Mediagazer: Sam Sifton's Golden Ears and Million Dollar Taste Buds (The FADER)

11:05 PM ET, June 29, 2010

Top News:

CNN:

Statement from Larry King — Before I start the show tonight, I want to share some personal news with you. 25 years ago, I sat across this table from New York Governor Mario Cuomo for the first broadcast of Larry King Live. Now, decades later, I talked to the guys here at CNN and I told …

Discussion: The Wrap, Show Tracker, Mediaite, Gawker, The Huffington Post, Multichannel, The Informer, The Live Feed | THR, LA Observed, Politics Daily, New York Magazine, Movieline and New York Post

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Larry King to End Talk Show This Fall — Stunning the television world, the CNN host Larry King announced Tuesday evening that he would end his iconic talk show, “Larry King Live,” sometime this fall. — The CNN/U.S. president Jonathan Klein said in an e-mail message to staffers that Mr. King …

Discussion: The Wrap

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.

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Interview: Hulu's Kilar: Hulu Plus Preview Progamming Is ‘Just Step One’

Discussion: DailyFinance, Tubefilter News and Ars Technica

Doug Aamoth / Techland:
Hulu Plus: Every Episode from Every Season for $10 Per Month

Discussion: NewTeeVee and VideoNuze

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: The Atlantic Wire, Ben Smith's Blog, Newsbroke, Weekly Standard, Media Matters for America, The Awl, Mediaite, New York Magazine, Media Decoder, Moe_Lane's blog, FishbowlDC, New York Observer and The Wire

Felix Salmon:
Finding the Journolist archive

Discussion: Vanity Fair, Salon and National Review

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

Matt Mireles / The Metamorphosis: Duty & Failure — I ran across this “shutting down” …

Nick Bilton / Bits:

Digital Magazines Don't Encourage Socializing — You've got to hand it to the magazine publishers. They continue to throw spaghetti against the iPad and other e-readers trying to see what will stick and what falls to the floor. — Most publishers are aggressively experimenting …

Discussion: BRANDING UNBOUND

John Koblin / New York Observer:
Conde Nast Dos or Don'ts: Special Editions and Movie Trivia Apps!

Discussion: Romenesko, Crain's New York Business, Gawker and MinOnline

Michael Miner / Chicago Reader:

Alison Draper on Alison True — Alison Draper, publisher of the Reader, has talked a little with me about the decision she and Creative Loafing CEO Marty Petty came to to fire this paper's editor, Alison True. “It was made with tremendous thought, and regardless of my personal feelings …

Discussion: Romenesko and Association …

The FADER:

Sam Sifton's Golden Ears and Million Dollar Taste Buds — Eater.com is obsessed with Sam Sifton. The still semi-new New York Times food critic has been gleefully stalked by the website as though he were a rare bird. Sifton's writing has an occasionally dramatic flair that has both riled …

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 New York Magazine

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

Discussion: The Politico, Yahoo! News, Media Matters for America, The Daily Dish and Quote and Comment

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, MediaPost, iPad Weekly, Electronista, GalleyCat, Kindle Review and New York Observer, more at Techmeme »

Robertson Barrett / eMedia Vitals:

Why Google is good for journalism — It's time for news publishers to get over their anxiety about Google and embrace the search economy. Magazines and newspapers that are not actively competing for audience share (and revenue) on search engines are doing their brand, journalists and readers a disservice.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online

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, FishbowlNY, paidContent, Folio, mediabistro.com and Media Buyer Planner

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.

Julia Angwin / Digits:

YouTube to Introduce ‘Skippable’ Ads — Google Inc.'s YouTube plans to introduce “skippable” ads later this year, senior product manager Baljeet Singh said Tuesday at a Google press conference. — Mr. Singh said that the new format will let users skip the pre-roll ads that are embedded in videos …

Discussion: NewTeeVee, paidContent and The Next Web, 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 Caucus, The New Yorker Blog, Washington Monthly, The Daily Dish and The Corner on National …