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Ben McGrath / New Yorker:

SEARCH AND DESTROY — Nick Denton's blog empire. — For years after starting Gawker Media, the online publishing network, in 2002, Nick Denton ran the company out of his apartment, in SoHo. “He said, ‘If you run it out of your house, then no one expects anything,’ ” …

Discussion: MediaMemo, Romenesko, The Awl, Mediaite, Hit & Run, New York Observer, Runnin' Scared, Spiersblr and Michael B. Duff

New York Times:

After Building an Audience, Twitter Turns to Ads — Twitter at last looks serious about making money. — In the last two weeks, the company has introduced several advertising plans, courted Madison Avenue at Advertising Week, the annual industry conference, and promoted Dick Costolo …

Discussion: Poynter Online, Lost Remote and Silicon Alley Insider

David Carr / New York Times:

A Vanishing Journalistic Divide — If you were going to pick an epicenter for mainstream media, The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz would not be a bad place to land. With his running scorecard on Beltway journalists, his interviews of other scorekeepers on his “Reliable Sources” show on CNN …

Discussion: Romenesko, New York Observer and LA Observed

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:

CNN Will Give ‘Parker Spitzer’ Time to Grow — Eliot Spitzer's debut on CNN's prime-time lineup has been greeted by tepid viewing and some scathing reviews. But the network plans to give the former New York governor time to build on signs of early growth, as producers hone the show's tone and format.

Discussion: TVNewser, Hollywood Reporter, The Wire, Romenesko, New York Observer, Chickaboomer, Company Town and Inside Cable News

Bill Carter / New York Times:

CBS Is a Network on a Roll — Three weeks into a new television season, the usual carnage is becoming apparent, with new shows collapsing and crises appearing all over network prime-time schedules. — Except in one place. — At CBS, a network that unashamedly embraces the supposedly dying notion …

Discussion: New York Observer, Media Buyer Planner and The Huffington Post

Tanzina Vega / New York Times:

New Web Code Draws Concern Over Privacy Risks — Worries over Internet privacy have spurred lawsuits, conspiracy theories and consumer anxiety as marketers and others invent new ways to track computer users on the Internet. But the alarmists have not seen anything yet.

Discussion: New York Magazine, Fast Company and Editors Weblog

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Freed Journalist Laura Ling Will Host ‘E! Investigates’ — Laura Ling, who was detained in North Korea with a colleague from Current TV last year, is restarting her television career at a channel much closer to home — E!, the entertainment channel. — Ms. Ling has been hired to host “E! …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter

Robert Hernandez / Online Journalism Review:

Storify's Burt Herman on the evolution from reporter to entrepreneur — By Robert Hernandez: For this week's post, I sat down with Burt Herman (@burtherman), entrepreneurial journalist who is the CEO of Storify and founder of Hacks/Hackers. — NOTE: We did the Q & A-style interview …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and Journalism.co.uk

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

The oversimplified coverage of ‘tough-talking’ Rahm Emanuel — Rahm Emanuel's candidate may have won the presidency, but that didn't dull Emanuel's serrated edge. — “He's a guy who stabbed a steak knife into the table at Doe's restaurant after Bill Clinton's election,” his former colleague Paul Begala recalls.

The Wrap:

Arianna's $250K Bus to Jon Stewart Rally a ‘Shock’ at HuffPo HQ — Arianna Huffington's surprise gift to Jon Stewart — a convoy of shuttle buses to his “Rally to Restore Sanity” in Washington — was an even bigger surprise to the folks at the Huffington Post.

Discussion: Romenesko and Silicon Alley Insider

Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:

Strong Personalities Color Talks Between Newsweek, Daily Beast — Newsweek magazine and the Daily Beast news website are deep in talks over a possible combination and the likelihood of a deal is increasing, though some hurdles remain. — The key question hanging over talks is whether …

Discussion: Romenesko, Gawker and DealBook

Andrew Hampp / AdAge:

Next New Networks Finds Life After ‘Obama Girl’ — New Business Strategy, ‘Key of Awesome’ Drive Wave of Growth — LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) — Until recently, Next New Networks was known in most web circles as the home of “Obama Girl,” the wildly popular series that became …

King Kaufman:

Watching a misquote in real time — It's not every day you get to see a media outlet twist around a source's words, but KNTV, the Bay Area's local NBC affiliate just served up a nice little illustration of how easily media distortion happens on a show called “Sports Sunday Prime Time.”

Discussion: mediabistro.com