Mediagazer: Is it too late for a Digg comeback? (John Boitnott/VentureBeat)

2:30 AM ET, October 2, 2010

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CNN ousts Rick Sanchez over Jon Stewart rant — Anchor fired after giving controversial radio interview — CNN issued a statement Friday announcing that anchor Rick Sanchez has been let go from the network after giving a radio interview in which he insinuated Jon Stewart was a bigot and CNN was “run by Jews.”

Discussion: Mediaite and Speakeasy, more at Techmeme »

Stand UP!:

CNN's Rick Sanchez Calls Jon Stewart ‘Bigot’ — Cuban-American anchor Rick Sanchez came on Stand Up! with Pete Dominick today for a loose exchange on current events, media, and journalism. Throughout much of the interview, the discussion touched on race. To our surprise, at various points …

Hunter Walker / The Wrap:

Rick Sanchez's Public Meltdown — Lashes Out at CNN, Jon Stewart, Jews — Rick Sanchez gave a radio interview on the day that he lost his coveted 8 p.m. timeslot. That was probably a mistake. — Angry about having being replaced by CNN's new “Parker Spitzer” talk show and the constant jokes …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Romenesko, blogs.tampabay.com, Gizmodo, Moraes on TV, Chickaboomer, Broadcasting & Cable, Media Matters for America, B&C, PopEater and Gawker

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Conde Nast Edges Further Into Selling Videos on Demand — You Don't Need the App Store to Try Charging for Content — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Conde Nast, which is trying to reorient its business away from an overwhelming dependence on ad pages, is moving further into paid content online …

Discussion: Crain's New York Business, paidContent and The New Yorker Blog

Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:

You can compete and collaborate at the same time — Howard Owens is one of the smartest journalism entrepreneurs in the business. He launched The Batavian as a digital challenger to the Batavia Daily News in New York, and his small business is thriving. — I was interested yesterday …

Howard Owens:
How to beat AOL's Patch

Discussion: Lost Remote, Global Vue and The Solomon Scandals

John Boitnott / VentureBeat:

Is it too late for a Digg comeback? — Social news aggregator site Digg.com is trying to work its way out of the traffic hole it created with its botched redesign attempt. Today it announced the return of several popular features from its previous version.

Discussion: Beyond Search, The Atlantic Online, MediaPost and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »

Kelly McEvers / NPR:

In Iraq, Getting The Story Gets Tougher For Reporters … Baghdad is undergoing a kind of face-lift these days as officials spend hundreds of millions of dollars in preparation to host an Arab League summit next year. — Most of the hotels that are being gutted and redone …

Discussion: Romenesko, The Huffington Post, gary scott and Journalism and the World

Antonio Regalado / Technology Review:

Guerrilla Webfare — How unauthorized video producers are “brand-jacking” companies and forcing them to rethink the way they market. — Fernando Motolese, a creator of viral videos, recently approached French food giant Danone (known as Dannon in the United States) with an unusual proposition.

Scot Hacker / Knight Digital Media Center feed:

Is Your CMS a Bottleneck to Innovation? — Hundreds of journalists have moved through KDMC's digital media training programs, in which we show them how to produce cutting edge news content in non-traditional formats, from video to map mashups, custom widgets to slideshows, social media integration to standalone multimedia packages.

Ben Smith / The Politico:

News Corp. gave $1 million to pro-GOP group — News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, contributed $1 million this summer to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the business lobby that has been running an aggressive campaign in support of the Republican effort to retake Congress, a source close to the company told POLITICO.

Discussion: blogs.tampabay.com, Mediaite, The Caucus, Washington Monthly, Guardian, Romenesko, CJR, New York Observer, NPR Topics, The Huffington Post, Ben Smith's Blog, CNN, The New Republic and Gawker

Lauren Kirchner / CJR:

Online Video: Immediate, Powerful, Elemental — TED Conference curator Chris Anderson gave his own TED talk in July, just released in September, entitled “How web video powers global innovation.” Anderson's talk focused on the effect of online video on science, art, and education …

Discussion: Online Video News

Olga Kharif / Business Week:

Apple Takes Share from Google in Mobile Ads — Its new iAd network is quickly grabbing market share — In July the first advertisements placed through Apple's (AAPL) new iAd mobile network began to appear. Marketers use iAd to place interactive banner ads in iPhone, iPod Touch …