Mediagazer: The Media's Pat-Down Frenzy (Howard Kurtz/The Daily Beast)

12:40 PM 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: The Wire, Yahoo! News, New York Observer, Vanity Fair, Gothamist, TVNewser, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, paidContent and FishbowlDC

Joe Mullin / paidContent:
Why Gawker May Have A Strong Legal Case In Its Fight With Palin

Discussion: Media Decoder, Mediaite, Romenesko 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 …

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.

Discussion: Gawker

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.

Discussion: mediabistro.com

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

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

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.

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

David Higgerson:

“Actionable news”: A dull phrase, but one which should shape what we do — If you were presented with the following three news stories: The promotion of Newcastle United to the Premier League, the death of Raoul Moat after a week on the run, or a story which revealed which restaurants …

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Bad Robot? Android Is Limiting Publishers' Payment Prospects — Publishers are increasingly confident about the prospects for tablet editions in the post-print area. But, when it comes to actually monetising the opportunity, Android's limitations mean iTunes Store remains the only real game in town for the forseeable future.

Discussion: TeleRead

Press Gazette:

OK! magazine launches as a paid-for iPad app — Richard Desmond has followed up his launch of The Express newspaper as an iPad app by launching his flagship celebrity weekly OK! magazine on the device. — According to the developers the app will be updated with live as they are published.

Discussion: Media Week

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

CNN staffing up ‘Piers Morgan Tonight’ — With less than two months to go until the premiere of “Piers Morgan Tonight,” the newest addition to CNN's struggling prime-time slate, the network is lining up the show's behind-camera talent. — The latest recruit is Melanie Lefkowitz …

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 …

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 …