New York Magazine, tag me with a spoon and Soup

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Newsweek: We're Not In As Terrible Shape As David Carr Says

Discussion: DailyFinance, AdPulp and FishbowlNY

Alex Weprin / WebNewser:

CNN.com Inadvertently Reveals Al Gore's Email Address — When it comes to emails, mistakes happen all the time. But very rarely do they involve former Vice Presidents of the United States. — So it was quite surprising to see CNN.com inadvertently reveal the email address of Al and Tipper Gore Tuesday afternoon.

Discussion: TVNewser, CNN, The Wire, Gawker, New York Magazine, Strupp and UnBeige

Ben Widdicombe / Gawker:

Rush & Molloy: An Oral History — George Rush and Joanna Molloy published their final gossip column in the New York Daily News yesterday following a 15-year run. Ben Widdicombe, a Rush & Molloy protégé and former Daily News gossip columnist himself, looks back.

Discussion: Cision

Liz Shannon Miller / NewTeeVee:

Team YouTube Gets More Support: Creators File Amicus Brief — UPDATED: A group of YouTube creators filed an amicus brief in the ongoing legal battle between Google and Viacom last week, voicing their support for the site's value as it currently operates and arguing that to make YouTube responsible …

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

Lady Gaga Will Be On Larry King's ‘Tone Deaf’ Show Tonight — Larry King is two days away from his 25th anniversary at CNN, which itself turned 30 today. — It's been tough times for King lately, career-wise, at least. — There have been gaffes. There have been takedowns.

Discussion: The Awl and The Wrap

Greg Marx / CJR:

Embrace the Wonk — A new opportunity for reporters and political scientists — On January 8, Marc Ambinder, the widely-read political reporter and blogger for The Atlantic, found a copy of Game Change, the gossipy insider's account of the 2008 presidential election by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin …

Discussion: The Monkey Cage

Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:

That Pesky DVR Is Now Killing Off Bigger Pieces Of The TV Industry — Anne Sweeney, co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of Disney/ABC Television Group, says SOAPnet, a cable network devoted to re-airing daytime operas, became obsolete because of the DVR.

Ivanoransky / Embargo Watch:

So what does it take to get an embargo lifted early? — Last week, the International Smart Tan Network, which calls itself “the educational institute for the North American indoor tanning community,” put out a press release criticizing a study in the American Association of Cancer Research's …