Mediagazer: Web-Traffic Tension Rises (Wall Street Journal)

Google Set to Launch E-Book Venture — Google Inc. is in the final stages of launching its long-awaited e-book retailing venture, Google Editions, a move that could shake up the way digital books are sold. — The long-delayed venture—Google executives had said they hoped to launch this summer …

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Reuters:

New York Times looks to WeightWatchers for Internet tips — (Reuters) - New York Times Co is completing plans to charge readers for online news after spending a year studying websites such as Consumer Reports and WeightWatchers. — The New York Times, which in 2007 abandoned its first big effort …

Discussion: New York Observer

Tara Palmeri / New York Post:

Co-host spittin' mad over Spitzer — Tweet — Eliot Spitzer's TV sidekick is so fed up with playing second fiddle to the hooker-loving ex-gov that she's threatening to walk, sources told The Post yesterday. — Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker actually stormed off the set of the …

Discussion: Gawker, TVbytheNumbers, Inside Cable News, New York Magazine, On Media's Blog, NewsBusters.org blogs and ClickZ

Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:

‘The Walking Dead’ Lets Go Of Writers; Considers No Writing Staff For Season 2 — EXCLUSIVE: I hear The Walking Dead writer/ executive producer/ director Frank Darabont has let go of the writers on the hot freshman AMC series, which has already renewed for a second season.

Discussion: New York Observer, Gawker, New York Magazine, Mediaweek and TVbytheNumbers

Edward Wyatt / New York Times:

F.C.C. Chairman Outlines Broadband Framework — WASHINGTON — Thwarted by the courts, by lawmakers on Capitol Hill and by some of his fellow commissioners, the Federal Communications Commission chairman will try again on Wednesday to devise a new strategy for regulating broadband Internet service providers.

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Nick Summers / New York Observer:

The Great Murdoch iPad Debate — The Daily is the most exciting news media start-up of the millennium! … On the sleek iPad, it is indescribably magical to touch the news. — Apple is a fascist censor with onerous terms. — News Corp. is paying journalists, and paying them well!

Discussion: Yahoo! News, The Awl and The Corsair

Mark Briggs / Poynter:

What journalists need to know about starting a nonprofit business — There is a misconception among many would-be entrepreneurs, especially in journalism, that starting a nonprofit business will mean relief from the pressure of making money. Not so. Any business, whether nonprofit or not, must bring money in to survive.

Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:

Behind CBS' Morning Show Shakeup — Harry Smith and Maggie Rodriguez got axed from the Early Show Tuesday. Howard Kurtz talks to Smith and CBS News President Sean McManus about the perennial challenges of the low-rated show. — Harry Smith is sounding remarkably upbeat for a man who just got pushed out of his job.

Discussion: TVNewser, Romenesko, Associated Press, The Huffington Post, MediaPost and On Media's Blog

Discussion: Media Decoder, CBS News, TVWeek.com and On Media's Blog

Wall Street Journal:

Web-Traffic Tension Rises — U.S. regulators are looking into a dispute between two large companies that shuttle traffic around the Internet, a business invisible to most consumers but increasingly fraught with tension. — The issue gets to the heart of a longstanding argument: Who should pay for the Internet?

Discussion: Comcast Voices, Free Press and Between the Lines Blog, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Google Cuts Off AppNexus, and the Ad Tech World Shudders — AppNexus, a high-flying ad technology start-up, just had a bad few days. The next few weeks could be rough, too. — That's because over the weekend, Google suspended the company's access to the ad giant's “real time” ad exchange.

