Mediagazer: Now it's the Times versus Google and Verizon (Dan Kennedy/Media Nation)

2:10 AM ET, August 7, 2010

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Here's the Big IPO You've Been Waiting For: Demand Media Files With the SEC — Fun weekend reading for the tech and media set: Demand Media's S-1 filing, the first step it will take on the road to a public offering. — The S-1 doesn't include lots of important information …

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, paidContent, Romenesko, The Wrap, TechCrunch, GigaOM and Burst Media Company Blog, more at Techmeme »

Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:

10 Reasons to Watch Next Week's TBD Launch — For a multimedia site, TBD showed some media savvy, lining up a media briefing today, complete with visuals, numerous staffers and a sampling of local bloggers who've joined the TBD Community Network. — You'll find several good write-ups on TBD today.

Discussion: paidContent, Nieman Journalism Lab, BuzzMachine, Romenesko and New York Observer

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

Coffeeshop Newsrooms Yield Stories, Sources, Understanding of Journalism — The next time you visit your favorite coffee shop, consider how it would look if it were transformed into a “news café” — a place where journalists would work on stories and interact with patrons to find ideas …

Discussion: RJI

David Kaplan / paidContent:

WaPo's Online Newspaper Revs Turn Sharply Up, But Ask Later About Newsweek — In its next to last quarter as the owner of Newsweek, the Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) isn't releasing details about the magazine's performance in Q2, though it did likely improve slightly based …

Discussion: Romenesko, The Wire, MediaPost, On Media's Blog and NetNewsCheck Latest

Washington Post:
The Washington Post Company Reports Second Quarter Earnings

Discussion: Washington Post, Shaping the Future … and FishbowlNY

Newsweek:

Farewell, Libraries? — Amazon's report that e-books are outselling hardcovers means book collections—personal and public—are about to get a drastic makeover. — Books vs. E-Books: Click here to read related content — Amazon.com's recent announcement that sales of e-books …

Discussion: ResourceShelf

Lauren Kirchner / CJR:

Forbes.com Gets a New Slant — Lewis Dvorkin's bloggy overhaul of the Internet continues — On Thursday, Forbes.com launched a new blog page utilizing the platform first developed by the blog network True/Slant, which it recently acquired. News last week that True/Slant was being shut …

Discussion: Romenesko, The Wire and The Copy Box

Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:

Now it's the Times versus Google and Verizon — For now, at least, it looks like the New York Times is doubling down on its report that Google and Verizon are negotiating a deal that would allow Verizon to offer tiered levels of service for content-providers — a deal that would severely undermine the principle of net neutrality.

Discussion: Culture, Dow Jones Newswires and Most Recent Home Page Posts …

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

How newspapers should best deal with ‘data journalism’ — Martin Moore, director of the Media Standards Trust — thinks we are heading for more “data journalism” and poses some questions in How news organisations should prepare for data dumps. — I'll overlook the naive bit about internal newspaper office secrecy.

Ronan Shields / New Media Age:

News Corp plans mobile sell-off — News Corp has confirmed it is trying to offload its mobile businesses, collectively know as Fox Mobile Group, after stating that it was a loss-making venture. — The planned sell-off would include Jamba - the company behind the Crazy Frog ringtone …

Joe Pompeo / Silicon Alley Insider:

Patch Editors Respond To Claims Of Sweatshop-Like Workload — We got a big response to our item yesterday about AOL's rapidly expanding hyperlocal venture, Patch, including some additional insight into what it's like to be a Patch editor, one of whom had said many of them work 70-hour weeks …

Discussion: Romenesko and Media Nation

Dave Morgan / MediaPost:

Location-Based Web Services Will Devastate Local Media Scene — I know the last thing that local media companies need is another Web-driven disruption in their markets, particularly one that could take a big chunk out of their revenues in the next few years.

Discussion: Poynter Online and Kirk LaPointe's …