Mediagazer: New Media, Old Media, David Weigel's Firing, and Why Everyone is S**tting on Drudge (splicetoday.com)

5:10 PM ET, June 29, 2010

Top News:

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Hulu Unveils Subscription Service For $9.99 a Month — Updated: 2:50 p.m.: Confirming what the entertainment world has been expecting for months, the online television Web site Hulu unveiled a subscription service on Tuesday, promising access to more episodes of TV shows to customers who pay $9.99 a month.

Doug Aamoth / Techland:

Hulu Plus: Every Episode from Every Season for $10 Per Month — Here's the deal with Hulu Plus. You pay Hulu $10 per month and they'll let you watch every episode from every season of every show they offer from the likes of ABC, NBC, and FOX. Oh, and you can watch on your computer …

Discussion: Ars Technica and NewTeeVee

Andrew Breitbart / Big Journalism:

Reward: $100,000 for Full ‘JournoList’ Archive; Source Fully Protected — I've had $100,000 burning in my pocket for the last three months and I'd really like to spend it on a worthy cause. So how about this: in the interests of journalistic transparency, and to offer the American public …

Discussion: Vanity Fair, Felix Salmon, Ben Smith's Blog, Media Decoder, Mediaite, The Awl, New York Observer, New York Magazine, Newsbroke, Moe_Lane's blog, The Wire, The Politico and Salon

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

NewsLabs folds just months after launch, regrets big promises to journalists — E-mails regarding the demise of NewsLabs — From: [Chief technology officer] Nathan Chong — As I'm sure you've noticed not much has been happening with the site recently. I'm very sorry to report that this is because NewsLabs is ending.

Discussion: The Awl and eMedia Vitals

splicetoday.com:

New Media, Old Media, David Weigel's Firing, and Why Everyone is S**tting on Drudge — It's all pretty FUBAR. — Last week, the blogosphere lit up over the firing of blogger-reporter David Weigel at the Washington Post. Covering the conservative movement, Weigel was and is respected by partisans of all stripes.

Discussion: Scocca and The Washington Independent

Greg Marx / CJR:
Look at Us! — Lessons from the response to the David Weigel flap

Discussion: The Politico, Yahoo! News, The Daily Dish, Mother Jones and Media Decoder

Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
From Washington Post To NBCU: Dave Weigel Joins MSNBC As Paid Contributor

Discussion: Wonkette, The Wire, The Huffington Post and Chickaboomer

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 start-up. — 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: Romenesko, paidContent, Folio, mediabistro.com and Media Buyer Planner

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

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Sharron Angle, Camera-Shy Candidate, Shifts Coverage — RENO — There is a game in Nevada called “Where's Sharron Angle?” that the press is tired of playing. — Ms. Angle, a Nevada Senate candidate and Tea Party darling, has steadfastly refused to talk to reporters here …

Discussion: LocalNewser, The New Yorker Blog, The Caucus, Washington Monthly, The Daily Dish and The Corner on National …

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Newspapers Having Trouble Reporting On Their Own Paywalls — It appears that newspaper giant Gannett, owner of USA Today and a bunch of regional newspapers, is beginning to experiment with putting up some paywalls on many of its regional newspapers. Jeff Sonderman has been pointing out …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, Fitz & Jen, eMedia Vitals and Common Sense Journalism

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

Zach Gottlieb / Epicenter:

In Online Media, Consumer Is King — Call it the billion dollar question of today's digital revolution: When it comes to online media, who's in charge? — Looking back on the first phase of the digital revolution, when big media companies chose to give away their content for free online, their system of power started breaking down.

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

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

Asbury Park Press blog launches coffeehouse newsroom — Freehold InJersey & Asbury Park Press Launch Coffeeshop Newsroom — FREEHOLD, NJ — Freehold InJersey, a community news blog run by the Asbury Park Press and Gannett, has launched a coffeeshop newsroom in conjunction with Zebu Forno Cafe in Freehold, New Jersey.

Discussion: Freehold, the mojowire and Gannett Blog

Bob Warner / Philly.com:

Daily News, Inquirer sale plan OK'd by bankruptcy judge — A federal bankruptcy judge yesterday approved a plan to bring the Daily News and Inquirer out of Chapter 11 with a sale to a coalition of investment firms, willing to put up $105 million in cash for the newspapers and their Web site, Philly.com.

Discussion: Romenesko

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

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 …

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 …

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

The two poles of journalism — With his Rolling Stone article on Gen. McChrystal, Michael Hastings has become both the personification of, and spokesperson for, Real Journalism, and as a result, has provoked intense animosity from establishment-serving “reporters” everywhere.