Mediagazer: Google Instant Makes SEO Irrelevant (Steve Rubel/The Steve Rubel Stream)

3:20 AM ET, September 9, 2010

Top News:

Lucky Girl Brandon Holley Ditches Yahoo's ‘Brainy Geeks,’ Returns to Condé … Three years ago Jane magazine closed, and editor Brandon Holley was out of a job. — “I didn't leave Jane, Jane left me,” Ms. Holley told The Observer on the phone this afternoon.

Discussion: Folio, Media Decoder and AdAge

Joe Pompeo / Silicon Alley Insider:
Brandon Holley Leaves Yahoo, Heads Back To Conde Nast As Editor Of Lucky

Discussion: Gawker, New York Magazine, Romenesko, New York Observer and paidContent

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

CNN Makes It Official: Piers Morgan Will Replace Larry King — CNN said Wednesday that Piers Morgan would take over for Larry King next January, putting an end to speculation about one of the most prized time slots in television. — Mr. Morgan, the British-born journalist and talent show judge …

Discussion: blogs.tampabay.com, Mediaite, The Wrap, Tuned In, Romenesko, Broadcasting & Cable, New York Observer, DailyFinance, International Media, The Wire, Chickaboomer, PopEater, The Huffington Post and Press Gazette

Alan Duke / CNN:

Larry King replacement named — (CNN) — British TV host Piers Morgan will take over Larry King's prime-time hour with “a candid, in-depth newsmaker interview program” starting in January, CNN announced Wednesday. — Morgan, best known to American viewers as a judge on NBC's “America's Got Talent …

Discussion: MediaPost, Romenesko, The Wrap, PC Magazine, New York Times, Mercury News and Mediaite

Scott Klein / ProPublica:

Welcome to the Nerd Blog … Today we are introducing our Nerd Blog, a place to talk about what programmer-journalists at ProPublica are working on, announce newly-launched news applications, and to hear from technically-minded readers, as well as our fellow nerdy journalists.

Discussion: Romenesko

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Like It or Not, Twitter Has Become a News Platform — There's been plenty of debate lately about whether Twitter has become “mainstream” or not, but examples continue to pile up of how the social network/microblogging platform has worked its way into our lives, to the point where it has become a form of media unto itself.

Discussion: Editors Weblog

Next Media Animation:

Wall Street Journal takes on New York Times — After more than a century of peaceful co-existence, the Wall Street Journal has decided to take on the New York Times head on with its Greater New York section. New owner Rupert Murdoch declared “let the battle begin.” Is this going to be a newspaper war for the ages?

Discussion: BoomTown, New York Observer, Mediaite, Gothamist, The Awl and On Media's Blog

Emma Heald / Editors Weblog:

Arthur Sulzberger on charging online: to succeed, we need to take risks — Chairman and publisher of the New York Times, Arthur Sulzberger Jr, stressed the need to take risks and not be afraid of failure in the quest to find a business model that can adequately support high quality journalism.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, New York Observer, Romenesko, Mashable! and The Wrap

Michael Wolff / Newser:

News Corp. Is Freaking Out — Follow him on Twitter @MichaelWolffNYC — “You don't get it,” a member of News Corporation's inner circle in London told me last night, about the phone hacking scandal. “If there was a conspiracy in the company, the conspiracy was to keep Rupert from knowing.”

Discussion: Crikey and The Independent

Nick Davies / Guardian:
Phone hacking was rife at N0W, says new witness

Discussion: CJR, The Atlantic Online and Politics Daily

Steve Rubel / The Steve Rubel Stream:

Google Instant Makes SEO Irrelevant — Google today launched an ambitious effort to speed up searching. But what they really did is kill SEO. — Google says: … The most important consideration for marketers or anyone who creates content, however, is in the bullets...

The Wrap:

New Media Upstarts Relying on Journalism for a Change — New websites are launched every day — most, it would appear, involving photos of cats in compromising situations. Sites with real impact potential pop up less often. — Yet three recent digital media launches — Capital New York …

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Ebyline Launches As A Market For Freelance Journalists And News Syndication — Can a ragtag group of former newspapermen from the L.A. Times help newspapers fight off the content farms of the Web The founders and backers of Ebyline, which has been in private beta for a few months and launches today …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and LA Observed

The Politico:

POLITICO hires first opinion writers — Pioneering journalist Michael Kinsley and GOP congressman-turned-TV-host Joe Scarborough will write weekly columns for POLITICO starting next month. — Kinsley, the left-leaning founding editor of Slate, currently writes for The Atlantic Media Company …

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog

Gabe Rivera / The Atlantic Wire:

MEDIA DIET: Gabe Rivera: What I Read — How do people deal with the torrent of information that rains down on us all? What's the secret to staying on top of the news without surrendering to the chaos of it? In this series, we ask people who seem well-informed to describe their media diets.

