Mediagazer: Exclusive: IAC Finally Kills Off Bloglines (Leena Rao/TechCrunch)

9:40 PM ET, September 10, 2010

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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: Romenesko, Shaping the Future …, Mashable!, VatorNews, FM Blog, Trends in the Living Networks, Journalism.co.uk, Domain Name Wire, New York Magazine, paidContent, The Next Web and Lost Remote

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

The New York Times Gets a Bite of Bit.ly — Here's a quick follow up to News.Me, the sort-of mysterious social news project that the New York Times (NYT) is developing alongside Betaworks. An interesting deal point, really: As part of the partnership between the two companies …

Discussion: DealBook

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

Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Don't Blame Media, Blame the Media-Audience Infinite Loop

Discussion: On Media's Blog, Mediaite, Romenesko, Yahoo! News, Lost Remote, International Media and Strupp

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

Discussion: Salon and Wonkette

Libby Reinish / Save the News Blog:

No More Bleeding Ledes, Please — Sensationalism is rampant in our consolidated news system, where scandal, celebrity gossip and violence (or the threat of looming violence) lead the headlines. Ever wonder why this is all we see and read and hear? — It isn't simply that scandal …

Discussion: Common Sense Journalism and Silicon Alley Insider

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, paidContent, NPR and Nieman Journalism Lab

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

Discussion: ProgrammableWeb

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: Switched and The Next Web

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Yes, That's The Wall Street Journal Tracking You — Aggressive Re-Targeting For Subscriptions and No Obvious Way to Opt Out — The Wall Street Journal is bringing some needed attention to the online privacy issue. Its series, ‘What They Know’ has detailed the buying …

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

In Adding Book Section, the Journal Bucks Trend — In the last few years, newspapers including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and The Boston Globe have ended their freestanding book review sections. — Now The Wall Street Journal is bucking the trend and starting one of its own.

Jack Shafer / Slate:
The Fallen Status of Books

Discussion: Change of Subject, GalleyCat and New York Observer

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

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Exclusive: IAC Finally Kills Off Bloglines — It's finally happened. Bloglines,the troubled RSS feed reader owned by IAC, will officially be shut down, the company has told TechCrunch exclusively. The site has had a tumultuous history, so it's unsurprising that IAC has finally put the platform out of its misery.

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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

Nicholas Watt / Guardian:

MPs warned off over Rebekah Brooks — Cross-party committee allegedly abandoned plans to force News International chief to testify after being warned their lives would be investigated — A cross-party committee of MPs abandoned plans to force the News International chief executive …

Discussion: Press Gazette

Rachel Sklar / Mediaite:

If It's San Bruno That's Burning And Not The Koran, Will The Cable Nets Notice? — The breaking news email alert came in from CNN: “State of emergency declared in San Bruno, California, after massive gas explosion and fire.” Thing is, it came in at 2:54 a.m.

Kevin Allocca / TVNewser:

Florida Runs Your News — Growing up in South Florida, I should have known I would someday end up somehow involved in TV news. For better or worse, the state of Florida — and in particular the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale market — has had maybe the biggest impact on the television news industry outside New York and LA.

Nicholas Carlson / The Wire:

HuffPo, BuzzFeed Cofounder Jonah Peretti Explains Why A Picture Of Lindsay Lohan's Side Boob Won't Turn Viral — Even though a lot of people will click to see a photo of Lindsay Lohan's side boob, the picture will never turn viral. — Why? Because it would be straight up awkward to share …

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

Pentagon Loosens Restrictions for Press in Guantánamo — The Pentagon has agreed to revise some of the rules that have restricted what journalists are free to report on from Guantánamo Bay, resolving a conflict that peaked in May when four reporters were expelled from the naval base there.

Discussion: Romenesko

Hunter Walker / The Wrap:

ABC Marketing Co-Head Mike Benson Steps Down — ABC Entertainment just got its big first casualty under new president Paul Lee: Mike Benson, one of the two execs who run the marketing division, is stepping down. — “Paul is going in a new direction, and Mike has decided to step down,” an ABC spokesperson told The Wrap.

Discussion: MediaPost, New York Magazine, Broadcasting & Cable, Company Town and Variety