Mediagazer: Can JetBlue steward stretch 15 minutes? (Georg Szalai/Hollywood Reporter)

4:50 PM ET, August 12, 2010

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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, New York Observer, Romenesko, Inside Cable News and MediaMemo

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, Law Blog, DailyFinance and DealBook

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: CJR, Romenesko, Gawker, New York Observer, Runnin' Scared, The Atlantic Wire, FishbowlNY, mediabistro.com and Talking Biz News

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 …

Discussion: Lost Remote and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Did Thinking Like a Media Company Spell Doom For Yahoo?

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

Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:

Newsday doubles down on coverage as Patch arrives — With Patch launching several sites in Long Island towns, Newsday is hiring 37 people to beef up its local coverage. The new positions include reporters, community journalists, a social media moderator and a community editor.

Discussion: Long Island Business News, Romenesko, mediabistro.com, New York Observer and NYConvergence

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Newsday going on the offensive

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Romenesko and The Wire

FishbowlNY:
Newsday to Hire 34 Journalists in Hyperlocal Push

Discussion: Guardian, Crain's New York Business and Talking Biz News

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

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

Bill Grueskin / CJR:

The Write Stuff — Has Yahoo created an AP stylebook for the digital age? — The Yahoo Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World | St. Martin's Griffin | 528 pages, $21.99 — If you strolled by a copy editor's desk …

Discussion: Romenesko

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Can JetBlue steward stretch 15 minutes? — Media, masses clamor for Steven Slater's story — NEW YORK — Last week, nobody knew Steve Slater. — Now, office water coolers, Twitter feeds, Facebook and chat rooms are buzzing with expressions of support and the question …

Discussion: Gawker, New York Observer and Risky Business

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Two Days After Steve Slater's Slide Ride, JetBlue Comes Back to the Web

Discussion: Media Decoder, TIME.com, Epicenter, PC Magazine, Gothamist, NBC New York, Gawker, The Daily Beast, Law Blog, National Media, Chickaboomer, NY Daily News, Dealbreaker, The Awl and newsfeed.time.com

Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Data-visualization duo turns down Knight funding over open source — Normally when you win a Knight News Challenge grant, there's not much of a question about what to do. You take the money! But for Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg of Flowing Media, winning in the 2010 competition prompted a tough decision.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Digg's Kevin Rose Talks About New Look, New CEO and How to Turbocharge an Old Web 1.9 Company! — Yesterday, BoomTown drove over to Digg's San Francisco HQ to pay founder Kevin Rose a visit. — The 33-year-old Rose is one of the iconic entrepreneurs of recent years, since Digg's founding in 2004 …

Discussion: GigaOM and Silicon Alley Insider

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: Gizmodo, 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

John Gorenfeld / New York Observer:

With Its Horrifying Cover Story, Time Gave the War a Boost. Did Its Reporter Profit? — The maimed face of 18-year-old Aisha, her nose and ears cut off as punishment by her Afghan husband for fleeing his home, made the cover of Time magazine last week and changed the debate over the country's military involvement in Afghanistan.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

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?

Discussion: Poynter Online

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

Joe Pompeo / Silicon Alley Insider:

Source: Publishers Are Shelling Out More Than $50K For The New York Times' iPad/iPhone App Platform — On August 2, The New York Times announced it is launching a new platform called Press Engine that other publishers can use to create their own iPhone and iPad apps based on templates developed by The Times.

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

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

Jim O'Neill / Online Video News:

Dyyno debuts turnkey streaming video service to Roku for businesses — Video portal provider Dyyno today rolled out a turnkey streaming video service to Roku for businesses and individuals, allowing them to stream live, VOD or linear TV channels to the living room.

Discussion: FierceTelecom