Mediagazer: Rush & Molloy: An Oral History (Ben Widdicombe/Gawker)

7:30 AM ET, June 2, 2010

Top News:

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 / 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: VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, Engadget, Silicon Alley Insider, NewTeeVee, Gizmodo, ReadWriteWeb, paidContent, Fortune, CrunchGear and TUAW

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 — Vevo Scales Rankings in Online Video Market, Attracting 1 out of 4 Viewers in April — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released April 2010 data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing …

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

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

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: Ars Technica, TechCrunch, John Battelle's Searchblog and FishbowlNY

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

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

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: WebNewser and Fitz & Jen

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

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

CNN:

Jim Walton: CNN at 30 — Editor's Note: Jim Walton is president of CNN Worldwide, which includes CNN/U.S., HLN, CNN International, CNN en Español, CNN.com, CNN Airport Channel, CNN Radio and CNN Newsource. He joined CNN one year after its 1980 inception, as a video journalist, CNN's entry-level position.

Discussion: TVNewser, The Wire and Inside Cable News

Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:
This isn't CNN's prime time — Campbell Brown's voluntary exit …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Online NewsHour, Inside Cable News and TVWeek.com

Lisa Horowitz / The Wrap:
Ted Turner's Little 24-Hour Cable News Network Turns 30 (video)

Discussion: Mediaite, www.thetakeaway.org, Inside Cable News and mediabistro.com

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 …

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 …

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 Wrap

Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:

MinnPost's Joel Kramer on the pull between big audience and big impact — The New York Times' David Carr took a look recently at the nonprofit news site MinnPost, which he called “one of the more promising experiments in the next version of regional news.” Here's an excerpt:

Discussion: PJNet

Jen Doll / Runnin' Scared:

The Village Voice iPhone App Is Here! — Imagine how convenient and wonderful it would be to have all of the Village Voice's event and restaurant listings, plus reviews and more, handily categorized and available on your iPhone for your convenient perusal.

Jeanne Carstensen / The Bay Citizen:

Ken Goldberg and the Clinton State Department launch Opinion Space — a game-changing online community tool — Screenshot from state.gov/opinionspace/ — The map shows clusters of opinions on foreign policy issues. Careful — left doesn't equal liberal!

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.