Mediagazer: The Dan and Dave Show (Peter Stevenson/New York Times)

1:55 PM ET, December 11, 2010

Top News:

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

The New Game in Sports Journalism: SB Nation Claims 100 Million Monthly Views — Going Global with Soccer Coverage — SB Nation, a network of nearly 300 micro blogs about professional sports teams in the U.S. and Canada, has reached 100 million page views per month, making it the fastest growing …

Discussion: WebNewser

Jodi Enda / American Journalism Review:

Retreating from the World — In the face of heightened globalization and with the U.S. engaged in two wars, many mainstream news organizations have turned their backs on foreign news. Newspapers and television networks alike provide much less of it. Many outlets have shuttered overseas bureaus.

Discussion: Poynter.

Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

From Judith Miller to Julian Assange — #pdfleaks ... PdF Symposium on Wikileaks and Internet Freedom — I am speaking Saturday morning at this PDF symposium on Wikilkeaks and Net freedom. Five points I intend to make (all 140 characters or less.) — 1. It takes “the world's …

Discussion: Salon, broadstuff, Media Research Center and Emptywheel

Peter Stevenson / New York Times:

The Dan and Dave Show — TWO wolves were eating at the Lion. Dan Abrams, NBC's chief legal analyst and founder of the Mediaite Web site, was sharing a table at the boisterous Greenwich Village restaurant with Dave Zinczenko, editor of Men's Health and author of the best-sellers “The Abs Diet” and “Eat This, Not That.”

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

Gillin hopes to ‘re-create spirit’ of Black Table on Esquire.com — As it stands, Esquire.com doesn't exactly enjoy the must-read cachet of other mainstream glossies on the Web — like, say, New York or Vanity Fair, Wired or the Atlantic. — But with last week's news that Esquire has hired …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Edmund Lee / AdAge:

Ad Tech Companies Band Together to Form New Coalition — MediaMath, Turn, DataXu, AdMeld, PubMatic, Rubicon Project create common online ad buying platform — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — A group of advertising technology companies have banded together to create a common platform for bidding on digital advertising, Ad Age has learned.

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

WaPo's Justin Ferrell on designing “a user experience that really adds value to people's lives” on the iPad — We all chuckled at The Washington Post's commercial for its new iPad app, and why not, with Bob Woodward and Ben Bradlee, two guys who epitomize the best of old-school journalism …

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.

Priya Kumar / American Journalism Review:

Backpack Journalism Overseas — Broadcast organizations increasingly rely on smaller one- or two-person operations in most of their foreign bureaus, a strategy that makes sense when money is tight and technology reduces the need for large crews. — Priya Kumar (2priyak@gmail.com) is a Washington, D.C.-based writer.

Andrew Hampp / AdAge:

Movies and Video Games Dominate Viral Ad Viewing — Think Old Spice's Isaiah Mustafa Was Big In 2010? Try Edward Cullen From ‘Eclipse’ — LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) — Every week, the Ad Age Viral Video Chart presents the top 10 most-viewed brand-driven videos on the web with one major caveat …

Discussion: Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Thanks:mcutler

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.

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Is WikiLeaks the Beginning of a New Form of Media? — As WikiLeaks continues to release classified diplomatic cables, and fights to remain online and solvent, it's becoming increasingly clear what's happening has less to do with WikiLeaks itself, and more to do with what seems to be a new form …

Thanks:mathewi

Jared Keller / The Atlantic Online:

The Social Media Amber Alert: A Personal Story — At the end of November, Joe Sjoberg went missing. He was last seen by his roommate on Monday, November 29, in Madison, Wisconsin, where the two shared a home. A graduate of Carleton College in Minnesota known for his extroversion and warm …

Thanks:jaredbkeller