Mediagazer: Warner Bros. Television Group Acquires Shed Media (Hunter Walker/The Wrap)

10:15 PM ET, October 14, 2010

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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, Big Journalism, New York Observer, FishbowlDC, The Wrap, mediabistro.com, Media Matters for America and Romenesko

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: The Huffington Post, Romenesko and New York Observer

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: paidContent, Shaping the Future …, mediabistro.com, Nieman Journalism Lab and Soup

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: Lost Remote, The Big Lead, The Wire and Nieman Journalism Lab

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

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 and Lost Remote

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
A Surge in Ratings as First Miners Appeared

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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, Strange Attractor, paidContent 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

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.

Discussion: NewTeeVee

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.

Nick Fox / Diner's Journal:

Beard Awards Will Not Distinguish Between Online and Print Journalism — Do you write about food online or in print, for a magazine or a newspaper? It no longer matters to the James Beard Foundation. — Starting next year, the Beard journalism awards — nominations for which will be …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:

BBC produces online tests to help public understand editorial changes — The BBC Academy has produced a series of online quizzes, masterclasses and hypothetical scenarios to help the public better understand changes to its editorial policy launched this week.

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.”

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, more at Techmeme »

Hunter Walker / The Wrap:

Warner Bros. Television Group Acquires Shed Media — Warner Bros. Television Group has acquired a majority stake in Shed Media, a major production and distribution company based in the UK. — Warner Bros. announced the deal Thursday morning. — Shed includes six different companies …

Discussion: Variety

Ragnhild Kjetland / Bloomberg:

Google, Publishers Discuss How to Profit From Selling Content on Internet — Google Inc. is talking to publishers about how to make money from content, said Philipp Schindler, managing director for Northern and Central Europe. — “We see ourselves as a technology partner and we are working …

Discussion: Media Buyer Planner

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Newsonomics of replacement journalism — [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.] — Finally, we're seeing light on the horizon. Journalism hiring is picking up.

Steve Smith / minonline.com:

A Review and a Dinner Deal: NY Media's App Adds New Revenue Model — Blending polished critical content with geo-location and mobility has already proven to be a winning recipe for New York Media's MenuPages iPhone app. The mobile restaurant finder and reviewer is fueled with ratings …

Discussion: MinOnline, MinOnline and NYConvergence.com

Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:

NBCU, Google TV Ads Sever Partnership — Google TV Ads has taken a big blow, losing marquee NBC Universal cable networks as clients for selling TV ad time. Others might be on the rocks as well. — The deal between Google TV Ads and NBC has been in effect for two years …

Discussion: AdAge, WebNewser and The Next Web