Mediagazer: Arianna Huffington Is Moving to New York (Ryan Tate/Gawker)

4:40 AM ET, July 23, 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: Wall Street Journal, EditorandPublisher.com, Guardian, Business Wire, Romenesko, Associated Press, The Awl, Mediaite, The Wrap and New York Times Co. Blog

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: DailyFinance, WWD Media Headlines, MediaMemo, AdAge, CJR, The Biz Blog, NetNewsCheck Latest and MEDIA BEESWAX

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

Discussion: Romenesko and Reuters

Danny Shea / The Huffington Post:

ABC News iPad App Debuts, Meant To Redefine News As Leisure Activity — ABC News became the first broadcast news division to release an application for the iPad Wednesday. — The network's app is more than just a website converted for the iPad: it centers around a simulated 3-D “news globe …

Discussion: Shaping the Future …, ReadWriteWeb, MEDIA BEESWAX and ABC News' Press Room

David Kaplan / paidContent:
ABC News Puts A Different Spin On Its iPad App

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and Editors Weblog

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 and NewTeeVee

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.

Discussion: Publishers Weekly, Media Decoder, CrunchGear, BuzzMachine, CNET News, eBookNewser, The Huffington Post, ResourceShelf, The Second Pass, theBookseller.com, New York Observer and Bookninja

Lauren Dugan / SocialTimes.com:

Survey: Half of Journalists Think Their Offline Publications Will Eventually Fold — Journalists appear to be reaching an equilibrium of sorts between print and digital media - an “equilibrium of sorts” because it appears the scales are tipped heavily in favor of going digital.

Discussion: Mashable!

Joshua Cohen / Tubefilter News:

Hulu Tops Video Ad Views, Grosses $19 Million in June — Everyone knows YouTube and its affiliated Google sites are top of the pops in terms of video views. comScore indicates in June 2010 Google captured 144.5 million unique viewers. Hulu's view counts tick in at roughly 16% of those numbers for a total of 24 million.

Discussion: Media Buyer Planner

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: LA Observed, FishbowlNY and The Wrap

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.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, The Atlantic Wire, Gannett Blog, Romenesko, The Independent Journalist and WebNewser

Michele Flannery / YouTube Blog:

Ready...set...discover more music on YouTube — If you want easier ways to discover music on YouTube, just start here. Our revamped music page - part of a redesign that started with our shows and movies pages - showcases the most viewed music videos, special promotions, curated playlists …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web, NewTeeVee, Fortune, MediaMemo, Silicon Alley Insider and The Wrap, more at Techmeme »

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 …

Discussion: Moraes on TV, Media Decoder, Tower Ticker, Broadcasting & Cable, New York Observer, Mediaite, The Wire, Multichannel, Gawker, MediaPost, The Wrap, On Media's Blog, New York Magazine and Variety

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.

Discussion: American Journalism Review, Romenesko, Poynter Online, ABCNEWS, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, The Informer, Politics Daily, Hot Air and Salon

New York Times:
Faster Than a Speeding Blog

Discussion: Mediaite, CJR, Washington Post, The Plum Line, The Moderate Voice, The Huffington Post, Media Research Center, News Prints, Regret the Error, Media Matters for America, Show Tracker, TVNewser, New York Times and New York Times

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

Discussion: msnbc.com, Big Government and Media Matters for America

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

BBC Launches U.S. News Site with Video Lifestyle Shows Rolling Out Shortly — In an effort to maximize advertising dollars around the big U.S. market for online news, the BBC has launched a U.S. destination. — The site will be more U.S.-centric, surfacing up more U.S. based coverage.

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 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: TechCrunch, MediaPost, Fortune, Business Wire and MediaPost, more at Techmeme »

Economist:

Digitisation and its discontents — Why some media outfits still refuse to go online — WHAT do the Beatles, Harry Potter, Bella magazine and the grizzled crew of the Northwestern, an Alaskan crab-fishing boat, have in common? They are scarcely available digitally.

Olivia / YouTube Blog:

You Report: What's happening now in the Bay Area? — Though YouTube is a global site, it's often local videos that are most relevant to your life. When people use camcorders and mobile phones to capture newsworthy events in their neighborhoods and upload them to YouTube, they're broadening the window into our own communities.

Bill Mitchell / Newspay:

Three Early Questions Emerge After Lancaster's Metered Obit Launch — Memo to news organizations cooking up paid content schemes: Before you go to market, go to school on LancasterOnline and other outfits willing to take some heat for early experiments and mistakes.