Mediagazer: Hollywood's Big Hope: Google Shows Up With Suitcase Full of Money. (Peter Kafka/MediaMemo)

7:20 AM ET, November 24, 2010

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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, Yahoo! News and Gothamist

Jason Boog / mediabistro.com:

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: TVNewser, paidContent and FishbowlDC

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 …

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 …

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

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.

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.

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

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

AOL Boasts About Its Supersized Video Offering, and Puts Ran Harnevo in Charge — A couple of months ago AOL laid out $65 million for video distributor 5Min Media. What did it get for its money? — A lot of video! AOL says that 5Min's library and distribution deals …

Discussion: AdExchanger.com, Beet.TV and GigaOM, more at Techmeme »