Mediagazer: Protecting Kaplan, Washington Post's Donald Graham Lobbied Against New Regulations (Wall Street Journal)

4:20 PM ET, August 30, 2010

Top News:

Thinner Time magazine still manages to stand out — Rick Stengel may have his shoulder in a sling, but when it comes to the newsmagazine wars, he's the last man standing. — The reason, says Time's managing editor, is that “we saw what was coming. We wanted to fix the roof when the sun was shining.”

Discussion: CJR, Salon, Wonkette, Editors Weblog, The Wire, New York Observer, Romenesko and New York Magazine

Josh Cohen / Google News Blog:

Extending the Associated Press as Hosted News partner — We've extended our existing licensing agreement with the Associated Press that permits us to host its content on Google properties such as Google News. We look forward to future collaborations, including on ways Google and AP …

Discussion: Strupp, paidContent, Nieman Journalism Lab, Associated Press, The Wrap, bizjournals, GigaOm and 901am

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google & AP Extend Long-Term Content Deal

Discussion: FishbowlNY, DailyFinance, Relevant Results, Reuters and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Jimmy Fallon Hits A Couple Of Emmy Home Runs That NBC.com Can't Replay — Another odd chapter in NBC's mixed viral video history: it can't post two of the clips that have the best chance of catching on from the 2010 Emmys. Host Jimmy Fallon knocked it out of the park with an energetic Glee-esque opener …

Discussion: The Wrap, Company Town, Associated Press, Mediaite, Best Week Ever, B&C, NY Daily News, Hollywood Reporter, The Daily Beast and LA Observed

Marisa Guthrie / Broadcasting & Cable:
‘Modern Family,’ ‘Mad Men’ Take Top Emmy Honors

Discussion: MediaPost, rbr.com, The Wrap, Multichannel, National Media, Hollywood Reporter, blogs.tampabay.com, The Daily Beast and Speakeasy

Dean Starkman / CJR:

Susanne Craig leaving WSJ for the NYT — Susanne Craig, one of The Wall Street Journal's star Wall Street reporters, is moving to The New York Times, a boost for the Times and the latest blow to the Journal's coverage of that core beat. — Craig told The Audit she's “looking forward to a new challenge.”

Discussion: Romenesko, Talking Biz News and The Wire

Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:

Long-form journalism starts a new chapter — With the help of Twitter and sites such as Long Form and The Awl, longer articles are finding a new lease of life as people take the time to find and read them — Everybody's got it in for the web this summer.

Discussion: Editors Weblog

Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Local news rivals doom publisher pay walls — The local news sites being developed by Yahoo, AOL, Huffington Post and a growing number of other online players will dash the hopes of most newspaper publishers of charging for access to their online content. — While newspaper executives …

Discussion: paidContent and Media Matters for America

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

Another Departure from Newsweek — The stream of senior writers and editors departing Newsweek continues, with the announcement on Monday that the National Journal has hired Michael Hirsh, a Newsweek editor based in Washington. — The departure comes on the heels of what has amounted …

Discussion: On Media's Blog

New York Times:

Retargeting Ads Follow Surfers to Other Sites — The shoes that Julie Matlin recently saw on Zappos.com were kind of cute, or so she thought. But Ms. Matlin wasn't ready to buy and left the site. — Then the shoes started to follow her everywhere she went online.

Discussion: CJR, Preston Gralla's blog, John Battelle's Searchblog and Kirk LaPointe's …, more at Techmeme »

Wall Street Journal:

Protecting Kaplan, Washington Post's Donald Graham Lobbied Against New Regulations — Washington Post, Parent of Education Chain, Defends Profit Generator Against Planned Regulations — Washington Post Co. Chairman Donald Graham recently abandoned his hands-off approach to the company's cash cow …

Discussion: New York Observer, National Media and On Media's Blog

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

Not on His Watch, USA Today Founder Says — Allen H. Neuharth, 86, the former Gannett executive who founded USA Today nearly 30 years ago, had some tart words for the people now in charge of his beloved paper. — When USA Today wrapped its front section in an advertisement for a Jeep last month …

Discussion: Gannett Blog, On Media's Blog and New York Observer

Knoxville News-Sentinel:

Media migration: New technologies transform reporting, redefine the news — Register or log in using your account on these websites. — Web Search powered by YAHOO! SEARCH — Journalism is in a revolution. Ten years from now, maybe sooner, the professional news business as we know it may be replaced by something entirely new.

