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8:30 PM ET, August 24, 2010

Top News:

Former White House Correspondents President Chen: Fox News Seating ‘A Travesty’ — Allowing Fox News to move up to the first row in the White House briefing room was a “travesty of a decision,” according to Ed Chen, the former White House Correspondents Association president who left that post just a few months ago.

Discussion: Mediaite and The Huffington Post

Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:

Why Media Matters Should Stop Picking on Fox News (This Time) — In its campaign to drive Fox News from the front row of the White House briefing room, the liberal watchdog group Media Matters did one thing right: It waited until the last week of August. Only in this most barren stretch …

Discussion: On Media's Blog and Mediaite

Ellen McCarthy / Washington Post:

Candy Crowley, veteran CNN reporter, takes on competitive Sunday morning slot — There's no secret about what works on cable news these days. — Flashy graphics and raised voices burst through the screen to jostle into our agitated, unfocused, Twitterized minds. — Anchors are loud, beautiful and opinionated.

Discussion: mediabistro.com, Chickaboomer, On Media's Blog and Inside Cable News

Bloomberg:

Apple Said to Prepare New 99-Cent TV Show Rental Service — Apple Inc. is in advanced talks with News Corp. to let iTunes users rent TV shows for 99 cents and is in discussions with other media companies about similar deals, said three people familiar with the plan.

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Toybox Blog, CNET News, The Wrap, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Neowin.net, Epicenter, PC Magazine, Fast Company, Gizmodo, Search Engine Land, Electronista, DSLreports, Engadget and Silicon Alley Insider, more at Techmeme »

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

Li returns to Reuters to become tech and media editor — Thomson Reuters Announces Return of Industry-Leading Journalist Kenneth Li — Kenneth Li appointed Reuters Editor-in-Charge of Technology, Media and Telecoms — New York August 24, 2010 Thomson Reuters today announced the appointment …

Discussion: The Wire, New York Observer and FishbowlNY

Lara Sinclair / TheAustralian:

Newspapers gone by 2022 says futurist — NEWSPAPERS as we know them will be irrelevant within 12 years, according to futurist Ross Dawson, who said journalism would be largely ‘crowdsourced’. — Mr Dawson, who will address a Newspaper Publishers' Association forum on the future of the industry …

Discussion: Trends in the Living Networks, newsfeed.time.com, Journalism.co.uk, Guardian, mUmBRELLA and Editors Weblog

John Hamer / Washington News Council:

Ira Glass on broadcasting's “failure of craft” — A radio personality filling a concert hall with fans? That's pretty rare, but it happened Aug. 21 when Ira Glass, host of “This American Life” (TAL) on National Public Radio (NPR) appeared at Seattle's Benaroya Hall. The place was packed.

Discussion: Romenesko and The Book Bench

Hollywood Reporter:

WILD PARTY SCENE WON'T BE CUT FROM FACEBOOK MOVIE — EXCLUSIVE: The cocaine and bare breasts are staying in the picture. — Days after producer Scott Rudin said that a scene of debauched partying might be cut from “The Social Network” amid concerns from the real-life people depicted …

Discussion: The Wrap, JoBlo's Movie Emporium News, Techdirt, New York Magazine, The Playlist and mediabistro.com

Bill Mitchell / Poynter Online:

Telegram & Gazette Pay Meter Can Be Adjusted to Balance Reach & Revenue — When I began poking around telegram.com Saturday morning, I wasn't sure how many clicks I had remaining of the 10 that I was entitled to as a registered (but not subscribed) member of the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram & Gazette's newly metered site.

