Mediagazer: Feats of Clay — On Sunday, June 6, CNN aired an interview … (Felix Gillette/New York Observer)

2:35 PM ET, June 9, 2010

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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

AOL to Hire ‘Hundreds’ of Journalists, Reorganize Content Division — Sites to Be Grouped Into ‘Super Networks’ and Sold to Advertisers — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — AOL is planning to hire hundreds of journalists, editors and videographers in the coming year as it builds out its content-first business model.

Discussion: Beet.TV, Romenesko, Fast Company, NetNewsCheck Latest and The Next Web

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent: David Eun Puts AOL On A URL Diet With ‘Super Net’ Strategy

Meghan Keane / the Econsultancy blog:
AOL's CEO wants to cure journalism's technophobia

Discussion: Media Decoder, Journalism.co.uk and Hollywood Reporter

Felix Gillette / New York Observer:

Feats of Clay — On Sunday, June 6, CNN aired an interview with James Fallows in which the writer talked on camera about his recent story in The Atlantic, which looked at Google's impact on the news business. Typically, such stories are full of gloom, but this one was hopeful.

Peter Robins / Guardian:

How Apple's new ad-blocker could save the media (maybe) — Safari 5 looks like bad news for ad-supported sites. But if we're very, very lucky, it might not turn out that way — The latest threat to ad-supported online media is a feature in the new version of Apple's Safari web browser called “Reader”.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, Ars Technica, NetNewsCheck Latest, Media Nation, Webmonkey and TUAW

Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Safari 5's ‘Reader’ Nudges Web Publishers to App Store

Discussion: TVWeek.com, Canadian Magazines, ResourceShelf, Marketing News and Arc90 Blog

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Fred Drasner joins Newsweek sweepstakes — FR ED Drasner, one-time busi ness partner of Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman and now an auto entrepreneur, is said to be in the hunt to buy Newsweek. — “Fred Drasner has had discussions with the Washington Post Company about buying Newsweek,” said one source close to Drasner.

Discussion: The Wire

Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:
Stefano Tonchi Cleans House at W, Brings In Newsweek's Ted Moncreiff

Discussion: Daily Front Row

John Koblin / New York Observer:

The End of Libel? — When Robin Bierstedt joined the Time Inc. legal department in 1983, there were 20 active libel cases pending against the company. In her 27-year career, she has taken on dozens of spurned public figures, officials and organizations (hello, Church of Scientology!) …

Discussion: The Awl, Romenesko and Journalism.co.uk

Omar / The Life and Times of AdMob:

Mobile advertising and the iPhone — Apple proposed new developer terms on Monday that, if enforced as written, would prohibit app developers from using AdMob and Google's advertising solutions on the iPhone. These advertising related terms both target companies with competitive mobile technologies …

Discussion: TechCrunch, MediaMemo, paidContent, The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb, Engadget and MacRumors

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Arianna Huffington Takes a “Shine” to Yahoo! and is Setting-up Shop in New York — The Huffington Post is entering a “deep partnership” with Yahoo! to produce original content, including both text and video for Shine, the women's interest pages of of Yahoo!, co-founder and editor …

Discussion: MediaFile, Romenesko, TechCrunch, DailyFinance, eMedia Vitals, The Huffington Post, Digits, New York Observer, New York Post and The Wire

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.

Discussion: Gawker, Romenesko and L.A. Times Tech Blog

Joe Strupp / Strupp:

Newsweek Blog, Kurtz Tangle Over Column — It appears Newsweek will not leave The Washington Post Company quietly. At least its Tumblr blog won't. — Editors of the online column took Howard Kurtz's Monday piece on Newsweek and its dire future, in his view, and edited with claims of inaccuracies and poor arguments.

Discussion: The Awl, Romenesko and newsweek.tumblr.com

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Interview: Part 1: Dow Jones' Not-So-Odd Couple Les Hinton & Robert Thomson — Les Hinton and Robert Thomson don't exactly finish each other's sentences—they're a tad too polite for that—but they could. When I joked about pairs for comparison, the two quickly shot back with Bill and Ben, the Flower Pot Men.

Discussion: LA Observed, Romenesko, Talking Biz News, Guardian, MediaPost, Gawker and New York Times

Rick Edmonds / The Biz Blog:

How ‘The Week’ Has Grown Circulation, Advertising as Newsweek, Other Magazines Decline — The surprise success of The Week, a British transplant launched in 2002 and derided then as a wacky throwback, is a twice-told tale. But president Steven Kotok doesn't mind telling it again …

Bill Mickey / Folio:

Behind The Atlantic's Brand Reinvention — During FOLIO: Show keynote, Justin Smith outlines path back to profitability. — The Atlantic, a 153-year-old magazine, suffered from a protracted decline in revenues and rising costs starting in the 1960s. A dramatic multi-platform overhaul …

Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:

SB Nation CEO on how we're fans of teams, not sports, T.V. shows, not T.V., and what that means for news — SB Nation — short for Sports Blog Nation — just announced it's launching 20 new regional sports sites, with Houston and Dallas launching tomorrow aimed at competing …

Discussion: Editors Weblog and SBNation.com

Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:

Web Series Tap Prime Time — Better Production Quality, Easier TV-Internet Hookups Grab Nighttime Viewers — Original Web series are finding a niche at night. — In a change from traditional online-video watching, which was built during daytime, providers of free original Web content …

Discussion: NewTeeVee, Beet.TV, Silicon Alley Insider, Company Town and the blip.tv blog

Tara Conlan / Guardian:

Daily Mail shuffles features executives — Leaf Kalfayan made executive editor of features, with senior posts also shifting at news and on Femail section — The Daily Mail has unveiled a series of changes to its senior editorial management, with Leaf Kalfayan becoming executive editor of features.

Wall Street Journal:

Reporters Scramble for White House's Prize Perch — Helen Thomas's blue-padded seat in the front row of the White House briefing room has barely cooled, but her former colleagues in the press are already climbing over each other to fill it. — Ms. Thomas's abrupt retirement in the wake …

Discussion: Gawker, Truthdig, The Huffington Post and Writing / Editing

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.