Mediagazer: On Basic Cable, TV's Alternate Universe (Wall Street Journal)

David Kaplan / paidContent:

NYT Replaces Editors' Choice iPad App With Full Version—Free For Now — You expected more from The New York Times on the iPad? You're getting it—and eventually, you'll have to pay to get all of it. The NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) flagship is updating its Editors' Choice iPad app with an expanded version …

Discussion: WebNewser, The Wire, NYConvergence.com, Romenesko, New York Magazine, TUAW, VentureBeat, Mixed Media, Engadget, Lost Remote, NetNewsCheck Latest and Media Week, more at Techmeme »

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.

EditorandPublisher.com:

Conference Looked to Make E-Reading, Tablets Work for News Media — NEW YORK — Recognizing tablets and mobile e-readers as promising vehicles for news distribution, a recent gathering of publishers and digital platform experts considered how to exploit that potential.

Discussion: Poynter Online

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

News Corp. approached about Yahoo buy — Private equity firms eye alternatives to AOL deal — NEW YORK — As Yahoo shareholders cheer a possible sale of the company to private equity firms, perhaps with the aid of AOL, private equity players also have approached News Corp. as a potential strategic partner, according to sources.

Discussion: Fast Company, Guardian and Gawker, more at Techmeme »

John Cassidy / The New Yorker Blog:

Is Nick Denton Really the New Rupert Murdoch? — Updated below. — Kudos to my colleague Ben McGrath for finally eliciting some dollar figures for the revenues of Gawker Media. Back in early 2006, when I spoke to Denton about the possibility of writing an article about Gawker's rise …

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, New York Observer, The D Files, mediabistro.com, The Wire and eMedia Vitals

Wall Street Journal:

On Basic Cable, TV's Alternate Universe — Without big budgets, basic cable shows are multiplying—and changing the way TV is made. Can the major networks learn from them? Plus: six new shows to watch. — Cable Dispute Heats Up — A dispute between Cablevision and Fox heated …

Discussion: AdAge, VideoNuze 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.

Newspaper Association of America:

NEWSPAPER WEBSITES REACH NEARLY TWO-THIRDS OF U.S INTERNET USERS IN SEPTEMBER — New data from comScore indicates one-in-four newspaper website visitors come from households earning at least $100,000 a year; Newspaper sites reach majority of 25-to-34-year-olds

Discussion: EditorandPublisher.com, Media Buyer Planner, Romenesko, Shaping the Future …, Kirk LaPointe's … and Gawker

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: rbr.com and Company Town

David Goetzl / MediaPost:

CBS Closes Signature Store, Grows Online Presence — A fixture on Broadway with its art deco façade, the CBS Store in New York has closed after an apparent failure to agree on new lease terms. Located at the corner of West 53rd Street, CBS posters outside and “CSI:” …

Discussion: rbr.com and TVWeek.com

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

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

Annenberg Foundation gives $50M to USC j-school — USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism — The gift will pay for a new 90,000-square-foot building with studios and newsrooms for the digital age. Read the release.

Discussion: USC Annenberg School … and Los Angeles Times

Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:

How to turn a paper of record into a website of record — Last week Arthur Brisbane, the new public editor of the New York Times, posted an illuminating exchange between a reader of the paper and one of its top editors. — The reader asked: What's with the way stories change all the time on the website?

Business Wire:

Demand Media Launches Blog Distribution Network — New Demand Media Studios Offering Helps Bloggers Build Their Online Brands with Expanded Distribution and Increased Visibility — LAS VEGAS & SANTA MONICA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—At the 2010 BlogWorld and New Media Expo, Demand Media™ …

Discussion: The Wire

Amanda Andrews / Telegraph:

BBC hampers Johnston Press's paid content ambitions — Regional newspaper groups will never be able to charge for digital content unless the BBC's local ambitions are controlled, according to John Fry, chief executive of Johnston Press. — Mr Fry says he has written to the BBC Trust calling …

Discussion: Jon Slattery and Press Gazette