Mediagazer: Magazine Writers Are Slow to Take Up Multimedia (MediaShift)

9:45 PM ET, June 26, 2010

Top News:

Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:

The Sad, Bulls**t Story of Washington Post Blogger Dave Weigel's Resignation — The Sad Story of Dave Weigel's Resignation — Anti-Gay Activists Outed by Supreme Court — The Plight of the Single... Eligible Bachelor Alert: Prince Harry Hits NYC — By Jen Doll — Second Chances

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, http://www.fosterkamer.com/, Pursuing the Complete …, The Politico, The Huffington Post, Washington Post and Ben Smith's Blog

Ross Douthat:

The Shame of JournoList — When the intra-liberal e-mail round-robin known as JournoList first attracted attention early last year, it seemed significant primarily as a milestone in the emergence of a kind of “movement liberal” mentality among certain media personalities — a team-player spirit …

Discussion: Ombudsman Blog, The Atlantic Online, Hot Air, Mediaite and Ezra Klein

Julian Sanchez / The Atlantic Online:

Weigel, WaPo, and the Tracy-Flickization of Public Life — Like Megan and most of my fellow guestbloggers, I'm fortunate to count Dave Weigel—until this morning a blogger covering the conservative movement for the Washington Post—as a friend. Insofar as that probably renders real objectivity impossible …

Discussion: Liz Mair, Venture Chronicles, BuzzMachine, Vanity Fair, The New Republic, The Politico, Hot Air and Salon

MediaShift:

Magazine Writers Are Slow to Take Up Multimedia — An ideal pitch for a magazine story today would seem to require great possibilities for text and for multimedia. Freelance magazine writers, one would think, would be honing their multimedia skills so they could pitch well-rounded stories …

Judith Thurman / The New Yorker Blog:

Debenedetti Confesses! — Last April, in a Talk of the Town piece, I broke the story of a literary hoax perpetrated by an Italian freelancer, Tommaso Debenedetti, who, it transpired, had published interviews invented from whole cloth with Philip Roth and John Grisham.

Discussion: The Book Bench

Meghan Keane / Capital New York:

AOL's Armstrong, ‘Content King,’ wears heavy crown — AOL turned 25 this Spring. To celebrate, the internet giant has been throwing a series of diverse events. In New York at the end of May, AOL's pop culture blog Urlesque threw a party on the Lower East Side at local bar Sweet and Vicious.

Discussion: news i/o

Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:

News Corp. unloads Beliefnet — Website carried religious, spiritual content — News Corp. said Friday it has sold Beliefnet, a website it purchased three years ago that caters to a community seeking spiritual content based on a large number of religions and even atheism.

Peter Lauria / The Daily Beast:

Has Perez Lost His Touch? — Blogs and Stories — Just a year ago, the Perez Hilton brand was expanding—to a fashion site, a record label, and TV opportunities. But his first two music acts have tanked. Is his influence fading? — In the profile picture on his personal Facebook page …

New York Post:

Ex-Newsday editor Mancini makes tracks for NY1 — HOPEFULLY, someone gave former Newsday Editor-in-Chief John Mancini a new pair of running shoes for Father's Day. — He has joined NY1, the Time Warner-owned cable station, as its new on-air correspondent covering transit.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and Romenesko

Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab:

Plastic Logic Que E-Reader Turns Into Vaporware — Remember Que, Plastic Logic's large screen e-reader that debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year? It's increasingly looking like vaporware. — Plastic Logic isn't shipping the Que e-reader, though the company is officially calling it a “delay.”

Discussion: CrunchGear and TeleRead

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Sports Illustrated's iPad App: Think Print, Not Web — Sports Illustrated's iPad app, which the company first started showing off in concept form last winter, is now in the iTunes store. — No point in going into detail about it when you can see it for yourself.

C-MONSTER.net:

On the Future of Freelancing: The Journalist as Marketer. — Pondering the future (and burritos) at Stanford. (Photo by C-M.) — For two days last week, I traveled to Stanford to participate in a conference on The Future of Freelancing. Needless to say, any gathering of journalists …

Joy Victory / WordPress.com News:

Overcome Writer's Block With Plinky Prompts — Do you ever think “Ugh, I'd totally write a new blog post, if I just had something to say?” Or maybe, “I'm sick and tired of writer's block but I don't know what to do about it!” — We've all been there — those days when the light bulb seems dim, if not burned out.

Discussion: Erictric and Thing Labs, Inc.