Mediagazer: Wall Street Journal to Fight Charges Against Arrested Reporter (Ward Room/NBC Chicago)

7:35 PM ET, July 22, 2010

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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Times Co. Posts Operating Profit Gain — The New York Times Company reported on Thursday that its second-quarter profit declined 18 percent compared with results in the period a year earlier, when it recorded a tax benefit. On an operating basis, profit more than doubled.

Discussion: Romenesko, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Mediaite, The Awl, New York Times Co. Blog and The Wrap

Zeke Turner / New York Observer:

After Second Quarter, New York Times Co. is ‘Well Positioned’ But Also Staring at Increasing Costs — The New York Times Company is “well-positioned to thrive,” according to CEO Janet Robinson, who announced the company's second-quarter earnings this morning. The best news is that there were no major catastrophes this quarter.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, The New York Times Company, The Biz Blog, Shaping the Future … and MediaMemo

David Kaplan / paidContent:
NYTCo's Robinson: Paywall Enters Development Phase, Pricing Coming Soon

Discussion: Romenesko and Reuters

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Martin Bashir Leaving ABC for MSNBC; GMA Weekend Anchor Bill Weir Moves to ‘Nightline’ — First on TVNewser: Big changes afoot in the TV news world. ABC News “Nightline” co-anchor Martin Bashir is leaving the network and joining NBC News. At the same time, ABC has announced Bill Weir …

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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:

Breitbart: ‘I am public enemy No. 1...’ — An unrepentant Andrew Breitbart told POLITICO on Thursday that the Obama administration and its allies have manufactured a controversy over the video he posted of Shirley Sherrod's speech to the NAACP as part of an orchestrated effort to take him down.

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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Gibbs criticism of Sherrod media coverage puts cap on frantic 48 hours

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Joe Strupp / Strupp:
Breitbart, Fox Criticized For Sherrod Tape Coverage

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MediaShift:

How Content Farms Train Their Writers to Write for the Web — Education content on MediaShift is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in inventive ways. See tips for spurring innovation and digital learning at Learn.News21.com.

Julie Bosman / New York Times:

Literary Agent Plans E-Book Editions — The literary agent Andrew Wylie said on Wednesday that he would begin his own publishing venture, called Odyssey Editions, which will produce e-book editions of titles by some of his clients, including Saul Bellow, John Updike and Philip Roth.

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Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

New Graduate J-School Program Will Teach Students How To Actually Run A Business — Earlier this month, Stephen B. Shepard, dean of CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism, announced on the school's website that it would be introducing a new master's degree track.

David Kaplan / paidContent:

ABC News Puts A Different Spin On Its iPad App — While a lot of iPad apps are mostly larger versions of an existing iPhone app, ABC News has tried to do something a little different with its new free app, making the most of the screen with a spinning, expandable “news globe” that features the news items.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, Editors Weblog and ABC News' Press Room

David Kaplan / paidContent:

AOL Campaigns For Political Dollars With New Ad Hub — Since the Supreme Court struck down limits on corporate spending on political candidates ads, media companies have been salivating over the expected deluge related to this fall's midterm elections. Online advertising should be an even bigger factor …

Discussion: the Econsultancy blog and TechCrunch

Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:

AOL Mobile Goes HTML5, Picks Android Over iPhone for New App — Longtime Internet pioneer, AOL today matured its mobile platform with a two new applications for Android handsets and an HTML5 version of the AOL Mobile website for smartphones. The new site — still found at http://m.aol.com …

Discussion: MediaPost, TechCrunch, paidContent, Poynter Online and Fortune, more at Techmeme »

Peter Robins / Guardian:

The Times paywall won't be built in a day — Rupert Murdoch's new fan club should not lose heart yet. Charging for content at the Times and the Sunday Times is a long-term project - at least, it ought to be — An awful lot of British journalists were hoping that the Times and Sunday Times's paywalls would be an overnight success.

Discussion: The Faster Times, The Consumerist and Ethical Martini

Ward Room / NBC Chicago:

Wall Street Journal to Fight Charges Against Arrested Reporter — Douglas Belkin didn't follow orders while covering Rod Blagojevich trial, authorities say. — A Wall Street Journal spokeswoman said the newspaper will fight the charges lobbed against one of their reporters following his arrest Wednesday.

Discussion: Romenesko and mediabistro.com

Gary Moskowitz / Time:

Are Hyperlocals Replacing Traditional Newspapers? — All politics may be local, but apparently not enough journalism is. As newspapers keep cutting back on staff and printing skimpier editions, journalists, entrepreneurs and ordinary citizens have responded by creating websites to cover …

Discussion: Romenesko

Ryan Tate / Gawker:

Arianna Huffington Is Moving to New York — Web empress Arianna Huffington is moving from Los Angeles to New York, multiple sources tell us, which means the globetrotting boss will finally be living in the same city as the editorial headquarters of her Huffington Post. Brace yourselves, underlings.

Discussion: Associated Press and The Wrap

Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:

On Dennis Kneale, Bulimia and Michael's: Why We Should All Hope to Be Banned from Manhattan's Media Commissary — So, have you heard about that time Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone left a voicemail for Daily Beast reporter Peter Lauria, attempting to bribe Lauria into giving up sources?

Discussion: AOL

Felix Salmon:
Kneale, craven — You won't find many defenders of Dennis …

Discussion: CJR, New York Observer and CNBC

Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:

Hollywood: Google TV would put us on board big pirate ship — The comments are streaming in from video and content providers on the Federal Communications Commission's AllVid proposal. Quite a few are critical of the scheme, especially those of the trade association representing Hollywood's biggest studios.

Discussion: Yahoo! News