Mediagazer: Technology Gives Everyone a Great Seat at Shows (Stephen Heyman/New York Times)

2:20 PM ET, September 10, 2010

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Coverage of Koran Case Stirs Questions on Media Role — A renegade pastor and his tiny flock set fire to a Koran on a street corner, and made sure to capture it on film. And they were ignored. — That stunt took place in 2008, involving members of the Westboro Baptist Church from Topeka …

Discussion: The Daily Dish, The Huffington Post, Telegraph, PostPartisan, New York Magazine, Politics Daily, Guardian, Romenesko, Free Press, Chickaboomer, Editors Weblog, Most Recent Home Page Posts …, David Higgerson, Orlando Sentinel, Gothamist, CNN, Political Punch and TVNewser

Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:

Don't Blame Media, Blame the Media-Audience Infinite Loop — I've spent two days listening to and reading near-constant coverage of the wacko who's planning to burn Korans in Gainsville, Florida, and increasingly the stories have been about whether or not all the press attention has been irresponsible.

Discussion: On Media's Blog, Mediaite, Romenesko, New York Times, Lost Remote, International Media, Strupp and Z on TV

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Plan to burn Qurans ignites media frenzy

Discussion: Romenesko, Salon, Indecision Forever, Everyday Ethics, Howard Kurtz, Talking Points Memo, George's Bottom Line, The Huffington Post, Silicon Alley Insider, Threat Level, The Register and CrunchGear

Jenna Wortham / Bits:

Betaworks and The Times Plan a Social News Service — Something is stirring deep within the technology incubator Betaworks: A personalized news service called News.me that is being developed in collaboration with The New York Times. — On Thursday, a cryptic placeholder for the service went live.

Discussion: Mashable!, Romenesko, Journalism.co.uk, paidContent, Fast Company, Trends in the Living Networks, The Next Web, New York Magazine and Lost Remote, more at Techmeme »

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

Public Media API Could Be ‘Engine of Innovation’ for Journalism — Journalists from American Public Media, Public Radio Exchange, Public Radio International, PBS and NPR have spent months scoping out how they would create an online pipeline to share and distribute public media content on any platform.

Discussion: rbr.com, Broadcasting & Cable, Public Radio Exchange, NPR, paidContent, Nieman Journalism Lab and ClickZ

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
USA Today Latest Media Co. to Realize Open is Better

Discussion: ProgrammableWeb

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
American Public Media, MPR founder Kling to step down as CEO in 2011

Discussion: BrauBlog and Minnesota Public Radio

Newsweek:

Exclusive: WikiLeaks Collaborating With Media Outlets on Release of Iraq Documents — A London-based journalism nonprofit is working with the WikiLeaks Web site and TV and print media in several countries on programs and stories based on what is described as massive cache …

Discussion: The First Post, media 360, New York Magazine and Boing Boing

Kim Zetter / Threat Level:

Massive Cache of Iraq War Docs to Be Published by WikiLeaks — A massive cache of previously unpublished classified U.S. military documents from the Iraq War is being readied for publication by WikiLeaks, a new report has confirmed. — The documents constitute the “biggest leak of military intelligence” …

Discussion: Salon and Wonkette

Jack Shafer / Slate:

The Fallen Status of Books — Hard times for hardcovers. — No greater pride befalls a scholar, a thinker, a journalist, a business executive, or other writer than to have a party thrown in honor of the publication of his book. A book party is like a wedding, a birthday party, a baptism …

Discussion: Change of Subject, GalleyCat, Media Buyer Planner, Romenesko, The Wire, New York Magazine and New York Observer

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times: In Adding Book Section, the Journal Bucks Trend

Stephen Heyman / New York Times:

Technology Gives Everyone a Great Seat at Shows — THE hub of New York Fashion Week may have moved from Bryant Park to Lincoln Center, but a swirl of exclusivity still surrounds the event, with its security guards and glamazon gatekeepers. How can an unaccredited clotheshorse crash the party?

Discussion: NewTeeVee, Jezebel and Guardian

The Wall Blog:
Twitter in content push as it partners with Amex for New York Fashion Week

Discussion: mediabistro.com, The Next Web and Switched

Jon Friedman / MarketWatch:

Can anything save ABC News from extinction? — Commentary: The division has sorely lacked a cable presence — NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Forget, for a moment, that ABC News is in disarray. — Forget, too, that the network news business is regarded as a dinosaur.

Discussion: TVNewser and Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog

Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:

Tracking Songs All Over — Billboard Introduces Service to Help Aspiring Artists Monitor Their Exposure — For decades, appearing in the pages of Billboard magazine was a powerful symbol of achievement for musical artists. Now the publication famous for its music-sales charts is grappling …

Discussion: hypebot

Leon Neyfakh / New York Observer:

Dale Peck, Choire Sicha and Friends Start a Book Publishing Collective; First Title Out Next Month … “I think that we recognize that we're way past the moment of panic,” said the novelist DW Gibson yesterday. “And it now sort of feels like a land of opportunity.”

Discussion: tag me with a spoon

Laura Miller / Salon:

The trouble with Google Books — How rampant errors threaten the scholarly mission of the vast digital library — Depending on who you ask, Google Books — the pioneering tech company's ambitious plan to “digitally scan every book in the world” and make them searchable over the Web and in libraries …

Discussion: The Book Bench

Peter Lauria / The Daily Beast:

Michael Eisner on Media's Future — With rumors circulating about a likely move to run the Tribune Company, the formidable mogul talks with Peter Lauria about his new book on the greatest business partnerships—but artfully dodges any guesses on his future.

Discussion: Romenesko

Emily Bell:

Newsrooms need more metrics, not fewer. — A slow Labor Day news day maybe I thought when I noticed that the NYT was carrying a piece on Monday entitled : ‘Some Newspapers, Tracking Readers Online, Shift Coverage’. As old news goes this is positively antediluvian isn't it?

Ethan Zuckerman / Nieman Reports:

The Attention Deficit: Plenty of Content, Yet an Absence of Interest — As news organizations wrestle with the challenge of discovering profitable reporting models for a digital age, at least three types of public service journalism are endangered species—investigative reporting …

Discussion: Editors Weblog and Nieman Journalism Lab

Jolie O'Dell / Mashable!:

Dissecting the New Vogue.com: How One Magazine Did the Web Right — Vogue is one of the biggest, glossiest names in magazine publishing, and it's just given its website a huge facelift. — The site has grown exponentially in glamor and functionality with its latest iteration.

Discussion: PAPERMAG

David Kaplan / paidContent:

U.S. News Partners With Loud3r On Content Aggregation Channels — U.S. News Media Group, the parent of monthly mag U.S. News and World Report, is working with content aggregator Loud3r on a series of real-time news feeds. The first part of the effort is Congress Tracker, which is naturally timed for the upcoming midterm elections.

Discussion: WebNewser and Loud3r

Philip Stone / FollowTheMedia:

What's More Important: The Money A Paywall Web Site Brings In Or The Influence - Branding - Earned From Letting Everyone In Free? — Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, says the Murdoch paywall at the Times and Sunday Times in the UK is a “foolish experiment” mainly because their readership online …