Mediagazer: G. Richard ("Rick") Wagoner Elected a Director of The Washington Post Company (Washington Post)

4:15 PM ET, June 10, 2010

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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, Silicon Alley Insider, The Wrap, Romenesko, eMedia Vitals, Edward Champion's …, New York Observer and DailyFinance

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.

Taylor Buley / The Firewall:
AT&T's iPad Hackers ‘Ignored’ By Reuters, Other Mainstream Press

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, Gawker, ABCNEWS, Computerworld, Velocity, Talking Biz News, The Next Web, TPM LiveWire, TUAW, Gizmodo and Fast Company

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

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: Mediaite, Romenesko, Wonkette, Company Town, Mashable!, Editors Weblog 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

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

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: TechCrunch, Guardian, Speakeasy, Poynter Online and Associated Press

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

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, The Wrap, Strupp and New York Magazine

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

Christopher Mims / Technology Review:

Why Instapaper Will Never Be Booted From the iTunes App Store — Creator of the popular reading app Marco Armenti on how he's managed to avoid angering the New York Times - so far. — Publicity-wise, nothing could have been better for bestselling iPad newsreader Pulse than being featured …

Discussion: TechCrunch

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Meet the Two Grad Students Who Freaked Out the NYT-The Pulse iPad …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, Citizen Media Law Project and Shaping the Future …

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: Romenesko and Strupp

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

What Happens To Blogging When Twitter Goes Down — Twitter pulled a Twitter today and went down, as you well know, and thus took the blogging world crashing along with it. It is no small secret that in regards to online content dissemination (which is not a dirty word, I promise), Twitter is quickly becoming the de facto solution.

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

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

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

Staff Fleeing the ‘Awful’ New York Post — A serious staff exodus is underway at the New York Post. The paper has lost several big names already this year. Now, several more (including Neel Shah) are leaving. Col Allan's management skills are perhaps not the best?

Discussion: Runnin' Scared, New York Magazine, Romenesko and New York Observer

Mirror Awards:

Newhouse School announces winners in fourth annual Mirror Awards — Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications today presented seven awards at the fourth annual Mirror Awards luncheon honoring excellence in media industry reporting.

Discussion: Romenesko and Silicon Alley Insider

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 …

Robert McMillan / PC World:

Mass Web Attack Hits Wall Street Journal, Jerusalem Post — Internet users have been hit by a widespread Web attack that has compromised thousands of Web sites, including Web pages belonging to the Wall Street Journal and the Jerusalem Post. — Estimates of the total number …

Alex Williams / New York Times:

Notoriety in a Tight Embrace — “THE universe has given me nine lives, and clinically I have burned through eight of them,” said the former editor of Men's Fitness and self-styled sexual libertine who appeared to flame out after he emerged as a player in a series of recent scandals.

Digital Deliverance LLC:

The Placebo Called Convergence — Crosbie's Manifesto - Part Two — It doesn't matter whether executives, housewives, politicians, or plumbers. Most people's ability to perceive change is inversely proportional to its scale. They hail superficial changes as transformative …

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Sideways: The First iPad-Only Magazine Is About . . . The iPad — While the print magazine industry is hanging its hopes on the iPad to lead it to the digital promised land where people actually pay for digital editions, it is still stuck with adapting a product designed for paper to the screen.