Mediagazer: Peter Chernin To Old Media: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. (Andrew Wallenstein/paidContent)

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 and SAI

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

Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:

Rockefeller: News media has surrendered to “forces of entertainment” — The 24-hour news cycle has forced the media to embrace hype and rumor-mongering to the detriment of the public interest, according to Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.).

Discussion: Hillicon Valley, Thanks:gnagesh

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, Media Decoder, MediaPost and TVNewser

Aaron Wiener / The Washington Independent:

The Washington Independent, signing off — Nearly three years ago, The Washington Independent was launched as a bold experiment in online journalism. The idea was to combine hard-nosed investigative reporting with all the web had to offer: the nimbleness of real-time coverage …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Romenesko, Guardian, Weigel, CJR, NMPolitics.net, WhoRunsGov.com …, Oliver Willis, Alibi.com Blog and BrauBlog

Russ Smith / splicetoday.com:

Love the Royals, Hate the Republicans — Media celebrity Tina Brown is extraordinarily agile: one day she'll bash wealthy Americans, and the next wax flowery about Prince William and his future bride. — There's only one certainty in the event of a nuclear war: Tina Brown will survive.

Discussion: Mixed Media, New York Magazine, The Daily Beast, Swampland, Romenesko, Mediaite, CJR and ThinkProgress

Nick Davies / Guardian:

NoW: Mulcaire ordered to name names — Judge rules that private investigator Glenn Mulcaire must identify journalists who instructed him to intercept voicemail messages — The private investigator at the centre of the phone-hacking scandal has been ordered by a high court judge to reveal …

Discussion: bailii.org, Inforrm's Blog and Journalism.co.uk

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: Guardian and VentureBeat, more at Techmeme »

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Bewkes: Era Of ‘Media Mogul’ Is Over — After trying to determine which seat was the power seat on stage at The Paley Center's International Council conference, the NYT's David Carr asked Jeff Bewkes, Time (NYSE: TWX) Warner's chairman and CEO, about where power resides in the media business today.

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

‘The Daily’ is Murdoch's ‘No. 1 most exciting project’ — On Tuesday, The Cutline's Michael Calderone and I wrote about News Corp.'s rapidly evolving plans for a national “newspaper” that will be available exclusively on the iPad and other tablet devices. — Details remain scarce …

Paul Bradshaw / Poynter Online:

Data and Journalism Form a Powerful Combination — OnlineJournalismBlog.com and Birmingham City Uni — For the past two centuries, journalists have dealt in the currency of information: We transmuted base metals into narrative gold. But information is changing.

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: BoomTown, Thanks:edmundlee

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: Los Angeles Times and GalleyCat

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

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

David Kaplan / paidContent:

SNL Kagan: Cord-Cutting's A Fact; Other Factors Drive Down Pay TV Subs Too — Despite the insistence that there is no meaningful cable TV cord-cutting by media executives like Time (NYSE: TWX) Warner's Jeff Bewkes and Viacom's Philippe Dauman—not to mention research backed up by Nielsen …

Discussion: Media Decoder, MediaMemo and Broadcasting & Cable, more at Techmeme »

Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

Building a Better Explainer: Help Us Out — My graduate students and I are embarking a big project that revolves around a particular genre in journalism: the explainer. And we need your help. — An explainer is a special feature that does not provide the latest news or update you on a story.

Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:

TVNewser Acquires TVSpy — Industry news site grabs industry news site; seeks to get in on station job listings — WebMediaBrands, the company that owns the popular Web portal mediabistro.com, is acquiring TVSpy.com from Vault, Inc. WebMediaBrands also owns the industry news/gossip site TVNewser.

Discussion: Romenesko and MediaPost

Chip / Redlights and Redeyes:

open letter to newspaper photographers — If you think you are safe in your job, you aren't. — I say that bluntly to make the point stick. You are a number. You are expendable. Your work will win awards. Your work will sell papers. In the end, if they don't sell that ugly ad around your photo, you don't have a job.

Joy Mayer / RJI:

What “engagement” means to Lauren McCullough at the Associated Press — How do you build a relationship with a global audience, personalizing a brand and involving users in your coverage? The Associated Press is going for it, with aggressive social media strategies and a reliance on its 3,000 journalists.