Mediagazer: The Washington Independent is folding, the CEO goes over the books … (Laura McGann/Nieman Journalism Lab)

Alan Rusbridger / Guardian:

The splintering of the fourth estate — Media organisations are trying various routes to the future - the Guardian's is firmly an open and collaborative one — Back in June, I was invited to speak in Amsterdam at a “Royal Symposium”. It turned out I was sharing the platform with a writer …

Discussion: Romenesko, ABC News, Editors Weblog and Journalism.co.uk

Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:

MSNBC suspends Scarborough for campaign donations — MSNBC said Friday that it is suspending “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough for two days after he acknowledged giving eight previously unknown $500 contributions to friends and family members running for state and local offices during …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Mediaite and TVbytheNumbers

John Koblin / WWD.COM:

Rupert Murdoch Does Another Daily — NEW YORK — Some of us count sheep, but Rupert Murdoch spends his sleepless nights dreaming up media properties. It was late May, around 2 a.m., and Murdoch was in his New York penthouse on Fifth Avenue having a tough time falling asleep when a vision came to him …

Discussion: City Room

Discussion: Gawker, Editors Weblog, mediabistro.com, BlogPost, Romenesko and Reuters

Charles Arthur / Guardian:

Journalists of the future need data skills, says Berners-Lee — Inventor of the world wide web says that the stories of the future won't come from chatting in bars but from poring over rows of data. Do you agree - and is that what students are learning? — Are you ready to be a journalist of the future?

Discussion: Editors Weblog

New York Times:

A Trailblazer With Her Eye on the Bottom Line — She grew up sheltered and privileged, in a middle-class Irish enclave of Chicago at midcentury, attending Catholic schools and riding horses at a country club where blacks and Jews were not allowed. Yet from age 28, she blazed a trail for working women …

Discussion: Gannett Blog, The Daily Politics, City Room and New York Magazine

Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:

Comcast-Controlled NBC Names Starting Management Lineup — Just like Fox did the day before, the new Comcast-controlled NBC Universal decided to stay inside when it came to promoting its advertising executives in the newly formed company. — Longtime senior ad sales executive Marianne Gambelli …

Discussion: AdAge

Discussion: Company Town, mediabistro.com, Media Decoder, Mediaite and Broadcasting & Cable

Information Architects:

News on iPad, the Obvious Way — November 18, 2010 by Oliver Reichenstein. Average Reading Time: about 6 minutes. — Today our first news project for iPad went online and we are proud like kids. Technically, it's “just” an HTML5 optimization, but it has been a demanding design process …

Discussion: Editors Weblog and Poynter Online

Lewis DVorkin / The Copy Box:

A new breed of journalist fits right in at Forbes — I've called myself a journalist for decades. I've worked for the best and learned from the best. I've spent exhilarating nights in the newsroom — at newspapers, magazines, TV and a web portal. I've even been lucky enough to watch and edit Pulitzer prize winners at work.

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Tumblr dives into a boatload of money — Tumblr, the lightweight blogging company, has raised between $25 million and $30 million in new VC funding, Fortune has learned. The valuation is in the ballpark of $135 million. — BusinessInsider first reported on the existence of a new round last week …

Discussion: New York Observer, MediaMemo, GigaOM, SAI and WebNewser

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Twitter and the Power of Giving People a Voice — It didn't get as much attention as his comments about generating revenue and fighting with Facebook, but to me one of the most interesting things that former Twitter CEO and co-founder Evan Williams said during his interview at the Web 2. Summit …

Discussion: The Wall Blog

Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Washington Independent is folding, the CEO goes over the books and outlines the lessons he's learned — On Wednesday, the nonprofit news and politics site The Washington Independent announced that, after just under three years of publishing, it's closing shop.

Discussion: BrauBlog, ATTACKERMAN and Colorado Independent

Bo Peabody / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

DOWN ON THE (CONTENT) FARM: Here's Why I Would Never Invest In Demand Media — Demand Media filed its S-1 registration statement with the SEC four months ago and is now attempting to sell its stock offering. — Demand is the first media company in the post-bust era of the Internet …

Dan Barry / New York Times:

Bowlmor Lanes in Former Newsroom — IN the dozen years I spent working in the newsroom of the historic New York Times building, just off Times Square, I must have contemplated my future a hundred times, a thousand times. Would I become a national correspondent? A foreign correspondent? An editor?

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Newsonomics of news anywhere — [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] — Facebook isn't trying to replace Gmail or Yahoo Mail …

Discussion: Computerworld

This Is London:

Fair game or respect: paparazzi are at odds over pursuing Kate Middleton — The photographer who took the first picture of Kate Middleton since her engagement said today it was a “milestone” moment between the royals and the paparazzi in which we “paid respect and she paid respect to us”.

Discussion: Guardian

McGuire on Media:

Notes and thoughts on “Incorporating New Media into the Traditional News industry” — Tuesday night I moderated a discussion for the Arizona Interactive Marketing Association. The organizers called the event “Incorporating New Media into the Traditional News Industry.”

Discussion: Romenesko

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Fox News chief apologizes to ADL for ‘Nazi’ remark — Fox News chief Roger Ailes apologized Thursday to Abraham Foxman, national director for the Anti-Defamation League, after calling NPR executives “Nazis” in an interview with The Daily Beast. — Ailes, in a letter, began by following up on …

Discussion: The Big Picture and New York Magazine

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