Mediagazer: Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch, BFF? (Philip Elmer-DeWitt/Fortune)

5:30 PM ET, November 21, 2010

Top News:

Edward Helmore / Guardian:

iPad ‘newspaper’ created by Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch — Apple and News Corp reportedly set to launch joint iPad news publication exclusively via download — Rupert Murdoch, head of the media giant News Corp, and Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, are preparing to unveil a new digital …

Discussion: Mashable!, Gizmodo, The Next Web, 9 to 5 Mac, Electronista, Examiner, iClarified and MacDailyNews, more at Techmeme »

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch, BFF? — Not likely. One is a life-long Democrat. The other runs a right-wing media empire. — Murdoch. Credit: World Economic Forum — The Sunday Guardian, borrowing a phrase and most of its facts from a Woman's Wear Daily piece posted three days earlier …

Paul Carr / TechCrunch:

NSFW: Sarah Palin - How's That Promotey, Embargoey Stuff Workin' Out for Ya? — On Thursday, I suggested that Sarah Palin's kids' ill-judged behaviour on Facebook could be traced back to their mother's attitude towards online critics. — The post garnered a range of considered …

Discussion: MediaMemo, CNN and Associated Press

Mike Allen / The Politico:

Gawker loses round with Sarah Palin — A federal judge on Saturday ordered the website Gawker to pull down unauthorized excerpts from Sarah Palin's forthcoming book, “America By Heart,” until a hearing scheduled for Nov. 30. — On Saturday evening, the link was broken to Gawker's scoop …

Discussion: MediaMemo, Media Decoder, Gothamist, Mediaite, Runnin' Scared, On Media's Blog and Hot Air

Peter Preston / Guardian:

Is Alexander Lebedev's journalism crusade an empty one? — Alexander Lebedev's Society of Editors talk revealed a principled proprietor but he needs to back up words with action — Alexander Lebedev, ex-spy, current banker, entrepreneur and newspaper proprietor, came to charm the Society …

New York Times:

Dining Out on Different Budgets — Views from readers, responses from the staff and thoughts from Arthur S. Brisbane, the public editor. — I'm a loyal Times reader, but lately I have grown dismayed by the reviews of restaurants that the vast majority of New Yorkers cannot afford to patronize.

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:

Is the tech press needed anymore? (how Apple iPhone apps take off now) — Datapoint one: John Gruber is noting that Android doesn't have very many of the industry's best apps. — Datapoint two. Starbucks CIO says that he's forced to use HTML 5 to support Apple iOS users …

Discussion: SAI and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »

Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:

The Future Of Paywalls: Microtransactions, Buy-Ins, And Content Wars — A few nights ago, I was discussing with a friend the practicability of putting content behind a paywall. He felt it was an outdated notion and that advertising or some other method would pay. I disagree.

Discussion: TeleRead

David Folkenflik / NPR:

Fox News ‘Nazi’ Rhetoric Starts At The Top … Fox News and NPR once again found themselves in the news Thursday, this time driven by the comments of Fox News chief Roger Ailes, who in published remarks referred to NPR executives as “Nazis” for terminating the contract of news analyst Juan Williams.

Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:

From journalist to blogger: the experience of The Lichfield Blog's Ross Hawkes — Although I've already published an interview with The Lichfield Blog's Philip John (as part of the Hyperlocal Voices series) I recently returned to ask the site's editor, Ross Hawkes, about how his own approach …

Andrea Pitzer / Nieman Storyboard:

Statistics and storytelling: the grudge match? — Narrative journalism has been dogged for years by the idea that it is too subjective or somehow less capable of conveying hard numbers to the public than a traditional news story. In a world where data mining and visualizations have become …

David Brooks / New York Times:

Weekness and Endurance — Just over a week ago, Newsweek announced that it is going to merge with the online magazine The Daily Beast. Since then, cyberspace has echoed with pessimistic commentary about the future of this new entity. After all, why should anyone think that two money-losing organizations …