Mediagazer: The Journalists Formerly Known as the Media: My Advice to the Next Generation ( /Jay Rosen)

7:45 PM ET, September 7, 2010

Top News:

How readers consume their news online is changing journalism, but it's not just about the clicks — I can no longer file a story in our computer system without filling out a box, a small gray square that may well determine the future of serious journalism. — The box is supposed …

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, the Econsultancy blog, International Media and Romenesko

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Real Journalism Threatened by Knowledge of What People Like

Discussion: The Wall Blog and Web Analytics World

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

NY Times will not assist police investigation of tabloid — The phone-hacking scandal surrounding British tabloid News of the World, recounted at length in a recent New York Times Magazine cover story, continues gaining steam in the media. — News outlets, especially in the U.K. …

Discussion: Guardian, New York Observer and Liberal Conspiracy

Michael Wolff / Newser:
What Did Rupert Murdoch (and Son James) Know, and When Did They Know It?

Discussion: Guardian, CJR, Press Gazette, The Wire, The First Post and New York Times

Guardian:
Key witness will testify on NoW phone hacking

Discussion: The Staggers, BBC and New York Times

Choire / The Awl:

Gawker Media Now Bigger Than All Newspapers Online — Except One — The latest traffic memo arrives from Gawker Media honcho Nick Denton: in it, Comscore shows that his network of sites is bigger than any newspaper online but the New York Times. That being said? “The newspapers are now the least of our competition.

The Daily Beast:

Who Pushed ABC News' Chief? — David Westin may have had friction with Disney/ABC President Anne Sweeney, but things had been tense with Disney CEO Bob Iger for years. Peter Lauria and Lloyd Grove go inside his resignation. — David Westin's departure from the helm of ABC News after 13 years …

Discussion: Tuned In, Gawker, Company Town, The Daily Beast, TVNewser and Associated Press

Marisa Guthrie / Broadcasting & Cable:
Network News Changes: Just A Matter of Time

Discussion: TVNewser

Bill Carter / New York Times:
ABC News Chief Is Said to Be Resigning

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Westin Out At ABC News Just Months After Massive Job Cuts; The E-Mails

Discussion: Romenesko, DailyFinance and Broadcasting & Cable

/ Jay Rosen:

The Journalists Formerly Known as the Media: My Advice to the Next Generation — This is adapted and expanded from the Inaugural Lecture I gave to the incoming class of journalism students at Science Po in Paris, September 2, 2010: their first day. You can find reports on the speech in English here …

Discussion: Rebooting The News, News Launch Diary and Kirk LaPointe's …

The Atlantic Online:

When ‘Bite Me’ Is ‘Off the Record’ — A day after Rolling Stone Magazine published an explosive profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, featuring raw comments and salty language, a sort of self-generated audit of Washington's journalistic conventions took off inside the Beltway.

Discussion: Mediaite, The Awl and Soup

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Links: Not Just the Currency of the Web, but the Soul — Author Nicholas Carr wrote a controversial post recently about the use of hyperlinks in online content, in which he argued that links were a distraction for readers, and were likely to lead to less comprehension rather than more.

Discussion: Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

IPad Magazine Subscriptions, With a Catch: Zinio Launches Apps for Sporting News, National Geographic — Another day, another new iPad magazine app. But the latest entry, from Sporting News, is worth mentioning, at least for its subscription model. — That is: Unlike much bigger rival …

Discussion: Publishing Executive News, Poynter Online, NetNewsCheck Latest, MediaPost and eMedia Vitals

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

The Atlantic Will Follow Paid iPad Edition With New ‘Atlantic Premium’ — The Atlantic is the latest to mine for gold in the iPad App Store with single issues for sale at $4.99—but that's just one part of a grander digital scheme. In coming weeks, the magazine publisher plans …

Discussion: Editors Weblog, WebNewser and Poynter Online

Taylor Buley / Buleyean String:

HP Breaks Its Own News With Lawsuit Over Hurd's Move To Oracle — HP announced on Tuesday that it is pursuing a civil case against HP chief exec-turned-Oracle-exec Mark Hurd “to protect HP's trade secrets” as Hurd transitions to a new gig as part of the Oracle triumvirate.

Discussion: GigaOM, Computerworld, TechCrunch, DailyFinance, Pulse2, Globe and Mail, Gizmodo and HipMojo.com, more at Techmeme »

Bloomberg:

Samsung Electronics May Use Google's Android Software in TVs — Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest television manufacturer, may make sets run by Google Inc.'s software to compete with Sony Corp. and Apple Inc. in the market for TVs that access movies, shows and games online.

Discussion: SocialTimes.com, NewTeeVee, CrunchGear, Gizmodo, Gadget Lab and DailyFinance

Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:

Google TV Revealed: One Screen to Rule Them All — Google CEO Eric Schmidt discusses Google TV live and on television at the IFA (Internationalen Funkausstellung) conference in Berlin, Germany. — BERLIN - Google gave a live demonstration of Google TV at Berlin's IFA Tuesday …

Discussion: Between the Lines Blog and PopWatch, more at Techmeme »

Elizabeth Olson / New York Times:

Marketing Fanciful Items in the Lands of Make Believe — INTRIGUED by the willingness of millions of consumers to pay real money for things that do not exist, some large companies are testing whether they can raise awareness of their brands — and sell more actual goods — by creating and offering their own pretend merchandise.

Discussion: ReveNews and broadstuff

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

“A completely new model for us”: The Guardian gives outsiders the power to publish for the first time — Last week, the Guardian launched a network of science blogs with a goal that perfectly mixed science with blog: “We aim to entertain, enrage and inform.”

Discussion: Editors Weblog

Ian Shapira / Washington Post:

Washington Times struggles amid divisions of family, ideology, finances — Last fall in South Korea, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church, presided over a mass wedding in the tens of thousands, blessing marriages he had personally arranged — all couples in white gowns, kimonos and black suits.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Romenesko and On Media's Blog