Mediagazer: New media: YouTube creative artists pride themselves on being a separate breed (Zachary Pincus-Roth/Los Angeles Times)

12:05 AM ET, September 20, 2010

Top News:

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: New York Times, Runnin' Scared, Mediaite, 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 …

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: Kirk LaPointe's … and Depth Reporting

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 …

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 …

Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:

Covering Murdoch and Company — THE NEW YORK TIMES masquerading as a tabloid — it was more than enough to draw me into the story, I'll admit. The Sept. 5 Sunday Magazine cover blared, “TABLOID HACK ATTACK!” amid funny little color balloons offering tantalizing subheads …

Discussion: Runnin' Scared and The Public Editor's Journal

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:

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 …

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 …

Noam Cohen / New York Times:

Spoiler Alert: Whodunit? Wikipedia Will Tell You — At the end of each performance of the Agatha Christie play “The Mousetrap,” the person revealed to be the murderer steps forward and tells the audience to “keep the secret of whodunit locked in your heart.”

Discussion: /Film

Sam Thielman / Variety:

Price is right for junior journalists — ABC News marshals multitasking collegians — They're on the front line of the one-man-band revolution in television news. — Two years ago, ABC News launched a partnership with a handful of journalism schools, dubbed ABC News on Campus …

Steve Stecklow / Wall Street Journal:

On the Web, Children Face Intensive Tracking — A Wall Street Journal investigation into online privacy has found that popular children's websites install more tracking technologies on personal computers than do the top websites aimed at adults. — The Journal examined 50 sites popular …

Discussion: Doc Searls Weblog