Mediagazer: Ids set to close with loss of more than 100 jobs (Media Week)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Curt Hopkins / ReadWriteWeb:

Major Newspaper Chain Goes Open Source — The argument over the utility of open source has one more voter in the yes camp. This time, it's the Journal Register Company, a U.S. newspaper chain with 170 publications. — Calling it the Ben Franklin Project, the company tried open source for a month.

Discussion: Journal Register Company and The Solomon Scandals

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

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 …

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

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 …

David Carr / New York Times:

Gaps in Watchdog Journalism Reflected in News From a Trial — Readers who came across a public radio blog documenting the five-week trial of a former Chicago police commander on charges of perjury and obstruction about cases involving torture under his command had to wonder where in the world WBEZ Chicago found so much expertise.

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