Mediagazer: Why Media Companies Shouldn't Accept Apple's Subscription Plans (Baekdal.com)

12:10 AM ET, September 26, 2010

Top News:

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

Zucker Announces Departure From NBC — Jeff Zucker, the chief executive of NBC Universal, told the company's employees in an e-mail Friday morning that he would step down from his position upon the completion of the takeover of NBC by Comcast. — The fate of Mr. Zucker …

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Zucker: Why Announce Exit Now? No Reason To Hold Back In A Twitter World — Why did Jeff Zucker announce his pending exit as CEO of NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) months before the merger with Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) is likely to close? “Once you have something like that done in a world like we live in today …

Discussion: NewTeeVee, Multichannel and Broadcasting & Cable

Shira Ovide / Deal Journal: Comcast's Burke: NBC Title Contender or Behind the Scenes Power?

David Folkenflik / NPR:

How The L.A. Times Broke The Bell Corruption Story … A vendor sells a copy of the Los Angeles Times with an article about Bell city officials on the cover. — Reporters get threatened, dismissed or ignored all the time. Less common is the experience of Ruben Vives …

Baekdal.com:

Why Media Companies Shouldn't Accept Apple's Subscription Plans — As you are probably already aware of, there is a lot of talk about Apple's plans for subscription coupled with a “newsstand” for the iPad. It's bad, really bad. The short story is this. — Apple is currently working on a new …

Tim Arango / New York Times:

Magazine's Obama Critique Spurs Fact Checking and Media Soul Searching — When Forbes published a cover story this month by Dinesh D'Souza, the conservative author, asserting that President Obama is opposed to free markets and traditional American values because he inherited …

Discussion: Guardian

Abigail Pesta / New York Times:

Making a Name Writing to Editors — JUST before 9 a.m. on a Monday, Bobby Crawford arrived at the Hearst Tower, the slick Midtown temple of glossies like Esquire and Cosmopolitan. In the sprawling lobby, editors, writers and arbiters of style glided skyward to their respective aeries, on escalators flanked by rainwater waterfalls.

Anil Dash:

Gourmet Live and Rewarding Experiences — The short version: Gourmet Live, the new iPad app that reimagines Gourmet as a sort of massively multiplayer magazine, is live. I've been working on this for the past six months, and I'm enormously proud of it, so if you've got an iPad …

Discussion: Michael J. Wolf

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Glam Media Continues Hiring Spree; Scores Talent From Yahoo, Google, Conde Nast — Glam Media, a top-ranked women's media network, is announcing a number of new hires today for its technology, brand sales, engineering, and product teams. — Chris Murphy joins Glam as the Sr. Director …

Discussion: paidContent

Craig Silverman / CJR:

Slate Shuts the Window — A long-overdue corrections policy revision — Not long after Slate launched in 1996, editor Michael Kinsley was faced with the challenge of figuring out how to correct an online article. He decided to tackle the challenge in part by detailing the issue in an article:

Discussion: Regret the Error

Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

CNN's Klein: ‘I Got Shot’ — CNN president Jonathan Klein didn't come into work this morning. — “I didn't want to put people in an awkward situation,” he told me. Two days ago, he learned he was out of a job. — On Wednesday afternoon, CNN Worldwide president Jim Walton …

Discussion: MarketWatch, Gawker, DailyFinance, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Chickaboomer, The Wire and Media Decoder

Eric Engleman / TechFlash:

Amazon.com's bookstore of the future: pay to preview content? — On Thursday, October 21st, Network Computing Architects (NCA) will be hosting its 4th Annual “Security and Technology Conference” at the Hyatt in Bellevue. This day-long, multi-track event will feature technology leaders …

Discussion: DailyFinance, TeleRead, The Stranger …, Kindle Review, The Book Bench and the Econsultancy blog

Nick Douglas / The Awl:

The Rise of Reddit: 4chan and Digg Get the Credit While Reddit Booms — Of the three main drivers of internet culture—blogs, social networking sites and forums—most people in the media and in the general Internet-using public only understand two. Blogs work in a very obvious way: they're like magazines or newspapers, but light.

Discussion: New York Observer and Search Engine Land