Mediagazer: Covering a crisis more like molasses than quicksand (Megan Garber/Nieman Journalism Lab)

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

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

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

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: Romenesko and mediabistro.com

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 and Mediaite

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

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, The Awl, Scripting News, GigaOM, 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, ATTACKERMAN and Colorado Independent

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

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 …

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.

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

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?