Mediagazer: This Is Not a Blog Post (Farhad Manjoo/Slate)

10:10 PM ET, October 15, 2010

Top News:

Phil Rosenthal / Chicago Breaking Business:

Lee Abrams resigns from Tribune Co. — Lee Abrams. (Handout) — Tribune Co. Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams, who began the work week by sending a companywide e-mail that contained content deemed inappropriate, resigned Friday. — The e-mail, the latest in a weekly series …

Discussion: rbr.com, Romenesko, The Informer and Tanner Friedman

Alex Weprin / mediabistro.com:

Dennis Kneale to Join Fox Business Network — It looks like another CNBC reporter is leaving to join Fox Business Network. — TVNewser hears that Dennis Kneale is expected to join Fox Business in an on-air role covering media and advertising. — We have calls out to Fox Business, and will update when we hear back.

Discussion: Mediaite, Dealbreaker, The Wire and Talking Biz News

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Columbia developing a year-round news outlet to let students learn how to build and serve an audience — It's only a slight exaggeration to say that journalism schools, even more than other media institutions, are experiencing an existential crisis under news' new conditions.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Index, Union Square Like SoundCloud's Web-Based Tune — Here's another bet on Web-based music: SoundCloud, a start-up that makes it easy to share streaming music, is about to land a funding round from high-profile investors. — Sources tell me that Index Ventures and Union Square Ventures are leading a …

Discussion: MediaPost, more at Techmeme »

Tim Carmody / Epicenter:

Size Does Matter When It Comes To Tablets, Newspapers Fear — The iPad has been a hit with newspaper and magazine publishers because its 9.7-inch screen gives apps room to play with layout. At a recent industry conference, a digital strategist for the Gannett newspaper chain worried …

Discussion: Poynter Online

EditorandPublisher.com:
Conference Looked to Make E-Reading, Tablets Work for News Media

Discussion: Poynter Online

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

NBC U Perks Up a Bit for Its New Owners — This should make the folks in Philadelphia feel a bit better about their purchase-to-be: GE says that its NBC Universal unit, soon to become a Comcast property, had a decent third quarter. — Unofficially, that is.

Discussion: Multichannel, rbr.com and Company Town

Jeremy Porter / Journalistics:

How the Top 25 U.S. Newspapers Stack Up Online — Most newspaper rankings are usually based on circulation numbers from the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC). It makes sense to rank newspapers by circulation, since the more papers that ship, the more people a paper reaches and the more influence it has.

William Glaberson / New York Times:

Twitter Reporting Blanketed Connecticut Triple-Murder Trial — NEW HAVEN — Dr. William A. Petit Jr., whose wife and daughters were killed by two intruders in Cheshire, Conn., took the witness stand. It was one of the most expectantly intense moments of the three-week long trial of one of two defendants in the case.

Discussion: WebNewser

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Gannett's Digital Revs Continue To Surge, As Print Declines Recede — Digital revenues in Gannett's U.S. Community Publishing unit, which houses the company's 80 local papers, were up 10.2 percent in the quarter due to gains in virtually all ad categories. Meanwhile, flagship USA Today's …

Discussion: rbr.com

Dan Trombetto / Folio:

Would These Editors Hire You? — Three top editors chime in about what skill sets they're looking for today. — “An editor's role will never be what it was just five years ago.” — That's a line from a June 2009 FOLIO: story on publishers developing the edit staff that will define the company's future.

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

Actor-writer McCarthy named Travel Journalist of the Year — Former “Brat Pack” actor Andrew McCarthy (left) took the top individual honors as 2010 Travel Journalist of the Year in the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition for his articles in National Geographic Traveler, Bon Appétit, Islands, Afar and other magazines.

Discussion: New York Magazine

Farhad Manjoo / Slate:

This Is Not a Blog Post … Like This Story … - What's Scarier, an Italian Mob Boss or an Armenian Vor? - Facebook Billionaire Peter Thiel's Appalling Plan To Pay Students To Quit College - Colorado Senate Candidates Try Desperately To Appear as Angry as Voters …

David Winograd / TUAW:

The iBookstore six months after launch: One big failure — It's been over six months since the release of the iPad on April 3rd, and the simultaneous launch of iBooks and the iBookstore, which promised to give Amazon's Kindle and Kindle Store a run for its money.

Discussion: TeleRead, more at Techmeme »

ProPublica:

Reporting Recipe: Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk for Data Projects — Of all of journalism's recent evolutions, data-driven reporting is one of the most celebrated. But as much as we should toast data's powers, we must acknowledge its cost: Assembling even a small dataset can require hours of tedious work …

Audrey Watters / ReadWriteWeb:

Borders Partners with BookBrewer to Turn Blogs into eBooks — As eBooks have become increasingly popular, many major eBookstores have created ways to fill those eBookshelves not just with the titles of well known authors but with the works of any author willing to cough up the fees …

Discussion: Fast Company