Mediagazer: Exclusive: Veteran Anchor Mike Schneider Discusses His Time at Bloomberg (Jerry Barmash/FishbowlNY)

Matthew Lynch / WWD:

Newsweek Editorial Director Steps Down — Newsweek editorial director Mark Miller has resigned, several sources have told WWD. — Save for a yearlong stint with ABC News in the 1990s, Miller had been with the magazine in almost every conceivable editorial capacity since joining as a summer intern in 1985.

Discussion: Romenesko, The Wrap, Silicon Alley Insider, New York Observer, FishbowlNY and On Media's Blog

Three more leave listing Newsweek — Newsweek continues to hemorrhage talent following the magazine's sale to 91-year-old audio-equipment tycoon Sidney Harmon, with as many as three top editors heading for the exits this week, The Post has learned. — In the latest high-profile departure …

Ben Fritz / Company Town:

Blockbuster tells Hollywood studios it's preparing for mid-September bankruptcy — After dominating the home video rental business for more than a decade and struggling to survive in recent years against upstarts Netflix and Redbox, Blockbuster Inc. is preparing to file for bankruptcy next month …

Discussion: The Next Web, Gizmodo, Variety, The Wrap, New York Observer and DailyFinance

Eric Kohn / Speakeasy:

Heeb Magazine Suspends Print Edition, Goes On-Line Only … This morning, “Heeb” publisher and editor-in-chief Josh Neuman announced on the magazine's website that the snarky Jewish publication has ceased production of its print edition. This should come as no surprise to anyone following …

Discussion: Romenesko and FishbowlNY

Discussion: The Wrap, New York Observer, Gawker, New York Press and New York Magazine

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

Yahoo Revs Up Its Local Content Efforts — Over the last year, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has talked repeatedly about the importance of both local content and local advertising. But, while the company has announced local ad partnerships with Gannett (NYSE: GCI) and direct marketer Valassis …

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Discussion: MediaMemo and HyperlocalBlogger

Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:

USA Today shaking up staff in ‘radical’ overhaul — SAN FRANCISCO — USA Today, the nation's second largest newspaper, is making the most dramatic overhaul of its staff in its 28-year history as it de-emphasizes its print edition and ramps up its effort to reach more readers and advertisers on mobile devices.

Discussion: Gannett Blog, paidContent, readingarefun.wordpress.com and PR Newswire

John Mayer / one forty plus:

Huffington Post FULL OF S**T? (Yes!) — Ahh, Huffington Post, the internet Death Star. The world's first spectator banking website. Come watch a site's intelligence move in and out like bellows of accordion depending on whether or not there's ad dollars to be sucked out of any willing orifice.

Discussion: PopEater, The Huffington Post, Gawker, The Wrap, Mediaite, Billboard.com The Feed, New York Observer, Just Jared and The Atlantic Wire

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Marc Ambinder says he would've outed Ken Mehlman earlier if he'd had proof — Marc Ambinder, the political junkie who writes for the Atlantic, says he suspected, like everyone else in town, that Ken Mehlman was gay. — In fact, years before the former Republican Party chairman acknowledged …

Discussion: Mediaite and The Atlantic Online

Discussion: The Politico, NY Daily News, Think Progress, CJR, Romenesko and LA Observed

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Google Goes Hunting for a Music Boss — Anybody want to run the music division of the world's biggest media company? Because Google is hiring: The search giant is casting about for an executive to run its music service, which doesn't actually exist yet. — Industry sources tell me Google …

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Mike McGregor / Business Week:

Hard Choices: Lauren Zalaznick on Rebranding Oxygen — The president of NBC Universal Women & Lifestyle Entertainment Networks talks about shaking up Bravo and creating her own empire — In November 2007, NBC Universal acquired the Oxygen Network. I had been running NBCU's Bravo unit for three years …

David Kaplan / paidContent:

LoveFilm Adds MGM Movie Library; Aims To Be More Than 'Europe's Netflix' — LoveFilm, which is often regarded as the “Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) of the Europe,” has struck a major deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios that gives its streaming rental service access to hundreds of classic movies and new home video releases.

Discussion: TechCrunch Europe

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Washington Post WH reporter heads to NY Times — The White House press corps may look a bit different when President Obama returns from Martha's Vineyard, with a couple of changes in the past two days. — Michael Shear, a White House reporter for the Washington Post, is joining the New York Times …

Discussion: Romenesko and New York Observer

Jerry Barmash / FishbowlNY:

Exclusive: Veteran Anchor Mike Schneider Discusses His Time at Bloomberg — Between February 3 and 4 of 2009, more than 100 Bloomberg Radio and TV staffers were laid off at their world headquarters in New York. — It was an unprecedented move for Mayor Michael Bloomberg's financial news outlet …

Discussion: Talking Biz News and TVNewser

Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

One For The Time Capsule?: FT Big-Ups The Print Network — The FT had already clicked “undo” on one Pearson (NYSE: PSO) exec's recent assertion the paper will scale down its print distribution in the next few years. — Now it's positively coming out batting for dead trees.

J. David Goodman / City Room:

311, 411, 911: Could They All Be Blogs? — So now there's this: 311, the blog. — Yes, the municipal complaint hot line, already on Twitter, now has its own platform for informal writing, an opportunity for a city bureaucracy that responds to 18.7 million urban gripes in a given year to …

Discussion: Gawker, Runnin' Scared, Silicon Alley Insider and East Village Feed

The State:

GoGamecocks.com moving to membership model — In anticipation of college football season, we have rewritten the playbook for GoGamecocks.com. In the coming days, we will begin charging a modest membership fee to access a new and improved GoGamecocks.com web site.

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Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

Tribune says it has about $1.6 billion in cash on hand — There's been a lot of media speculation lately regarding our Chapter 11 process — and the temptation is to let it distract us from the things that matter most: focusing on our business and serving our customers and communities.

Discussion: paidContent

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

NBC Chief Would Welcome Couric's Return — Would Katie Couric ever contemplate returning to NBC? Well we now know for sure that Jeff Zucker's door would be open. — Mr. Zucker, the chief executive of NBC Universal, said Wednesday that were Ms. Couric to become available, “I think that's something we would look at.”

Discussion: Romenesko

Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:

Cisco's ExtendMedia Purchase: TV Everywhere And Beyond — Cisco doubled down on TV Everywhere today, announcing the intent to acquire Massachusetts-based ExtendMedia in order to bolster its IP video delivery infrastructure. The company said in a press release that ExtendMedia's video CMS will be …

Discussion: Between the Lines Blog and TechCrunch

Discussion: Market Wire, The Business Of Online Video, MediaPost, Silicon Alley Insider, Multichannel, Online Video News and Broadcasting & Cable

Will Richmond / VideoNuze:

Over 88% of Hulu Plus Content is Already Available for Free on Hulu.com — A new analysis of all the content available on Hulu Plus reveals that over 88% of all the full-length TV program episodes available in the $10/mo subscription service are already freely accessible on Hulu.com.

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