Mediagazer: ‘New York Times’ Bans the Word ‘Tweet’ (Choire/The Awl)

7:10 PM ET, June 10, 2010

Top News:

Choire / The Awl:

‘New York Times’ Bans the Word ‘Tweet’ — Phil Corbett, the latest standards editor at the Times (maybe the greatest job in the world?), has issued a proclamation! Yesterday, the following memo went out, asking writers to abstain from the invented past-tense and other weird iterations of the magical noun-verb “Twitter.”

Discussion: TechCrunch, Yahoo! News, Silicon Alley Insider, Runnin' Scared, SPJ Works, The Wrap, Epicenter, New York Magazine, Romenesko, Edward Champion's …, New York Observer and DailyFinance

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Google News experiments with human control, promotes a new serendipity with Editors' Picks — Late this afternoon, Google News rolled out a new experiment: Editors' Picks. Starting today, a small percentage of Google News users will find a new box of content with that label …

Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:

The New York Post's Exile Insanity (Updated) — Reports today surfaced from Gawker that the New York Post is having some staffing issues. And by “staffing issues” we mean “are losing high-profile reporters due to the crumbling civility of the volatile Post management and competing offers.”

Discussion: New York Magazine

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Staff Fleeing the ‘Awful’ New York Post

Discussion: Romenesko, New York Observer and New York Magazine

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Interview: Part 2: Dow Jones' Les Hinton & Robert Thomson On WSJ Digital — The Wall Street Journal was a poster child for premium subscriptions long before Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) bought out the Bancroft family. But the digital landscape has changed dramatically since then.

Discussion: rbr.com and FishbowlNY

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Read This Dow Jones Reply To A Licensing Request—And Weep

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

The Evolution of Time Magazine's iPad App: Here's What's Next — Time Magazine's first iPad app was a rush job. Time Warner's (TWX) magazine unit called the development process “Project Noah,” because the staff got it up and running in 40 days. So it's going to keep adding bells and whistles over time.

Discussion: CrunchGear and Gizmodo

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

BP and Officials Block Some Coverage of Gulf Oil Spill — When the operators of Southern Seaplane in Belle Chasse, La., called the local Coast Guard-Federal Aviation Administration command center for permission to fly over restricted airspace in Gulf of Mexico, they made what they thought was a simple and routine request.

Discussion: Romenesko, Gothamist, FOI FYI, Mashable!, Wonkette, Company Town, Mediaite, Editors Weblog, Think Progress and New York Magazine

Poynter Online:

TheWrap.com's Davis named CEO of Investigative News Network — Digital Publisher New CEO of Investigative News Network — The recently formed Investigative News Network (INN), a collaboration of 32 non-profit news organizations producing public service journalism, today announced digital …

Penelope Green / New York Times:

Currents | Q&A: A Look Back From Departing Architectural Digest Editor — Look, there's Cher on the cover in silver snakeskin, and looking not a day over 40. She's a survivor, to be sure, and so is Architectural Digest, the shelter behemoth that seems hardly to have aged …

Discussion: New York Observer, New York Magazine and Curbed LA

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

The TV Guide Is Dead, Right? Not at the Los Angeles Times. — Two articles of faith among the digerati: — Print editions of newspapers are going, going, gone. — TV may not be going anywhere. But it will get a lot better when we can use the Web to find our favorite shows.

Discussion: The Awl, New York Magazine, The Wrap and Strupp

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Linda Douglass, former Obama aide, rejoins mainstream media — Linda Douglass, the veteran network correspondent who became President Obama's chief health care spokeswoman, is heading back to journalism. — She is joining the Atlantic as a vice president at a time when David Bradley's media operation …

Discussion: Romenesko and The Politico

Jeremy Porter / Journalistics:

Help A Reporter Out (HARO) Joins Vocus Family — Vocus kicked off its 2010 User's Conference with a huge announcement of interest to PR professionals and journalists alike: Vocus has acquired Help A Reporter Out (HARO). HARO has built an impressive base of users over the past two years, becoming one of the most popular PR services.

Discussion: Mashable!

