Mediagazer: Traditional Journalists Switch to Internet or Face Layoffs (Tom Ramstack/All Headline News)

10:20 AM ET, October 29, 2010

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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: Runnin' Scared, The Wire, Mediaite, Romenesko, Vanity Fair, Facebook, Gawker, The First Post, The Spy Report, Hot Air and FrumForum

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 …

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, Media Decoder and Washington Post

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 …

Discussion: MediaPost

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

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.

Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:

NY Times confident ahead of new era — At times over the past two years, the New York Times has seemed to be a bastion under siege. A gruelling advertising recession, coupled with continued pressure on newspapers from digital alternatives, compelled it to take a $250m loan in January 2009 from Carlos Slim …

Discussion: Guardian

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

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 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

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

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 …

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

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

What's the Boston Globe Worth, Anyway? Try $120 Million — A group of investors, led by entrepreneur Aaron Kushner, wants to buy the Boston Globe. The New York Times Co. says it's not for sale — but then that's what the Bancroft family said when Rupert Murdoch offered them $5 billion …

Discussion: Romenesko

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: WebNewser, MediaFile and Romenesko