Mediagazer: Williams Episode Shows 2 Versions of Journalism (Brian Stelter/New York Times)

12:40 PM ET, October 22, 2010

Top News:

Alicia Shepard / NPR:

NPR's Firing of Juan Williams Was Poorly Handled — Juan Williams once again got himself into trouble with NPR for comments he made at his other job, at Fox News. And NPR's reaction has unleashed an unprecedented firestorm of criticism directed not at Williams - but at NPR.

Discussion: Free Press, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Runnin' Scared, NPR Topics, Romenesko, Swampland, Hot Air, Guardian, The Huffington Post, Scripting News, Big Journalism, GroundReport.com, Rhetorica, Hit & Run, Speakeasy, The Awl and The Hill

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Williams Episode Shows 2 Versions of Journalism — NPR's decision Wednesday to fire Juan Williams and Fox News Channel's decision to give him a new contract on Thursday put into sharp relief the two versions of journalism that compete every day for Americans' attention.

Discussion: NPR, The Buttry Diary, The Huffington Post, Philly.com, Cision, Company Town, Poynter Online, Fox News, Washington Post, The Caucus, Most Recent Home Page Posts …, Gawker, Tuned In, Daily Kos and Inside Cable News

Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:

In wake of NPR controversy, Fox News gives Juan Williams an expanded role — The cable news network signs the analyst to a new three-year contract for nearly $2 million. Meanwhile, conservative figures blast the public radio network for its response to Williams' comments about Muslims.

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Rupert Murdoch Admits He Can't Compete With Google — News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch has likely never acknowledged (at least not publicly) that he has failed at something, particularly when it involves a market worth billions of dollars, but he appears to have conceded defeat in his attempt to build a competitor to Google News.

Discussion: Poynter Online and mediabistro.com, more at Techmeme »

Media Week:

Rupert Murdoch's full speech at the Centre of Policy Studies — Rupert Murdoch, the founder, chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, heaped praise on Margaret Thatcher for ‘expanding the boundaries of freedom’ tonight, before turning to bloggers and why they will never replace journalists.

Discussion: paidContent, Journalism.co.uk, Guardian and Crikey

Media Week:
Murdoch aims sideswipe at ‘traditional elites’ curbs on News Corp

Discussion: Press Gazette and Arif Durrani

Reuters:

News Corp ices Alesia digital newsstand plan-source — * Alesia did not attract enough publisher partners — * Alesia not seen on fast track to launch in U.S. — Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NWSA.O) has put on ice ambitious plans to create a subscription online newsstand …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Free Press and Romenesko

Wall Street Journal:

Networks in Rift With Google TV — ABC, CBS and NBC are blocking TV programming on their websites from being viewable on Google Inc.'s new Web-TV service, exposing the rift that remains between the technology giant and some of the media companies it wants to supply content for its new products.

Discussion: NewTeeVee, Search Engine Land, Online Video News, Post Tech, New York Observer, Both Sides of the Table, Bits, TechCrunch, Reuters, PC World, VentureBeat, Fast Company, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Lost Remote, The New Yorker Blog, Company Town and Engadget, more at Techmeme »

Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Some networks blocking shows on Google TV

Discussion: New York Post, Search Engine Land and Creative Loafing Atlanta

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Life With Google TV: My First Day Review & Impressions

Discussion: TechCrunch, Google Webmaster Central Blog and Lost Remote, more at Techmeme »

Robert Quigley / Old Media, New Tricks:

Newspapers on Twitter, ranked by followers — Inspired by this interesting but flawed effort to measure U.S. newspaper Twitter followers, I scoured the Twittersphere to come up with an exhaustive list of Twitter followers for as many U.S. newspapers as I could. I ended up with 200, but I think I'm the only one exhausted.

Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:
Tweet This: The Top 25 Magazines on Twitter

Discussion: Anil Dash, SocialTimes.com and Thompson on Hollywood

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

How US newspapers are coping with abusive commenters — What's to be done when readers' online comments tip over from the critical into the abusive? That problem has been faced by several newspapers in the US. — In the latest example, the Portland Press Herald shut down its comments service …

Damon Kiesow / Poynter Online:
Comments return to the Portland Press Herald

Discussion: Editors Weblog, Nieman Journalism Lab and Shaping the Future …

Scripting News:

New blogging techniques — What I call paragraph-level permalinks have made an appearance in Jay Rosen's blog, thanks to the innovative design work of Lauren Rabaino. — Nieman Lab calls out the feature. — And this got a geek going, Daniel Bachhuber, whose new (today) …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab and Lauren Michell Rabaino

Ryan Tate / Gawker:

R.I.P. Chatroulette: A Sad Tale of Missed Opportunity — Remember Chatroulette? It's hard to believe that barely eight months ago the anonymous video chat site had everyone captivated. Venture capitalists clamored to invest, journalists tripped over one another to profile—and now Chatroulette is dying, unused and unloved.

Discussion: Social Culture …

Mike Shields / Mediaweek:

TV Guide Site Partners With ABC for ‘Check-In’ Feature — TVGuide.com has partnered with ABC to help kick start its new TV Check-In feature—the site's answer to the slew of startup social apps, which encourage users to tell their friends what they watch or are planning to watch on TV.

Nielsen Wire:

Connected Devices: Does the iPad Change Everything? — The growing popularity of connected devices - especially Apple's iconic tablet computer, the iPad - are starting to change the how people consume media. And with sales of these devices expected to be a bright spot in an otherwise …

Discussion: CrunchGear, ReadWriteWeb, MediaPost, MinOnline, Gadget Lab, Fortune, TUAW, MarketingCharts and Poynter Online

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Books and Video Win on the iPad, and Users Are Buying

Discussion: The Next Web and MediaPost

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

Magazines, Advertising, and the Malleability of Ethics — Since the recession hit and print started dying in earnest, magazines have been...let's say, loosening their standards on the editorial-advertising divide. Now, in a bid to maintain relevance, the American Society of Magazine Editors has updated its ethical guidelines.

Discussion: MinOnline, MPA and Canadian Magazines