Mediagazer: Renowned Journalist Johnnie Roberts Joins TheWrap (Sharon Waxman/The Wrap)

Still Not Going To Do This Every Day:

Exit — Always lead with the news: I've decided to leave my position at Newsweek and accept a job at Tumblr. Though this is cliche, it is indeed true that this has been a difficult decision for me. I have been and continue to be a loud and persistent defender of Newsweek, and this is not …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Mediaite, Tumblr Staff, FishbowlNY and Vaccinium & Co.

Discussion: Romenesko and Silicon Alley Insider

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Turner, Time Inc. Execs Got The SI.com Deal Done; Now About Making It Work — We all have personal soundtracks. Mine started playing Maybe This Time soon after I got off the phone with the top executives responsible for crafting the Turner/SI.com deal between Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) …

Discussion: Publishing Executive …

Discussion: WebNewser, The Huffington Post, The Wire, Digital Daily and paidContent

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

Techmeme Offers Tech News at Internet Speed — SAN FRANCISCO — News lovers in Washington can't live without Mike Allen at Politico. Hollywood squabbles over the relative merits of Sharon Waxman's TheWrap versus Nikki Finke's Deadline. The newspaper industry reads the news collected by Jim Romenesko.

Discussion: Rethink, Technologizer, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Global Nerdy, The Next Web, MediaPost, blackrimglasses, 1938, The Huffington Post and Alexia Tsotsis

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Rick Sanchez: Rick's List Moving to 8 PM — CNN's Rick Sanchez is coming to primetime, at least temporarily. On “Rick's List” today, Sanchez casually dropped this line: — “Pretty soon we're going to have two things going on. A: We're going to be doing this newscast at 8:00 at night.

Discussion: The Wire and Mediaite

Jemima Kiss / Guardian:

Waging war on Wordpress: Posterous prepares the switch — Blogger, Wordpress and Typepad ruled the blogging roost for years, but a combination of Twitter, social networking and the rise of lite blogging have been eating away at long-form blog platforms. — Twitter has played a significant role …

Discussion: The Next Web, more at Techmeme »

Edmund Lee / AdAge:

Social Networks Sink Online-Ad Pricing — Facebook and Its Ilk Might Be Reducing Overall Pricing of CPMs — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Social networks and their endlessly growing page views have dominated every sphere of the web — from audiences to ad impressions.

Discussion: paidContent, the Econsultancy blog, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Social Media at Work and Digital Media Wire

Brett Pulley / Bloomberg:

Penthouse Owner to Compete With Hefner for Playboy Control — FriendFinder Networks Inc., owner of Penthouse adult magazine, plans to submit a bid for Playboy Enterprises Inc., following a $123 million offer from Playboy's founder Hugh Hefner. — FriendFinder Chief Executive Officer Marc Bell …

Discussion: Financial Times

Discussion: Folio, paidContent, Wall Street Journal, DealBook, Associated Press, New York Observer, Globe and Mail, Multichannel, MinOnline, rbr.com and The Wire

James Temple / Bloomberg:

Yahoo and Google in high-tech news war — Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are redefining the online news experience, but in diverging ways that underscore the evolving identities of the search giants. — Last week, Yahoo unveiled the Upshot, a blog created by the Sunnyvale portal's growing staff …

Discussion: Romenesko and MEDIA BEESWAX

Edward Kosner / Wall Street Journal:

Too Good To Check — How journalists create myths and legends, not least about themselves. — Hello, city desk, get me rewrite. Here's the lead: Many of the landmark moments in American journalism are carefully nurtured myths—or, worse, outright fabrications.

Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

Should Magazines Tag Advertorial Content for the Google Bots? — There's been quite a row in the science blogging world in the last week over Pepsi's purchase of a corporate blog on SEED Magazine's ScienceBlogs. Many of the network's bloggers responded with outrage over the intrusion of advertorial content into their midst.

Discussion: John Pavlus

Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:

Renowned Journalist Johnnie Roberts Joins TheWrap — I'm delighted to bring you the news this morning that Johnnie L. Roberts, an award-winning journalist well-known in Hollywood and media circles and a veteran of Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal, has joined TheWrap as an editor-at-large.

Discussion: Talking Biz News and Romenesko

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

HP's Snapfish Buys Video Sharing Site Motionbox — HP's Snapfish—which currently is primarily an online photo storage service—is expanding into video with the purchase of video sharing site Motionbox. HP (NYSE: HPQ) says it will integrate Motionbox's platform, which lets users upload …

Discussion: CNET News, The Business Of Online Video, NewTeeVee and CrunchGear

Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog:

The Internet Weakens Authority — In 2004, I delivered an academic presentation to J-school students in Tennessee that examined what would happen to culture as postmodernism's mantra of “I experience or participate, therefore I understand” became the norm. I've given this presentation …

Bill Mitchell / Newspay:

Lancaster Paper Charges to View Obits in First Use of Journalism Online — Monday morning, the website for a midsized paper in southeastern Pennsylvania became the first to go public with the paid content system of Journalism Online, the startup engineered by Steve Brill, Gordon Crovitz and others.

Discussion: Recovering Journalist, Pursuing the Complete …, Romenesko, paidContent, BrauBlog, CJR, Journalism.co.uk, mediabistro.com and Fitz & Jen

Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:

USA Today Puts Itself Under Wraps With Ad — USA Today buyers who are looking for the news in Monday's issue will have trouble finding it. — Amid a still-tough ad environment, the Gannett flagship will for the first time wrap its news section with an ad—one that will completely obscure …

Discussion: Romenesko and Gannett Blog

Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:

Tech Firms Tout New Online-Ad Formats — Media Companies Are Urged to Think More Creatively About Digital Businesses — SUN VALLEY, Idaho—As media companies voice doubts about whether they can build their digital businesses on advertising alone, technology companies are trying hard to persuade them to think more creatively.

Discussion: Digits, MarketingVOX, Silicon Alley Insider, MediaPost and Search Engine Land

Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:

Malone Is Fired Up by Cable and Ready to Buy — Liberty Media Chairman John Malone is fired up about cable again, believing its high speeds will give it an edge over satellite as consumers devour more entertainment digitally. — The compulsive deal maker says he is looking for new investments …

Discussion: Company Town

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

WSJ national security reporter Dreazen joins National Journal — Yochi Dreazen Joins National Journal Group — Washington, D.C. (July 12, 2010) The National Journal Group announced today that veteran national security reporter Yochi Dreazen will be joining National Journal …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

John Timmer / Ars Technica:

Citizen journalism not making up for loss of local newspapers — In the US, traditional newspapers have undergone a period of contraction, with many papers shutting down entirely. This has been especially hard on local news, because even those newspapers that survive are likely to be consolidated …

TheAustralian:

Students' iPad app catches the eye of media bosses — TWO graduate students from Stanford University have sold 100,000 of the iPad news app they developed. — TWO graduate students from San Francisco's Stanford University who developed an iPad application that aggregates news from multiple sources …

Discussion: TeleRead

Mike Shields / Adweek:

Will YouTube Swim in Publicis' ‘Pool’? — Starcom and its partners would like YouTube to join them in implementing The Ad Selector — Several of the Web's biggest publishers will meet this Thursday at Starcom MediaVest Group's offices in Chicago, with the top item on the agenda …

Discussion: NewTeeVee

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

WSJ Opinion Highlights The Problems Of ‘Permission Culture’ — A bunch of folks have been sending in this Wall Street Journal opinion piece by author Tony Woodlief, where he aptly demonstrates the problems with the “permission culture” we've built up around copyright today.