Mediagazer: The Times website: Thanks for the free log-in, here's five ways to make it better (Dominic Ponsford/Editor's Blog)

Wall Street Journal:

MySpace Ads Up for Grabs — News Corp. is in discussions with Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. about replacing MySpace's crucial search-advertising partnership with Google, which expires next month, according to people familiar with the matter. — Under the existing deal …

Discussion: MediaPost, Company Town, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Softpedia News, Pulse2, Reuters and TheStreet.com, more at Techmeme »

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Wall Street Journal Throws A Softball To MySpace — I'm sort of scratching my head at the Wall Street Journal's article (mostly behind a paywall) that MySpace is in negotiations over some kind of new search advertising deal. — “News Corp. is in discussions with Google Inc. …

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: eMedia Vitals, Technologizer, Beyond Search, Trends in the Living Networks, Search Engine Land, Softpedia News, New York Observer, ResourceShelf and Go Rumors

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

Yahoo! News Blog ‘The Upshot’ To Go Live, Staffers Miffed Over New York Times Coverage (YHOO) — Yahoo! News' new news blog, which has been publishing in beta since April as “The Newsroom,” will officially launch sometime this morning under its new name, “The Upshot.”

Discussion: Romenesko

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Onion News Network's ‘Future: News From the Year 2137’ — A warning to all the people who bemoan the shoddy and salacious state of cable news: The Onion thinks it's only going to get worse. — For three years The Onion has been spoofing Fox News, CNN and MSNBC with its Onion News Network …

Discussion: Romenesko and eMedia Vitals

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Woot To The AP: Nice Story About Our Sale — You Now Owe Us $17.50 — Gotta love those guys at Woot. They just sold to Amazon for $110 million, but that's not stopping them from calling anyone out as they see fit. In this case, we particularly love it because they're calling out the AP …

Discussion: Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, mediabistro.com, Woot!, State of the Fourth Estate, eMedia Vitals and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim

Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:

Exclusive: Relativity + Netflix Stream Pact Pushes Pay TV — In a deal that may change the landscape of pay television deals, Relativity Media and Netflix are gearing up to announce an alliance in which the online streaming service will exclusively release Relativity movies in what would otherwise …

Discussion: /Film, MediaMemo, paidContent, Online Video News, Deadline.com, NewTeeVee, Go Rumors, DSLreports and FierceIPTV, more at Techmeme »

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Johnston: we didn't invest enough — A Johnston Press executive has admitted what some of us have known, and said, for years. Its cutbacks have been too close to the bone and the company expanded unwisely. — Or, to quote the exact words of Michael Johnston, managing director of JP's Scottish division …

Discussion: Press Gazette

‘Pay journalists better’ says committee report — A parliamentary committee has called for higher pay for journalists as a leading regional publisher admitted it may not have invested enough in staff. — In a report published yesterday, the Scottish Parliament's Education …

Discussion: Jon Slattery

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Moguls gearing up for Sun Valley confab — Moonves, Dauman, Freston among those expected to attend — SUN VALLEY, Idaho — Industry power players are getting ready for the annual post-July 4 tradition known as summer camp for moguls. — Several hundred media and tech execs, financial types …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter

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, TeleRead and The Staggers

Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:

Census charts the world's journalism education programmes — There are currently 2,338 journalism education programmes in the world, according to census figures released today. — The stats from the World Journalism Education Census, visualised using Many Eyes, suggest that 29.56 per cent …

Discussion: Editors Weblog

Dominic Ponsford / Editor's Blog:

The Times website: Thanks for the free log-in, here's five ways to make it better — Journalists should never accept a free lunch unless they are prepared to editorially criticise whoever paid for it. — So with this maxim in mind, here are a few observations on the newly paywalled Times website …

Wall Street Journal:

Media, Retail Firms Meld Business Models Online — Websites Seek to Combine E-Commerce With Niche Editorial Content, as Technology Drives a Shift in Strategies — In search of new business models, some media and retail companies are treading on each other's turf online.

Discussion: Voices on All Things Digital

Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:

Greece Backs Away From Online Ad Tax — BERLIN — Though it faces budget shortfalls and holes in its pension system, Greece has withdrawn a proposed levy on Internet advertising that aimed to finance the retirement of journalists working in online media. — Succumbing to intense lobbying …

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 and Variety