Mediagazer: Q&A: Marc Reeves, editor, the Business Desk West Midlands (Joel Gunter/news:rewired …)

4:40 AM ET, June 8, 2010

Top News:

Apple's impact: What Steve Jobs' WWDC announcements mean for the news industry's mobile strategy — Apple CEO Steve Jobs just stepped off the stage in San Francisco at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference. His announcements focused squarely on the new iPhone 4, about which you'll find …

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, The Money Game, gdgt live, The Next Web, Lifehacker, MediaPost, louisgray.com, Kempton, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat and Media Decoder

Tom Neumayr / Apple:
Apple to Debut iAds on July 1

Discussion: VentureBeat, Daring Fireball, AdExchanger.com, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Gizmodo and MacRumors

Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
iPad corners 22 percent of ebook market, iBooks gets iPhone version and PDF reader

Discussion: Mashable!, Ars Technica, Bits, TUAW, ResourceShelf, eBookNewser, Kindle Review, Gadget Lab and Fast Company

Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:

The Content Graph and the Future of Brands — Yesterday, two stories from Aol's DailyFinance appeared in the Sunday print edition of the Daily Telegram, a newspaper in southern Michigan. These stories appeared on a business page that would otherwise have been produced almost entirely with stories from the Associated Press.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Ryan Sholin / Publish2 Blog: Publish2 News Exchange Stories In Print: DailyFinance in the Daily Telegram

Matt Welch / Hit & Run:

Helen Thomas, and the Awkward Transfer From “Straight” Reporting to Opinioneering — Since we haven't run the video here yet, here's the ancient White House correspondent-turned-columnist Helen Thomas celebrating Jewish Heritage Month by telling Israelis (via a camera-wielding interlocutor) to go back to Poland and Germany:

Discussion: Felix Salmon, The Politico, Fox News and Romenesko

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
An End for Helen Thomas and the Helen Thomas Rules

Discussion: Richard Prince's Journal-isms, On Media's Blog, DailyFinance, Mediaite, Media Matters for America and The Wrap

Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Breaking: Helen Thomas Retires, Effective Immediately (Video)

Discussion: Media News, RaceWire, Media Decoder, The Hill, Bloomberg, The Caucus, The Wrap, USA Today, On Media's Blog, Right Now, TPM LiveWire, Media Matters for America, Yahoo! News, Strupp, Gawker, msnbc.com, rbr.com and The Huffington Post

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

CNN Close to Dropping AP — CNN is close to dropping its subscription to the Associated Press, people familiar with the decision tell TVNewser. — A CNN spokesperson said that no decision has been made. — The move, if it happens, will mean that CNN no longer subscribes to either of the major wire services.

Joel Gunter / news:rewired, 25 June 2010 …:

Q&A: Marc Reeves, editor, the Business Desk West Midlands — In our latest speaker Q&A we hear from Marc Reeves, editor of the Business Desk West Midlands. Marc has been a reporter, sub-editor, editor and senior manager in newspapers across the UK for more than 20 years.

Marc Reeves:
Speaking truth to power: my speech to the CBI

Discussion: paidContent:UK and Jon Slattery

Matt Heist / paidContent:

What Yahoo Needs To Do With Associated Content — Matt Heist is CEO of High Gear Media, a vertical publishing company that focuses on automotive content from professional writers and enthusiasts. Prior to joining High Gear Media, Heist worked at Sidestep.com, and before that, at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO).

AdAge:

Does Who Creates Content Matter to Marketers in a ‘Pro-Am’ Media World? — Examiner Has 7.4 Million Readers, Local Ads and News — but Few Traditional Journalists — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — If you're trolling the web and hit upon an Examiner.com story, you might think you're reading the San Francisco Examiner.

Discussion: Runnin' Scared, Romenesko, AdPulp, The New York Observer and eMedia Vitals

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

NBC News Hires Newsweek's Michael Isikoff — NBC News has hired Michael Isikoff away from Newsweek at a time when the newsweekly magazine is up for sale. — Mr. Isikoff will become the national investigative correspondent for NBC, a position similar to the one he has held at Newsweek since 1994, the network said.

Discussion: Romenesko, Yahoo! News, Strupp, The Wire, MediaPost, The Huffington Post and Media Gaggle

Steve Herrmann / The Editors:

BBC News linking policy (3) — Links to external sites are an important part of the BBC News website and I have blogged previously about how and why we are aiming to develop what we do in this area - here and here. — One theme that came up was what we should do about linking to sites which require subscription.

Clint Hendler / CJR:

WaPo denies allegation it sat on WikiLeaks video — Whomever had been posting to the WikiLeaks Twitter account over the last 12 hours has had some very unkind words for Wired's reporting on Bradley Manning, the young Army soldier who reportedly has been arrested for his role in leaking …

Discussion: Media News, Crikey, Reuters, International Media, Threat Level, The Atlantic Online, Washington Post and FishbowlNY

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Wall Street Journal Expands Again With New Weekly Section — Former Domino Magazine Editor Consulting on New Leisure and Lifestyle Section — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The Wall Street Journal is expanding again, this time with an additional weekly section of leisure and lifestyle content …

Discussion: Romenesko and The Wire

Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost:

Tremor Bows Interactive Pre-Rolls — Video ad network Tremor Media on Monday is expected to announce a strategic partnership with Innovid to embed interactive elements into pre-roll video ads across Tremor's publisher network. — The joint product offering will be marketed under the name vChoice iRoll …

Discussion: NewTeeVee and Online Video News

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Esquire Hits 100,000 iPhone App Downloads—But Don't Talk About Sales Yet — It took just six months, but Esquire magazine's iPhone app has crossed a big threshold: it's gotten 100,000 downloads of in Apple's iTunes Store. But that's only for the free “shell” that serves as a storefront to buy individual issues or subscriptions.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Journalists running start-ups face tall odds — Fed up with furloughs and down-sizing - or forced involuntarily out of their jobs - journalists across the land are taking matters into their own hands by starting their own news sites. — While I applaud these brave and commendable efforts …

Discussion: Romenesko

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Corrected: @ CM Summit: AdMob's Hamoui: Nothing New About iAd's Rich Media — Correction: In the original, I misheard AdMob CEO Omar Hamoui's responses to an audience question. The story and headline have been updated to reflect the correct version. — Asked to navigate between Google …

Discussion: TechCrunch

Changingnewsroom / The Changing Newsroom:

Preaching the Value of Verification — In a piece last month for Nieman Lab, Ken Doctor asks: “What's copyediting worth these days?” and concludes that in order for news organizations to really harvest tangible value from good editing they should “claim their professionalism publicly, prominently and persistently, yet discreetly.”

Jason Fry / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Maximizing the values of the link: Credibility, readability, connectivity — The humble, ubiquitous link found itself at the center of a firestorm last week, with the spark provided by Nicholas Carr, who wrote about hyperlinks as one element (among many) he thinks contribute to distracted, hurried thinking online.

Discussion: Washington Post, CBC News, CJR, The Atlantic Wire and Reinventing the Newsroom