Mediagazer: Copyright troll Righthaven sues for control of Drudge Report domain (Eriq Gardner/Ars Technica)

Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

From Judith Miller to Julian Assange — Our press somehow got itself on the wrong side of secrecy after September 11th. — For the portion of the American press that still looks to Watergate and the Pentagon Papers for inspiration, and that considers itself a check on state power …

Discussion: Salon, Emptywheel, News: News blog and Time

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Survey: iPad Newspaper Apps Could Slash Print Subscriptions — Wasn't the iPad supposed to save print journalism? A Reynolds Journalism Institute survey of 1,600 iPad users this fall says that more than half—58.1 percent —of print newspaper subscribers who devote about an hour …

Discussion: Fortune, MinOnline, Top Digital Journal News, Journerdism, mUmBRELLA and Poynter

Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:

Read All About It as News Apps Arrive — In his last quarter as a graduate student in electrical engineering at Stanford University, Akshay Kothari skipped out of school this spring and failed a bunch of his courses. — Mr. Kothari wasn't lollygagging at the beach.

Discussion: Venture Capital Dispatch and Editors Weblog

Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:

News Corp says IMG doesn't own “The Daily” name — (Reuters) - News Corp's planned tablet-based daily news service, The Daily, has asked a judge to bar IMG Worldwide from laying claim to trademark ownership of the Daily name. — Lawyers for IMG, which owns a fashion industry publication called …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, New York Observer, Yahoo! News, Mixed Media and On Media's Blog

New York Post:

A peek inside the $7B Bloomberg news operation — Tweet — Bloomberg LP, the financial data and media company founded by Mayor Mike Bloomberg, is expected to post revenue of just under $7 billion in the 12 months ending Dec. 31, up a very impressive 12.6 percent over the previous year, Media Ink has learned.

Discussion: Gawker, FishbowlNY and Adrants

Eriq Gardner / Ars Technica:

Copyright troll Righthaven sues for control of Drudge Report domain — News aggregation impresario Matt Drudge is being sued for copyright infringement for reproducing a copyrighted photo along with a link to a story about airport security on the Las Vegas Review-Journal website.

Discussion: Las Vegas Sun, Mixed Media, PlagiarismToday, mediabistro.com, TeleRead, The Latest Word and Techdirt

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

New Miramax CEO Lang Talks Digital Options for Movie Company — While the news has been be out there for a month, Miramax officially confirmed this morning that former News Corp. exec Mike Lang was named CEO of the Hollywood movie company. — What will be interesting about that for digital content players …

Sky News:

Andy Coulson Avoids Phone-Hacking Charge — Miranda Richardson, Sky News Online — The Prime Minister's director of communications Andy Coulson will not face criminal charges following an investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World. — Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer …

Discussion: Press Gazette and Jon Slattery

John Morton / American Journalism Review:

Costly Mistakes — What, if anything, could newspapers have done to slow down their decline? Posted: Thu, Dec. 9 2010 — John Morton (mortoninc@msn.com), a former newspaper reporter, is president of a consulting firm that analyzes newspapers and other media properties.

Ian Shapira / Story Lab:

Telling a mother's story through her Facebook status updates — Several weeks ago, my wife Caroline and I were stuck inside Chicago's O'Hare airport, waiting for a flight home, and, to burn some time, she logged onto Facebook. She tapped my arm and pointed at her screen.

Discussion: Nieman Storyboard, AmyJo Brown and Washington Post

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Hulu's (Brief) Identity Crisis... And Who Is Scott Gibson? — In the last twenty minutes we've gotten a slew of tips that indicate that something is off at popular video streaming portal Hulu. According to our tipsters, and numerous reports on Twitter, Hulu users are logging onto the site …

Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

Apple Calls Flipboard “iPad App Of The Year” — Apple just named Flipboard, the app that turns Twitter and Facebook into a magazine like experience, its “iPad App of the Year.” — This is huge news for the startup. It will likely see downloads explode in the next few days.

Discussion: Scobleizer and The Wire, more at Techmeme »

Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:

Exclusive: Rodale Forms New Digital Squad — Men's Health and Prevention publisher Rodale has created a new digital team and named its apps guru Matt Bean to a new position, reflecting its view that once-exploratory digital products have become a high-growth business for the company.

Chicago Tribune:

ChicagoShopping.com Partners with Groupon — The recently launched ChicagoShopping.com announced a partnership with Groupon, a shopping website that offers a daily deal on the best local goods, services and cultural events in more than 300 markets around the world.

Discussion: Shaping the Future …

Jennifer Saba / MediaFile:

Wall Street Journal snags another hotel chain — Under the ownership of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, the Wall Street Journal has made no bones that the New York Times is enemy No.1. But that hit list doesn't stop at the Gray Lady. From time to time, the Journal pivots to set USA Today …

Discussion: Media News International and Talking Biz News

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Univision Shakes Up News Leadership — Spanish-language broadcaster Univision is changing up the leadership in its news division, with Alina Falcón stepping aside. — Falcón has been with Univision for 26 years, and was most recently in charge of the network's news and sports divisions.

Discussion: Multichannel, Broadcasting & Cable, TVWeek.com and Mediaite