Mediagazer: Patch.com Rep on Newspapers versus Local Internet News (Leonard Witt/PJNet)

6:35 AM ET, September 17, 2010

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Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:

Nobody's making money online - except the folks who are — By Robert Niles: Rafat Ali's right. The news industry is a lousy business now. — Competition's cutting ad rates as technology flattens the industry, destroying economies of scale that once enabled news companies to profit by consolidating into national chains.

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon:

Chilean mining disaster: The agony of slow news — Two of this year's most tragic stories have one thing in common: They remind us of our own powerlessness — The splashy media world of round-the-clock disaster does not lend itself to footage of people standing around and waiting.

@loisbeckett > 140: Why There Can Be No Business Model for Slow News

Paul Biggar / Bad Nomenclature:

Why we shut NewsTilt down — A while back, we announced to our journalists that we shut NewsTilt down, only two months since we launched. I think people are interested in why it failed, and there are some interesting lessons in our demise, at least for me.

Discussion: MediaMemo

Nielsen Wire:

Nielsen and ABC's Innovative iPad App Connects New “Generation” of Viewers — Sid Gorham, Nielsen's EVP, Strategy and Business Development — With today's announcement of the first live application on Nielsen's new Media-Sync Platform, I'm sure some are wondering, “How did Nielsen get involved in launching an iPad app with ABC?”

Discussion: Mashable!, Hollywood Reporter, Gizmodo, AdAge, MediaPost, ReadWriteWeb, paidContent and TUAW, more at Techmeme »

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

News of the World to go behind online paywall — UK's biggest-selling Sunday national newspaper to join the Times and Sunday Times in charging online from next month — The UK's biggest-selling Sunday national newspaper, the News of the World, is to go behind News International's online paywall next month.

Discussion: the Econsultancy blog, paidContent:UK, Journalism.co.uk, Media Week, Online Journalism Blog, The First Post, Editors Weblog and Press Gazette

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Associated Press monitors CNN since dropping service — CNN Worldwide President Jim Walton told staff in June that the network was dropping its contract with the Associated Press and would provide its audience with content that is “distinctive, compelling and, I am proud to say, our own.”

Discussion: Romenesko and TVNewser

Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:

Apple vs. The Onion: App's Rejection Shows Flaw in New Guidelines — Last week, I told you that Apple's new guidelines for app developers are a failure — that they merely codify the confusion over what kinds of content Apple will or won't reject rather than clearing it up.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Exclusive: Google Gets a Content Guy-Netflix Veteran Robert Kyncl — Google (GOOG) wants to get into your living room, but it would help if it could show up with some TV shows and movies in hand. Here's the guy who's supposed to make that happen: Robert Kyncl, formerly a top Netflix emissary to Hollywood.

Discussion: VideoNuze and Company Town, more at Techmeme »

Andrea Pitzer / Nieman Storyboard:

What's in it from me? Crowdsourced magazines and storytelling — As a child, did you ever imagine yourself waiting for a call from people in need, people who were praying that you'd see their signal and come to the rescue? If so, you might have the makings of a modern magazine writer.

Nick Davies / Guardian:

Phone-hacking witness: arrest me if you want to quiz me as a suspect — Police threaten to question journalist under caution in tactic MPs fear may intimidate whistleblowers — A former News of the World journalist who came forward with information about illegal activities at the paper …

Discussion: CJR

Leonard Witt / PJNet:

Patch.com Rep on Newspapers versus Local Internet News — On Wednesday Regional Patch Editor Michael Jacobs stopped by the Center for Sustainable Journalism to talk about the launch of more than 60 Patch.com news sites in the Atlanta area. Jacobs oversees 12 sites scheduled to launch …

Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:

News Sites Study Social Media — Publishers Seek Insight on User Behavior; The Best Time to Send Out a Tweet — News organizations are getting more scientific about studying the value of the online readers they are hooking through social media services like Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. …

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

Miami Herald cuts 49 positions, announces new furloughs — Memos from the Herald's publisher and executive editor — Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 9:34 AM — To all Herald employees: — Today we are announcing a plan to eliminate 49 staff positions across MHMC.

Discussion: Gawker, MiamiHerald.com and Riptide 2.0

Economist:

A smashing success — The iPad is transforming media firms, and frustrating them — THE advertisement for Newsday's iPad application starts blithely enough. A man in a shirt and tie sits in the kitchen, reading the New York newspaper on his tablet computer.

Matt Gross / New York Times:

A Baby Photo Becomes an Internet Meme — SOMETIME back in 2000, Allen S. Rout, a systems programmer from Gainesville, Fla., posted a few photos of his 5-month-old son, Stephen, on his personal Web site. They were the kind of photos that every parent takes, but one in particular stood out …

Discussion: Gawker and MediaPost

Josh Stearns / Save the News Blog:

Rebuilding Journalism By Rebuilding Trust — Last week, after much of the mainstream media worked itself into frenzy covering every angle of the Quran-burning story and the controversy over the proposed New York City Islamic community center, there was a moment of reflection in the press.