Mediagazer: Diary of a budding journalist: The highs and lows writing about yourself (Nikki Osman/Guardian)

1:55 PM ET, November 18, 2010

Top News:

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Bill Clinton's speech can be tweeted after all — Did former President Bill Clinton really ban tweeting, live-blogging and posting on Facebook during a keynote address for a business and technology conference? — No. But it definitely appeared that way over the past 24 hours.

Discussion: Romenesko, WebNewser, Techdirt and SAI

Alex Williams / ReadWriteWeb:
No Tweeting Allowed for President Bill Clinton's Keynote at Salesforce.com Event

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog, SAI and WebNewser

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

FT Gives Its Staff A $480 Bonus To Buy An iPad; CEO's Memo — The Financial Times says it will give a £300 or $480 rebate to its 1,800 staff against the purchase of an iPad or other tablet. — Newspaper publishers are clearly getting bullish about the prospects of a post-web future …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, Romenesko, Poynter Online, SlashGear, Talking Biz News, SAI, Engadget and WebNewser

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Crunching Denton's Ratio: What's the return on paying sources? — There was a lot of buzz on Twitter yesterday about Paul Farhi's piece in The Washington Post on checkbook journalism — in particular the way a mishmash of websites, tabloids, and TV news operations put money in the hands of the people they want to interview.

Discussion: Washington Post

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Video: Reuters Readies Big Expansion in the United States — MONACO — Declaring that news providers in the U.S. are not “satisfying the needs” of publishers and broadcasters, Reuters will be expanding its offerings in the United States, with major announcements to come over the next couple of months …

Discussion: WebNewser and Talking Biz News

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Senators Wants Negotiations Made Public In Retrans Fights — At a Senate hearing on Wednesday, Democratic senators suggested there should be more transparency in the tumultuous negotiations between television stations and distributors. — At times the hearing, titled “Television Viewers …

Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:
Rockefeller: News media has surrendered to “forces of entertainment”

Discussion: Hillicon Valley, Thanks:gnagesh

Joe Flint / Company Town:
Sen. Rockefeller rips media industry at hearing on recent distribution fights

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, National Review, The Huffington Post, Michelle Malkin, Mediaite, Media Decoder, MediaPost and TVNewser

Julie Bosman / Media Decoder:

Patti Smith Wins National Book Award — Patti Smith, the musician and artist, won the National Book Award on Wednesday night for her evocative memoir of bohemian New York, “Just Kids.” — In the nonfiction category, she beat the finalists Barbara Demick for “Nothing to Envy,” …

Discussion: Speakeasy, Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast and GalleyCat

Nikki Osman / Guardian:

Diary of a budding journalist: The highs and lows writing about yourself — Attending a panel discussion with top Guardian columnists Charlie Brooker, Zoe Williams and Tanya Gold has given Nikki an insight into the rewards and pitfalls of lifestyle journalism

Michael Miner / Chicago Reader:

Life in the Patch — Is AOL's hyperlocal news network an evil slave empire or a boon to hungry journalists? — Chris Gray, Sara Fay, and Sofia Resnick — CEOs must love it when small folk call them evil—nice guys don't wind up masters of the universe.

Discussion: Romenesko

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Netflix Web-Only Service Coming, Probably Not Cheap — Hate discs? Love Web video? Netflix should have something for you shortly: At the Web 2.0 conference yesterday, CEO Reed Hastings said a streaming-only option for U.S. subscribers should be available “shortly.”

Discussion: PC Magazine and Media Decoder, more at Techmeme »

Ellie Behling / eMedia Vitals:

What media companies can learn from Briefing.com's copyright mishap — Briefing.com's settlement with Dow Jones is a valuable lesson for media companies about how repurposing content, even with attribution, can backfire. The news site, which covers market information for investment professionals …

Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

The Economist Hits iPad, Targeting A Million Paying Digital Readers — The Economist has got around to releasing an iPad (and iPhone) edition (expected Friday). Built by TigerSpike, which also built The Times' Eureka iPad app, it contains all the print magazine's material, in a UI that …

Discussion: Economist and Poynter Online

Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:

Twitter's Official Analytics Product Has Arrived — Twitter has started inviting a select group of users to test a new analytics product, Mashable has learned. Such a product has been rumored for some time, and a Twitter executive said earlier this year that Analytics would debut by the end of 2010.

Discussion: GigaOM, PC World, The Wall Blog, ReadWriteWeb, Guardian, VentureBeat and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »

Edmund Lee / AdAge:

Federated Media Acquires FoodBuzz — John Battelle's Publishing Aggregator Goes Foodie — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Advertising and publishing company Federated Media has acquired food-blog network FoodBuzz, according to people familiar with the matter. — At a time when advertisers …

Discussion: paidContent, WebNewser, FM Blog and BoomTown, Thanks:edmundlee

WWD:

Memo Pad: Conde Nast Fights Back... Gap's Give-and-Take — FIGHTING BACK: “The gloves are off here at Condé [Nast],” said Wired publisher Howard Mittman, whose magazine will end the year in the number-one spot for ad page growth at the company, up 24 percent.

Discussion: MediaPost

Shira Ovide / Deal Journal:

Bloomberg News was the NetApp Earnings ‘Leaker’ — NetApp shares were halted today for about an hour, after the company's quarterly earnings results slipped out earlier than expected. And how did this happen? It apparently was the result of a common bit of reporting craft from Bloomberg News.

Discussion: Talking Biz News

Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:

Peter Chernin To Old Media: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. — That ventures like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) TV make traditional media companies justifiably anxious was actually the good news from Peter Chernin, former president of News Corp (NSDQ: NWS).

Discussion: BoomTown and Tech Europe