Mediagazer: Shield Law Showdown (David Saleh Rauf /American Journalism …)

9:45 AM ET, October 29, 2010

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Behind Gawker's Christine O'Donnell ‘One-Night Stand’ Story — Christine O'Donnell. Image by Getty Images North America via @daylife — Gawker has proven yet again that the journalist's pen is sometimes most effective when it's writing out a check. — The Nick Denton-owned gossip site scored …

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Gawker editor defends anonymous O'Donnell post — Gawker was convicted Thursday in the court of Twitter opinion. The charges: misogyny and reckless link-baiting. — “Today, we are all Christine O'Donnell,” wrote Salon's Justin Elliott. — He was one of several journalists and bloggers …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Wire, Romenesko, Runnin' Scared, The Spy Report, The First Post, Hot Air and FrumForum

Brian Steinberg / AdAge:

To Hype ‘Conan’ on TV, Conan Takes to Web — Diet Coke to Sponsor Online ‘Triple Simulcast’ of Mr. O'Brien's Warm-Up — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Before Conan O'Brien takes to TBS to launch his new program on Nov. 8, he'll appear online to hype the new effort, in a brief video feature sponsored by Coca-Cola's Diet Coke.

Discussion: Multichannel, The Wrap and Vanity Fair

Bill Carter / Vanity Fair:
The Unsocial Network — Plunging ratings. Tense negotiations.

Discussion: Mediaite and The Corsair

Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:

YouTube Won't Fix Google TV's Content Problems — Updated. There's been an interesting development in the recent Google TV saga, in which the search giant has shifted responsibility for the new TV operating system into its YouTube division, according to a report the SF Chronicle.

Discussion: GigaOM, more at Techmeme »

James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:
Google shifts TV effort to YouTube

Discussion: VentureBeat, The Wire, TechCrunch, CrunchGear, MediaPost, Fast Company and Electronista

Jon Friedman / MarketWatch:

Jon Stewart: America's anchor-in-waiting — Commentary: The Most Trusted Name in ... something or other — NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Comedy Central's Jon Stewart will be the first person to tell you, again, that he is an entertainer, not a journalist. Therefore, he can't qualify …

Discussion: Romenesko, Washington Post and Media Decoder

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

Condé Nast Moves One Executive Out, Another Up — Carol Smith, the former Elle brand chief who made waves in the publishing industry this spring when she jumped ship for Condé Nast, is leaving, saying her partnership with the company was not the right fit.

Discussion: Speakeasy, MinOnline and AdAge

Joel Meares / CJR:

Keeping Up With Chuck Todd — “I'm in a business where I'm not allowed to miss right now” — It's 6:50 a.m. on a drizzling New York morning and Chuck Todd is standing behind a wall on the cluttered Today Show set, safely out of shot as he waits to talk America's early risers through the upcoming day in politics.

Steve Smith / MinOnline:

Consumers See Old Media Ways Doomed — American may still prefer to get their information and news via traditional means, but most of us don't feel these venues will survive in their current form. In a shocking poll result from Harris and 24/7Wall Street, 55% of 2,095 U.S. adults surveyed …

David Saleh Rauf / American Journalism Review:

Shield Law Showdown — It's do or die. That's how media groups describe the state of the long-stalled legislation to create a federal shield law for journalists. The bill passed the House and has emerged from the Senate Judiciary Committee. But it is on the verge of suffering a familiar fate: death in the Senate.

Carly Harrington / Knoxville News-Sentinel:

Scripps Networks Interactive moving headquarters to Knoxville — Register or log in using your account on these websites. — Web Search powered by YAHOO! SEARCH — Election 2010 links — KNOXVILLE — Scripps Networks Interactive, the company that operates cable channels HGTV and The Food Network …

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Search Ads Are a Hammer, But Not Everything is a Nail — Search-related keyword advertising is a multibillion-dollar industry for a reason — because it is extremely good at converting people who are searching for information into shoppers who want to buy something.

Discussion: Jonathan Mendez's Blog, the Econsultancy blog and VentureBeat

Choire Sicha / The Awl:

The Campaign That Put a Book at #1 on Amazon, Beating out Glenn Beck — This week, David Malki (who makes his living doing comics on the Internet) and friends self-published an anthology, called Machine of Death. It was self-published, in part, because traditional publishers didn't like that it didn't have any “names” in it.

Discussion: Wondermark and The Atlantic Wire

Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:

Craig Silverman shares excellent advice on accuracy, verification and preventing errors — We knew we were risking schedule conflicts when Craig Silverman agreed to present a workshop on accuracy and verification for the TBD Community Network while he was in Washington for the Online News Association.

Discussion: TBD All News

Lois Beckett / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Engagement: Where does revenue fit in the equation? — Our post earlier this week about philly.com's seven-part equation to measure user engagement has sparked a lively debate in the comments. The central question: Should a news site's engagement equation factor in revenue? If so, how?

MediaShift:

How the Tea Party Utilized Digital Media to Gain Power — The biggest story of the U.S. midterm election has been the growing influence of the Tea Party movement. Since their first rallies in early 2009, these vocal, visible conservatives have succeeded in shifting the center of American political discourse to the right.

Discussion: Media Matters for America and rbr.com

Irin Carmon / Jezebel:

Antoine Dodson Responds To The Haters — Antoine Dodson has been accused of “turning rape into a joke”, and before his viral video fame, he survived sexual abuse and homophobic bullying. But he's not letting any of it get him down, he told me recently. — Antoine had no way of knowing …

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Updated: Ex-ABCNews.com Head Dube Joins AOL As SVP-GM AOL News & Info — AOL (NYSE: AOL) media chief David Eun said he was serious about AOL's journalism. Following a spate of editorial departures, Eun who left as VP of ABCNews.com over the summer with a voluntary buyout during that group's re-org …

Discussion: MediaFile, WebNewser and Romenesko