Mediagazer: Proposed AP Project: Mapping Wikileaks (Kat Stoeffel/New York Observer)

11:55 PM ET, December 11, 2010

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Lisa Hsia / Mashable!:

How Social Media is Changing the Business of Television — Lisa Hsia is Senior Vice President of Bravo Digital Media and is addicted to Flipboard on her iPad. — There's no question that the real-time conversations around TV shows on social networks — the virtual water cooler, if you will …

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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 …

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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.

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Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

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Discussion: Technology & …, Riptide 2.0 and PlagiarismToday

Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:

Proposed AP Project: Mapping Wikileaks — For every reporter, concerned citizen or hard-core anarchist who has stared into the abyss of the WikiLeaks cache and wondered “What do I even search for?” the Associated Press might soon offer relief. — Last month they submitted a proposal called Overview …

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 …

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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.

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: Lost Remote and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Thanks:mcutler