Mediagazer: Reuters To Roll Out Online Video Series; ‘Rocketboom’ Meets ‘Newshour’ (David Kaplan/paidContent)

10:30 AM ET, October 13, 2010

Top News:

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

In Coverage of Mine Rescue, Watching, Waiting and Counting — The pictures said it all. In a remote part of Chile, a capsule emblazoned with the colors of the country's flag was hoisted out of an underground tomb, and inside was a miner, the first of 33 to be rescued in a remarkable effort televised …

Discussion: New York Times, The New Yorker Blog, The Lede, Guardian and Boing Boing

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

It's a brave new world at Condé Nast Digital — Tweet — The latest buzz inside Condé Nast is that a sweeping reorganization of the Condé Nast Digital operations is about to take place. — One outcome will combine the corporate print ad side with corporate digital ad sales …

Discussion: The Wire

Jason Fell / Folio:

Condé Nast Offers Five Best Practices for iPad Advertising — Survey also indicates that users want flexible purchasing options for the apps. — It's still early days with publishers and advertisers creating original, rich content on tablets like Apple's iPad …

Discussion: Mediaweek and AdAge

IAB:

Internet Ad Revenues Break Records, Climb to More Than $12 Billion for First Half of '10 — Search Remains Strong, Digital Video Soars as Display Gains Momentum—Double-Digit Growth in Online Advertising Is Back — The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PwC US today released …

Discussion: VideoNuze, rbr.com, paidContent, MarketingVOX, Business Wire, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Kirk LaPointe's …, VentureBeat and Soup

Tanzina Vega / Media Decoder:

Internet Advertising Revenue Increases — Advertising revenue on the Internet just broke a record, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. — Revenue for the first half of 2010 was $12.1 billion, an 11.3 percent increase over the same period last year.

Discussion: IAB, Silicon Alley Insider, VideoNuze, TechCrunch, Adrants and Search Engine Land

Phil Rosenthal / Chicago Breaking Business:

Tribune Co. exec apologizes for ‘offensive’ memo — Days after Tribune Co.'s corporate management was characterized in a newspaper article as fostering a sexist “frat house” atmosphere, one of its top executives sent a company-wide e-mail with links to off-color satirical videos.

Discussion: Gawker, Media Decoder, Romenesko, Tower Ticker, The Huffington Post, The Wrap and LA Observed

Robert Feder / blogs.vocalo.org:
Time for Tribune to clear the air on foul management

Discussion: Romenesko

Zeke Turner / New York Observer:

A New Gossip Girl at the Post — Last Wednesday night, Page Six reporter Emily Smith was at the club Provocateur in the meatpacking district at a party for the season finale of The Spin Crowd, an E! network reality show produced by Kim Kardashian. — Ms. Kardashian came and left quickly …

Discussion: Romenesko, New York Post and The Awl

Brian X. Chen / Epicenter:

Futurist Nick Bilton Sees Media's Destiny: Storytelling — With smartphones, computers and tablets bombarding us with more data than we could ever ask for, it's difficult to get a clear vision of what the future portends. But maybe we're already living there.

Discussion: TeleRead

Emma Heald / Editors Weblog:

The Times of London's impenetrable but straightforward paywall — Assistant editor for online Tom Whitwell and Director of Times Digital Gurtej Sandhu told participants at a lunch during the 17th World Editors Forum a few details about the progress of the Times of London's new paywall and the thinking behind it.

Discussion: The Wire

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Reuters To Roll Out Online Video Series; ‘Rocketboom’ Meets ‘Newshour’ — As part of its continuing efforts to build out its multimedia strategy, Reuters.com is developing a series of online video programming for its website. Plans call for a daily “morning show” that would be aimed …

Discussion: Talking Biz News and Felix Salmon

Alex Pham / Company Town:

Sony's take on Google TV — The Internet's path from home computer to living room television has been littered with casualties, from WebTV, launched in the 1995, to Ultimate TV in 2000 and Apple TV in 2007. — Despite that, Sony is making a run at connecting the Internet with the TV …

Discussion: Multichannel News, Sony, GigaOM and paidContent, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Ad.ly Promises to Get More Celebrities, Pitching More Stuff, In Your Facebook Feed — Facebook has a big ad business. But its display ads tend to get ignored by the overwhelming majority of its users. — Ad.ly says it can fix this, with a time-tested method: Celebrity endorsements.

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Beet.TV

Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:

Parker Spitzer Is Tanking CNN's Prime Time: Worst Ratings In 10 Years — CNN's prime time ratings woes are only increasing with new program Parker Spitzer. — Monday night was the lowest weekday prime time rating average in more than 10 years, since June 28, 2000. And it wasn't just the 8pmET that was seeing low ratings.

Tim Carmody / Wired News:

Instapaper Inventor Links Inattentive Reading to Information Obesity — Marco Arment created Instapaper, a tool that strips clutter from online articles and saves them for later reading, because he couldn't concentrate at his desk. As the former chief technology officer for Tumblr …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and The Atlantic Wire

Mac Slocum / O'Reilly Radar:

Why blogging still matters — We tend to get caught up in the latest tech ideas or gadgets, which is understandable since a lot of this stuff is undeniably interesting. But from time to time it's worth surveying where we are and where we came from; to consider how the tech landscape …

Discussion: broadstuff

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:

HP Scandal Sucks in New York Times Columnist Over Conflict of Interest — Another reputation smeared in the Hewlett-Packard/Oracle slag-fest. Turns out Joe Nocera (pictured here)-the New York Times (NYT) business columnist who penned that scathing piece on former SAP chief and incoming Hewlett-Packard …