Mediagazer: Knight Foundation Hands Out Grants to 12 Groups, but Not WikiLeaks (Noam Cohen/Media Decoder)

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Huffington Post Buys Adaptive Semantics To Keep Up With 100,000 Comments A Day — The Huffington Post has acquired its first company in a small cash deal, and it is not another blog or media site, but a pure technology startup called Adaptive Semantics. The two-person startup provides …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, WebNewser, eMedia Vitals, Mediaweek, Inventor Spot, Webmetricsguru, paidContent and blogs.journalism.co.uk

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

HuffPo's Hippeau On More Acquisitions: 'We'll Be Opportunistic' — The Huffington Post's acquisition of Adaptive Semantics isn't an “open sesame” for a buying spree. “We'll be opportunistic,” HuffPo CEO Eric Hippeau told paidContent, stressing that the company isn't shopping.

Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:

Vogue Publisher Florio Leaving Conde Nast — Tom Florio, the long-time publisher of Vogue, is leaving Conde Nast at the end of the month, Mr. Florio said Thursday. — Mr. Florio said in an interview that he's been talking to Conde Nast Chief Executive Chuck Townsend for some time about leaving …

Discussion: Romenesko, paidContent, New York Observer, MinOnline, FishbowlNY, New York Magazine and Styleite

Amy Wicks / WWD:

WSJ.'s Gaudoin Resigns... Read the Fine Print... Teen Vogue Promotes Feldman... HEADING BACK HOME: Tina Gaudoin, editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal's glossy luxury play WSJ., is resigning “for personal reasons,” she said, and will return to London at the end of August.

Discussion: Gawker

Discussion: New York Magazine and New York Observer

Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:

Capital New York: New York's Newest Media Launch is ALIVE! Kinda. (UPDATED) — Beloved New York Observer editors Tom McGeveran and Josh Benson left the paper late last year to go work on a secret, hush-hush project. This was after Jared Kushner — the son of a disgraced Jersey real-estate scion …

Discussion: New York Magazine

Nielsen Wire:

Busting the Cord-Cutting Myth: Video in the Interactive Age — There's a growing belief that TV “cord cutting” - when consumers reduce the amount of time they watch TV or drop their digital TV subscriptions altogether and move to viewing video online - is gaining traction.

Discussion: The Wire and NewTeeVee

Mark Walsh / MediaPost:

Media CFOs Eye Promise of Digital, Mobile — Almost three-quarters of chief financial officers at major entertainment and media companies say digital and mobile represent the industry's biggest growth opportunities. CFOs say they are finally seeing measurable growth in digital revenue …

Discussion: rbr.com, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, PR Newswire and Channel NewsAsia

Campfire Journalism:

A Few Lessons Learned from Teaching Online Journalism — I recently finished my second year of teaching online journalism to undergraduate students. For me, that means that I have reached a point where I am not perpetually scrambling to prepare for the next class period and have an occasional moment …

Noam Cohen / Media Decoder:

Knight Foundation Hands Out Grants to 12 Groups, but Not WikiLeaks — The Knight Foundation on Wednesday announced 12 winners of its News Challenge grants, projects costing a total of $2.74 million that will use new technology to spread information in local areas.

Discussion: Romenesko, The Huffington Post, MediaShift Idea Lab, Nieman Journalism Lab, Media Nation, Poynter Online, Free Press and KnightBlog

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, Speakeasy, Tower Ticker, News for Digital Journalists, Fast Company, ReadWriteWeb, Journalism.co.uk, International Media and BusinessJournalism.org …

comScore, Inc.:

The New York Times Ranks as Top Online Newspaper According to May 2010 U.S. comScore Media Metrix Data — U.S. Online Newspaper CPMs Nearly 3 Times Higher than Average — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a report of the top U.S. online …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, BizReport, the Econsultancy blog, Local Media Watch and Journalism.co.uk

Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:

Carly Carioli named editor of the Boston Phoenix — A little more than a month after a shake-up on the business side, the Phoenix Media/Communications Group (PM/CG) has announced some major changes in the newsroom. The most significant: Carly Carioli is the new editor of the Boston Phoenix, replacing Lance Gould.

