Mediagazer: Condé Nast Titles Morph Into Restaurants (Russell Adams/Wall Street Journal)

Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:

Hard times working the Patch — Boston Globe reporter Johnny Diaz today writes about Patch.com, the AOL-owned network of hyperlocal news sites that is (excuse me) sprouting up around the country. — As I noted earlier, Diaz writes that Patch is up against considerable competition in Greater Boston …

Discussion: Lost Remote, NetNewsCheck Latest and The Wire

With Patch, AOL offers challenge to local news — A risky Web strategy in a crowded field — Like any online user, Annie LaCourt can easily scour for news from around the world, but sometimes she prefers to make the Internet more intimate and local, all about her hometown of Arlington.

Discussion: Romenesko, more at Techmeme »

Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:

Condé Nast Titles Morph Into Restaurants — Condé Nast is taking some of its best-known magazine names and parlaying them into the restaurant business in Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. — The effort reflects a growing openness among magazine publishers to try …

Discussion: Romenesko, New York Observer and Eater National

David Carr / Media Decoder:

Jack Griffin To Succeed Ann Moore At Time Inc. — The shake-up of the magazine industry's corner offices will continue next week as Time Warner is expected to announce that Jack Griffin, the former Meredith Corporation executive, will become chief executive at Time Inc., succeeding Ann S. Moore.

Discussion: MinOnline, Crain's New York Business, AdAge, MediaMemo, New York Post, New York Observer, Folio, Media Buyer Planner, On Media's Blog, paidContent, Gawker and New York Magazine

Guardian:

Time Warner buys Shed Media — Controlling stake in Supernanny super-indie, valued at £100m by the deal, gives US giant ‘immediate scale in UK production’ — Time Warner is to buy a controlling interest in the British super-indie Shed Media, the company behind shows such as Supernanny …

Discussion: The Wrap and Variety

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Whither magazines? — Three people I respect a great deal now lead the big magazine companies: David Carey (ex Condé) at Hearst, Bob Sauerberg at Condé, and now Jack Griffin at Time Inc. — and I'll add Justin Smith at Atlantic. — It's a big challenge to head a magazine company these days …

Discussion: Romenesko, Poynter Online and mediabistro.com

Jonathan Stray / Nieman Journalism Lab:

How The Guardian is pioneering data journalism with free tools — The Guardian takes data journalism seriously. They obtain, format, and publish journalistically interesting data sets on their Data Blog, they track transparency initiatives in their searchable index of world government data …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Patrick Smith / psmith, journalist:

Link to the past: why do some news sites STILL not link out in 2010? — Journalists now invariably have to take part in web journalism and an increasing number of them only write for the web. — But despite that, not all of them use hyperlinks - one of the main things that elevate digital journalism above …

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Why the San Fran Chronicle Is Running Demand Media Content — Q&A With SFGate.com Digital Media VP Michele Slack — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Two Hearst newspapers' websites have gone live with new sections from Demand Media, one of the content-generation companies that tap thousands of freelancers to generate countless articles.

Google Book Search Blog:

Books of the world, stand up and be counted! All 129,864,880 of you. — When you are part of a company that is trying to digitize all the books in the world, the first question you often get is: “Just how many books are out there?” — Well, it all depends on what exactly you mean by a “book.”

Discussion: GalleyCat and The Official Google Blog

Michael R. Blood / Associated Press:

Breitbart: Enemy of the left with a laptop — LOS ANGELES — Andrew Breitbart strips off his blazer, windmills it over his head and lets it fly to the stage with a matador's flourish. He booms into a microphone, sneering, taunting. Breath sprints to keep up with words.

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Viacom Profits Surge, But Home Entertainment Revenues Stumble — Viacom (NYSE: VIA) showed the true benefits of having the dual revenue streams of advertising and cable, as its networks division, which includes its MTV Networks, saw dollars rise 6.4 percent and profit gain 14 percent.

Discussion: Variety, Company Town and The Wrap

Beachwood Reporter:

The [Wednesday] Papers — A news organization's business side is (theoretically) separate from its editorial side, but when the business side doesn't conform to the editorial side's values - which in large part establish a media company's brand - the organization loses its moral authority.

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Newsonomics of the fading 80/20 rule — [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] — Jim Moroney thinks he may be on to a new formula.

Discussion: Romenesko, Gannett Blog and NetNewsCheck Latest

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Rachel Maddow Talks Fox News, CNN on Letterman — Last night MSNBC host Rachel Maddow was a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman. — Among other topics, Maddow talked about the Shirley Sherrod scandal, as well as Fox News: — They also discussed CNN, which didn't make it into the above clip:

Discussion: NewsBusters.org

Lewis DVorkin / The Copy Box:

At Forbes, “Opening Up”... and a glimpse of things to come — Forbes is on the move. — Actually, it has been ever since 1917. That's when B.C. Forbes, then a nationally syndicated columnist, launched a magazine to publish his prodigious writings and thoughts on American business.

Discussion: Romenesko

Jason Fell / FOLIO:

Potential Arab Bidder ‘Ignored’ in Newsweek Auction — Syria-based publisher CEO talks about growing Middle Eastern media. — When The Washington Post Co. announced in May that it was putting Newsweek on the block the story obviously stirred up a lot of attention all around the world.

Discussion: The Wire

yelvington.com:

Algorithmic layout: Another thing the visual journalists are going to hate — Ever since we began using computers to handle news — which is probably a lot longer than you think — there has been a notion of automating the processes of laying out pages. Long before InDesign, long before Quark …

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Eric Schmidt: Every 2 Days We Create As Much Information As We Did Up To 2003 — Today at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, CA, the first panel featured Google CEO Eric Schmidt. As moderator David Kirkpatrick was introducing him, he rattled off a massive stat.

Discussion: VentureBeat, CNBC and Fortune, more at Techmeme »

Rod Nordland / New York Times:

Time Magazine Cover of Disfigured Afghan Stokes Debate — KABUL, Afghanistan — She cannot read or write and had never heard of Time magazine until a visitor brought her a copy of this week's issue, the one with the cover picture of her face, the face with no nose.

Discussion: CJR, The Daily Beast and This Just In

Deborah Yao / Associated Press:

Dish to stream live TV on iPad, other devices — PHILADELPHIA — Dish subscribers will soon be able to watch live satellite TV on their mobile devices at no extra cost. — Dish Network Corp. is planning to offer the feature on the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and BlackBerry devices in September …

Discussion: WebNewser, VentureBeat, Online Video News and NewTeeVee

James Covert / New York Post:

Burkle's books — Wall Street skeptics may think Barnes & Noble is a bum steer, but Ron Burkle believes it could be a cash cow. — The Los Angeles billionaire — who amassed most of his fortune by making big shrewd bets on struggling grocery chains — has lately bewildered many investors …