Mediagazer: A Trailblazer With Her Eye on the Bottom Line (New York Times)

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, Journalism.co.uk and ABC News

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

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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

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?

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

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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: ATTACKERMAN and Colorado Independent

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: 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.

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

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?

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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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: ABC News

Carl Warner / Adweek:

The Science of the Art of Advertising — Measurement, impact and adland's torrid pace — Spray mount, X-Acto blades and rubber cement picker-uppers were just some of the tools of our trade when I was hired as an art director at The Richards Group. — I suspect there are two generations …

George Winslow / Broadcasting & Cable:

ORMMA Pushes Open Standard for Mobile Ads — Initiative backed by the Weather Channel, Crisp and TringApps — The Open Rich Media Mobile Advertising initiative has unveiled rich media advertising specifications and code that can be used by any publisher looking to serve rich ads across all mobile platforms and devices.

Dan Gillmor / Salon:

Let the tablet wars begin — Samsung's new Galaxy Tab is the first serious competition to Apple's iPad, and it's about time — I just bought my first touch-screen computer that's bigger than a phone. It's the Samsung Galaxy Tab, a device with a seven-inch screen running the Android operating system …