Mediagazer: SEO Is Dead, And The New King Is ‘SMO’ (Ben Elowitz/paidContent)

Bill Carter / Vanity Fair:

The Unsocial Network — Plunging ratings. Tense negotiations. A bewildered, increasingly outraged Conan O'Brien and an anxiously pragmatic Jay Leno. In this excerpt from his new book, the author unfurls the behind-the-scenes story of late night's explosive 2010 showdown. — DESK JOBS

Mark Binelli / Rolling Stone:
Conan O'Brien Comes Clean

Discussion: Speakeasy, PopWatch, coverawards.com, NY Daily News, Splitsider, PopEater, New York Magazine and TV Tattle

Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:

Exclusive: Mike Lang, Post-News Corp., to Be Named Miramax CEO — Mike Lang, a leading business-development executive who recently left News Corp. and had a previous life at Disney, is set to be named CEO of the newly purchased Miramax, TheWrap has learned.

Discussion: New York Observer, paidContent, Company Town, mediabistro.com and New York Magazine

Ben Elowitz / paidContent:

SEO Is Dead, And The New King Is ‘SMO’ — Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a web publisher, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to Wetpaint, Elowitz co-founded Blue Nile, the online retailer of luxury goods. He is also an angel investor in various media and e-commerce companies.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and the Econsultancy blog

Subtraction.com:

My iPad Magazine Stand — Because I recently left a job at one of the most prominent publications in the world, people often ask me about my opinions on the cavalcade of publications rushing to the iPad — those apps designed and developed by newspapers and magazines principally to deliver …

Discussion: GigaOM, Brooks in Beta, Grids and Media Buyer Planner

David Carr / Media Decoder:

Statutory Realignment at Tribune Company — Not long after Sam Zell, the real estate mogul, took over the Tribune Company, he installed a sculpture in the headquarters lobby titled “Bureaucratic Shuffle,” a six-legged man going in circles and nowhere fast.

Discussion: Online Journalism Review, Chicago Reader, New York Observer, LA Observed, DealBook and The Huffington Post

Sue Zeidler / Reuters:

Cable, technology, media firms form digital registry — (Reuters) - Major studios, cable and technology companies on Wednesday announced the launch of an Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) to track movies, TV shows and other assets much the way books are coded.

Discussion: Noted

Dan Frommer / The Wire:

AOL News Has A New Boss: Ex-ABC News Exec Jon Dube — AOL has hired Jon Dube as its new GM of news, according to a tweet from Saul Hansell, the former New York Times reporter who now works as programming director of AOL's Seed.com efforts. — Dube was previously vice president of ABCNews.com.

Discussion: Lost Remote

Boris Kachka / New York Magazine:

Sterling's Gold: How Mad Men's Fake Memoir Became the Real Deal — Roger Sterling's divine folly-autobiography Sterling's Gold is now a real book coming out from Grove/Atlantic just in time for the holidays. So, as high-roller Sterling might have advised, we took our questions …

Discussion: Show Tracker, GalleyCat, PopEater, BlogPost, kottke.org, Boing Boing and The Atlantic Online

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

How to Find the Google Chrome App Store: Wait Till December — You probably haven't heard of it, and you're very unlikely to be looking for it. But if you are wondering when you might see the Chrome app store Google is working on, here's the answer: December. Probably.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb

David Carr / Media Decoder:

Condé Nast Futuregram: No Magazines, but Lots of ‘Consumer Centricity’ — On Tuesday, Charles H. Townsend, the chief executive of Condé Nast Publications, issued a well-covered planning memo announcing that the company will give individual publishers control of their brands on all platforms …

Discussion: Romenesko, WWD Media Headlines, The Wire and The New Yorker Blog

David Johnson / D@J:

Dropping a bomb in the tenure meeting — So our Journalism Division faculty met today on creating new guidelines about merit and tenure. And, always the troublemaker, I dropped the bomb on the discussion. Tenure, as practiced and preached doesn't make sense to me.

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Jason Deans / Guardian:

Bronwen Maddox to become chief executive and editor of Prospect — The Times chief foreign commentator to leave newspaper for role at monthly current affairs magazine — Bronwen Maddox is leaving the Times after 14 years to become chief executive and editor of current affairs magazine Prospect.

Discussion: Press Gazette

Roy Greenslade / This Is London:

Investigative journalism is still thriving in the internet era — Journalists, so surveys regularly reveal, are not trusted by the majority of the people they affect to serve. — In the public estimation of our worth, we rank alongside politicians and estate agents.

Discussion: Guardian

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Spotify's Real News: No News! But Big Bags of Cash Might Help — Nope. Apple's not buying Spotify. — Now, on to real news: There is no official news about the streaming music service's attempt to land on U.S. shores. Spotify has yet to land a single U.S. label deal …

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

Barry Diller On The Daily Beast: “Breaking Even Is Not On Some Distant Shore” — The Daily Beast will have a print component at some point and is getting closer to breaking even, Barry Diller, chairman of the website's parent company, IAC, said on a conference call with analysts Wednesday morning.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, coverawards.com, Mixed Media and Gawker

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
IAC Says It Wants To Launch A Print ‘Companion’ To The Daily Beast

Discussion: The Next Web