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:

Akamai Beefs Up Network Ahead of the World Cup — Akamai has spent the last year building up its network capacity in anticipation of global Internet traffic hitting a record high due to the World Cup, which gets under way this Friday, according to an AP article this morning.

Discussion: rbr.com, Speakeasy, TechCrunch, Guardian, Poynter Online and Associated Press

Judith Townend / Journalism.co.uk:

BBC Global News director: ‘Empowerment by social media, that for me is the exciting part of it’ — “We're going to do this x32.” Not an obvious catchphrase, but an expression that has a very specific and important meaning for the BBC's global operations, director of Global News Peter Horrocks tells Journalism.co.uk.

Steve Busfield / Guardian:

GMG reveals executive pay — Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger takes cut of £34,000 in year of pay freeze, with bonuses for three top executives — The Guardian editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, took a voluntary pay cut of £34,000 in the 12 months to the end of March …

Discussion: paidContent and Jon Slattery

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:

Advertisers Test 3D Ads — Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN network has convinced three major advertisers to produce expensive 3-D commercials for its new sports channel debuting Friday with the 2010 World Cup broadcast. — It is the first major test of marketers' appetite for 3-D pitches.

Discussion: Gizmodo and Voices on All Things Digital

eMarketer:

Online Video Viewing Shifts to Long-Form Content — Full-length TV and movies get a boost — The number of US online video viewers has risen steadily for the past few years and is expected to continue climbing in moderate increments through 2014. — eMarketer estimates that growth …

Discussion: The Next Web, Media Buyer Planner, hypebot, NewTeeVee, paidContent and Wall Street Journal

Washington Post:

G. Richard ("Rick") Wagoner Elected a Director of The Washington Post Company — Companies: — Related Quotes — SymbolPriceChange — 443.70 — WASHINGTON—(BUSINESS WIRE)—The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO - News) announced today that G. Richard ("Rick") Wagoner has been elected to the Board of Directors.

Discussion: Romenesko

Michael Wolff / Newser:

The Paywall: Will Good Writing Save Murdoch? — Follow him on Twitter @MichaelWolffNYC — I have three British friends who write literate and stylish columns that will soon go behind Rupert Murdoch's paywall at the Times and Sunday Times of London. For a little while longer …

Discussion: paidContent:UK

Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:

TiVo: TV and Web Convergence ‘Started Years Ago,’ Not With Google TV — TiVo is launching an assault against Google TV ahead of the new web-on-TV platform's launch later this year. While Google is hoping to have its integrated TV and web offering available on Sony TVs and Blu-ray players …

Jonathan Stray / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Linking by the numbers: How news organizations are using links (or not) — In my last post, I reported on the stated linking policies of a number of large news organizations. But nothing speaks like numbers, so I also trawled through the stories on the front pages of a dozen online news outlets …

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …

Liz Shannon Miller / NewTeeVee:

Revision3 Celebrates Five Years, But Can It Survive Without Kevin Rose? — UPDATED: So YouTube and Blip.tv aren't the only web video companies to be born during the Chinese year of the Rooster. Revision3 is celebrating its five-year anniversary this month as well, with a gala event planned …

Discussion: TechCrunch and The Next Web

Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:

Talking With the Feisty Newsweek Tumblr Writer — Newsweek.com — Since late last month, when it was announced that Newsweek was going to go on the auction block, the magazine has received advice and criticism (seemingly more of the latter) from all corners of the Internet.

Discussion: The Awl, Romenesko and Strupp

Jeremy Peters / Media Decoder:

Washington Post Reporter Cancels Book Party Appearance — Of all the image problems the media has, few are as bruising as the perception that journalists are too cozy with the powerful people they cover. — And few newspapers know that better than The Washington Post …

Discussion: Gawker, Romenesko and Cision

Robert Birnbaum / The Morning News:

David Remnick — To say that David Remnick should need no introduction to readers of The Morning News may be, uh, arrogant, or at least presumptuous. Then again, it is a complex world, isn't it? — Since 1998, David Remnick has been the editor of the New Yorker magazine …

Gawker:

Apple's Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed — Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. They—and every other buyer of the wireless-enabled tablet—could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking.