Mediagazer: Cathie Black's book is hot (New York Post)

6:05 PM ET, November 19, 2010

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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 …

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

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

Rupert Murdoch's tablet tabloid gearing up for launch — As News Corp. staffs up its forthcoming tablet tabloid, The Daily, the names of editorial staffers recruited for the venture are leaking out left and right. — The latest is Hunter Walker, who will be working The Daily's gossip beat …

Discussion: Gawker, Editors Weblog, BlogPost, Romenesko and Reuters

John Koblin / WWD.COM:
Rupert Murdoch Does Another Daily

Discussion: City Room

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 Post:

Cathie Black's book is hot — Tweet — Sales of Cathie Black's business memoir, “Basic Black,” have spiked since Mayor Mike Bloomberg unveiled his decision last week to tap the media executive as the new chancellor of the Department of Education. — “There's no question her appointment …

Discussion: New York Observer, Romenesko and mediabistro.com

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

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, TechCrunch, The Awl, GigaOM, Scripting News, SAI and WebNewser, more at Techmeme »

Bo Peabody / Money Game:

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 …

Discussion: The Awl and SAI

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 and ATTACKERMAN

Sense About Science:

Bloggers and Libel Law — “So you've had a threatening letter. What can you do?” — A new guide to the libel laws for bloggers is being published today. — The guide, entitled 'So you've had a threatening letter. What can you do?', is published by Sense About Science in association …

Discussion: Online Journalism Blog, Telegraph, Thinking Is Dangerous, ZDNet, Guardian, consider, evaluate, act and Journalism.co.uk

Paul Hoffman / Editors Weblog:

Mail Online is 2nd biggest newspaper website worldwide: is Facebook responsible? — It would be tempting to assume, especially given the unsurprising fact that the New York Times website ranks number one in terms of worldwide usage, that all of today's most viewed news websites have sprouted …

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

Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:
NBC Universal Reorg Gives Bond, Zalaznick New Digital Duties

Discussion: Company Town and mediabistro.com

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

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Another Publisher Out at Entertainment Weekly — Ray Chelstowski Exit Reminds Us That Weeklies' Drama Isn't All About Newsweek — New York (AdAge.com) — We're paying a lot of attention to news weeklies on the order of Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report these days, but even pop culture weeklies have their troubles.

James Hibberd / Hollywood Reporter:

The Onion's First TV Series Trailer — The Onion's first TV show is a spoof of the cable news networks (without, it seems, the burning Howard Beale-style indignation of Jon Stewart). The Onion team has produced daily Web video parodies for three years now.

Discussion: Mediaite

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

News Corp's Australian Favours WSJ's Paid Model Over The Times' Approach — Web fees for News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) online newspapers is a direction rather than a template. Down under, The Australian seems unwilling to follow in the furrow ploughed by The Times in the UK.

Discussion: MediaPost and ABC News

Damon Kiesow / Mobile Media:

Radio reporter covers D.C. with an iPhone only — Neal Augenstein has been a radio reporter at WTOP for 14 years, and a smart phone mojo for 10 months. An average day for him in Washington, D.C., may include anything from breaking news to lifestyle features and, since February …

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Covering a crisis more like molasses than quicksand — How do you cover a crisis that is not a crisis in the way we generally think of one — sudden, frenzied, tragic — but rather a tragedy that builds, slowly, over time? From the BP oil spill to Haiti's pre- and post-earthquake heartbreaks …

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