Mediagazer: France Halts Plans to Ban Remaining Ads on Public TV (Jennifer Whitehead/AdAge)

10:55 PM ET, October 7, 2010

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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 Wire, The Huffington Post, Romenesko, Mediaite, ABCNEWS, Guardian, Politics Daily, The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter, Gawker, TVNewser, Yahoo! News and NPR Topics

Edward Helmore / Guardian:

Daily Beast bids for Newsweek — British publisher plans to strengthen her web magazine - and challenge rival Arianna Huffington - by a merger with the ailing weekly — Tina Brown, one of New York's best-established British media figures, has set her sights on Newsweek …

Discussion: The Wire, MediaPost, New York Magazine and FishbowlNY

Elizabeth Spiers / Forbes:
A Force Of Nature — Forbes Magazine dated October 25, 2010

Discussion: Gawker

Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine: What Would a Tina Brown-Helmed Daily Beast-Newsweek Hybrid Look Like?

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, Shaping the Future …, Nieman Journalism Lab and C21Media, more at Techmeme »

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Columbus Dispatch Signs On To News Corp. Digital Plans; UK Pubs Balking — A few more details are seeping out about News Corp.'s Project Alesia initiative to create new digital products for its own outlets and for other publishers. The Columbus Dispatch (circ: about 170,000) …

Discussion: Mobile Media, NAA Community and Editors Weblog

Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
NI yet to convince rivals over aggregation app

Discussion: Poynter Online

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.

Discussion: Beet.TV

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Naked Brett Favre Won't Make Money for Nick Denton — Gawker Media's Deadspin sports site says it will publish nude photos of Brett Favre today, along with some voicemails it says the quarterback left for a woman who is not his wife. — Which means that corner of Deadspin is going to be very, very popular today.

Discussion: The Wire, Salon, Deadspin and Runnin' Scared

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, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb and Search Engine Watch, more at Techmeme »

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 …

Discussion: New York Observer

New York Post:
Richard Johnson LA-bound

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

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.

Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:

Thinking about starting an online news business? Here's your start-up checklist — By Robert Niles: Have you been thinking about starting a news website? Are you considering “being your own boss” as the next step in your journalism career? — You can stumble your way into entrepreneurship …

Discussion: Knight Digital Media Center …

Associated Press:

Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Literature Prize — STOCKHOLM (AP) — Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking world who once ran for president in his homeland, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday. — The Swedish Academy said it honored …

Discussion: New York Times, Gawker, New York Magazine, Observer and ArtsBeat

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

BloombergTV's New Docu Series Kicks Off Tonight With Mark Zuckerberg Rivals The Winklevoss Twins — BloombergTV is trying to get a piece of CNBC's business-documentary turf with a new show called “Bloomberg Game Changers.” — The 11-episode, 30-minute series premieres tonight at 9 p.m …

Discussion: The New Yorker Blog, Talking Biz News and Switched

Technology Review:

When Digital Marketing Actually Works — Lessons from Web and mobile campaigns that yielded real-world business results. — What do you get for your digital marketing dollars? Figuring how much revenue or brand value companies are generating from their investments in digital media seems to be getting more and more complex.

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Newsonomics of sports avidity — [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] — When The Sporting News began publishing, the telephone was barely 10 years old.

Jennifer Whitehead / AdAge:

France Halts Plans to Ban Remaining Ads on Public TV — In Struggling Economy, State Broadcaster's Revenue Needs Trump President Sarkozy's Political Priorities — LONDON (AdAge.com) — The French government has halted a move by President Nicolas Sarkozy to ban all advertising …

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

MediaShift:

Examiner.com Execs Push for Quality, Refute ‘Content Farm’ Tag — Journalists love to categorize, generalize and put everything into easily digestible chunks of information. But in our quest to explain something in simple terms, we also can oversimplify things.