Mediagazer: Muck Rack Daily Brings You Some-But Not All-of the News That's Fit to Tweet (Peter Kafka/MediaMemo)

Brent Lang / The Wrap:

TheGrill: People Spend More Than Half Their Day Consuming Media — What a difference two years make. — More has changed in media consumption over the last two years than in the 30 years that proceeded it, Bruce Friend, president of Ipsos OTX MediaCT said at the TheWrap's Grill Conference on Monday night.

Discussion: National Media, BusinessJournalism.org …, Romenesko and Poynter Online

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Huffington snags N.Y. Times star — In the latest sign that Web sites can compete on an equal footing with media giants, a top reporter for the New York Times is defecting to the Huffington Post. — Peter Goodman, until recently the paper's national economic correspondent and now a writer …

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Lagardere Names a New CEO at Hachette, Publisher of Elle, Woman's Day — Outgoing Lemarchand Cut Costs, Sold Magazines — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Lagardere Active has named Steve Parr, former president of Primedia Enthusiast Media and Source Interlink Media, the new president-CEO …

Discussion: MediaPost, New York Observer, MinOnline, Romenesko and The Fix

Mrs. Bunz / Mercedes Bunz:

The rise of collaborative journalism - 5 points on how social media changed the news — About five years after it took the internet by storm, it is apparent that social media has changed how we do journalism. At the Guardian, CNN and soon the NYTimes, a collaborative journalism of a whole new kind has emerged

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

VideoEgg Will Acquire Six Apart And Rename Itself SAY Media — Advertising network VideoEgg will acquire blogging and advertising network Six Apart, and the combined entity will be renamed Say Media. The companies will officially announce the transaction tomorrow.

Discussion: paidContent, GigaOM, VentureBeat, The Blog Herald, The Next Web and Digital Daily, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Exclusive: Comcast Reshuffles Its Digital Deck Before NBC Comes Aboard — Comcast hasn't finished acquiring NBC Universal. But it is already moving around some of its digital leadership ahead of the deal's close. — Sources familiar with the company say that current digital head Amy Banse …

more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Muck Rack Daily Brings You Some-But Not All-of the News That's Fit to Tweet — Yet another news aggregator? Yup. And this one is even more meta than most: Muck Rack Daily is a news service dedicated to telling you what journalists are saying, via Twitter, about the news.

Discussion: National Media and Romenesko

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

AOL, Patch Team Up With Slew Of Journalism Schools For PatchU Project — AOL and its subsidiary Patch this morning announced the launch of PatchU, a new network of partnerships between local Patch publications and journalism schools, colleges and universities to help prepare the next generation …

Discussion: USA Today, Romenesko, NetNewsCheck Latest and NYConvergence

Michael Starr / New York Post:

Burnett's OWN deal — Tweet — Mark Burnett has signed a deal to produce a daily talk show for OWN, Oprah Winfrey's upcoming cable network. — The show, targeted for daytime, will feature multiple hosts a la “The View,” sources say. — It will premiere in January in tandem with the launch of OWN …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, TV Squad, TVWeek.com and Hollywood Insider

Marisa Guthrie / Broadcasting & Cable:

Why the TV Grid Still Matters — With competition at an all-time high, scheduling has never been more important — The DVR is going to end television as we know it, even as just a transitional technology until we move to a completely on-demand world. The idea of network schedules …

Discussion: MediaPost and Wall Street Journal

Discussion: MediaPost, Company Town, TVbytheNumbers and Media Buyer Planner

Molly Klinefelter / American Journalism Review:

Beltway Bound — Miami Herald political writer Beth Reinhard will soon bring her “outsider” perspective to National Journal's beefed-up online report. — Molly Klinefelter (mklinefelter@ajr.umd.edu) is an AJR editorial assistant. — It's hardly a secret that when it comes to politics, 2010 is the year of the “outsider.”

