Mediagazer: Blip.tv Predicts Best Quarter Yet for Web Creators (Liz Shannon Miller/NewTeeVee)

5:35 PM ET, October 14, 2010

Top News:

Dana Davis Rehm / NPR:

Why Can't NPR Staff Go To ‘Rally To Restore Sanity’ Or ‘March To Keep Fear Alive’? — The answer is they can - if they are assigned to cover the events. — But news staff and others covered by NPR's ethics policy should not go. — We've received enormous attention from media …

Discussion: Yahoo! News, The Huffington Post, New York Observer, The Wrap, FishbowlDC, mediabistro.com, Media Matters for America, Romenesko, Salon and Mediaite

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

NPR: Love ya, but you're wrong — NPR has told its staff they may not attend the Stewart/Colbert rallies in Washington at the end of the month. I think they're terribly wrong here, following the journalistic worldview Jay Rosen calls the view-from-nowhere to its extreme and forbidding employees to be curious.

Discussion: Romenesko and New York Observer

Wall Street Journal:

AOL, Firms Explore an Offer for Yahoo — AOL Inc. and several private-equity firms are exploring making an offer to buy Yahoo Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, devising a bold plan to marry two big Internet brands facing steep challenges. — Silver Lake Partners …

Jeremy / @JeremyLittau:

Chile is a story about journalism's failure (updated) — Jay Rosen, as usual, beat me to the punch with his thoughts this morning on the Chile mine story. This is why I tweet more than I blog; sometimes you just say it and fill in the gaps later. I did a bit of mini-ranting last night, at least.

Discussion: BBC, Guardian, Journalism.co.uk, The Washington Independent, Lost Remote and Jen Lee Reeves

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

A Surge in Ratings as First Miners Appeared — More than 10 million people were watching CNN, Fox News and MSNBC as the first of 33 miners was were rescued in Chile Tuesday night, marking the beginning of the end of a two-month ordeal for the men trapped underground.

Discussion: MediaPost, Romenesko, Variety, CNN, TVWeek.com, Yahoo! News, The Maynard Institute, Media Buyer Planner, New York Observer, New York Times, Broadcasting & Cable, The Hollywood Reporter and The Huffington Post

Dominic Ponsford / Editor's Blog:

The News of the World's paywall and why, for Rupert Murdoch, the internet is so over — The Times' all-or-nothing paywall was a shock to the system - but the News of the World's paywall move today was even more extreme. — Both are examples of the fact that, for Rupert Murdoch the internet is so over.

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, paidContent, Strange Attractor and Editors Weblog

Oliver Luft / Press Gazette:
News of The World relaunches behind the paywall

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, Guardian, Media Week, Media Buyer Planner and Strange Attractor

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

New York Post to Sell Subscriptions on the iPad — The New York Post is the latest newspaper to cross the iPad barrier, with a new, full-content tablet edition readers will be able to purchase as a monthly or annual subscription. Why is this interesting? Because the Post is, to my knowledge …

Discussion: Shaping the Future …, mediabistro.com and Soup

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

Gawker boss: ‘We overtook Huffpo (temporarily)’ — Memo to Gawker Media staff — From: Nick Denton — Subject: We overtook Huffpo (temporarily) — To: edit@gawker.com

Discussion: The Wire and New York Observer

Steve McClellan / Adweek:

NBC, Google Abort TV Ad-Sales Pact — The partnership launched amid much fanfare in 2008 — NBC Universal and Google have discontinued their ad sales partnership begun in 2008, the companies have confirmed. The split deprives Google's TV ad sales unit of one of its major alliances …

Discussion: Search Engine Land

Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
NBCU, Google TV Ads Sever Partnership

Discussion: AdAge, WebNewser and The Next Web

Bill Simmons / ESPN:

The case of the accidental tweeter — I could give you a thousand guesses. Wouldn't matter. You'd never guess what I was doing when I accidentally tweeted “moss Vikings” last Tuesday night, inadvertently breaking news that the Patriots and Vikings were discussing a Randy Moss trade.

Discussion: The Big Lead, The Wire and Nieman Journalism Lab

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Apple's Ping Wants Rock ‘n’ Roll, but No Sex and Drugs — Ping may never move beyond the “interesting idea, executed poorly” stage. But it might! And in any case, it's Apple, so if you're a music act you ignore it at your own risk. — Which means those acts need to create a “profile” for Steve Jobs's social network.

Discussion: Inquirer

Liz Shannon Miller / NewTeeVee:

Blip.tv Predicts Best Quarter Yet for Web Creators — Blip.tv is predicting its best quarter ever for fourth quarter 2010, with sponsors for the next few months including EA Games, Samsung, Reebok, Kraft, Starbucks, Canon, American Express and Microsoft, and profits for web series creators will be bigger than ever.

The Wrap:

The Glitter's Gone From Celebrity Media Funds — Sticking a marquee name at the top of a private equity firm may open doors when it comes to raising money, but it turns out that having Bono as the name on the door doesn't bring big returns. Especially when the U2 frontman has been dubbed “The Worst Investor in America.”

Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:

Media Moves: Nick Summers in The Koblin Spot at the New York Observer, Dana Rubinstein Out — The New York Observer's star media reporter John Koblin left his post there a few weeks ago to work with longtime Observer editor-in-chief Peter Kaplan at Fairchild Publications as Womens Wear Daily's Memo Pad reporter.

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Viral Video: CollegeHumor's Move From “Viral One-Offs” to Web Series — The national broadcast television networks aren't the only ones debuting a fall series season. — CollegeHumor Media, the online comedy video site, is also trying out three longer-term, weekly series rather than the more typical “viral one-offs,” it said.

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

How Amanda Hess, TBD Showed Commitment to Accuracy When Responding to Correction — TBD reporter Amanda Hess knows what a difference the letter “n” can make. — In the original version of her blog post about HIV-positive black gay men last Friday, Hess reported that “one in three black men who have sex with me is HIV positive.”

Discussion: TBD All News, The New Republic and Romenesko