Mediagazer: Now That We Have the Web, Do We Need Associated Press? (Mathew Ingram/GigaOM)

2:35 PM ET, December 14, 2010

Top News:

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: FishbowlNY, Yahoo! News, CNET News, Urlesque and ClickZ, more at Techmeme »

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: Duo Security, Geekosystem, The Firewall, The Wire, Guardian, PC Magazine, New York Magazine, The Awl, Computerworld, Financial Times, Daring Fireball and SAI, more at Techmeme »

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: Reuters, MediaFile, Wall Street Journal, Poynter, Globe and Mail, Tower Ticker, Journalism.co.uk and MediaPost

Ken Doctor / Newsonomics: Reuters America Claims New Territory; First Stop, Chicago & Tribune

YouTube Blog:

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

Kevin Allocca / YouTube Trends:
Welcome to YouTube Trends

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

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

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, Electronista, GigaOM, Company Town, PC World, Light Reading, Gizmodo, VideoNuze, DSLreports, Hillicon Valley, Lost Remote and Engadget

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: Gawker, Market Wire and mediabistro.com

Media Week:

CNN launches interactive iPad app — CNN has launched an iPad app that will provide an “immersive” news experience and incorporate both Twitter and Facebook feeds. — CNN: Apple iPhone app — The app has been designed to encourage user interactivity. Comments can be made easily …

Discussion: Multichannel

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
NY Daily News Undercuts Post with Dirt-Cheap iPad App

Discussion: Mediaite, FishbowlNY and Guardian

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.

Discussion: rbr.com and GigaOM

Gillian Reagan / Bookish:

The Making of the Times' 10 Best Books of 2010 — Sam Tanenhaus, editor of The New York Times Book Review, insists that getting on the Times' 10 Best Books of 2010 list is not a prize. There's no ribbon. No ceremony. No giant check handed to a weeping recipient.

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

By securing Howard Stern, Sirius XM Radio avoids static — The satellite radio company's new five-year deal with the talk show host gives Wall Street a strong signal that it will remain competitive with over-the-air stations. — Talk radio host Howard Stern agreed to a new five-year contract with Sirius XM Radio last week.

Discussion: Media Buyer Planner and Company Town

Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:

Dan Gillmor's Mediactive: masterclass in 21st century journalism demands a net-native news-media — Dan “We, the Media” Gillmor's latest book, Mediactive is a master-class in media literacy for the 21st century. Gillmor, a former star reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, serial entrepreneur …

Discussion: Mediactive

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 …

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

Jimmy Kimmel Extends Run on ABC — After a turbulent year in late-night television, at least at NBC, stability will reign at ABC, where Jimmy Kimmel has agreed to extend his contract for at least two more years. — Mr. Kimmel has seen ratings growth on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” over the last year …

Jason Fry / Nieman Reports:

The Sportswriter as Fan: Me and My Blog — ‘Our blog made no bones about its utter subjectivity, but we were seen as more objective than those for whom objectivity was a commandment.’ — In early 2005 as a technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal Online, I returned repeatedly to blogging as a subject.

Discussion: Nieman Storyboard

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 …