Mediagazer: When online editors spew jargon (Felix Salmon)

8:15 PM ET, July 19, 2010

Top News:

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.

Crain's New York Business:

Vogue's September issue sees big ad-page gains — Luxury magazines, like the economy, are making a slow comeback. On Monday, Vogue magazine will announce ad-pages results for its all-important September issue, and industry insiders say that the fashion monthly will show a spike of 100 advertising pages …

Discussion: Media Decoder, The Wire, Romenesko, New York Observer and New York Times

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

WP gave officials a chance to express ‘Top Secret America’ series security concerns — The editors' note accompanying the Post's “Top Secret America” (warning: audio) series says: “Because of the nature of this project, we allowed government officials to see the Web site several months ago …

Discussion: Strupp, Washington Post, Weekly Standard, Matthew Yglesias, Emptywheel, Hot Air, Most Recent Home Page Posts …, Politics Daily, Online NewsHour, The Caucus, The Awl, The Atlantic Online, msnbc.com, New York Magazine, The Atlantic Wire, The Daily Caller, Runnin' Scared and On Media's Blog

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Washington Post editor defends publishing intelligence complex exposé

Discussion: Washington Post, Romenesko, The Atlantic Wire and Gawker

Felix Salmon:

When online editors spew jargon — The history of the news business has no shortage of legendary larger-than-life straight-talkers with vision and drive and a bottle of whiskey in their desk drawer. The top editorial staff at newspapers, magazines, and television news shows might be well versed …

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

CNNMoney.com's brand of business journalism — TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE — Chris Peacock is vice president and executive editor at CNNMoney.com, where he oversees the site's content strategy. — Since Peacock joined CNNMoney.com in 2004, traffic has more than doubled …

George Brock:

Taking a (little) brick out of the paywall — The past few days brought not one but two collisions with the paywall at The Times (for the first of these see post below). On Saturday, the paper printed a short review they'd commissioned of Clay Shirky's new book Cognitive Surplus in the Weekend Review section.

Discussion: Guardian, Unthinkable, Fast Company, Techdirt, Silicon Alley Insider, Editors Weblog, Journalism.co.uk, ITProPortal.com, currybetdotnet, Guy Fawkes' blog, Business Technology Leadership, Press Gazette, EditorandPublisher.com, paidContent, FleetStreetBlues, Beehive City and Jon Slattery, more at Techmeme »

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Rupert's Paywall is Meant to Keep People In, Not Out

Discussion: The Next Web and Beehive City

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

Amazon Says E-Books Now Top Hardcover Sales — The heft and musty smell of a hardcover book are one step closer to becoming relics in a museum. — Amazon.com, one of the nation's largest bookstores, said Monday that for the last three months, sales of electronic books for the Kindle …

Discussion: Mediaite, MediaMemo, Gawker, Engadget, The Next Web and ResourceShelf, more at Techmeme »

Ryan Tate / Gawker:

4Chan's Sad War To Silence Gawker — The denizens of internet troll hive 4chan.org launched an attack on Gawker Media's servers at noon Eastern today, apparently unhappy we wrote about how they coordinated the harassment of an 11-year-old girl. We survived the onslaught, but 4chan isn't done.

Discussion: The Awl, Runnin' Scared and New York Magazine

J-Lab:

Sunlight Live's Real-Time Participation Wins $10,000 Knight-Batten Innovation Award — Washington, D.C. - Sunlight Live, the Sunlight Foundation's innovative blending of data, streaming video, liveblogging and social networking - first used at February's bipartisan health-care summit …

Discussion: KnightBlog, CJR, Romenesko, WebNewser, Sunlight Foundation, Publish2 Blog and ProPublica

Amy Kaufman / Los Angeles Times:

Mel Gibson fuels online wars — Radaronline, which has led the coverage about the actor's alleged outbursts, has attained a new level of visibility. But TMZ, Perez Hilton, US Weekly and HollywoodLife all work the closely followed territory of celebrity gossip.

Discussion: Gawker, Top of the Ticket, National Media and Romenesko

David Barboza / New York Times:

Booming Demand for TV on the Internet in China — SHANGHAI — Internet TV has arrived in China. — Every month, about 300 million people in China are using a computer to watch Chinese TV dramas, Japanese and Korean sitcoms, and even American films and television series like “Twilight” and “Gossip Girl.”

