Mediagazer: Information Wants to Be Expensive (On The Media: Friday, 18 June 2010) (NPR's On the Media)

3:10 AM ET, June 20, 2010

Top News:

2010 EPpy Winners Announced at Interactive Conference — NEW YORK — This year's winners of the EPpy Award, the premier award for media-affiliated Websites and blogs, were announced today by Editor & Publisher at the concluding luncheon of its Interactive Media Conference in Las Vegas.

Discussion: USA Today

NPR's On the Media:

Information Wants to Be Expensive (On The Media: Friday, 18 June 2010) — Information Wants to Be Expensive — The idea that “information wants to be free,” says Michael Hirschorn in the current issue of the Atlantic, has been the most powerful meme of the past 25 years.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online

Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:

Why Newspapers Aren't Investigating Honor Killings in America — Honor killings are horrific. — As I noted in my initial post on the matter, I admire and share Mark Steyn's staunch opposition to them, and I am glad that he is drawing more attention to the subject, even if he does hate my work.

Discussion: The Daily Dish

Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Knight News Challenge: Is a wiki site coming to your city? Local Wiki will build software to make it simple — Residents of Davis, Calif., have pulled off a feat that new media enthusiasts would love to replicate across the country. Since 2004, a local site has emerged as the go-to place …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and The Windy Citizen Full Feed

Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:

Can Anyone Replace the Local Beat Reporter? — I'd like to repeat a story I sometimes tell about the importance of local journalism. It begins in 2003, when I worked as the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin's beat reporter for Rancho Cucamonga (population 150,000), an affluent commuter suburb about an hour east of downtown Los Angeles.

the nytpicker:

NYT Columnist David Pogue Declares: “I Could Not Name You An Under-25 Year Old Who Subscribes To A Print Newspaper.” — Is David Pogue right? Has an entire generation abandoned print completely, and forever? — The NYT's popular personal-technology columnist offered that deeply discouraging assessment …

MediaPost:

Mobile Search Ads Will Follow Queries — Mobile search has long been considered a can't-miss proposition because search is a natural fit with on-the-go users looking for information. With its Android mobile operating system, the launch of its own smartphone and other mobile services, Google is clearly betting big on mobile search.

Discussion: CyberJournalist.net

Martin Naylor / Media Week:

Telegraph Media Group appoints first director of mobile — Telegraph Media Group (TMG) has appointed former Associated executive Mark Challinor as its first director of mobile. — Mark Challinor: joins TMG as director of mobile — From July, Challinor will work across the company …

Discussion: paidContent:UK

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Lebedev to kick off editors' conference with lecture — Alexander Lebedev is to kick off the Society of Editors (SoE) conference in Glasgow in November by delivering the annual lecture. — The owner of the London Evening Standard and the two Independent titles is likely to choose press freedom as his theme.

Discussion: Society Of Editors, Journalism.co.uk, Jon Slattery and Press Gazette

Felix Salmon:

The NYT doesn't care about posting primary documents — The NYT has a clear policy when it comes to primary sources — if you're writing about a certain document, then you should link to it, if it's online. Increasingly, the NYT's journalists are actually doing that.

Discussion: Techdirt

Neil Swidey / Boston Globe:

Inside the mind of the anonymous online poster — These users comment on everything from today's news to hotel rooms. Many are harmless. But some are ruthless. Who are they exactly, and why do they do what they do? — On Monday, May 17, at 2 p.m., a breaking news article headlined …

Discussion: Code Words and Romenesko

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

5 Staffers Flee Newsweek, Hedge-Funder Phil Falcone May Be Trying To Buy It (WPO) — All's been quiet on the Newsweek front recently, but here are a few interesting developments. — By our count, five staffers have left Newsweek since The Washington Post Co. announced on May 5 that it was putting …

Discussion: CHINAdaily and FishbowlNY