Mediagazer: Ugh: the ‘free’ in freelance (Daniel Massey/Crain's New York Business)

5:30 PM ET, August 30, 2010

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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, Editors Weblog, The Wire, Wonkette, 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, Associated Press, Nieman Journalism Lab, The Wrap, bizjournals, GigaOm and 901am

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

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Relevant Results, DailyFinance, Reuters and The Next Web

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

Knoxville News-Sentinel: Future of news: Insider Dave Morgan touts new media

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, Crain's New York Business, Associated Press, Mediaite, Company Town, Best Week Ever, NY Daily News, B&C, Hollywood Reporter, The Daily Beast and LA Observed

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

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

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, Media Matters for America and Romenesko

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, New York Observer, New York Magazine, Talking Biz News and The Wire

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 …

Discussion: MediaPost

Financial Times:
Google plans pay-per-view films

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

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 and DailyFinance

Jason Fell / Folio:

Gourmet to Return to Print—As Special Newsstand-Only Issues — First up is Gourmet Quick Kitchen, due out next month. — Is shuttered Gourmet clawing its way back out of the grave? — After being shut down by Condé Nast last fall, the publisher announced in June …

Discussion: Gawker

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: The Wire and New York Magazine

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

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

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

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

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: Off Off Wall Street, Gawker and Talking Biz News

Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:

In Defense of Links, Part One: Nick Carr, hypertext and delinkification — For 15 years, I've been doing most of my writing — aside from my two books — on the Web. When I do switch back to writing an article for print, I find myself feeling stymied. I can't link!

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.

David Kravets / Threat Level:

Second Newspaper Chain Joins Copyright Trolling Operation — A Las Vegas company established to sue bloggers who clip news content is expanding its operations to a second newspaper chain. — Righthaven, LLC has struck a deal with Arkansas-based WEHCO Media to expand its copyright litigation campaign …

Discussion: Techdirt

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.

Rick Edmonds / Poynter Online:

Groupon Offers Opportunities and Threats for Newspaper Advertising — For years, newspaper industry analysts have argued that the gradual switch of advertising dollars to direct marketing, much of it digital, could be the toughest challenge facing an eroding business model.

Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:

iPad Magazines: The Pros & Cons — When the iPad was launched earlier this year, one of the big talking points was that the iPad might be the savior of magazines. By now many magazines are available on the iPad, either in their own standalone app or in a virtual magazine store.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

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