Discussion: NewTeeVee

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

Glamour's Weight-Gain Secret — If September 2007 was the high point of the hefty fashion magazine, with more than 700 pages of ads in Vogue and about 400 each in Elle and InStyle, then 2009 was more apropos to the ethos of the fashion world: svelte and petite.

Discussion: New York Observer, Silicon Alley Insider, Styleite and Media Buyer Planner

Eliza Shapiro / Capital New York:

‘Times’ comes to town, sweating in its gown — In a few weeks The New York Times will launch its long-awaited latest experiment in collaborative online journalism, The Local: East Village. — The L:EV, as it is referred to by its editors (they pronounce it “Lev"), announced itself back in February …

Discussion: Romenesko and Silicon Alley Insider

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Tumblr Is On Fire. Now Over 6 Million Users, 1.5 Billion Pageviews A Month — One year ago, in July 2009, Tumblr was going strong. They had 255 million pageviews that month. By November of last year, that was up to 420 million pageviews. But some new stats which Tumblr is releasing today show an explosion in growth since then.

WWD:

Courtney Love Talks Blogging and Bedtime Attire... Deal or No Deal... WHAT COURTNEY WORE TODAY: Courtney Love's social media profile is rising. The singer and rapid-fire tweeter delved into the world of fashion blogging last week with the launch of Whatcourtneyworetoday.com.

Discussion: New York Observer

Brad Stone / New York Times:

Concern for Those Who Screen the Web for Barbarity — Ricky Bess spends eight hours a day in front of a computer near Orlando, Fla., viewing some of the worst depravities harbored on the Internet. He has seen photographs of graphic gang killings, animal abuse and twisted forms of pornography.

Discussion: Gizmodo, The Awl, Beet.TV, Slashdot and Boing Boing, more at Techmeme »

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

Why Journalists Make Mistakes & What We Can Do About Them — The Chicago Tribune's infamous “Dewey Defeats Truman” headline, the 2000 election night calls for Al Gore and then George Bush, a 2004 Providence Journal headline that said, “Rumsfeld's Pubic Role is Shrinking.”

Discussion: Leadership

Michael White / Bloomberg:

Redbox Plots Web Strategy in Challenge to Netflix — Redbox, which became the fastest- growing U.S. video retailer with DVD kiosks and a $1-a-day rental price stores couldn't match, is developing an online strategy to stay competitive with larger rival Netflix Inc.

Discussion: NewTeeVee, Yahoo! News, Online Video News, TVWeek.com, Electronista and Tech Trader Daily, more at Techmeme »

Alex Weprin / WebNewser:

Diane Sawyer to Interview Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg — “ABC World News” is going to Silicon Valley this week, with Diane Sawyer speaking to Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. — Sawyer made the announcement, not surprisingly, on her Facebook page and is soliciting questions for Zuckerberg from her fans.

Discussion: All Facebook

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Search Engines + Newspapers: Perfect Market's Delivery System Aims To Please Both — Last year, there was a seemingly endless parade of stories on how aggregators, search engines and news blogs were apparently killing newspapers that publish original content. This year, add the rise of “content farms” to the list.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Netflix Goes Abroad! But Not Too Far: Streaming Service Coming To Canada. — Netflix is finally taking its Web streaming service outside the U.S. But it's not taking it very far: The subscription offering will be available in Canada this fall, the company announced today.

Discussion: PR Newswire, NewTeeVee, ZDNet, Online Video News, Boy Genius Report, Electronista, GeekTonic, Hacking NetFlix, Engadget and Tech Trader Daily, more at Techmeme »

Michael Bush / AdAge:

Minor-League Baseball Creates One-Stop Digital-Ad-Buying Platform — New System Allows National Advertisers Such as Kraft, Pepsi to Play Ball With 130 Teams — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — For many, minor-league baseball games conjure up images of rundown stadiums in tiny markets …

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: Talking Biz News, Digital Daily, Bits, New York Observer, NPR Topics, Gizmodo, Monday Note and WHAT'S NEXT, more at Techmeme »

Dominic Jones / IR Web Report:

Google drops PR wire for earnings, but only Pac-Man irks investors — WHEN Internet giant Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) reported its second-quarter 2010 earnings last week it did so without using a paid PR wire service - a controversial move that some predicted would create challenges for the disclosure ecosystem.