Mediagazer: After Three Issues, Jody Quon Resigns from ‘W’ (Zeke Turner/New York Observer)

1:10 PM ET, October 22, 2010

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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, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, Runnin' Scared, NPR Topics, Romenesko, Swampland, Guardian, The Huffington Post, Big Journalism, Hot Air, Scripting News, GroundReport.com, Hit & Run, Rhetorica, 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, Fox News, Washington Post, The Caucus, Poynter Online, Most Recent Home Page Posts …, Tuned In, Gawker, 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

Discussion: paidContent, Guardian, Journalism.co.uk 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, Romenesko, Free Press and New York Magazine

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.

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

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Looks Like Our Friends Over At GigaOm Just Raised Another $2.5 Million — Om Malik, well-respected journalist and founder of technology news blog network Giga Omni Media and its flagship blog GigaOm, broke the news about us being acquired by AOL about a month ago now.

Discussion: GigaOM and paidContent, more at Techmeme »

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
ATD Gets Social With Liz Gannes (In Other Words, We Hired Her)

Discussion: omis.me

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 …

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: Nieman Journalism Lab, Editors Weblog 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

Andrew Beaujon / TBD All News:

Tom Shales confirms he's likely to leave Washington Post — Tom Shales, the Washington Post's Pulitzer-prize winning television writer, says he's probably going to leave the paper when his contract expires at the end of December. “It's been a long process,” he says. — Shales took the paper's buyout offer in 2006.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Romenesko and tony of all media

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.

Zeke Turner / New York Observer:

After Three Issues, Jody Quon Resigns from ‘W’ — Jody Quon has resigned as creative director and editor Stefano Tonchi's number two at W after three issues. She was one of the leading voices in the new design of the magazine for its September relaunch. A spokesperson for the magazine told …

Discussion: New York Magazine

Greg Braxton / Los Angeles Times:

TV reporter Lu Parker plays by her own set of rules — The KTLA reporter is dating L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, advocating for causes and promoting herself in ways that critics say is a problem for her professional reputation. Parker says media standards have to change with the times.

Discussion: Gawker, Romenesko and LA Observed