Mediagazer: A Children's Channel Retools (Brian Stelter/New York Times)

6:45 AM ET, October 11, 2010

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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: LA Observed

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 …

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Ben McGrath / New Yorker:

Will Nick Denton save journalism? — 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 and Spiersblr

Joe Coscarelli / Runnin' Scared:

Talking Points Preview: What Do Nick Denton's Friends and (Ex-)Employees Really Think of Him? — After weeks of teasing, we told you earlier that The New Yorker's Nick Denton profile was on its way, in print within the October 18th issue, and likely online this Sunday night.

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 …

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: Inside Cable News

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

A Children's Channel Retools — WITH imports of European cartoons, a smattering of Hasbro ads and a rerun of the movie “Garfield,” Hasbro and Discovery Communications unveiled a new television brand for children on Sunday, called The Hub. — Over time, the two companies hope to prove …

Tanzina Vega / New York Times:

New Web Code Draws Concern Over Risks to Privacy — 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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …