Mediagazer: Google yearns to make YouTube a TV network (Claire Atkinson/New York Post)

4:15 PM ET, October 29, 2010

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By Any Means Necessary: Gawker and the O'Donnell Post — We get it. It's a dirty, terrible world out there and anything and everyone is fair game. So when some guy was willing to trash Christine O'Donnell, the Republican candidate for United States Senate in Delaware …

Discussion: Runnin' Scared, American Journalism Review, Mediaweek, The New Yorker Blog, New York Magazine, Mediaite, The Corsair, New York Observer and Politics Daily

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, Romenesko, Guardian, Facebook, Vanity Fair, The First Post, The Wire, Gawker, The Spy Report, Hot Air, FrumForum, The Not-So Private Parts and New York Magazine

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Behind Gawker's Christine O'Donnell ‘One-Night Stand’ Story

Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:

Do bloggers devalue journalism? — Science journalist Angela Saini has written an interesting post on ‘devaluing journalism’ that I felt I had to respond to. “The profession [of journalism] is being devalued,” she argues. … Firstly let me say that I broadly agree with most of what Angela is saying …

Discussion: Nothing shocks me …, Ben Mazzotta's Weblog and Lippmann Would Roll

Charles Lewis / Investigative Reporting Workshop:

New journalism ecosystem thrives — In the immortal words of Sir Isaac Newton more than three centuries ago, “To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.” It is perhaps peculiar and maybe even ill-advised to apply Newton's immortal Laws of Motion to the quirky, peculiar world of journalism.

Discussion: Romenesko

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.

Discussion: TVNewser, Gawker, Romenesko and Inside Cable News

Michael Oneal / Chicago Tribune:

Tribune braces for competing bankruptcy plans — Unhappy creditors face Friday deadline to offer alternatives — Still recovering from a management scandal that claimed its chief executive a week ago, Tribune Co. is bracing for its next disruption: How to cope with legal challenges …

Discussion: Romenesko

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Google yearns to make YouTube a TV network — Tweet — YouTube wants to be the boob tube. — Google is pitching YouTube not only as a popular Web destination, but as a content channel to have a place in the living room alongside TV networks like ABC, CBS and NBC.

Discussion: TVWeek.com, Online Video News, ClickZ, Urlesque, CNET News and San Francisco Chronicle

Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Won't Fix Google TV's Content Problems

Discussion: GigaOM, VentureBeat, CrunchGear and The Wire

Jason Stverak / Online Journalism Review:

Joining the online news bandwagon — By Jason Stverak: Howard Kurtz, Peter Goodman, Jim VandeHei, and Richard Johnson are just a few of the many reporters voluntarily exiting the legacy media to join online news ventures. — While many are scratching their heads wondering …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Bianca Bosker / The Huffington Post:

Marie Claire Editor-In-Chief Joanna Coles On Apple's ‘Sexy’ iPad, Women In Tech, And More — “We had pizzas coming in at 1AM,” recalled Marie Claire editor-in-chief Joanna Coles of creating the magazine's iPad app. “It was like a startup within the magazine. It felt like our equivalent of Facebook.”

Discussion: Poynter Online

Craig Silverman / MediaShift:

Notable Quotes, Impressions and Moments From the 2010 Online News Association Conference — “Welcome to the conference where journalism supposedly doesn't know it's supposed to be dead.” — Those were the welcoming words from Online News Association executive director Jane McDonnell …

Tom Ramstack / All Headline News:

Traditional Journalists Switch to Internet or Face Layoffs — Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) - Some journalists complained Thursday during a business conference in Washington, D.C., about what they see as the sunset of the traditional news media while others said the Internet was opening new opportunities.

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, New York Times, Washington Post and Media Decoder

Steve Smith / MinOnline:

Consumers See Old Media Ways Doomed — Americans 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 …

Discussion: MediaPost

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: the Econsultancy blog and Jonathan Mendez's Blog