Mediagazer: Comcast Spends Big in Pressing for Merger (New York Times)

11:10 AM ET, September 27, 2010

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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Study Finds That Apple Dominates Tech News — A customer, Evan Wiendczak, spoke after buying the first iPhone 4 on Fifth Avenue in June. — A new study confirms what some in the technology industry have long sensed: Apple commands an inordinate amount of the media's attention.

Discussion: PC World, blogs.chron.com, Neowin.net, FM Blog and 9 to 5 Mac

Journalism.org:

WHEN TECHNOLOGY MAKES HEADLINES — THE MEDIA'S DOUBLE VISION ABOUT THE DIGITAL AGE — The mainstream news media have offered the American public a divided view of how information technology influences society, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Discussion: Mashable!, Romenesko, Digital Daily, Guardian, ZDNet, TG Daily, Talking Biz News and Search Engine Land

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Twitter Boosts Marketer Reach With Plan to Blast Promoted Ads — Positive Signs So Far, With Higher-Than-Average Interaction Rate — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Even after six months, campaigns with nearly 40 different marketers and repeat customers such as Ford, Virgin America and Verizon, Twitter still views its ads as experimental.

Discussion: Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Softpedia News, Fast Company and eMedia Vitals

Wall Street Journal:
To Advertisers, Twitter's a Fledgling

Discussion: The Next Web, Silicon Alley Insider and The Wall Blog, more at Techmeme »

New York Times:

Comcast Spends Big in Pressing for Merger — In Jeff Zucker's announcement on Friday that he was stepping aside as the head of NBC Universal, Comcast's purchase of the company was taken almost as a fait accompli. — But the combination of NBC and Comcast is still undergoing government review …

Discussion: New York Observer, Deadline.com, Hollywood Reporter, Stop Big Media News, Los Angeles Times, Company Town, Wall Street Journal, The Wrap, Tech Trader Daily and The Wire

Johnnie L. Roberts / The Wrap:
Steve Burke Replacing Zucker Atop NBCU

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, Business Wire, Multichannel, MediaMemo, Media Decoder, AdAge, paidContent, From Inside the Box, rbr.com and Variety

Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:

Literary Icon in New Era — New Yorker Launches on iPad Tablet, Adds to Pressure on Apple for Subscriptions — The New Yorker is launching an iPad version of the magazine Monday, in a significant test of an iconic, old-media brand's efforts to refashion itself for the tablet-computer age.

Discussion: The Awl, Apple, Poynter Online, Silicon Alley Insider and kottke.org

Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle:

Techmeme keeps up with lighting-fast tech news — In the five years since Gabe Rivera founded Techmeme, the speed and volume of technology news has increased dramatically. — And that's helped the San Francisco firm's website become the go-to place for the technorati.

Edmund Lee / AdAge:

Media Mavens: Christopher Batty, Gawker Media — Introvert With ‘Napoleonic Ambition’ Now in His Sixth Year Driving Experimentation and Success at Publisher — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — When Gawker Media founder Nick Denton first met Christopher Batty 10 years ago, the two were based in Silicon Valley …

Discussion: Soup

Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

Times Two — Jill Abramson, the Times' first heiress apparent. — When Jill Abramson moved back to New York from Washington, D.C., in the summer of 2003 at the age of 49 to become managing editor of the New York Times, she commemorated the homecoming like a battle-hardened soldier returning from the front: She got a tattoo.

Discussion: Romenesko and On Media's Blog

Michael Idov / New York Magazine:

The Demon Blogger of Fleet Street — Nick Denton cast himself as a media outsider. That's how he made it inside. — Nick Denton has built a panopticon. From his living-room window, he can all but see his favorite table at Balthazar, and his favorite table at Balthazar is picked …

Discussion: Romenesko, The Awl, Spiersblr and Felix Salmon

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Forbes' New Advertising Pitch: Wanna Buy a Blog? — The Revenue Side of DVorkin's AdVoice Model Means Advertisers Publish Under Company's Banner — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — When Forbes bought blogging startup True/Slant, it got a familiar face in True/Slant CEO and former Forbes editor Lewis DVorkin …

Discussion: Romenesko, Felix Salmon, AdPulp and Talking Biz News

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

New CUNY Program to Equip Students to Start Journalism-Based Businesses — Last week, the City University of New York unveiled the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism — the first of its kind in the nation. — As part of this program, the school will offer a master's degree …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and The News About The News

AdAge:

AP Circular App Coming to Help Print Compete With Online Coupons — After the Web Cost Them Classifieds, Newspapers Don't Want to Lose Important Revenue Source — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The Associated Press is developing an app it hopes will help newspapers keep their hands on a key source …

Bradley Johnson / AdAge:

100 Leading Media Companies — Revenue Is Seeing Single-Digit Growth This Year Following 2009's 3.8% Decline. So Just Where's the Money? — Tweet — 1. Based on first-half 2010 revenue trends. — CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — Need proof that the media recession is over?

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Why Did VideoEgg Buy Six Apart? To Create A New Modern Media Empire, Says CEO — “The rules of media have completely been broken,” according to Say Media CEO Matt Sanchez. Because we're no longer living in a world where print media is sold on a newstand and video media …

Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:

Mad Men, and Women, to Gather in New York — Organizers are putting the final touches on the seventh annual Advertising Week, a kind of Madison Avenue version of Fashion Week. — Advertising Week 2010 is to take place on Monday through Friday, with events at 17 locations around Manhattan.

Discussion: Adrants and NYConvergence