Mediagazer: Demand Media Launches Talent & Expert Network (Mike Shields/Mediaweek)

6:10 AM ET, June 9, 2010

Top News:

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: TechCrunch, Digital Daily, GigaOM, Computerworld, VentureBeat, Lifehacker, RJI, Poynter Online, MacRumors and BoomTown

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

Discussion: Epicenter, Fast Company, BoomTown, Gizmodo and Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog

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: Romenesko, TechCrunch and New York Observer

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Arianna Huffington Says HuffPo Is Not For Sale; AOL Exec Says Company …

Discussion: Romenesko, New York Observer and Digits

New York Post:
Bartz eyes a mate

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and Guardian

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

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

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.

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

Mike Shields / Mediaweek:

Demand Media Launches Talent & Expert Network — Demand Media has made a lot of noise over the past year with its revolutionary publishing model; the company employs thousands of freelance journalists who in turn produce thousands of search friendly articles on a daily basis.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:

Shots Returned! Jeff Jarvis Responds to Wise-Yet-Cranky Kaplan Diss — Yesterday, we took note of an AdAge article by Edmund Lee, and a fun kicker that was seemingly buried at the bottom: revered former New York Observer editor Peter Kaplan taking revered tech pundit Jeff Jarvis to task.

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”.

Denise Martin / The Daily Beast:

From Playboy to The Daily Show — Blogs and Stories — Internet star Olivia Munn has joined The Daily Show, not previously known for its hot women of color. Denise Martin talks to her about OCD and joking about the Holocaust with Jon Stewart. — Maybe it says something …

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 …

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 and Yelp Official Blog

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.

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.

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!) …

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

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.