Mediagazer: CNBC.com reports record month in June (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)

7:50 AM ET, July 19, 2010

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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

In a World of Online News, Burnout Starts Younger — ARLINGTON, Va. — In most newsrooms, the joke would have been obvious. — It was April Fools' Day last year, and Politico's top two editors sent an e-mail message to their staff advising of a new 5 a.m. start time for all reporters.

Discussion: New York Magazine

Greg Sandoval / CNET News:

Why Web host shut down 73,000 blogs a mystery — Note: For more recent news on this issue, read “Mystery shrouds closures of blog, forum platforms.” — Blogetery.com, a little-known WordPress platform used by more than 70,000 blogs, was shut down by its Web hosting company more than a week ago …

Discussion: MediaMemo, ReadWriteWeb and Pulse2, more at Techmeme »

Dan Sabbagh / Beehive City:

Times paywall: the numbers are out (should we charge for this?) — How's The Times/Sunday Times paywall thing doing? — Well, Beehive City said we didn't believe that the endless graphs about the levels of web traffic to The Times homepage told you anything.

Discussion: Guardian, Press Gazette, paidContent:UK, Guy Fawkes' blog, Editors Weblog, FleetStreetBlues and Jon Slattery, more at Techmeme »

Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:

Conan O'Brien's Love/Hate Relationship with the Internet — Back in January Conan O'Brien was supposed to come to San Francisco for a SF Sketchfest Tribute and Q&A about his career. And then, he lost his dream job as he said, “s**t really hit the fan” and he had to cancel.

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David Carr / New York Times:

Post-Mortem: No Hair Shirt for Steve Jobs — By now, most people know what happens when your fingers come in contact with the lower left-hand corner of the iPhone 4 — are you there? — but it took the touch of an old-line, nontech tester of technology to get Apple to admit as much.

Discussion: Gizmodo, WHAT'S NEXT and The Loop, more at Techmeme »

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Online, a Journalist Adds a Business Role — Kelly Wallace's move from television to the Internet embodies the lingering differences between the forms. — Ms. Wallace spent a decade in front of the camera as a reporter and anchor at CBS and CNN. Then she got the online itch …

James Hibberd / Hollywood Reporter:

E! co-founder launches celebrity website — Online network the Look also includes fashion programming — The co-founder of E! is launching a celebrity-focused online network complete with several programs in the hope of establishing a new brand in the entertainment programming space.

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

CNBC.com reports record month in June — Business news site CNBC.com had its best June ever in terms of unique visitors. — According to latest data from comScore Media Metrix, the site was visited by 5.6 million unique users this past month and generated 278 million page views.

NPR:

Numbers Stations: Mystery Over The Airwaves … In the shadowy corners of the shortwave radio spectrum, you can often find mysterious mechanical voices counting off endless strings of numbers — in English, Czech, Russian and German ... even Morse code. But who's listening?

Jonathan Handel / Hollywood Reporter:

Transportation strike could paralyze Hollywood — Teamsters dispute with studios may lead to Aug. shutdown — In two weeks, Hollywood might be stranded by the side of the road. — A labor drama playing out behind closed doors could lead to an Aug. 1 strike by thousands of transportation workers …

Discussion: New York Magazine and The Huffington Post

justin & lex @ g20:

Christie Blatchford, You're Obsolete. — FROM LEX: — I've been really dying to respond to Christie Blatchford's ridiculous article in the Globe and Mail for the last two weeks, but every time I sit down to write about it, I just get cranky. Especially because the July 3rd issue …

Michael Triplett / Mediaite:

Peggy Noonan Fears the Whippersnappers in Cyberspace — Every week, Peggy Noonan taps away at her Selectric typewriter, I assume, and offers new insight into what scares the old folks at the Wall Street Journal's opinion page. This week, it's young people in journalism and the lack …

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