Discussion: Random Mumblings

Daniel Massey / Crain's New York Business:

Ugh: the ‘free’ in freelance — More than 40% of contract workers report trouble getting paid. Average owed: $12K — For two years, Wendy Friedman has tried to collect the $15,000 she says she's owed for designing sweaters for SoHo fashion label Abaeté by Laura Poretzky, whose clients have included pop star Jessica Simpson.

Discussion: New York Magazine

Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:

Google Pitching YouTube Pay-Per-View. Anyone Buying? — Google is pitching Hollywood studios a pay-per-view service that would enable them to rent videos on YouTube for $5 a piece, according to a report in the Financial Times. While the service could introduce incremental revenues …

Financial Times:
Google plans pay-per-view films

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

An iPhone app developer's diary, and some thoughts on Android — The reaction to our new free iPhone app has been tremendously positive — if you've got an iPhone and haven't downloaded it yet, I suggest you hop to. On my post announcing the app, there were a few comments I wanted to respond to.

Discussion: BusinessJournalism.org … and Poynter Online

Jemima Kiss / Guardian:

Meet the army's own media corps — The Combat Camera Team is the army's own embedded media corps, reporting from Afghanistan — When David Beckham made a surprise visit to British troops in Afghanistan in May, the press wasted no time in splashing photos of him signing autographs …

Joe Pompeo / Silicon Alley Insider:

Forbes' Online Managing Editor, Carl Lavin, Is Out — There's more staff shuffling going on over at Forbes. — We hear that Carl Lavin, managing editor of Forbes.com, is leaving the company. A memo went out to staff early this afternoon, a source tells us.

Discussion: Gawker and Talking Biz News

David Carr / New York Times:

In California, an Old-Style Print War — The office of The Bay Guardian at the bottom of Potrero Hill in San Francisco — the site of one of the last great newspaper wars — was eerily quiet last Thursday morning, with the sounds of a bell at the front desk echoing up into the high ceiling.

Discussion: Runnin' Scared

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Live TV Is For Old People: Time Shifting And Online Make Up Nearly Half Of All Viewing — Between online video, DVRs, and on-demand cable the amount of time people spend watching live TV (you know, with all of those commercials that advertisers spend $70 billion a year on) is shrinking fast.

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:

Hollywood Gives Book Early Push — In Novel Twist, Film Company Plugs New Nicholas Sparks Story—a Year Ahead of Movie Version's Release — Nicholas Sparks's new novel, “Safe Haven,” goes on sale Sept. 14, and it will be getting a promotional push from an unusual partner: a Hollywood movie maker.

Discussion: New York Observer

Wall Street Journal:

Comcast Gets Static on Net TV — The Justice Department is focusing in on how Comcast Corp.'s bid to purchase control of General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal television and movie unit could affect the emerging Internet video market, people familiar with the matter say.

Discussion: Ars Technica, Company Town, Online Video News, VideoNuze and Digits

Democracy in America:

Seven questions for Jay Rosen — JAY ROSEN is a professor of journalism at New York University and an insightful critic of the media. Earlier this year he wrote an essay on “the actual ideology of our political press”, which we praised and discussed on this blog.

Irina Slutsky / AdAge:

‘Chief Listeners’ Use Technology to Track, Sort Company Mentions — Relatively New Role Is Becoming More Commonplace in Major Marketing Companies — SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) — The role of a “chief listener” evokes images of fuzzy sweaters, chamomile tea and sitting around with a patient ear.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, NevilleHobson.com and AdPulp