Mediagazer: MTV to launch first digital-only programme (Media Week)

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Coupons Come to The Wall Street Journal — News Corp.'s SmartSource Moves Insert From Sunday Times to WSJ Weekend Edition — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The Wall Street Journal will start delivering coupons inside its Weekend Edition this Saturday, furthering its push to become a full-service newspaper …

Discussion: Romenesko and New York Observer

Julie Bosman / New York Times:

As E-Books Gain, Barnes & Noble Tries to Stay Ahead — In the movie “You've Got Mail,” Tom Hanks played the aggressive big-box retailer Joe Fox driving the little bookshop owner played by Meg Ryan out of business. — Twelve years later, it may be Joe Fox's turn to worry.

Wall Street Journal:

Barnes & Noble Expected to Announce Burkle Pact — Barnes & Noble Inc. is expected to soon announce the settlement of a lawsuit filed by investor Ronald Burkle, who challenged the legality of a “poison pill” plan that would have prevented him from buying more shares of the company, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday.

Discussion: New York Times, DealBook, Law Blog and DailyFinance

Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:

Dan Abrams's Mediaite.com Tests the Limits of Fair Use — The boundaries of fair use — the legal doctrine that allows for the republishing and rebroadcasting of copyrighted material in order to encourage free speech — are awfully hazy when it comes to the Internet.

Discussion: The Wire, Romenesko, MediaMemo and Inside Cable News

Mike Shields / Mediaweek:

Internet Content Syndication Council Propose Content Guidelines — A group of Web content syndicators, which include the Associated Press, The Tribune Company and Procter & Gamble, believe that content quality—not to mention the actual utility of the Internet—is being seriously threatened.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:

How to Mix Big-Time Ads and Content — Demand Media, Which Cranks Out Web Articles and Videos, Works to Draw Major Sponsors for Its Sites — Demand Media Inc. is nothing if not prolific. It's next step is to spur demand from Madison Avenue heavyweights and not just Web surfers.

Discussion: Romenesko

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Did Thinking Like a Media Company Spell Doom For Yahoo? — Paul Graham, the founder of tech incubator Y Combinator, has posted some thoughts about the decline of Yahoo over the past decade, in which he describes the fatal flaws (as he sees them) that caused the company to become less relevant and allowed Google to dominate.

Discussion: Paul Graham and SmoothSpan Blog, more at Techmeme »

Slate:

Slate Has an iPad App! — Your favorite stories, videos, and podcasts, now available—free!— on your tablet. — IPad users rejoice! Slate now has an iPad app, and it's available—for free—in the iTunes App Store. (Get Slate's iPad app.) — The app gives Slate readers ready access …

Discussion: Bits, WebNewser, FishbowlNY and Change of Subject

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

CNBC Names First ‘Chief Revenue Officer’ — CNBC is creating a new position at the network: Chief Revenue Officer, and has tapped Tom O'Brien to fill the role. — CNBC president Mark Hoffman made the announcement in an email to staffers this morning. In it, he outlined why the channel was creating the position:

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, AdAge and Inside Cable News

Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:

Dirty Apps? How Magazines Are Handling Apple's Erratic Censorship — Steve Jobs' dictate that apps for Apple's iPad and iPhone contain no pornography or nudity affects plenty of major magazines, including Playboy and Cosmopolitan. How are they dealing with it? — Continue reading Dirty Apps?

Erik Huggers / About the BBC blog:

BBC Online - Putting Quality First — In March this year, the BBC announced a new strategy - Putting Quality First. These proposals, which are subject to BBC Trust approval, chart a new long-range direction for the BBC and would enable the BBC to deliver on its public purposes in the digital age.

Discussion: One Man & His Blog, paidContent:UK, WebNewser, Journalism.co.uk and The Next Web

Julie Bosman / New York Times:

Pete Hamill, Patriarch of Print, Goes Direct to Digital — It makes perfect sense that Pete Hamill, 75 years old, chronicler of vintage New York City and newspaper tabloids and boozy Greenwich Village literary haunts, prefers print books to electronic. — Far more surprising is this …

Discussion: New York Observer

BrauBlog:

Why did Jim Dolan and Lynn Casey invest a million bucks in BringMeTheNews? — It's not every day a year-old local news aggregator gets $1 million from investors — much less when it has just 100,000 monthly page views and three advertisers. — But that didn't stop Dolan Media president Jim Dolan …

Discussion: Romenesko and mediabistro.com

Edmund Lee / AdAge:

EMarketer: Facebook Ad Sales to Hit $1.2 Billion This Year — Biggest New Driver? Self-Serve Ads Now Account for 50% of Social Network's Ad Revenue — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — With its more than half billion users and privately-held status, Facebook's revenue has long been a favorite guessing game …

Media Week:

MTV to launch first digital-only programme — MTV is to launch a digital-only programme, the Scottish teen drama ‘Being Victor’, next month, in a first for the music broadcaster. — Being Victor: MTV's first online-only programme — The programme will debut on 7 September and …

Discussion: paidContent:UK and Guardian

Hunter Walker / The Wrap:

Piers Morgan (Still) Taking Over for Larry King — Depite reports to the contrary, Piers Morgan is taking over as Larry King's replacement — and an official announcement is expected early next week at the latest, TheWrap has learned. — TheWrap broke the story on July 30 that the …

Discussion: TVWeek.com, Inside Cable News, TVNewser, Mediaite and On Media's Blog

Michael Schneider / Variety:

TV Land's generational experiment — Kutcher-backed reality show ‘Forever Young’ examines age gap — TV Land is minding the generation gap, giving a greenlight to “Forever Young,” a reality skein from 3 Ball Prods. and Katalyst. — Cabler has ordered six episode of the series …

Discussion: PopWatch

Rupal Parekh / AdAge:

MySpace Chooses Pereira & O'Dell to Help Relaunch Site — Struggling Social Net Seeks to Snare Share From Twitter, Facebook — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — MySpace has chosen Pereira & O'Dell as the agency to help market the site's relaunch later this year, according to multiple industry executives.

Discussion: AdScam/The Horror! and paidContent

Joe Flint / Company Town:

Allbritton, parent of Politico and other DC media, making noise about Comcast - NBC deal — Allbritton Communications — the parent company of Politico, the influential Capitol Hill news operation; WJLA-TV, the ABC affiliate in Washington, D.C.; and NewsChannel 8, a local cable news network …

Discussion: Multichannel and MediaPost

Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:

Here's Johnny, digitized: A searchable database created for Carson's ‘Tonight Show’ — The search tool for existing footage will be available for professional use, but many clips will also be posted for public viewing. — Johnny Carson is getting an upgrade for the YouTube era.

Discussion: WebNewser

Discussion: ABCNEWS, Switched, Speakeasy, The Atlantic Online, The Huffington Post, Variety, Movieline, TVWeek.com, New York Magazine and TV Tattle