Mediagazer: NYU Professor Jay Rosen Offers Advice to an Incoming Class of Journalism Students. (Jarvis Coffin/Burst Media Company Blog)

6:55 AM 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: Telegraph, Guardian, Orlando Sentinel, David Higgerson, Gothamist and The Daily Dish

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: Mediaite, New York Times, Romenesko, Lost Remote, International Media, Strupp and CNN

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Plan to burn Qurans ignites media frenzy — Pastor Terry Jones of Gainesville, Fla., got a bit of local press last Sept. 11 when members of his small congregation stood on the side of the road wearing “Islam is of the devil” T-shirts. This year, he has upped the ante with an anti-Islam stunt …

Discussion: Everyday Ethics, Romenesko, George's Bottom Line, The Huffington Post, Silicon Alley Insider, Threat Level, The Register, The Daily Caller, CrunchGear, Washington Wire, TPMMuckraker and USA Today, more at Techmeme »

David Zurawik / Z on TV:
Fox News says it will not cover burning of Quran

Discussion: Associated Press, Media Decoder, Romenesko, Editors Weblog, New York Times, CNN, Guardian, PostPartisan, Daily Record, CJR, Gothamist, TVNewser, USA Today, Mediaite, New York Magazine and The Wire

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!, paidContent, The Next Web, New York Magazine and Lost Remote

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

John Koblin / New York Observer:
Wall Street Journal To Launch A Book Review Section

Discussion: New York Times, Media Buyer Planner, Gawker, Romenesko, New York Magazine, Shaping the Future …, GalleyCat, Crain's New York Business, The Wire and On Media's Blog

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 …

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Newspaper Paywalls: Full Speed Ahead

Discussion: New York Times, CJR and MediaPost

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:

Online Measurement Creates a Muddle for Web Journalists — When it comes to data about readers, maybe online news organizations have too much of what should be a good thing. — Web editors have a plethora of options when it comes to seeing what visitors are doing online.

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Reuters Taps Slate's James Ledbetter As Website Editor — Two months after the Slate Group folded its business news site The Big Money, its former editor-in-chief James Ledbetter is heading to Reuters (NYSE: TRI) to run the company's website, paidContent has learned. Both Reuters and Ledbetter confirmed the hiring.

Discussion: Talking Biz News, Romenesko and DailyFinance

Joel Johnson / Gizmodo:

Forget Apple TV. AirPlay Is Apple's Sneak Attack On Television — It was almost a footnote. AirPlay, the audio streaming protocol once known as AirTunes, got just one minute of keynote time last week. But it might end up as the backbone of Apple's assault on the living room. More »

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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 …

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: media 360, Newsweek, Boing Boing and New York Magazine

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Newsweek's Weymouth heads to Washington Post — Lally Weymouth, a special diplomatic correspondent at Newsweek, becomes the latest high-ranking staffer to leave the magazine since audio magnate Sidney Harman agreed to buy it from the Washington Post Co. — Weymouth will join …

Discussion: Romenesko and On Media's Blog

Susan B. Glasser / Nieman Reports:

Foreign Policy: Morphing Into an Online Daily — 'At the start of our Web relaunch, here's what we had: essentially no money, no reporters, a creaky and often barely functioning custom-made Web platform, a wonderfully talented young staff ...' The journalistic crowd has taken it as an article …

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: Public Radio Exchange, NPR and Nieman Journalism Lab

Jarvis Coffin / Burst Media Company Blog:

NYU Professor Jay Rosen Offers Advice to an Incoming Class of Journalism Students. He Should Offer the Same Advice to Advertising Students. — MediaBistro's Morning News Feed points to the remarks NYU journalism professor, Jay Rosen, made to the incoming class of students …

Discussion: Multimedia Musings

rbr.com:

Emmis buyout effort ended in frustration — Founder and CEO Jeff Smulyan had tried and failed once before to take Emmis Communications private, so he hung on to the bitter end this time as a shareholders meeting that began August 3rd was convened for the 10th time on Thursday, September 9th.

Discussion: Indianapolis Star, Romenesko, Folio and Media Buyer Planner