Mediagazer: For a Few, Papers Seem a Timely Bet (Julie Creswell/New York Times)

Henry Blodget / The Wire:

The Next Shoe Drops At The New York Times: Now Circulation Revenue Is Starting To Decline — The New York Times Company just issued a disappointing outlook for Q3. — None of the news is good, but the worst part is that the company's circulation revenue, which held the ship together through the bust, is starting to break down.

Discussion: Romenesko

The New York Times Company Updates Third-Quarter 2010 Outlook — The New York Times Company today will discuss its business, strategy and management's outlook during the Goldman Sachs Communacopia XIX Conference. — The following are certain anticipated results for the third quarter of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009:

Discussion: Guardian, Associated Press, eMedia Vitals and Gannett Blog

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
New York Times: We're Not a Newspaper Company. …

Discussion: paidContent, Press Gazette, WebNewser and Media Week

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar... Yesterday I was tipped off about a “secret meeting” between a group of “Super Angels” being held at Bin 38, a restaurant and bar in San Francisco. “Do not come, you will not be welcome,” I was told. — So I did what any self respecting blogger would do …

Discussion: VentureBeat and GigaOM

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 …

Discussion: Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, New York Observer, The Wire, Soup, Gawker, Washington Monthly and The Wrap

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Six Apart Deal With VideoEgg Marks the End of an Era — After denying rumors of a deal over the past several weeks, blogging platform Six Apart and advertising network VideoEgg have confirmed they are merging to create a new social-media company called SAY Media.

Discussion: Bits and WebNewser

Irina Slutsky / AdAge:
VideoEgg Buys Six Apart to Build ‘Conversational’ Media Company

Discussion: Movable Type and ClickZ

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
VideoEgg Will Acquire Six Apart And Rename Itself SAY Media

Discussion: Anil Dash, Everything TypePad, Mashable!, CNET News, One Man & His Blog, Business Wire, VentureBeat, The Blog Herald, The Next Web, paidContent:UK and Digital Daily

Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:

What's Behind the Exodus at Newsweek? — Next week, the sale of Newsweek to Sidney Harman will be finalized, giving the 91-year-old audio equipment magnate control of the struggling newsweekly. — And the magazine's masthead will look quite a bit different than the one he agreed to buy more than a month ago.

Discussion: MediaPost and Romenesko

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

How Slate's Jack Shafer Calls Out Bogus Trend Stories — After Jack Shafer called out The New York Times for running a “bogus trend story” about criminals wearing Yankees caps, journalists had fun with the criticism on Twitter. — The Times' Nicholas Kristof tweeted: “@jackshafer Quit picking on us!

Discussion: Romenesko

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Tim Armstrong Won't Talk About AOL's Secret Video Plans — Tim Armstrong will usually talk at length, if not in specifics, about what he's up to at AOL. Not so when it comes to video. — “Yes, we have a video strategy, and no, I'm not going go into detail on it,” he told (or didn't tell) …

Discussion: Media Money …, paidContent and Silicon Alley Insider

Julie Creswell / New York Times:

For a Few, Papers Seem a Timely Bet — Randall D. Smith, a pioneer in the hard knocks business of vulture investing, is circling a new target: the beleaguered newspaper industry. — Mr. Smith puts money into risky investments that few others will touch — and these days, that includes many newspaper and radio companies.

Discussion: Guardian

Bloomberg:

Michael Eisner Says ‘Highly Unlikely’ He Would Take Tribune Chairman Job — Michael Eisner, the former chief executive officer of Walt Disney Co., said it's “highly unlikely” that he would take the chairman job at Tribune Co., the bankrupt newspaper publisher.

Zeke Turner / New York Observer:

Live Blog: Bill Keller Discusses the Future of the News — New York Times executive editor Bill Keller will be on NPR's On Point with Tom Ashbrook this morning discussing “his paper and the radically changing news business,” according to a promo. Live blog updates from the Media Mob here once the program gets started.

Discussion: Romenesko, WBUR and NPR and The Wire

Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:

New online platform to allow freelancers to auction exclusive stories — A new online app has been launched for freelancers looking to sell exclusive stories and ideas to news editors. — Qluso, which was developed by Northern Irish technology start-up NewsRupt and goes live in beta on 4 October …

Discussion: Press Gazette and Guardian

Rachel Sklar / Mediaite:

Kommons Will Sneakily Make You Blog For Free — Last Wednesday, Sept. 15th, a website called Kommons went live - and is sort of brilliant. It's basically Formspring meets Twitter meets “Meet The Press,” or something: A community that seeks smart, conversation-furthering answers prompted by smart, probing questions — publicly.

Andrew Wallenstein / Hollywood Reporter:

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate enters Web business — Studio orders 24 episodes of original series ‘Trailer Trash’ — Lionsgate is venturing into original Web programming years after its fellow studios have entered — and in some cases, exited — that struggling business.

Discussion: NewTeeVee

Tom Krazit / Relevant Results:

Google News turns 8 amid news industry in flux — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Krishna Bharat, founder and engineering head of Google News, was stuck in New Orleans at a conference in the days after September 11, 2001, and like so many others desperately searching for news about the attacks …

Discussion: The Official Google Blog and Guardian, more at Techmeme »

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Wrong battlefield — It's kinda touching that Rupert Murdoch's loyal lieutenants are trying to entertain the boss by starting an old-fashioned newspaper war (old-fashioned modifies newspaper). But it's also ever-more revealing of their worldview. — And of course, the best way to declare …

Joy Mayer / RJI:

What “engagement” means to TBD.com — The staff at TBD.com, the D.C. news startup that launched in August, is about 40 people. Six of them have community engagement as their primary function. Four are community hosts. One is a social media producer. And one is their boss, Steve Buttry, the director of community engagement.

Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:

Yahoo CEO: ‘Our real competitor is TV’ — Carol Bartz also says online advertising will get better — In case it was ever in doubt, Yahoo's competition is television. — That's what Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said Tuesday at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia XIX Conference.

Greg Sandoval / CNET News:

Hey, what happened to Google Editions? — Google executives announced last spring that they expected to finally begin selling digital books by “June or July.” — In May, The Wall Street Journal reported that Chris Palma, Google's manager for strategic-partner development …

Discussion: ClickZ and New York Post

Victor Godinez / Dallas Morning News:

Belo, Time Warner fire volleys in talks over TV stations — Time Warner Cable Inc. and Dallas-based Belo Corp. are negotiating a new agreement over how much Time Warner will pay Belo to carry several of its television stations in markets around the country, including ABC affiliate WFAA-TV (Channel 8) in Dallas.

Discussion: MediaPost

Jeff Ruby / Chicago magazine:

Why the Professional Restaurant Critic Will Survive the Age of Yelp — PEER REVIEW: Anthony Bourdain is wrong: The food critic is not dead — While promoting his new book in June, Anthony Bourdain told a crowd at a Manhattan Barnes & Noble that I was dead.

The Huffington Post:

Phil Pruitt Joins Yahoo! News As Politics Editor — USA Today Deputy Managing Editor/News Phil Pruitt has left the newspaper to join Yahoo! News as its new Politics editor. — Pruitt, who will work in Yahoo! News' Washington, DC bureau, will manage Yahoo! News' political and elections coverage …

Discussion: Romenesko, Silicon Alley Insider and Gannett Blog

Ideo / /p.log:

The Future of the Book - by IDEO. — What new experiences might be created by linking diverse discussions, what additional value could be created by connected readers to one another, and what innovative ways we might use to tell our favorite stories and build community around books?

Discussion: The Atlantic Online