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:

Flipboard CEO: Only A Tiny Handful Of Publishers Have Complained About Our App Taking Too Much Content — One of the early concerns about Flipboard — the beautiful reading app for Apple's iPad — was that it pulled lengthy excerpts of content from web publishers, without paying them or pulling in their ads.

Bloomberg:

New York Times Shares and Options Rise on Slim Takeover Speculation — New York Times Co. shares rose as much as 8 percent and bullish options trading surged to a six- month high on renewed speculation the newspaper publisher may be acquired. — Almost 6,400 calls to buy the stock changed hands …

Discussion: MarketBeat, MediaMemo, Romenesko, Reuters, New York Observer and The Wire

Kimberley Isbell / Nieman Journalism Lab:

What's the law around aggregating news online? A Harvard Law report on the risks and the best practices — [So much of the web is built around aggregation — gathering together interesting and useful things from around the Internet and presenting them in new ways to an audience.

Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:

Netflix Grabs More Streaming Content Ahead of Cable — Netflix is expanding its catalog of exclusive streaming content with a deal that will give its subscribers access to films from Nu Image/Millennium Films during what was traditionally known as the “pay TV window.”

Discussion: PR Newswire and Online Video News, more at Techmeme »

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

‘Intersect’ Provides New Way to Share Life Stories Based on Time & Place — Often, the stories we tell — as journalists and as citizens — are part of an ongoing narrative. It's easy, though, for parts of that narrative to get lost along the way. Our memories get hazy.

Discussion: Lost Remote

Brennen Wysong / The Deal Economy:

Chrystia Freeland and the ‘image problem’ — Several weeks ago, Chrystia Freeland, a global editor at large at Reuters, penned a short essay in The New York Times Book Review about the “image problem” of business journalism. Appropriately enough, given the venue, Freeland tied her piece …

Steven Aftergood / Secrecy News:

Pentagon Seeks “Coordination” of Media Activities — The Department of Defense last week increased its efforts to require that Department contacts with the media be monitored and approved by DoD public affairs officials. — “I am asking the heads of the Military Services …

Discussion: Romenesko

Stuart Elliott / New York Times:

Glamour Promotes Its Brand and Its Readers — FOR decades, fans of soap operas have been watching the exploits of the young and the restless. Now, will the readers and advertisers of a well-known woman's magazine want to be, or reach, the young and the posh?

Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:

Lessons in crowdsourcing: Claire Wardle on using Ushahidi for the Tube strike — The following is cross-posted from Claire Wardle's blog: — Late on Monday night, I wrote a short post in anticipation of the crowdmap I'd just set up for BBC London, which I hoped would provide a useful service …

Discussion: BBC College of Journalism Blog

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Sarnoff Leaves Dow Jones To Join BBC Worldwide America As COO — Herb Scannell continues to pull former Viacom (NYSE: VIA) colleagues into BBC Worldwide America. The latest is Ann Sarnoff, who left Dow Jones after four years to be Scannell's COO. Sarnoff was president of Dow Jones Ventures …

Discussion: The Wrap, MediaPost, Variety, Broadcasting & Cable and Multichannel

James Chessell / TheAustralian:

Fairfax Media loses copyright battle — THE Federal Court has ruled against Fairfax Media's attempt to claim copyright over headlines in The Australian Financial Review. — The decision is seen by the publishing industry to have significant implications for the reproduction of newspaper articles.

Discussion: paidContent, mediabistro.com and Guardian

Nick Axelrod / WWD:

Anna Wintour Weaves Her Web — ANNA WEAVES HER WEB: Just what Anna Wintour needed: another project. On the eve of New York Fashion Week and a mere two days before her brainchild, Fashion's Night Out — which, while ostensibly having little to do with Vogue, has more than five …

Discussion: Media Decoder