Mediagazer: Forbes undergoes radical overhaul (Andrew Vanacore/Associated Press)

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

NYT's Opinion Pages continue the march toward app-inspired design — Above is a screenshot of The New York Times' opinion section, whose redesign went live a few hours ago. Looks sharp, doesn't it? It also looks like it's itching to be put into a different context:

Discussion: Romenesko, Soup, George Dearing and yelvington.com

New York Times Integration with International Herald Tribune Attracts Big Global Online Audience — PARIS — Last year, the foreign news pages of The New York Times and the Times-owned International Herald Tribune were combined to become the Global Edition of the Times.

Discussion: paidContent:UK

Martin Peers / Wall Street Journal:

NYT Co. Pays The Price on Circulation — Talk about one-time gains. Price increases at the New York Times and Boston Globe in mid-2009 helped New York Times Co. show healthy growth in circulation revenue for several quarters. Until now. — The Times said Wednesday that circulation revenue …

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Wrong battlefield — It's kinda touching that Rupert Murdoch's …

Discussion: Media News and Guardian

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

Discussion: paidContent and WebNewser

Michael Oliveira / Globe and Mail:

Netflix apologizes for using actors to meet press at Canadian launch — Video-streaming website Netflix Inc. NFLX-Q closed down a Toronto street Wednesday and attracted dozens of onlookers for a splashy launch to promote its highly anticipated foray into Canada. — MORE RELATED TO THIS STORY

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Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:

Journalists follow their voices, vote with their feet — As the beleaguring of traditional news organizations continues, newsrooms are actually growing elsewhere. You may have noticed that places like Yahoo, AOL and the Huffington Post are all hiring these days — and they're hiring, um, actual journalists.

Discussion: Etaoin Shrdlu, On Media's Blog, Washington Monthly, The Wire and Gawker

Dan Gillmor / Salon:

The second great migration to new media — In the '90s, old-school journalists jumped for stock options. Now, it's for safety and the right to a real voice — Back in the Internet bubble days of the late 1990s, lots of journalists decamped from traditional news organizations to start or join dot-com companies.

The Huffington Post:
Phil Pruitt Joins Yahoo! News As Politics Editor

Discussion: Romenesko and The Wire

James Robinson / Guardian:

Huffington Post is among ‘news parasites’, says Washington Post man — Leonard Downie Jr attacks aggregators including the Huffington Post as ‘parasites living off journalism produced by others’ — • Read Leonard Downie Jr's speech in full (pdf) — Leonard Downie Jr …

Discussion: Romenesko

Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:

Muzzled Reporter Says ‘Maw of Yahoo’ No Place for Journalism — Yahoo (YHOO) has been trying to leverage its leading position in the portal business into a comparable dominance of premium content. But it's not so easy for a technology company to build a culture of journalism …

Discussion: Andrew Golis, FishbowlNY, Runnin' Scared, The Wrap, Silicon Alley Insider, New York Observer and New York Magazine

Andrew Vanacore / Associated Press:

Forbes undergoes radical overhaul — Forbes is having a “money where your mouth is” moment. — The magazine has been one of the loudest cheerleaders of entrepreneurial capitalism, a force that, through the Web, is draining profits from Forbes and the magazine industry as a whole.

Discussion: Talking Biz News

John Koblin / New York Observer:

Jill Abramson Returning to Role of Managing Editor Ahead of Schedule — Back in May, Times executive editor Bill Keller announced that managing editor Jill Abramson would be taking a detour from her managing editing duties to immerse herself with life on the web.

