Mediagazer: Dropping a bomb in the tenure meeting (David Johnson/D@J)

9:10 AM ET, October 28, 2010

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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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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

David Carr / Media Decoder:

Statutory Realignment at Tribune Company: Much-Hated Sculpture in Lobby Mothballed — Not long after the real estate mogul Sam Zell 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 and The Huffington Post

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.

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

News Corp. Rejects Cablevision Offer — Updated With only a few hours before the World Series begins on Fox, Cablevision said Wednesday afternoon that it had put a new offer on the negotiating table to end it's dispute with News Corporation over retransmission fees.

Discussion: Company Town, B&C, Broadcasting & Cable, MediaPost, rbr.com, Media Money …, Moneywood, Multichannel, TVWeek.com, American Cable Association, The Wrap, New York Times and Stop Big Media News, via:themediaisdying

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Hires Ross Levinsohn To Run Americas Business — Yahoo has hired Ross Levinsohn, the former President of Fox Interactive Media, as EVP America's Region, we've confirmed. AllThingsD first broke the news that he was close to taking the job. — Levinsohn will replace Hillary Schneider.

Discussion: BoomTown, Media News International, paidContent and SAI, more at Techmeme »

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, Grids and Media Buyer Planner

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

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: GalleyCat, PopEater, BlogPost, kottke.org and Boing Boing

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.

Mark Binelli / Rolling Stone:

Conan O'Brien Comes Clean — He has overcome his depression and anger. Now the comedy genius is ready for one last late-night ride — By … In July, shortly after his Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour wrapped up, Conan O'Brien began visiting the set of his new talk show …

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

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

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 …

Nate Freeman / New York Observer:

On Cusp of Expansion, WSJ. Magazine Brings In New Publisher — With its last Tina Gaudoin-helmed issue currently on newsstands, WSJ. Magazine has brought in Andrew Cenname to become publisher of The Journal's glossy, Dow Jones announced in a statement. Cenname had previously …

Discussion: Talking Biz News and MediaPost