Mediagazer: CNN's Reinvention: 'I just hope they don't go for some young, hip, king of snark' (Gail Shister/TVNewser)

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

At Yahoo, Using Queries to Steer News Coverage — Welcome to the era of the algorithm as editor. — For as long as hot lead has been used to make metal type, the model for generating news has been top-down: editors determined what information was important and then shared it with the masses.

Discussion: ResourceShelf, Softpedia News, Techie Buzz, Go Rumors, Editors Weblog, Search Engine Land, The Wall Blog and New York Observer, more at Techmeme »

David Carr / New York Times:

The Media Equation: For Blogger, ‘Outspoken’ Was a Selling Point, Till It Wasn't — Wanted: Political blogger covering the conservative movement. Must be provocative and write with a strong point of view although not in a way that would reveal bias or offend any of your potential subjects.

Discussion: Washington Post and New York Observer

Decca Aitkenhead / Guardian:

Clay Shirky: ‘Times paywall will fail’ — The internet guru on the death of newspapers, why paywall will fail and how the internet has brought out our creativity - and generosity — If you are reading this article on a printed copy of the Guardian, what you have in your hand will …

Discussion: New York Observer and The Staggers

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

On The Economist's Cover, Only a Part of the Picture — It was the ideal metaphor for a politically troubled president. — There was President Obama on the cover of the June 19 issue of The Economist, standing alone on a Louisiana beach, head down, looking forlornly at the ground.

Discussion: TPM LiveWire, Magforum, Daily Kos and Charles Apple

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Independence day for newspapers — Today Journal Register, a newspaper company, declared its freedom from old publishing methods and old journalistic methods. The company's 18 dailies published today, July 4, using nothing but free, web-based tools. And they involved their communities in their journalism in new ways.

Discussion: Common Sense Journalism, Journalism.co.uk, Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog and Digital First

Discussion: Journal Register Company and The Solomon Scandals

Jemima Kiss / Guardian:

Trust endorses 25% budget cut to BBC online services — Trust insists that likely £30m reduction would be ‘carefully targeted’ to allow growth in less commercially viable areas — The BBC Trust today endorsed a 25% budget cut to the BBC's online services as part of wider cost savings across …

Discussion: paidContent, Press Gazette, Variety, BBC, The Register, Digital Spy, C21Media and Electricpig

Gail Shister / TVNewser:

CNN's Reinvention: 'I just hope they don't go for some young, hip, king of snark' — Why did CNN hire disgraced ex-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and conservative columnist Kathleen Parker for its new 8 p.m. show? — “Apparently Madoff wasn't available,” deadpans CNN exile Aaron Brown (Class of '05), king of the caustic soundbite.

Discussion: Mediaite

Mark Fitzgerald / EditorandPublisher.com:

None Dare Call Them ‘Newspapers’: Canwest Chain to be ‘Postmedia Network Inc.’ — CHICAGO — Canwest Limited Partnership LLC never exactly screamed “newspaper company,” but when the sale closes of the publishing group that includes the National Post, Ottawa Citizen and Vancouver Sun …

John Markoff / New York Times:

Taking the Mystery Out of Web Anonymity — THE Obama Administration is trying to fix the Internet's dog problem. — The problem, as depicted in Peter Steiner's legendary 1993 New Yorker cartoon, is that on the Internet nobody knows you're a dog. And thus the enduring conundrum over who can be trusted in cyberspace.

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Larry King Dreams a Little — After announcing the end of his 25-year-old talk show last Tuesday, Larry King waited all of half an hour before daydreaming about the next line on his résumé. — “I got to get other things to do,” Mr. King said as his guest on CNN, Bill Maher …

Discussion: CNN and Chickaboomer

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Sunday Times ‘borrows’ free copy to put behind its paywall — Ever since Times Newspapers announced that it would erect an online paywall, its various apologists have argued that charging for access is necessary to pay for “quality journalism.” — So we heard a lot about the high cost …

Discussion: Editors Weblog

Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

Guardian Media Group Makes Its Finance Chief CEO — Now that its long-time CEO Carolyn McCall has flown off to run budget airline easyJet, Guardian Media Group is giving its interim replacement Andrew Miller the job permanently, effective immediately. — Miller had been chief financial officer …

Discussion: Guardian, Press Gazette and Journalism.co.uk

Christopher Beam / New York Magazine:

A Reasonable Man — In a world of loud voices and extreme positions, David Brooks manages to be both irrelevant and absolutely essential. — D avid Brooks is angry—for David Brooks, at least. “This is a damn outrage, to be honest,” he tells David Gregory on Meet the Press.

Discussion: New York Observer