Mediagazer: Unfriendly Fire — When, late Sunday night, Wired reported … (Clint Hendler/CJR)

3:28 AM ET, June 9, 2010

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Brad Stone / Bits:

Times Company Objects to News-Reader App — Last week I wrote about the Pulse News Reader, a popular iPad application developed by two students at the Stanford Institute of Design that collects and presents articles from Web sites of news organizations like The New York Times.

Discussion: MediaPost, GigaOM, VentureBeat, RJI and Poynter Online

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Why Did The NYT Get The Pulse News Reader Yanked From iTunes?

Discussion: BoomTown and BRANDING UNBOUND

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Pulse iPad App Gets Steve Jobs's Praise in Morning...Then Booted …

Steve Busfield / Guardian:

Paul Cheesbrough leaves Telegraph — The group's chief information officer is leaving to take the same role at the rival company News International — Another key digital executive is to leave the Telegraph Media Group in the wake of Will Lewis's abrupt departure last month.

Discussion: Press Gazette, Media Week and paidContent:UK

Clint Hendler / CJR:

Unfriendly Fire — When, late Sunday night, Wired reported that Bradley Manning, a young Army intelligence staffer, had been arrested and charged with giving a variety of classified or closely held information to WikiLeaks, the online secret-sharing site didn't stay quiet.

Discussion: B&C, Threat Level, Hit & Run and This Just In

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

Arianna Huffington Says HuffPo Is Not For Sale; AOL Exec Says Company Will Hire ‘Hundreds’ More Journalists Next Year — We're down at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute for an Internet Week panel called “The Future of Media” hosted by the daily aggregation website I Want Media.

Discussion: Romenesko, Digits and New York Observer

New York Post:
Bartz eyes a mate

Discussion: Guardian and eMedia Vitals

Meghan Keane / the Econsultancy blog:

AOL's CEO wants to cure journalism's technophobia — AOL's CEO Tim Armstrong has been at the company for over a year now. As he readily admits, AOL has a long way to go before it will be able to stop depending on its slowly depleting dial-up revenues. But on stage at CMSummit in New York on Tuesday …

Discussion: Media Decoder and Hollywood Reporter

Matt Creamer / Breaking Media:

Finally, A Smart Alternative to the AP — The maturation of the digital news business hasn't been kind to the Associated Press. In addition to fighting a pointless battle with Google over the distribution of AP articles in its news channel and taking potshots at aggregators …

Alex Weprin / WebNewser:

Fox News Launches Social Media-Centric Website — Fox News has soft-launched a website, Fox News Insider, with a social media focus. The site, which as at www.Foxnewsinsider.com, is being constantly updated with reports from Fox News Channel, as well as info on FNC programming like “The O'Reilly Factor”.

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

TurnHere And Its Network Of 8,000 Filmmakers To Flood Yelp With Videos — Online video production startup TurnHere is now the exclusive provider of video creation services for Yelp, the popular local search and business review site. — TurnHere, through its network of over 8,000 professional filmmakers …

Discussion: TurnHere's Blog, Yelp Official Blog and Screenwerk

Joseph Plambeck / Media Decoder:

Sally Singer Named Editor of T Magazine — Sally Singer, the fashion news and features director at Vogue, has been named the editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. — Ms. Singer, 45, will take over on July 5, according to a note Bill Keller, executive editor of The Times, sent to staff on Tuesday.

Discussion: Romenesko, WWD, FishbowlNY, MinOnline, Business Wire, MediaPost, Gawker and The Wrap

Caitlin Roper / The Paris Review:

Department of Corrections — Thank you, Mike Leaverton, for your notice in SF Weekly about our event at The Booksmith in San Francisco next Monday, June 14th. (Hope to see you there!) And thank you, too, for the opportunity to clarify a few things about the legend of the Paris Review slush pile.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Apple Makes Good on Steve Jobs's Promise, Invites Other Advertisers. But What About Google's AdMob? — Last week, Steve Jobs promised that his iPhone and iPads would be open to outside ad networks. Yesterday, Apple made good on his promise, by changing the terms of its developer agreement.

Discussion: Gawker, MediaPost, eWeek, Fast Company, paidContent, MinOnline, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Fortune, Engadget, MacRumors, rbr.com and eMedia Vitals

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

WHCA to Discuss Who Gets Thomas' Seat at Special Meeting Thursday — After legendary White House correspondent Helen Thomas announced Monday that she was retiring, it didn't take long for journalists to start asking: Who's going to get “the seat”? — The guessing games have already begun.

Discussion: Washington Post, The Wrap, Comments Blog, The Daily Caller, Media Matters for America, The New Republic, mediabistro.com, Gothamist, Press Gazette, The Huffington Post and NY Daily News

David Cohen / WebNewser:

CNN.com Geeks Up Technology Section — CNN.com is sprucing up the joint, following last week's launch of a retooled Entertainment section with an announcement Tuesday that its Technology section underwent a face-lift, as well. — CNN Tech is edited by CNN.com tech producer Brandon Griggs …

Carole Wurzelbacher / Editors Weblog:

Wired iPad magazine sales set to surpass print sales — After just nine days, Condé Nast's magazine Wired is reporting an astonishing feat: the sales of its iPad edition are set to surpass those of its print edition. The New York Observer reports that just a little over a week …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and New York Observer

James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:

On the Media: Las Vegas Review-Journal bares its claws — The newspaper has filed lawsuits against more than 30 websites and blogs it says used its works without permission. So what is fair use? — The newspaper people had me pretty much in their corner until they went after the cat people.

Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:

Safari 5's ‘Reader’ Nudges Web Publishers to App Store — One item Steve Jobs didn't mention during his presentation at WWDC on Monday is Apple Safari 5's prominent ad-blocking feature, which strips advertisements and other design elements from any web page that appears to be “an article,” …

Discussion: ResourceShelf and Arc90 Blog