Discussion: Cision

Discussion: Gannett Blog

Bill White / Morning Call:

Journalism gates being trampled — One of my colleagues sent me a link the other day to a story from Dan Gillmor of salon.com, asking the excellent question: — “Who is a journalist? Does it matter?” — When a fire destroyed two buildings in south Bethlehem late last summer …

Financial Times:

Twitter to step up ‘promoted tweet’ technology — Twitter is looking to generate more income from its paid advertising by testing targeting technology that will allow companies to show ‘promoted tweets’ to users based on the kind of people and brands they are following

Discussion: TechCrunch

Brian Morrissey / Adweek:

Do TV Spots Work in Web Video? — The answer is yes, but online-specific creative also has its place — A common knock on the Web video industry is that it needs to move beyond repurposed TV spots, often shown as pre-rolls before content begins. — But new research from Dynamic Logic finds …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Bob Iger: Disney is ‘under-appreciated’ — Points out study that ranks it as ninth most-valued brand — NEW YORK - “At times we feel under-appreciated,” Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger told a Wall Street crowd here Tuesday when asked what investors tend to miss or under-appreciate about Disney.

Tanzina Vega / New York Times:

Code That Tracks Users' Browsing Prompts Lawsuits — Sandra Person Burns used to love browsing and shopping online. Until she realized she was being tracked by software on her computer that she thought she had erased. — Ms. Person Burns, 67, a retired health care executive who lives in Jackson …

Discussion: Common Sense Journalism

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Ted Turner on the 'world's most pressing issue' — CNN founder also opines on the future of print media — NEW YORK — The threat of nuclear weapons, the history of CNN and the future of print media and their possible transition to digital — those were all topics that CNN founder Ted Turner tackled here Monday.

Discussion: Romenesko, The Wire and RTTNews

Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:

Why Sports Illustrated Ignored Apple's iPad Guidelines — Magazine publishers are at great pains these days to please Apple (AAPL), whose fast-selling tablet computer, the iPad, just may be the key to their future survival. But following all the persnickety dictates handed down by Steve Jobs isn't always easy.

Discussion: New York Observer and magCulture.com/blog

Reporters Committee News:

Newspaper invokes Montana shield law to avoid subpoenas — The publisher and two editors of a Montana newspaper are relying on the state's shield law to quash subpoenas for their testimony in a change of venue hearing for a double homicide trial, said Pete Meloy, the newspaper's attorney.

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

CBS taps Yahoo to promote fall premieres — Campaign to include Web, mobile, messenger assets — NEW YORK — To kick off fall TV premiere week, CBS has teamed with Yahoo to maximize online buzz for its new and returning shows in what is Yahoo's largest single initiative to-date …

Discussion: Media Buyer Planner

Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

1 in 4 local firms plan newspaper ad cuts: poll — Nearly one in four local businesses plan to cut back on newspaper advertising this year, according to a poll being released today. And there is no mystery about what they are doing with the money. — At the same time those businesses …

Discussion: The Wire and NetNewsCheck Latest

Mark Harris / New York Magazine:

The Vulture Transcript: An In-Depth Chat With David Fincher About The Social Network — David Fincher rarely gives interviews, but for the New York cover story on his new movie, The Social Network (which opens October 1), the director sat down with Mark Harris for a long, revealing chat.

Discussion: Stanford Daily and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Marco Arment Leaves Tumblr To Devote Himself To Instapaper — Tumblr CTO and notable blogger Marco Arment announced today that he would be leaving his position at Tumblr to focus on more independent projects. What many in the tech world are curious about is what this means for Instapaper …

Discussion: Marco.org, Silicon Alley Insider, The Next Web, VentureBeat, New York Observer and Soup

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Publishers Should Be Careful What They Wish For — Both the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News have confirmed earlier reports that Apple is working on a “digital newsstand” venture that would handle subscriptions for newspaper and magazine publishers through the iTunes store.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, eMarketer and Blog Posts, Mashable! and Online Video News

Discussion: The Consumerist, Techdirt and Poynter Online

Hamid Tehrani / Global Voices Advocacy:

Iran: Jailed blogger, Hossein Derakhshan ("Hoder") may face death penalty — A reliable source has told Global Voices that Tehran's prosecutor is seeking the death penalty for jailed Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan (also known as “Hoder"). The presiding judge, named Salavati, has not yet ruled in the case.

Discussion: Guardian, cyrusfarivar.com, ReadWriteWeb and Global Voices in English