Mediagazer: Fox News gets front row White House seat (Michael Calderone/Yahoo! News)

11:05 PM ET, August 1, 2010

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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Fox News gets front row White House seat — The White House Correspondents Association has decided to move Fox News up to the front row in the briefing room, according to sources familiar with the process. — Since veteran journalist Helen Thomas retired, three news organizations—Fox News …

Discussion: Mediaite, Multichannel, BusinessJournalism.org …, New York Magazine, Romenesko and Balloon Juice

Jenna Wortham / New York Times:

Facebook and Twitter's New Rival — By now, plenty of traditional media companies have hopped on the social media bandwagon, pumping out news updates on Facebook and Twitter. — But do those companies have the time and resources to work yet another Web outlet into their daily routine?

Discussion: Soup

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Inside the New York Times' Paywall Brain — The New York Times (NYT) has announced that it will be putting up an online paywall by the end of the year. And that the paywall will allow users to visit for free a certain number of times per month. And that the paywall will be expensive to build.

Magda Abu-Fadil / The Huffington Post:

Funding Journalism in the Digital Age — Finding money to pay for news is an obsession haunting media executives worldwide, a constant in journalism-related conferences, and it's not likely to disappear any time soon. — That's because the very essence of journalism is going through metamorphoses causing …

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Cookie Madness! — I just don't understand Julia Angwin's scare story about cookies and ad targeting in the Wall Street Journal. That is, I don't understand how the Journal could be so breathlessly naive, unsophisticated, and anachronistic about the basics of the modern media business.

Discussion: iMediaConnection Blog, Soup, Beyond Search, Wall Street Journal and broadstuff, more at Techmeme »

Wall Street Journal:

Personal Details Exposed Via Biggest U.S. Websites — The largest U.S. websites are installing new and intrusive consumer-tracking technologies on the computers of people visiting their sites—in some cases, more than 100 tracking tools at a time—a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.

Discussion: Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog and Stephen Baker

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Crystal Ball for Couric Is Clouded by CNN's Moves — For years, whenever television fortune-tellers forecast Larry King's eventual replacement, Katie Couric's name was the first to be mentioned: one of the best interviewing jobs on television, and one of the best-known interviewers on television.

Richard Sandomir / New York Times:

No Penalty for Party Profiler — ESPN will not discipline one of its online writers, Arash Markazi, for not properly disclosing that he was writing an article about LeBron James's partying in Las Vegas, according to a person briefed on the decision who was not authorized to speak publicly.

Discussion: SportsGrid

Glynnis MacNicol / Mediaite:

Christiane Amanpour's This Week Debut: Different Host, Exact Same Show — Christiane Amanpour made her much-anticipated debut as host of This Week this morning. Other than her presence it was difficult to find anything else about the show that was different.

Discussion: TVNewser

Eric Pfanner / New York Times:

Norwegian Newspaper Taps Into Web's Efficiencies — PARIS — Last summer, as the crisis in the newspaper business worsened, executives at Edda, a publisher in Norway, met to discuss the Internet. As managers fiddled with their iPhones, someone suggested a novel approach …

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

28 Years as a Cable News Anchor — As we reported yesterday, one of the original HLN (formerly Headline News, and before that CNN2) anchors signed off yesterday. — Chuck Roberts joined the network before it went on the air in 1982. One of his colleagues, Bob Parker who worked at HLN …

National Post:

Conrad Black: My prison education — In my 28 months as a guest of the U.S. government, I often wondered how my time in that role would end. I never expected that I would have to serve the whole term, though I was, and am, psychologically prepared to do so, now that I have learned …

Discussion: Gawker

The Independent:

Monocle: 'It's the media project that I've always wanted to do' — Tyler Brûlé tells Matthew Bell how his magazine turns a profit, and why ‘The Guardian’ hates him — Even among those who have never heard of Tyler Brûlé - the Canadian war reporter-turned fashion editor …

Ryan Chittum / CJR:

WSJ Buries Wylys Story, Ignores GOP Angle — The SEC is charging the billionaire Wyly brothers with a massive fraud involving $550 million in ill-gotten gains from a scheme it says involved insider trading, overseas accounts, and front companies — Big story, no? But how big?