Mediagazer: Mafia Sourcing - How Insiders Game User Generated News for Money (Mark Suster/Both Sides of the Table)

Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:

Why You (Still) Can't Cut the TV Cord: It's Not Technical, It's Just Business — Apple's recently unveiled Apple TV device is one of many that can pull video from the internet and display it on a television, but only two networks — ABC and Fox — agreed to rent their shows through them.

Andrew Wallenstein / Hollywood Reporter:
Why Apple rental plan alienated most studios

Discussion: Multichannel News, paidContent, C21Media.net and Company Town

Ian Burrell / The Independent:

Has Rupert Murdoch's paywall gamble paid off? — Advertisers don't like it. Analysts are unconvinced. The paywall at News International may not be winning many fans, but the man behind it is determined to keep it standing. — As the fugitive businessman Asil Nadir flew back to Britain …

Discussion: MediaPost, New York Observer, mediabistro.com, Editors Weblog, Lost Remote, For The Media, Silicon Alley Insider and Jon Slattery

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Analyst: Paywall Subscribers Worth A Quarter Of Print Readers — Even if newspapers migrate every print reader to paying online, they will still face big losses, according to one analyst. — Annual income per paywall subscriber on TheTimes.co.uk and WSJ.com is just a quarter that from subscribers …

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …, Romenesko, Press Gazette and Soup

Mary Walton / American Journalism Review:

Investigative Shortfall — Many news outlets are doing far less accountability reporting than in the past, bad news indeed for the public. New nonprofit investigative ventures have emerged, but they can't pick up the slack by themselves. On her last day at Fort Lauderdale's Sun-Sentinel …

Joe Pompeo / Silicon Alley Insider:

EXCLUSIVE: Newsweek's Big Name Economics Editor, Dan Gross, Is Headed To Yahoo Finance — Dan Gross, Newsweek's economics editor, is leaving the magazine, The Wire has learned. He's headed to Yahoo Finance. — Yahoo has been on something of an editorial hiring spree this year, ramping up its original content efforts.

Discussion: Romenesko and New York Magazine

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

YouTube Ads Turn Videos Into Revenue — SAN BRUNO, Calif. — Last month, a YouTube user, TomR35, uploaded a clip from the AMC series “Mad Men” in which Don Draper makes a heartfelt speech about the importance of nostalgia in advertising. — Viewers wouldn't notice, but that clip also makes …

Discussion: Bits and WatchingTV Online

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Newsonomics of less-is-more, more or less — [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] — It is a head-turner, which seems to be, at first, an only-in-Utah story.

Discussion: Salt Lake Tribune

Discussion: Romenesko

Vanity Fair:

Rupert Murdoch's War On The New York Times — Photo illustration by R. Mutt Studios. “I read the Journal a little less now. I find that I can skim it in a way I couldn't before. If the Journal is gaining market share I'd guess it is more at the expense of USA Today than the Times,” …

Discussion: Yahoo! News, Gawker, Romenesko, The Wire, Ben Smith's Blog, Gothamist and New York Magazine

Joanna / Fiction in Truth:

Jay Rosen @ Sciences Po: Who is the audience, and what does that make us, journalists? — NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen was invited by Sciences Po's School of Journalism today to give an inaugural lecture to the fresh new crop of wannabe journalists. As soon as there is video available, I will link to it here.

Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:

In Defense of Links, part three: In links we trust … Nick Carr, like the rest of the “Web rots our brains” contingent, views links as primarily subtractive and destructive. Links direct us away from where we are to somewhere else on the Web. They impede our concentration, degrade our comprehension, and erode our attention spans.

Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:

AOL Already Spending ~$45 Million Per Year On New Patch Employees — AOL made 900 hires over the summer with 50% of the new people going to local blogs network Patch, CEO Tim Armstrong just told employees in a company wide meeting. — Figure all-in costs for each new employee is $100,000 per year …

Discussion: Romenesko

Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:

New ESPN TV Everywhere Service Begins With Time Warner Cable Deal — Disney and Time Warner Cable have settled their retransmission negotiations, finalizing a deal that will keep ABC, ESPN and Disney networks on Time Warner Cable and Bright House Network cable systems.

Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:

CBS News Fires Back At “Perverse Hobby” Of “Ridiculous” Collapse Predictions — The Daily Beast's Rebecca Dana wrote yesterday about the “implosion” and “collapse” at CBS News, focusing on a variety of issues - from ratings to business cards. — Today, CBS News fires back …

Discussion: B&C, New York Observer, Romenesko and On Media's Blog

Lisa de Moraes / Washington Post:

Martha Stewart wants to take Barbara Walters place as next important interviewer — Martha Stewart, whose talk/crafts show is moving to cable's Hallmark Channel in two weeks, coinciding with the launch of her prime-time interview specials for that network, wants to become the new Important Interviewer in the television firmament.

Discussion: TVNewser, New York Post and Chickaboomer

James Ledbetter / Slate:

Why is everyone always writing off Netflix? — People who think and write about technology companies for a living are prone to be wrong now and again. Try to find, for example, veteran analysts or journalists who haven't at some point made a claim about Apple that they didn't later regret.

Discussion: Between the Lines Blog and The Atlantic Online, more at Techmeme »

Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:

Apple and Google to clash in music space by Christmas — (Reuters) - Google Inc is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its mobile users to play songs wherever they are as it steps up its rivalry with Apple Inc, according to people familiar with the matter.

Discussion: MediaPost, Electronista and Tech Trader Daily, more at Techmeme »

Wendy Davis / MediaPost:

Judge Rules News Station Is Immune From ‘Cyber Libel’ Resulting From Commenters — A federal court has dismissed news anchor Toni Miles' claim that her former employer, Raycom Media's WLOX-TV, committed “cyber libel” by allowing readers to post unfiltered comments about her.

Discussion: Techdirt

Joe Pompeo / Silicon Alley Insider:

Forbes Is Going To Start Digging Up Dirt On Everyone On Its Billionaires List — It's been a month since Forbes.com launched a new landing page for its blogs, to which every editorial staffer and a growing number of external writers now contribute. — As part of that expansion …

Discussion: New York Magazine

MediaShift:

How to Conquer Journalism Students' Fear of Technology — Education content on MediaShift is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in inventive ways. See tips for spurring innovation and digital learning at Learn.News21.com.

Discussion: Jen Lee Reeves and J-Source