Mediagazer: Tina Brown on Newsweek Talks and Jack Welch's Role (Jeff Bercovici/Mixed Media)

12:50 PM ET, October 20, 2010

Top News:

The Media Deal That Wasn't — Around lunchtime on Monday, staffers heard Danny Klaidman, one of two acting editors at Newsweek since the end of August, cursing in his office on Hudson Street ("F**k! S**t!"). Mr. Klaidman had just read the news online from The Wall Street Journal …

Discussion: MinOnline, New York Post and The Wire

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Tina Brown on Newsweek Talks and Jack Welch's Role — Tina Brown, the editor in chief of the Daily Beast, was the honorary chair of last night's Norman Mailer Center gala, where she had to endure endless repetitive questioning from the likes of yours truly about the demise of merger discussions between …

Discussion: The Wrap and Romenesko

Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Huffington Post's CEO on Tina Brown, Advertising and an Eventual IPO

Discussion: WebNewser

Chicago Tribune:

Tribune's top exec poised to resign — Sources: Michaels to exit amid claims of crass behavior — Randy Michaels, Tribune Co.'s embattled chief executive, has decided to resign his post at the Chicago-based media company and intends to leave the company before the end of the week, sources close to the situation said.

Discussion: paidContent, The Wrap, Romenesko, Gawker, The Wire, Cision, Los Angeles Times, Tower Ticker, Mixed Media, LA Observed and CNBC

Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Co. CEO Randy Michaels: I have not resigned

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Internet Is a Weapon in Cable Fight — In disputes between television programmers and distributors, the new battleground is the Internet. — In its continuing contract showdown with Cablevision, the News Corporation tried to extend its blackout of the Fox Broadcasting network to Fox.com and to Hulu …

Discussion: TVWeek.com, Company Town, The Consumerist, Media Money … and Soup

Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
No Hulu For You! — Once or twice a year, a cable company …

Discussion: Free Press, BBC and Technology Liberation Front

Constance Boozer / Columbia Daily Spectator:

J-School launches Tow Center for Digital Journalism — With the launch of Columbia Journalism School's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, the J-School is ready to make its mark on new media. — At an evening peppered with Columbia Journalism School faculty and press stalwarts …

Discussion: Romenesko and mediabistro.com

WWD:

A More Frequent WSJ... Seeing Demarchelier... Digital Ads Up at New York Times.. — A MORE FREQUENT WSJ.: So much for that speculation that Rupert Murdoch wasn't a fan of The Wall Street Journal's glossy magazine WSJ. The supplement will increase its frequency to nine issues next year and 10 issues in 2012.

Discussion: The Wire

Jeremy Porter / Journalistics:
Top 25 U.S. Newspapers Ranked By Twitter Followers

Discussion: mediabistro.com

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

Yahoo Says Display Ad Sales Up 17 Percent — Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), which has been under pressure to turn around its flagging performance, couldn't afford to disappoint Wall Street this quarter. And the company did not. But it didn't exactly surprise either, posting quarterly results in line …

Discussion: Media News International, Mashable!, MarketWatch, BoomTown, Silicon Alley Insider, AdAge, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, CNET News, Digits and Tech Trader Daily, more at Techmeme »

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Bartz On Blogging: “An Extremely Hard Engineering Feat”

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Dana Lacey / J-Source:

Why journalism needs a saviour: Fortune's Andy Serwer — Andy Serwer, Fortune magazine's managing editor, explains the economic crisis, Apple's iron grip on news subscriptions and why journalism needs a saviour. — Warren Buffett used to boast two facts: Newspapers will always be around and the whole world will drink Coca Cola.

Discussion: Poynter Online and SABEW

European Fund for Investigative Journalism:

1,1 million euro for journalistic research grants — Journalists with a good idea for an investigative story with a European angle can now apply for research grants from the European Union. 1,1 million Euro will be distributed in two rounds of applications. The first deadline is on January 15th 2011.

Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:

How Starbucks is trying to change the media — On Tuesday evening, caffeine behemoth Starbucks finally unveiled its revamped Web hub, a landing page that's only accessible from its in-store Wi-Fi networks in the U.S. Teaming with the likes of Yahoo (the main technology partner) …

Discussion: ClickZ and New York Post, more at Techmeme »

FAIR:

Taking the Public Out of Public TV — PBS fare differs little from commercial TV — A multi-part FAIR exposé of PBS's most prominent news and public affairs programs demonstrates that public television is failing to live up to its mission to provide an alternative to commercial television …

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Romenesko

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

ATD Welcomes Ina Fried as Our New Mobile Reporter — Here at All Things Digital, we've always prided ourselves on our journalism efforts, while also fully embracing the fast-paced new world of blogging. — So, we could not be more thrilled to announce the hiring of Ina Fried as our new reporter …

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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Meet “The Hub,” a virtual clubhouse for community nonprofit news sites — At the Block by Block community news conference last month, an irony emerged: Local site publishers, who spend their days cultivating community, hadn't enjoyed much community amongst themselves.

Sherman Frederick / Las Vegas Review-Journal:

All's quiet on the ethical journalism front at the Las Vegas Sun — All's quiet on the journalism front over at the Las Vegas Sun for revising headlines that originally appeared to favor Sharron Angle, but now show up on line to benefit Harry Reid. — In particular, the ever-verbose Jon Ralston …

Jesse Young / Flood Magazine:

The New Yorker, or How Not to Set Up a Paywall, Part 1 — On the topic of paywalls, The New Yorker is clearly in favor of monetizing their content. In June, editor David Remnick said, “I was going to be damned if I was going to train 18-year-olds, 20-year-olds, 25-year-olds, that this is like water that comes out of the sink.”