Mediagazer: Hulu Promotes Paid Online HD Service on Samsung TVs (Bloomberg)

1:50 PM ET, June 29, 2010

Top News:

JP Mangalindan / Fortune:

Jeff Bezos's mission: Compelling small publishers to think big — In the face of Kindle price cuts and wild iPad sales, Jeff Bezos is taking Amazon into new markets and onto every device he can. Will it be enough? — Jeff Bezos has been dismissed before.

Discussion: New York Observer, TechCrunch, eMedia Vitals, iPad Weekly, Electronista and Kindle Review, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Former Forbes.com Publisher Jim Spanfeller Has VC Money; New Sites on the Way — Former Forbes.com publisher Jim Spanfeller has a new gig: A venture-backed Web publishing startup. — Spanfeller Media Group, which plans to launch a series of new sites, is close to finishing a funding round that I'm told will total around $2 million.

Discussion: Folio, paidContent, Romenesko and Media Buyer Planner

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

Rolling Stone and the Plight of the Not-Quite-Good-Enough Magazine — Rolling Stone got its nice big “Dominate the news cycle” turn last week with Michael Hastings' Gen. McChrystal story. Will this revive Rolling Stone as a culturally relevant touchstone? Not a chance.

Discussion: B&C and Romenesko

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Washington Post, ABC defend anonymous source's attack on sourcing …

Discussion: The Wrap, Pursuing the Complete …, The Plum Line, WWD, Salon and New York Times

Seth C. Lewis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Opening up journalism's boundaries to bring change back in: How Knight and its News Challenge have evolved — It was with considerable irony that I found myself last week missing much of the action surrounding the announcement of the latest winners of the Knight News Challenge …

Discussion: MediaShift

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

NBC sweatbox — It's going to be a long, hot summer at 30 Rock as NBC Universal senior staff sweat out who gets to stay with the company — and on what terms — as Comcast pushes for a possible fourth-quarter close on its purchase of NBC Universal. — While NBC Universal management …

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

There is no hot news. All news is hot news. — The most dangerous defensive tactic parried by legacy news organizations today is their attempt to claim ownership of “hot news” and prevent others from repeating what they gather at their expense for as long as they determine that news is still hot.

Discussion: Salon, Danger Room, Gutenberg Revisited, newsfeed.time.com, The Daily Caller, /Message, bnet, Guardian, The Wire, The Wrap, Washington Wire, TPMDC, Mediaite, New York Times and CJR

Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:

From Washington Post To NBCU: Dave Weigel Joins MSNBC As Paid Contributor — Team Weigel rejoice - it didn't take Dave Weigel very long to land on his feet after he resigned last week from The Washington Post. — Tonight at the end of Countdown, Keith Olbermann introduced new “MSNBC contributor” Dave Weigel.

Discussion: The Wire, Wonkette, The Huffington Post, Chickaboomer and Hit & Run

Bloomberg:

Apple's Jobs Due to Attend Sun Valley Media Executive Retreat — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs is due to attend the annual Allen & Co. media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, giving him a chance to court executives he needs to add content to his company's products.

Discussion: Company Town and Silicon Alley Insider

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Exclusive: Tyra Banks Picks Demand Media as America's Next Top Digital Business Model — Well-known modeling icon Tyra Banks has struck a partnership with Demand Media to create a new digital brand focused on fashion and beauty. — The deal between the Santa Monica, Calif.-based online content maker …

Bloomberg:

Hulu Promotes Paid Online HD Service on Samsung TVs — Hulu LLC, the television website controlled by three U.S. broadcast networks, began promoting its yet-to-be-announced paid online service on Samsung TVs. — A Samsung 6500 series LED television, purchased June 25 at a Best Buy Co. store in New York …

Discussion: Company Town

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Online Video News Consumption Doubles in 12 Months, comScore....The AP Nearing Half a Billion Views on YouTube — The consumption of online video news and information clips in the U.S. has doubled over the past 12 months, to 565 million video views in May, up from 277 million last May, according to comScore.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Greg Marx / CJR:

Look at Us! — Lessons from the response to the David Weigel flap — It's been three days since David Weigel, the reporter and blogger best known for his coverage of the conservative movement, resigned from The Washington Post after intemperate remarks he'd made on a private e-mail list about some of his subjects were made public.

Discussion: The Politico, Mother Jones, Media Decoder and Wonkette

Hunter Walker / The Wrap:

Showtime Makes It Official: Nevins to Replace Greenblatt — Showtime has made it official: Imagine TV President David Nevins this summer will replace Robert Greenblatt as the network's president of entertainment. TheWrap first reported the move on Thursday.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and Company Town

Carolinebeaven / Online Journalism Blog:

Video interview: The Times: safeguarding journalism? — Currently running as a registration service, The Times plan to launch their paid-for site in the next few weeks. So far they are reluctant to release initial registration figures and the demographic audience they are attracting.

Paul Carr / TechCrunch:

TechCrunch TV Launches... Now. — It's finally here. After months of planning and building and learning and fixing and hiring and spending, TechCrunch TV goes live right... NOW. — Broadcasting daily from our fully-featured San Francisco studio, TechCrunch TV will be packed …

Discussion: WebNewser, I4U News, The Next Web and Techie Buzz, more at Techmeme »

Judith Townend / Journalism.co.uk:

Met Police apologises and pays damages to journalists over Greek Embassy protest incident — The Metropolitan Police has apologised and agreed to pay damages to two journalists, after an incident in which the force ‘failed to respect press freedom’. — In December 2008 …

Discussion: Guardian

AdAge:

A Look at Who's Getting What on Apple's IAds — Though Complexity, Delays Mean Most Won't Hit July 1 Rollout, Marketers Appear Excited by the Prospects — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The first of Apple's iAds are expected to start popping up on iPhones later this week, but don't expect …

Discussion: iPad Weekly, FierceMobileContent, the Econsultancy blog, 9 to 5 Mac, Mobile Marketing Watch, App Advice and paidContent

Stephen Shankland / CNET News:

Growing pains afflict HTML5 standardization — Listening to marketing messages from companies such as Apple and Google, one might think HTML5, the next-generation Web page standard, is ready to take the Net by storm. — But the words of those producing the specification show …

Discussion: Beet.TV and Rebooting The News

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

Meet the guy who's written 500 articles for BleacherReport.com — all for free — “I'm sensitive to writers who say, ‘What are you doing giving your writing away for free?’” says Andrew Brining, who after failing the bar exam three times decided writing was more than a hobby.

Discussion: AdAge

Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:

Randall Lane Nails Dykstra, Claims Pay-For-Stock-Plug Scandal — In 2008, Randall Lane, then-publisher of a handful of glossy magazines targeting day traders, partnered with Lenny Dykstra — the chaw-spewing former New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies star turned unlikely stock-picking …

Tim Adler / Deadline.com:

Viewers Must Know When They're Watching Product Placement, Says UK Regulator — Broadcasters must let TV viewers know which programmes contain product placement, according to new rules published today. A symbol will appear at the start and end of programmes, says communications regulator Ofcom.