Mediagazer: Report: 193 New Mag Launches, 176 Closures in 2010 (Matt Kinsman/Folio)

10:15 AM ET, December 14, 2010

Top News:

Double rainbows, annoying oranges and bed intruders: the year on YouTube … Email This — BlogThis! — Share to Twitter — Share to Facebook — Share to Google Buzz

Discussion: Urlesque, Lost Remote, ResourceShelf, WebNewser, Geekosystem, YouTube Trends and The Wire

Kevin Allocca / YouTube Trends:

Welcome to YouTube Trends — Sometimes waiting for popular new videos to hit your inbox / chat window / wall / feed / mobile / pager / two-way radio can be frustrating. Sometimes keeping up with the latest YouTube fad can be hard to do. Sometimes you want to know more about what's happening from where it's happening.

Discussion: Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Lost Remote, L.A. Times Tech Blog and mediabistro.com, more at Techmeme »

New York Post:

Denton's disgrace — Tweet — A Manhattan woman's life was turned upside down yesterday, one day after hackers gained access to Gawker Media's servers, exposing her e-mail account, password and other personal information. — Within hours, the hackers had used her Gawker information …

Discussion: ClickZ and The Social

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

An Interview with Gnosis, the group behind the Gawker hacking — The chances are you already know about the Gawker Media security breach, a network-wide attack that compromised over a million registered accounts across Gawker's web properties. Internal memos were accessed …

Discussion: Geekosystem, The Wire, The Firewall, Guardian, Computerworld, PC Magazine, The Awl, Fast Company, New York Observer and Gothamist, more at Techmeme »

Daniel Kennedy / The Firewall:
The Real Lessons Of Gawker's Security Mess

The Atlantic Online:

The Unknown Blogger Who Changed WikiLeaks Coverage — When historians look back at WikiLeaks and how the world's pundits tried to make sense of what was happening, they'll see a familiar list of sources: Foreign Policy's Evgeny Morozov, The Guardian's John Noughton, The New York Times' David Carr …

Discussion: The Independent and New York Times

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Reuters America Gets News Service Deep Into Aggregating — As part of Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) expansion into more general news service in addition to its financial reports, the company has launched Reuters America, it's most direct challenge to the Associated Press position as a supplier of articles and photos to newspapers.

Discussion: MediaFile, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Globe and Mail, NetNewsCheck Latest, Tower Ticker and MediaPost

Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:

Reuters America Claims New Territory; First Stop, Chicago & Tribune — On the surface, it looks like the tale of new bedfellows, Reuters and Tribune, has a couple of great storylines. Number one would be that Reuters, the Brit insurgent, having rallied its forces makes another foray into the U.S. market.

Steven Brill / Nieman Journalism Lab:

2011 will bring ebook battles, paywall successes, and a new model for long-form articles — Editor's Note: We're wrapping up 2010 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. — Here, Journalism Online cofounder and long-time journalism entrepreneur Steven Brill lays …

Lois Beckett / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The great paywall debate: Will The New York Times' new model work?

Discussion: Poynter

John Eggerton / Multichannel News:

Viacom Raises Red Flags On Comcast/NBCU — Viacom, according to an ex parte filing, expressed concerns that the proposed merger of Comcast with NBC Universal would impact independent programming during meetings with Democratic Federal Communications Commission commissioners Michael Copps and Mignon Clyburn.

John Eggerton / Multichannel:
Ivi Blows Into Windy City

Discussion: Company Town

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Examiner.com is World's Largest ‘News’ Organization...67,000 Writers Under Contract in the U.S. — Inks Content Deal with Reuters — While not a conventional news organization, Denver-based Examiner.com may be the world's largest by the sheer size of its writing stable and the amount of content being produced.

Discussion: Market Wire

Wall Street Journal:

Comcast Service Combines Web, TV — Comcast Corp. is testing a new service that knits together television and the Internet, as the U.S. cable giant goes after rivals that threaten to undermine its business. — Under the new system, which is being tested in Augusta, Ga. …

Discussion: paidContent, Gizmodo, VideoNuze, DSLreports, Company Town, Hillicon Valley, Lost Remote and Engadget, more at Techmeme »

Robert Hernandez / Online Journalism Review:

Journalism of the Web, not just on it: Jim Brady discusses how he got to TBD, and where he's going next — By Robert Hernandez: In the Web journalism world, it is hard to find someone who has been more of a pioneer than Jim Brady. From being a print sports reporter to becoming the executive editor …

Scripting News:

A Web Trust to publish and store our creative work — The discussion at this weekend's flash conf in NYC on WikiLeaks raised the question of where we can store our web writing and photos so that they are as safe as they possibly can be. Trusting corporations to manage this is obviously not a good idea.

Matt Kinsman / Folio:

Report: 193 New Mag Launches, 176 Closures in 2010 — MediaFinder says food, regional titles lead the way. — There were 193 new magazine launches in 2010, while 176 folded, according to magazine database MediaFinder.com. That's down from 596 magazine closures in 2009.

Discussion: Gawker and Media Buyer Planner

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:

Internet Now as Popular as TV, Survey Shows — The average U.S. consumer now spends as much time online as watching television, according to research being released today by Forrester. — To technophiles, it might seem strange to think of people ever watching TV more than they surfed the Web.

Discussion: Forrester Blogs, Mashable!, NetNewsCheck Latest, Forrester Research, ReadWriteWeb, Podcasting News, Fast Company, L.A. Times Tech Blog, SiliconANGLE, Computerworld, GigaOM and The Next Web

Edmund Lee / AdAge:

Time Inc. Opening Up On Digital Initiatives — Q+A with CEO Jack Griffin and New Digital Officer Randall Rothenberg on Apps, Acquisitions and Pay Walls — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Time Inc. CEO Jack Griffin and new chief digital officer Randall Rothenberg, formerly CEO …

Discussion: paidContent, eMedia Vitals, FishbowlNY and digiday:DAILY, Thanks:edmundlee