Discussion: Editors Weblog

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Is it time for Yahoo to Hulu? — Decline in paying subs is an incentive for deal — NEW YORK — Just as Yahoo weighs Wall Street advice to buy a significant stake in online video site Hulu, SNL Kagan reported the first-ever subscriber decline for the U.S. TV multichannel industry.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, PopWatch and Techdirt

Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:

Google Goes to the Guggenheim to Take YouTube Fare Upmarket — In an effort to woo skittish advertisers to the video sharing service, Google is adding more high-class fare — YouTube will fill the cylindrical atrium of New York's Guggenheim Museum with video installations …

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Is $10 The Magic Number In Online Publishing? — A growing school of thought in online publishing holds that, when you get down to brass tacks, more important than size of audience is scale of revenue. — So a metric telcos and pay TV operators have used for years - average revenue per user …

Discussion: Canadian Magazines

Simon Vozick-Levinson / EW.com:

Cee Lo Green tells us all about his viral hit ‘F— You,’ his new album, and the future of Gnarls Barkley and Goodie Mob — Watching his single “F— You” become a runaway viral hit within days of its online release has been “pretty magical” for Cee Lo Green.

Discussion: Associated Press, Rap Radar, New York Magazine, DC9 At Night, Billboard.com The Feed and Boing Boing

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

Conde Nast Grabs Monica Ray From Time Inc. — The Great Magazine Executive Shuffle of Summer 2010 continues! — Now that Bob Sauerberg has moved up the Conde Nast ladder to become president of the whole company, he'll need somone to take the lead on consumer marketing …

Discussion: paidContent, New York Observer and Media Decoder

Philip B. Corbett / Times Topics:

Everything From This to That — Notes from the newsroom on grammar, usage and style. (Some frequently asked questions are here.) — My colleague Vanessa Gordon and others have noted our frequent use of what critics call “false ranges.” These constructions generally are framed with phrases like …

Discussion: Romenesko

John Plunkett / Guardian:

TV ads skipped by 86% of viewers — Nearly 90% of people watching timeshifted shows fast-forward the ads, but TV remains the most memorable form of advertising — Nearly 90% of television viewers always skip through the adverts on their digital video recorder but TV still remains …

Discussion: NewTeeVee

Journalism.org:

MOSQUE CONTROVERSY, IRAQ WAR DOMINATE THE NEWS — A statement of support for religious freedom by President Barack Obama fueled an ideologically driven debate in the media over a proposed Islamic center in New York last week. A milestone in the Iraq war, continued economic travails …

Discussion: TVNewser, NPR, The Wire, PewResearch.org, Runnin' Scared, Media Decoder, CJR and On Media's Blog

Zachary Woolfe / Capital New York:

The fabulous New York life of Lauren Leto — “I don't want to buy any furniture,” Lauren Leto said. “Literally I have four suitcases. I'm trying to keep it to four suitcases.” — She was sitting with a reporter at Cafe Select on Lafayette Street, just a few blocks from the fully furnished apartment …

Discussion: The Awl and New York Observer

Jason Linkins / The Huffington Post:

News Corp. Executives Actually Recently Met With Saudi Billionaire In Mosque Controversy — By now, you may have heard about how on last night's edition of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart made fantastic comedic hay out of a Fox And Friends segment, in which the gathered panel indulged …

Discussion: Arab News, Think Progress and Mediaite

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Download the new Nieman Journalism Lab iPhone app — Every day, there are 16 gazillion news articles about the future of journalism, 27.5 flabillion blog posts, and 294 quinzillion tweets. (These are all estimates.) There's a lot of great stuff in there, but just keeping up to date …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, more at Techmeme »

Wall Street Journal:

Author to Bypass Publisher — In a significant defection for the book industry, best-selling marketing author Seth Godin is ditching his traditional publisher Portfolio after a string of books and plans to sell his future works directly to his fans. — Guilty Plea in Disney Case

Zeke Turner / New York Observer:

Washington All-Star Matt Cooper Joins ‘National Journal’ as Managing Editor — The National Journal has added another ace to its increasingly stacked deck of Washington talent. Veteran Matt Cooper has joined the aggressively relaunching Atlantic Media-owned National Journal Group as managing editor.

Discussion: The Politico, The Wire and On Media's Blog