Mediagazer: IPC profits fall 37% in recession-plagued 2009 (Media Week)

Isabel Macdonald / The Nation:

Lou Dobbs, American Hypocrite — Research support for this article was provided by the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. — In Lou Dobbs's heyday at CNN, when he commanded more than 800,000 viewers and a reported $6 million a year for “his fearless reporting and commentary,” …

Discussion: The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter, The Wire, The Huffington Post, Romenesko, Show Tracker, Gawker, NPR Topics, Guardian and Yahoo! News

New York Post:

Richard Johnson LA-bound — Tweet — It's the end of an era — Richard Johnson is leaving Page Six after nearly 25 years as editor of the world's most famous gossip column. — Emily Smith, who cut her teeth on Fleet Street before coming to New York five years ago …

Discussion: ClickZ, Deadline.com, Runnin' Scared, Media Decoder, Ben Smith's Blog, Hollywood Reporter, New York Observer, FishbowlNY, Gawker, Romenesko, New York Magazine and LA Observed

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

Page Six Vet Richard Johnson Flees New York Post For News Corp. “Digital Ventures” — The old media exodus continues. — Richard Johnson, the veteran gossip reporter who has edited The New York Post's iconic Page Six column for nearly 25 years, is leaving the paper — and New York — to …

Jemima Kiss / Guardian:

CNN's research says 27% of us share 87% of news links — CNN has been researching how news articles are shared through social media, identifying different motivations for sharing and the increased benefit for advertisers who feature on recommended news pages.

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and C21Media

David Saleh Rauf / American Journalism Review:

From Covering Parties to Hanging with an Algorithm — Megan McCarthy's journey to Mediagazer, a media news aggregator with a heavy tech flavor — David Saleh Rauf (drauf@ajr.umd.edu) is an AJR editorial assistant — Megan McCarthy's career as a reporter blossomed from a single e-mail.

Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:

Reed Hastings' Six Lessons for the Newspaper Industry — Reed Hastings has been on a rollercoaster ride in the 13 years since he founded Netflix. From punchline to genius to toast to genius and back, several times over, it seems. In a talk Tuesday night in his hometown of Santa Cruz …

Discussion: Romenesko

Henry Unger / The Biz Beat:

Ted Turner worried about right-wing alternative to CNN long before Fox — Ted Turner is a pretty good prognosticator. — Years before Rupert Murdoch launched Fox News, Turner thought the biggest threat to his CNN operation would come from “a right-wing news alternative,” he said Wednesday.

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter and Inside Cable News

Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Los Angeles Times collaborates across the newsroom and with readers to map neighborhood crime — There's something about the immediacy of the web that makes interactive features seem effortless: One click and the information is there. But of course the feel of the end product is not the same as the process required to get it there.

Jemima Kiss / Guardian:

NI yet to convince rivals over aggregation app — News International presses ahead with plans for aggregation app but rival publishers voice doubts over editorial control — News International is pushing ahead with plans to launch a paid-for, news aggregation app for the iPad but is understood …

Discussion: Mobile Media, Poynter Online, paidContent and Editors Weblog

Michael Oneal / Chicago Tribune:

Tribune Co. bankruptcy muddled as mediation founders — Rival creditor groups preparing restructuring plans; New York Times story a black eye for company management — Mediation talks broke down once again in the Tribune Co. bankruptcy case this week, sending rival creditor groups …

Discussion: Romenesko, Hit & Run and Beachwood Reporter

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:

Google News Testing Twitter Integration With “Friends” — Google is testing a new feature that lets you connect your Twitter account to Google News. Some people are seeing a “Friends” box on the right hand side of Google News inviting them to do this. — The friends box asks you to enter your Twitter username and click “Save.”

Discussion: TechCrunch, Lost Remote, Search Engine Watch and ReadWriteWeb, more at Techmeme »

Knight Foundation News Releases:

New Knight Grant Accelerates Digital Transformation Of Investigative Reporting Leader, Center for Public Integrity — The Center for Public Integrity, a 20-year leader in nonprofit investigative journalism, will speed its transformation into a 21st century news organization with a new $1.7 million grant …

Discussion: KnightBlog

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Current TV Taps Sims Creator Will Wright For Interactive Webisode Series — Will Wright, creator of virtual world The Sims, is getting into television with a episodic series for Current TV tentatively titled Bar Karma. While this is Wright's first time working in TV, the series' central element …

Discussion: Crain's New York Business, Multichannel and Variety

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

College Humor Gets a New Grown-Up: Time Inc. Digital Dude Paul Greenberg — Here's the new adult supervisor at College Humor, Barry Diller's much-smarter-than-you'd-think humor site: Paul Greenberg, who most recently had been running digital operations at Time Inc.'s Lifestyle group.

Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:

WEFHamburg: Paywall will not remove NYT from ‘online conversation’, says CEO — The New York Times will not retreat from the “online conversation” when it goes behind a paywall next year, the New York Times Company president and CEO has said. — Speaking to the World Editors Forum in Hamburg …

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider

Anna Fata / Daily Texan:

CBS president says new technology bolsters broadcast TV — Blogs, tweets, Internet help to expand online attention — The common belief that new technology, such as the Internet, will lead to the death of television is false, said CBS President Leslie Moonves on campus Monday.

Discussion: rbr.com and TVNewser

Media Week:

IPC profits fall 37% in recession-plagued 2009 — Time Warner-owned IPC Media, publisher of Now, In Style, Look and Wallpaper magazines, has reported a 37% drop in pre-tax profits for the year to 31 December 2009. — IPC: latest results reveal 37% fall in annual pre-tax profits

Discussion: Press Gazette

Jason Fell / Folio:

Next Issue Media Names Tech Team, Hints at Digital Newsstand Plans — Nabs three former Nokia executives for tech ‘dream team.’ — Next Issue Media, the digital publishing consortium including some of the magazine industry's biggest players, has expanded its senior technology team and …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and paidContent