Mediagazer: Sumner's $1 Million Payoff (Peter Lauria/The Daily Beast)

Kelly McBride / Poynter Online:

SEO Makes It Too Late for Truth for ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ — It's not at ground zero and it's not just a mosque. — A number of news outlets have gone to great lengths recently to correct this falsehood. — PolitiFact has made several rulings on the issue.

Discussion: MarketWatch, Ethics and Journalism.co.uk

What the ‘Ground Zero mosque’ flap says about the state of journalism — By Brian McDermott: The Ground Zero mosque does not exist. — There is, of course, the planned Park51 Muslim community center and mosque, which local authorities approved for construction on Park Place in lower Manhattan …

Discussion: Runnin' Scared

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:

Amazon Loses E-Book Deal — A month after jolting the book industry with a deal to give Amazon.com Inc. exclusive digital access to some of the country's best-known literary works, literary agent Andrew Wylie is largely abandoning the agreement. — The Amazon deal was struck after Mr. Wylie failed …

Discussion: Publishers Weekly, DailyFinance, Future Tense and NYConvergence, more at Techmeme »

Random House Wins Battle for E-Book Rights — An e-book battle between Random House and the Wylie Agency appears to have ended. — After a monthlong standoff, Random House said on Tuesday that it now held the rights to publish e-book editions of 13 classic books that the literary agent Andrew Wylie …

Discussion: Poynter Online and Electronista

Media Decoder:

National Journal Hires Major Garrett From Fox News — Major Garrett, the chief White House correspondent for Fox News, is quitting his job at the cable news channel after eight years. He is joining National Journal as a Congressional correspondent. — Mr. Garrett's surprise departure comes …

Discussion: Mediaite, Romenesko, Strupp, The Huffington Post and Inside Cable News

Peter Lauria / The Daily Beast:

Sumner's $1 Million Payoff — The billionaire chairman of Viacom and CBS has settled with a deputy who accused him of loutish behavior. Peter Lauria on the latest of Sumner Redstone's costly antics. — CBS Corp. spared its billionaire chairman Sumner Redstone the potential embarrassment …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, New York Observer, Company Town, The Wire and Gawker

Jim Barnett / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Googling serendipity: How does journalism fare in a world where algorithms trump messy chance? — Twelve years ago, when I was reporting on the pending Microsoft antitrust case, I learned that what was really at stake wasn't immediately apparent in the legal briefs.

Wall Street Journal:

Apple Close to Deal With Disney to Rent ABC Shows Via iTunes — Apple Inc. is in discussions with major TV companies to offer 99-cent rentals of television episodes, according to people familiar with the situation, as the company tries to reshape the television business around its devices …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, Broadcasting & Cable, MediaPost, New York Times, Digits, Fortune, Faster Forward, Media Buyer Planner, Reuters and Electronista, more at Techmeme »

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

CBS Evening News Ratings Tie 20-Year Low — For any person who believes that the American people should be paying greater attention to the war in Afghanistan, the following statistic might disappoint. — On a week that included the anchor Katie Couric's trip to Afghanistan, the …

Discussion: Romenesko, TVNewser, TVWeek.com and On Media's Blog

Wall Street Journal:

The ABCs of E-Reading — New Devices Are Changing Habits. People Are Reading More, Even While in a Kayak — People who buy e-readers tend to spend more time than ever with their nose in a book, preliminary research shows. — A study of 1,200 e-reader owners by Marketing …

Discussion: New York Observer and Silicon Alley Insider

Zach Baron / Sound of the City:

How Kanye West's Twitter Killed Music Magazines — Today, Slate posts “an all-access, totally non-exclusive interview with the would-be king of hip-hop,” Kanye West. The conceit is as follows: though the rapper stopped giving many interviews in the aftermath of his mother's death …

Discussion: Slate, Soup and Speakeasy

Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:

Janice Min's Hollywood Reporter: A Bitchy Switch — Who's the bitch now? Taking a page from her reign at Us Weekly, Janice Min has been making her presence felt on the Hollywood Reporter website. — Many inside the industry were shocked at a lead story on Tuesday that felt like a broadside …

Discussion: New York Observer and Hollywood Reporter

Andrew Littledale / Backstage.bbc.co.uk blog:

Pulling related web content into a live TV stream — Like everyone else, we have been wondering what set top boxes connected to the internet will look like for the user. What kind of interfaces will work best when TV and the web become bedfellows? — We decided to mock up a prototype application …

Discussion: paidContent:UK

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

WebMediaBrands Adds Sports Media Site To Its Roster — WebMediaBrands (NSDQ: WEBM) is going in-house for its latest expansion, launching a MediaBistro spinoff called SportsNewser, which will feature “breaking news and analysis of the sports media business,” as well as “interviews with prominent broadcasters …

Discussion: mediabistro.com, eMedia Vitals and The Wire

The Atlantic Online:

10 Reading Revolutions Before E-Books — 1. The phrase “reading revolution” was probably coined by German historian Rolf Engelsing. He certainly made it popular. Engelsing was trying to describe something he saw in the 18th century: a shift from “intensive” reading and re-reading of very few texts to …

Discussion: Snarkmarket

Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:

Rachel's New War — She didn't want to talk about the mosque. But Fox baited her into it. The MSNBC host banters with Lloyd Grove about “fake” news, wearing glasses on air, and whether she wants to get married. — For a cable news host intent on luring eyeballs to her prime-time show …

Discussion: Mediaite, News Hounds, The Huffington Post, Inside Cable News and Mother Jones

Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:

Comcast: No Plans to Pull NBC Content from Hulu — Comcast says it has no plans to change NBC's relationship with Hulu, making all the same content that is on the online video site now available in the future, according to an ex parte notice posted earlier this week.

Daniel B. Roberts / Salon:

Tao Lin: Lit “it boy” for the Internet age — Tao Lin gets arrested in a bookstore. He lets fans buy shares of his book. Meet literature's Net-savvy new star — Tao Lin is the next big thing in urban hipster lit. At least, so say the people that read his books on the subway.

Discussion: New York Observer

Sergio Acosta / retoNet:

Multimedia jobs are for robots — This post is also available in: Spanish — “The New York Times is looking for a technology-savvy journalist”, thus begins the job offer. — It is a short text, written in that style in which half of humanity is being gradually discarded.

Joe Strupp / Strupp:

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, Multichannel, The Wire, Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap, Media Matters for America, On Media's Blog, Variety and The Huffington Post

Discussion: Mediaite, NTS MediaOnline and On Media's Blog