Discussion: Runnin' Scared and Romenesko

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

Moonves Confirms That CBS Might Bring Content To Hulu Plus — Hulu has had recent discussions with CBS (NYSE: CBS) about bringing CBS content to the new Hulu Plus subscription service, and CBS CEO Les Moonves described that possibility at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference as …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and rbr.com

Justin Kistner / Official Webtrends Company Blog:

Twitter is releasing a real time analytics solution in Q4 — At the Sports Marketing 2.0 Summit yesterday, Ross Hoffman shared with the crowd that sports leagues, teams, and players will have access to a real time analytics dashboard from Twitter. I had the opportunity to ask Ross …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Brendan Cooper, The Next Web, FM Blog, VentureBeat, Lost Remote and GigaOM

Mark Lisheron / American Journalism Review:

Reloading at the Statehouse — As traditional news organizations shed state government reporters, a wide array of innovative startups is rising to fill the gap. — AJR Senior Contributing Writer Mark Lisheron (mark@texaswatchdog.org) is Austin bureau chief for Texas Watchdog, a government accountability news Web site.

Discussion: CJR and Texas Watchdog

Karin Munkebo / The Wall Blog:

Print is dead - long live the internet — It is the end of paper publishing; we have reached the point of no return. There I said it! - And I am not alone. It is now the global common, spoken or unspoken consensus that the publishing industry's paper products have reached the end of their lifecycle.

Howard Kurtz:

Woodward scores but loses exclusive — The scoop artist keeps getting scooped. — Bob Woodward's carefully choreographed rollout of his new book on the Obama White House was disrupted Tuesday night when the New York Times got hold of a copy and posted a story on its Web site.

Discussion: Commentary, The Politico, Romenesko, The Caucus, Mediaite and Foreign Policy

Steve Rosenbaum / The Wire:

Web Video Is The New Television — Video overwhelms the Web. And it should. — There is plenty of evidence to suggest that the Internet, at one time the plumbing that connected pages of text and occasional images, is rapidly transforming itself to be a network of video publishing and viewing.

Jill Drew / CJR:

See It Now! — Video journalism is dying. Long live video journalism. — As the video begins, no announcer welcomes you, no headline scrolls across the computer screen. There is no need for either. You know where you are from the logic of the images.

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

Apple Sued for the Sale of Video Programming on iTunes — A private New Jersey Corporation by the name of Multi-Format Inc., has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple in the Northern District of Illinois East District Court. The lawsuit appears to be concerning the sale …

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Dan Duray / New York Observer:

Rise of the Recappers: For a New Class of Struggling Writers, It's Time To Watch TV — Last month Jerry Saltz, the art critic and judge on the recently finished first season of Bravo's Work of Art, praised the practice of TV recapping in an essay posted to his popular Facebook profile.

Discussion: The Awl

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

Google Campaign to Build Up Its Display Ads — Google, the online search ad giant that rarely advertises, has decided it needs to advertise the fact that it is in the online display advertising business. — And if that is not enough advertising about advertising, it has picked …

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, MarketingVOX, New York Observer and NYConvergence

Lauren Kirchner / CJR:

Steal This Google Map! — My colleague Joel Meares has written a lot lately about various news sites' makeovers for the midterm election season, from Yahoo's “hyper visual, hyper-interactive” new site “Ask America” to PBS NewsHour's snazzy redesign, an attempt to attract new and younger readers to their political coverage.

Brooks Barnes / Media Decoder:

Barry Meyer to Remain Chairman of Warner Brothers — Barry Meyer will remain chairman of Warner Brothers after all. — Time Warner on Wednesday answered the lingering question of succession at its movie studio, extending the contract of Mr. Meyer — who had been expected to retire next year …

Discussion: Variety, The Big Picture, B&C, Company Town, paidContent and The Wrap

Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:

Building Design website puts ‘premium’ content behind paywall — United Business Media has introduced a new paywall to Building Design's site BDOnline.co.uk, which will now charge readers for “premium” content. — Breaking news will remain free to view on the site, as will video content and newsletters …

Discussion: Editors Weblog

Irina Slutsky / AdAge:

Isaiah Mustafa on Advertising Celebrity, Humility and His Super Bowl Pick — Turns Out the Viral Star Is a Team Player — Ad Age readers already know the facts. Old Spice viral ad uberstar Isaiah Mustafa's first spot for Procter & Gamble's Old Spice was viewed more than 20 million times.

The New York Times Company:

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: Associated Press, Romenesko, MediaPost, Guardian, Gannett Blog, The Wrap and eMedia Vitals