Mediagazer: When The News Lets Everyone Really Participate, It Changes The Way News Works (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Blank Slate: Jacob Weisberg Doesn't Much Care for What Works on the Internet. Can Slate recover? — Slate, the Web site, is 14 years old, an eternity on the Internet. During that span, its New York offices have moved nine times. On a drizzly Friday morning, Jacob Weisberg …

Discussion: Romenesko

Wall Street Journal:

Schools Chancellor Klein to Join News Corp. — New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein is resigning to join News Corp., ending an eight-year reign at the helm of the nation's largest school system. — In his place, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is expected to announce Cathie Black, chairwoman of Hearst Magazines.

Discussion: Media Decoder, City Room, Romenesko, Gothamist, Mixed Media and Hit & Run

Cathie Black Quits Hearst to Become NYC Schools Chancellor — Cathie Black, president of Hearst Magazines for nearly 15 years before becoming chairman with David Carey's hire in June, was appointed New York City schools chancellor by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times: City's New Schools Chief Has Much in Common With Boss

Matt Thompson / Snarkmarket:

Was Marc Ambinder actually a blogger? — Last week, Marc Ambinder reached the end of his tenure as a politics blogger for the Atlantic, and toasted the event with a thoughtful post on the nature of blogging. The central nugget: … My esteemed coblogger tweeted some terrific observations about Ambinder's post:

Blogger, Reporter, Author — I want to distinguish blogging from reporting, and bloggers from reporters. But more than that, I want to distinguish the first question from the second. — Blogging is pretty easy to define as an activity. It's writing online in a serial form, collected together in a single database.

Robin Sloan / Snarkmarket: Escape from Thunderdome

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Fake ‘Olbermann’ emails sent to Philly columnist — Tucker Carlson boasted last July that his site, The Daily Caller, bought the domain name for liberal MSNBC host Keith Olbermann. Carlson, a conservative journalist and pundit, even said he would start using the email address keith@keitholbermann.com as a gag.

Discussion: The Nation, Romenesko, New York Observer, The Huffington Post, Mediaite, Gawker, The Wire, Salon, CJR, Media Decoder and New York Magazine

ProPublica:

Read the Leaked P.R. Plan to Spin Our Dialysis Investigation — Update (2:39 p.m.): Kidney Care Partners released an official statement. — The umbrella group Kidney Care Partners (KCP), an advocacy and lobbying organization for dialysis providers, patient groups, drug companies and others …

Discussion: LA Observed

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Romenesko and MinnPost

Ryan Kearney / TBD All News:

Why did Gawker publish, then retract, a gruesome murder photo? — Recently, Gawker did something unusual: It removed a photo that was upsetting people. The photo showed the body of Christopher Jusko, a 21-year-old graffiti artist who was stabbed to death in New York's East Village on Oct. 25.

Discussion: The Next Web

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Eisner's Studio and AOL Pair Up for Web Series — In a deal to be announced Wednesday, Michael D. Eisner's Web studio, Vuguru, will produce half a dozen scripted Web video series for AOL. — The partnership is the latest attempt by AOL, which has been struggling, to infuse its home page and its Web sites with original video.

Discussion: Beet.TV

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

Kommons Founder Sees Q&A Site as Way to Hold the Powerful Accountable — Social networking services have no doubt opened the lines of communication between citizens and public figures, but Cody Brown thinks they fall short in fostering two-way conversations. Politicians can easily ignore a voter's question on Twitter.

Discussion: Editors Weblog

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Repeat After Me: Investors Are Never the Story — Earlier this week, RockMelt, a Facebook browser launched to massive press coverage from most major publications including GigaOM. — I was as fascinated by the story of RockMelt cofounders Eric Vishria and Tim Howes as I was by their belief …

Discussion: Networking Blog, Adotas, TechCrunch and PC World, more at Techmeme »

Jean-Paul Marthoz / Committee to Protect Journalists:

In France, is Sarkozy spying on journalists? — Every Wednesday morning in France, rain or shine, half a million people eagerly wait for the satirical weekly, Le Canard Enchainé. Some wait for it nervously. The old-fashioned broadsheet, a venerable media institution …

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

When The News Lets Everyone Really Participate, It Changes The Way News Works — When we talk about things like “participatory journalism,” or “news as a community,” we've had traditional newspaper people insist they “get it.” They say that they've “added comments” to their website, so it's now participatory.

Discussion: Poynter Online

Simon Rogers / Guardian:

How Canada became an open data and data journalism powerhouse — The US and the UK might get all the attention but should we be looking to Canada for innovative open data initiatives? — • Apps built with Toronto's data — Imagine if you took the historic records of everyone who died in the first world war.

Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

The View from Nowhere: Questions and Answers — “American journalism is dumber than most journalists, who share my sense of absurdity about these practices. A major reason we have a practice less intelligent than its practitioners is the prestige that the View from Nowhere still claims...”

Discussion: The Politico

Robert Hernandez / Online Journalism Review:

Journalists ‘cautiously pessimistic’ about Patch — By Robert Hernandez: The topic of AOL's Patch has been on journalists' minds before I asked the question at the Online News Association conference in D.C. — It has sparked debate and open conversation about whether this hyperlocal venture …

Media Week:

‘Electricity in the newsroom’: the rise and rise of the iPad — The iPad has brought the greatest excitement to the media industry since the dotcom boom. Alexandra Jardine reports how newspaper and magazine publishers are swelling audiences and ad revenue through launching apps on the revolutionary new platform

Jon Bershad / Mediaite:

Matt Lauer's George W. Bush Interview Gets Lower Ratings Than Everything Except 90210 — Last night on network TV, House finally relented and agreed to hire a female doctor to the team, Barney got an important clue in his quest to find his father, Jeff and Audrey got Jeff's lesbian friend …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, TVWeek.com, Broadcasting & Cable, The Huffington Post and Movieline

Ryan Chittum / CJR:

Sarah Palin, Media Critic — The former veep candidate (and journalism major) misleads readers on the WSJ with selective quotes — Aw, shucks. — Sarah Palin is “just a former governor and current housewife from Alaska, but even humble folks like (her) can read the newspaper.” — Reading's one thing.

Discussion: Slate, Real Time Economics, The Daily Dish, New York Magazine, LA Observed, TIME.com, CNN, The Atlantic Online, Gawker, Romenesko, The Huffington Post, The Wire, Das Krapital, Phoenix, Arizona and Facebook

David Kaplan / paidContent:

DailyCandy Wants To Make ‘Deals’ With Local Marketers — As the discount shopping space continues to attract attention from media companies, DailyCandy, the Comcast-owned fashion and entertainment e-newsletter operator, has expanded its own reach into that area with its DailyCandy Deals channel.