Discussion: AdExchanger.com, TechCrunch and Wall Street Journal, more at Techmeme »

Natalie Zmuda / AdAge:

Print Still Reigns, but More Retailers Turn to TV, Online Ads for Holidays — BDO Survey: Flat Holiday Budgets Mean a Little Less for Print as Marketers Spread Resources — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Faced with flat budgets, marketers are experimenting with new media mixes this holiday season.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, MediaPost and Media Buyer Planner

ProPublica:

NYU and ProPublica Team Up to Experiment With Explanatory Journalism — At ProPublica, we often cover topics that are not only critically important but also mind-bendingly complex. (CDOs, anyone?) To help readers follow along, we frequently back up a step and offer primers, FAQs, and backgrounders.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, Pressthink and Poynter

Business Wire:

The Dolan Company Acquires DataStream Content Solutions — The Dolan Company (DM 13.70, +.08, +.59%) , a leading provider of services and business information to professionals in law, finance and real estate, said today it acquired DataStream Content Solutions, LLC, a leading provider …

Discussion: Talking Biz News

Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:

Why the Kindle Is Losing Me — I really loved my Kindle when I first got it. I love writing books, and I'm for anything that helps people consume and purchase more of them- I don't care if I make a fraction of the royalties off electronic sales. — I was especially struck by how much I wished I'd had a Kindle in college.

Discussion: Guardian and TeleRead

Lifehacker:

Why Gawker is moving beyond the blog — The 2011 template represents the most significant change in the Gawker model since the launch of Gizmodo and Gawker in 2002. One could go further: it represents an evolution of the very blog form that has transformed online media over the last eight years.

Discussion: Guardian, eMedia Vitals, Epicenter and CNET News

Discussion: Romenesko, Poynter, VentureBeat, Runnin' Scared and Gawker

Alexander Chee / The Morning News:

I, Reader — You are what you read. For some people, that means 22 boxes of books. Facing a storage crisis of bibliolatry proportions, ALEXANDER CHEE surveys e-readers and a life spent reading. — When I recently moved to New York to live with my partner, Dustin …

Discussion: TeleRead

Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:

The WikiLeaks Cables: Small Revelations That May Cause a Big Idea to Take Hold — What's Your Reaction: — Let's start with what the U.S. embassy cables released by WikiLeaks this weekend are not. — They are not, as Hillary Clinton claimed, “an attack on America's foreign policy interests” that have endangered “innocent people.”

Discussion: Salon, WL Central and Slate

Kunur Patel / AdAge:

Call It the Year of the Mobile Traveler — Travel-Related Searches Dominate All Other Sectors in 2010 — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Whether 2010 finally shapes up to be the year for mobile, it already has a huge head start in one sector: travel. As a result, marketers with apps are raking in profits.

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

Newspaper execs expect digital ad dollars to grow significantly in 2011 — Kubas Consultants' annual ad outlook report notes that in the past, newspapers executives and managers have tended to be over-optimistic in their digital category projections. Employment and auto classifieds …

Ellie Behling / eMedia Vitals:

Online advertising in strange places — A number of creative online display ad formats have surfaced to shake consumers out of our banner-induced slumbers. In fact, a new study published this week by AdweekMedia/Harris reconfirms that banner ads are the Internet ads most likely to be ignored.

Discussion: Adweek and MediaPost

Andy Alexander / Ombudsman Blog:

Data analysis and the furture of journalism — Sunday's column on numerical errors in Post stories also noted that proficiency with numbers will increasingly be important for journalists. It said that, “in the digital age, with a growing amount of raw data available online from the government …

Discussion: Poynter

Madhu Rajaraman / American Journalism Review:

Beltway Buzz(bee) — Sally Buzbee brings her global savvy to Washington as the AP's bureau chief. Posted: Tue, Nov. 30 2010 — Madhu Rajaraman (mrajaraman@ajr.umd.edu) is an AJR editorial assistant. — Los Angeles. Topeka. San Diego. Saudi Arabia. Tunisia. Egypt. Iraq. Iran.

Stephen Moss / Guardian:

Joris Luyendijk: ‘The old model of journalism is broken’ — How can journalism meet the challenges of the internet age? Former reporter Joris Luyendijk is looking for new ways to tell stories — Many journalists have mid-life crises when they begin to doubt their capacity to capture …

John Koblin / WWD:

Memo Pad: Not an Apple of Its Eye — Readers trying to access the latest issue of The New Yorker on the iPad were running into a bit of a problem until early this afternoon: There was no issue available. — The magazine's Dec. 6 issue wasn't available on the iPad for more than 36 hours …

Discussion: Poynter