Discussion: Romenesko and Association …

Matthew Campbell / Bloomberg:

Murdoch Offers Freebies in Pursuit of Paywall Readers — The Times, the London newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., is offering free tickets to Toy Story 3 or the chance of a weekend at the Grosvenor Hotel in Dorset to persuade readers to pay for news online.

Discussion: Romenesko and NetNewsCheck Latest

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

CBS Uses ‘Star Trek’ To Explore HTML5 Frontier — Star Trek Enterprise fans can watch any episode from Seasons 1-4 at CBS.com as long as their browser plays nice with Flash—or, as I realized when I checked on a whim, a very limited grab bag of episodes if they want to geek out on an iPad.

Economist:

Chinese whispers — Not believing what they read in the papers, China's leaders commission their own — IN A country where independent information-gathering is kept in check, what China's leaders know and how they know it matters hugely. A recently leaked speech by Xia Lin …

Jacques Steinberg / The Choice:

Forget the Tote Bag; Cablevision Is Offering Free SAT Prep — In the latest sign of the premium that society places on an elite education, and the lengths some will go to get a leg up in securing it, Cablevision announced today that it was offering a free SAT preparation course as an incentive …

Marion Maneker / The Big Money:

The Son of Gutenberg — How WordPress changed the way we publish. — A year ago, Justin Halpern was an underemployed comedy writer who had to move back into his parents' home in San Diego. Today, he's got 1.4 million Twitter followers, the — No. 1 book on the New York Times nonfiction …

Discussion: The Big Picture

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Demand Media Taps Joost For Video Advertising Sales And Technology — Video distribution and monetization platform provider Joost, owned by Adconion Media Group since its assets were acquired in November 2009, is today announcing a global sales and technology partnership with online publishing powerhouse Demand Media.

Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:

Ad Blogger Jumps the Fence — A blogger is about to start being fed by the hand that he bit. — Mathew Van Hoven, who since last September has been presiding over a Mediabistro blog called Agency Spy, is joining a new agency in New York, Skinny, in a new post, communications director.

Discussion: AgencySpy and AdScam/The Horror!

Andrew Finlayson / Nieman Journalism Lab:

“A super sophisticated mashup”: The semantic web's promise and peril — [Our sister publication Nieman Reports is out with its latest issue, and its focus is the new digital landscape of journalism. There are lots of interesting articles, and we're highlighting a few.

Discussion: Yahoo! Sports

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Gawker Settles a Libel Suit With a Correction, but Not a Check — Sometimes Nick Denton likes to boast about Gawker Media's legal battles. Other times, he keeps quiet. — Like earlier this month, when Denton settled a libel suit filed by motorcycle-maker Confederate Motors.

Nicholas Carr / Nieman Reports:

News in the Age of Now — ‘On the Web, skimming is no longer a means to an end but an end in itself. That poses a huge problem for those who report and publish the news.’ — “Thought will spread across the world with the rapidity of light, instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood.

The Independent:

Paul Steiger - Setting the truth free — America's tradition of investigative journalism has a new champion, and the organisation he founded is already making waves - and winning prizes. Stephen Foley meets a man on mission — Intrepid investigation: Bob Woodward, right …

Eric Pfanner / New York Times:

At World Cup, Publicity Money Can't Buy — PARIS — Going to the World Cup in South Africa? Bring your camera and your Visa card. But don't wear a little orange dress, or you may get hauled into court. — That is what happened to two Dutch women who attended the Netherlands-Denmark soccer match Monday …

Discussion: Company Town and Wall Street Journal

New York Post:

Piers Morgan taking Larry King's spot at CNN — British journo Piers Morgan will start his takeover of Larry King's CNN show in October, sources tell Page Six. The former newspaper editor has a deal to host an hourlong interview program which will start in the fall four days a week as CNN phases King out.

Discussion: Gawker, Inside Cable News, TVWeek.com and New York Magazine