Mediagazer: Newsweek's Howard Fineman to Join The Huffington Post (Media Decoder)

4:15 AM ET, September 20, 2010

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Newsweek's Howard Fineman to Join The Huffington Post — Howard Fineman, one of the more recognizable pundits on cable television and a correspondent for Newsweek for 30 years, is leaving the magazine to become a senior editor at The Huffington Post. — Mr. Fineman's move from a print medium …

Discussion: LA Observed, Runnin' Scared, ReadWriteWeb, Mediaite, New York Times, Gawker and New York Magazine

Tanzina Vega / New York Times:

New Journalism Degree to Emphasize Start-Ups — The Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York wants to capitalize on some of the shifts that have rocked traditional journalism — and traditional journalists — with the creation of the Tow-Knight Center …

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Aggregators: the good ones vs. the looters — News aggregators have grown into all shapes and forms. Some are truly helping the producers of original content but others simply amount to mere electronic ransack. — My daily media routine starts on Techmeme.

Discussion: Kindle Review, Kirk LaPointe's … and Depth Reporting

Andrew Vanacore / Associated Press:

The next front for Murdoch's Journal: the weekend — NEW YORK - The Wall Street Journal's editor, Robert Thomson, is never short of fighting words. And he had a few to add in a recent interview about the Journal's new weekend edition, which launches this Saturday with two new sections …

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

Culture Vulture Stands Alone — Regular readers of New York magazine are familiar with its Approval Matrix, which is really more of a graph than a matrix. But that's beside the point. — The matrix plots on X and Y axes pop culture happenings of the previous week, ranking them neatly …

Wall Street Journal:

Spitzer: Politician to Pundit — The Ex-Governor Discusses His Anxiety as He Prepares to Launch a TV Program — As a politician, Eliot Spitzer was not known to play well with others, whether they were New York Stock Exchange CEO Richard Grasso, Republican state Senate leader Joe Bruno, or state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

Zachary Pincus-Roth / Los Angeles Times:

New media: YouTube creative artists pride themselves on being a separate breed — Popular series have gone subscriber-only, and Hollywood has come knocking, but independent spirit reigns. — Shane Dawson, who has produced over 300 YouTube videos of Shane Dawson TV, says his goal remains …

Todd Spangler / Multichannel:

Sezmi Raises $17.3 Million — Hybrid Broadcast-Internet TV Service Now Has Collected $92 Million In Funding — Sezmi, the startup marketing a hybrid broadcast-Internet TV service as a cheap replacement to cable and satellite TV in more than three dozen U.S. markets, has raised …

L. Gordon Crovitz / Wall Street Journal:

Now the News Finds You — A Pew study finds people spend an average of 70 minutes a day accessing new and old media. — The woes of the news industry are well reported, but accounts of the financial troubles of the media bury the lead: People are consuming more news.

James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:

On the Media: Fake news flourishes under the feds' noses — Hucksters continue to masquerade as journalists under FCC and FTC ‘enforcement.’ — An old actor I know would watch a plodding drama and growl, “If you watch closely, it almost moves.” — That's the feeling I'm getting …

Steve Safran / Lost Remote:

UK hyperlocal site starts paper edition — A site that covers an East Yorkshire, UK locale is now turning out a print edition. HU17.net, which covers Beverley, has started a weekly print version. It's a small print run - about 100 copies. Paul Smith, the publisher, tells The Guardian:

Inc:

The Way I Work: Michael Arrington of TechCrunch — Michael Arrington loves breaking tech stories, but he's not big on PR people, conversational niceties, or sunlight. — Michael Arrington says his style is to “bust the door down and clean the mess up later.”