Mediagazer: Why Media Apps Aren't as Good a Business as They Seem (Jeff Bercovici/Mixed Media)

9:35 AM ET, November 24, 2010

Top News:

HarperCollins Resolves Lawsuit with Gawker — In a statement, HarperCollins revealed they have resolved their lawsuit against Gawker over a post containing photographed excerpts from Sarah Palin's memoir, America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag.

Discussion: Yahoo! News, TVNewser, The Daily Caller, NetNewsCheck Latest, paidContent and FishbowlDC

Joe Mullin / paidContent:

Why Gawker May Have A Strong Legal Case In Its Fight With Palin — Last week, after Sarah Palin's publisher, HarperCollins, sued Gawker for copyright infringement over publication of 21 pages of leaked text from her new book, Politico rounded up several legal bloggers' views on the case.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Mediaite and Yahoo! News

Brian Steinberg / AdAge:

Fox to Use Hulu Inventory for Advertiser ‘Make-Goods’ — Network's Maneuver Pushes TV, Online Audiences Closer — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Fox has secured agreements with about a dozen advertisers to supply them with inventory from online-video site Hulu to make up for ratings shortfalls …

Nikki Usher / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Why spreadable doesn't equal viral: A conversation with Henry Jenkins — For years, academic Henry Jenkins has been talking about the connections between mainstream content and user-produced content. From his post as the founder and former co-director of the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT …

New York Post:

AM New York exec Spears arrested for assault — Tweet — A top publishing executive at AM New York, part of the Cablevision-owned Newsday Media Group, was arrested at the freebie newspaper's Manhattan offices on Thursday for a domestic violence assault and attempted strangulation of his girlfriend.

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
RS staffers do double duty at Men's Journal

Discussion: Gawker, Romenesko and New York Observer

Nic Newman / paidContent:

How News Corp.'s Daily Can Succeed Without Paper — Nic Newman's Tigerspike, a digital design agency, has developed seven iPad apps for News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), including The Times' Eureka and The Australian, as well as for The Daily Telegraph, The Economist and others.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Hollywood's Big Hope: Google Shows Up With Suitcase Full of Money. It Could Happen! — Here's a script Hollywood has been pitching for some time: Google comes to town with a checkbook in hand. — It hasn't happened yet, but the longer the company struggles to break into the market for …

Discussion: GigaOM and Fortune

Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:
Google in Talks to Buy Rights to Miramax Archives

Discussion: Company Town, New York Observer and SAI

Sree Sreenivasan / DNAINFO.com:

Six Ways Journalists Can Use Twitter Better — Sree Sreenivasan discusses how to make the most of Twitter. — For several months now, I have been thinking about how journalists can use Twitter in smarter ways. Here's a compilation of ideas - many of them found, of course, on Twitter itself.

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire

The Independent:

Embedded journalism: A distorted view of war — ‘Embedding’ journalists is now the standard method for reporting conflicts. But, argues Patrick Cockburn, what makes a good story might not be the right story — Embedded journalism earned itself a bad name in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Discussion: Guardian

Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:

‘Tonight Show’ Says It Will Credit Bloggers for Taylor Swift Montage — When Rich Juzwiak saw a series of video clips that Jay Leno played for Taylor Swift on Monday's broadcast of “The Tonight Show,” showing the country star reacting with similar expressions of surprise to a series of awards-show victories …

Discussion: Mediaite

Lauren Rabaino / 10,000 Words:

Four major sins of news design — Let's be honest: In general, news site design isn't pretty. I know I'm not the first or last to say it, but I do have a theory about why. It starts off innocently enough — an article, navigation, some ads. But as new tools, gadgets, buttons, widgets …

Mike Henry / AdAge:

Why MTV Must Acquire Vevo Before It's Too Late — Music Labels Got Digital Right for Once, and Now MTV Is Playing Defense — Prior to 1981, music was a tightly controlled substance. You heard it on the radio. You bought the record. You relied on music labels to tell you what was cool.

Telegraph:

Huffington Post's Eric Hippeau on making news pay — The chief executive officer of the news and views website tells Emma Barnett about how to make money from a news site, including paywalls and selling advice to brands.

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Why Media Apps Aren't as Good a Business as They Seem — This is not a life preserver. Image via Wikipedia — It's long been an article of faith among media optimists that the shift to digital publishing would be a good thing for publishers in the long run, freeing them of the burden …

Discussion: TeleRead