Mediagazer: Investigative Shortfall — Many news outlets are doing far … (Mary Walton /American Journalism Review)

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 …

Discussion: Romenesko, American Journalism Review and National Media

Wall Street Journal:

A New Digital Battlefield — Amazon, Apple Rivalry Moves Beyond Music and E-Books Into TV Shows — TV shows are emerging as a new front in the war over digital media between Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc., amid their ongoing battles over electronic books and online music.

Discussion: Company Town

Explaining the Cozy Relationship Between Apple and News Corp. — This week's big product news fromApple (AAPL) was made possible in part by News Corp. (NWS), which agreed to make its TV shows available for rent at the ultra-low price of 99 cents per episode via the Apple TV device.

Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter: Why You (Still) Can't Cut the TV Cord: It's Not Technical, It's Just Business

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

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

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.

Discussion: Multichannel and blogs.tampabay.com

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, paidContent, Hollywood Reporter, MediaPost, Business Wire, Company Town and Multichannel

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: NewTeeVee, Silicon Alley Insider, AdPulp, VideoNuze, Bits and WatchingTV Online, more at Techmeme »

Wall Street Journal:

Billboards That Can See You — Japan Pioneers Use of Cameras, Sensors That Let Signs Identify Their Audience — TOKYO—Inside the bustling Shinagawa train station here, a futuristic-looking vending machine has replaced rows of drink bottles and cans with a 47-inch touch-screen monitor.

Discussion: State of the Fourth Estate

Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:

Exclusive deals make 3D TV audience even smaller — Panasonic offered an interactive demonstration of its 3D technology at the 2010 U.S. Open tennis tournament. — (Credit: Marguerite Reardon/CNET) — NEW YORK—Just having the latest and greatest 3D-enabled TV won't guarantee …

Discussion: NewTeeVee

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

Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:

DGA Files Complaint Against Fox News For Illegal Contribution To GOP Candidate — Keeping up its war with Fox News, the Democratic Governors Association on Thursday filed a complaint with the Ohio Elections Commission accusing the network of making an illegal in-kind contribution to gubernatorial candidate John Kasich (R-OH).

Discussion: Gawker, mediabistro.com, The Wrap, TPMMuckraker and On Media's Blog

Liz Gannes / GigaOM:

Ev Williams: Twitter Will Actually Help Information Overload — At its core, Twitter is a “recipient-driven medium,” said CEO Evan Williams in a public conversation tonight in San Francisco, Calif. What does that mean? Williams, an unusually theoretical CEO, is happy to explain.

Discussion: Twitter Blog, more at Techmeme »

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Connected-TV Race: Yahoo Lands A European Telly Maker — The connected-TV space is getting HOT. Manufacturer platforms like Samsung Internet@TV and Sony Internet TV are set to mix with Google TV and Yahoo Connected TV, while the UK's Freeview TVs await connectivity upgrades through Dbook 7 and Canvas …

more at Techmeme »

Evelyn Rusli / TechCrunch:

Reddit Diggs Traffic Surge, Prepares For Expansion — It's all hands on deck at Reddit this week. — In the wake of Digg's bungled redesign, its rival is enjoying a surge in traffic and a jump in ad and subscription sales. Since Monday, the site has been averaging 900,000 uniques per day …

Discussion: MediaPost, ReadWriteWeb and VentureBeat

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: Common Sense Journalism, Editors Weblog, Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News

Discussion: Romenesko and Gawker

Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:

The man behind the Sherrod affair — Andrew Breitbart, whose posting of video clips got a Department of Agriculture official fired, was a liberal Westside child of privilege whose political epiphany transformed him into a conservative. — Andrew Breitbart, once a liberal Westside child of privilege …

Discussion: On Media's Blog

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

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.