Mediagazer: An Open Letter to Ross Watson — On the Future of News Media (Tom Pipes Up Again)

4:30 AM ET, November 4, 2010

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Regina McCombs / Mobile Media:

The iPad Election: Not quite ready to declare victory for mobile — I love election night. It's my favorite non-holiday night every other year. For 25 years, I spent it at someone's campaign headquarters. Working at Poynter has led to severe election withdrawal, and I was looking forward …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Mediaite, TVNewsCheck and The Huffington Post

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

For Fox News, Most Viewers Ever for a Midterm Election — Television reporters covering Rand Paul's election night victory party in Bowling Green, Ky. — As a Republican wave swept across the United States on Tuesday, the Fox News Channel enjoyed its biggest midterm election audience ever.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and Gawker

Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Behind The Scenes of CNN's Election Tech: iPads, Magic Walls, Holograms, Twitter

Discussion: Inside Cable News, via:ellmcgirt

David Folkenflik / NPR:
The Annals Of Election Night Analysis

Discussion: Mediaite, Tuned In, Denver Post, CJR, PRWeb, New York Times, Yahoo! News, American Journalism Review, Web Journalist Blog and Media Decoder

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

News Corp. Puts MySpace on Double Secret Probation — That big MySpace relaunch we read about last week? That's all fine and good. — But the troubled Web property is a...really troubled Web property, its News Corp. parent stressed today. And it needs to get its act together before it gets kicked off campus.

Discussion: paidContent:UK, paidContent, SAI, Company Town, Between the Lines Blog, Broadcasting & Cable and Business Wire, more at Techmeme »

Dylan Stableford / The Wrap: Driven by Fox News, News Corp. Sees 8% Profit Growth

Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:

Exclusive: Andrew Breitbart Says ABC ‘Humiliated’ Him, ‘Damaged’ His Brand — Under pressure from groups like Media Matters and Color of Change, ABC News first scaled back, and then canceled, Andrew Breitbart's planned participation in its Election Day coverage.

Discussion: Big Journalism and ABC News' Press Room

Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
“I'm committed to the destruction of the old media guard.”

Discussion: Big Journalism, ThinkProgress and Speakeasy

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Twitter Promoted Tweets Come To Google — In a first ever move, Google is now carrying ads from someone else's ad network — Twitter's, as Google integrates Twitter's new Promoted Tweets into Google Realtime Search. — It's quite a coup for Twitter. Not only did the company get Google …

Discussion: The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb, Relevant Results, All Things Digital, SAI and CenterNetworks, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Time Inc. Can't Wait For Google's Tablets — It's become standard issue for media executives to praise the iPad during public events. Today Time Warner's Jeff Bewkes added a twist, by taking time to talk up tablets made by people other than Apple. — Here are Bewkes's prepared remarks from Time Warner's earnings call this morning:

Discussion: paidContent

Jon Friedman / MarketWatch:
Time Warner gets a reality check

Discussion: CNNMoney.com, Media Money …, Bloomberg, DailyFinance and Stocks To Watch Today

Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:

‘Why are we just doing static things?’: Burt Herman talks dynamic storytelling with Storify — Tweet — Having a social media editor in the newsroom, someone who handles the official Twitter account say, while everyone carries on as before, isn't good enough for Burt Herman.

Dan Trombetto / Folio:

Rising Stars: Ten Under 30 — A look at publishing's new breed, from editors to CEOs. — While it's natural to worry about how the publishing industry is going to attract the next generation of media leaders, the fact is the industry is already seeing a demographic shift, with younger people taking on more leadership roles.

Discussion: Romenesko

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

It's people! Meet Soylent, the crowdsourced copy editor — The phrase “on-demand human computation” has a sinister tinge to it, if only because the idea of sucking the brain power out of a group of people is generally frowned upon. And yet, if you call it “crowdsourcing” everything sounds so much friendlier!

Mike Madden / City Desk:

Politico Celebrates Politico — Around the District last night, it wasn't hard to find somewhere to go watch election returns filter in. Local Democrats gathered at Love. National Democrats, for some reason, had a fancy party downtown; second-hand reports made clear it was only the place …

Tom Pipes Up Again:

An Open Letter to Ross Watson — On the Future of News Media — According to your analysis of the future of printed newspapers, they are slated to go the way of the dodo bird in the next ten years in some advanced industrial and gadget-addicted countries, followed by further extinctions …

Discussion: Guardian

Emily Bell:

W(h)ither the Times? — When it comes to paywalls around news websites, I sometimes wonder if we are becoming an international fraternity of cargo cultists. The voodoo economics which accompanies the release of digital sales figures for The Times and Sunday Times is developing into its own art.

Discussion: the Econsultancy blog, Guardian, Editors Weblog, Virtual Economics and paidContent:UK

Brad Stone / Business Week:

The New New Andreessen — With Andreessen Horowitz, visionary entrepreneur Marc Andreessen is trying to reinvent himself as a top-tier venture capitalist and world-class power broker — As Silicon Valley events go, it was an irresistible draw: Marc Andreessen, Web wunderkind turned venture capitalist …

The Solomon Scandals:

Washington Post hyperlocal launch expected in the ‘late spring,’ Post source tells me — So what's “close”—the word TBD.com used in speculating on the Washington Post's hyperlocal launch"? — Psst! A Post source tells me he expects the launch to happen in the “late spring.”

Discussion: Mixed Media and TBD All News