Mediagazer: Exclusive: Multiple Syndicators Pitching Katie Couric on Daytime Talker (Paige Albiniak/Broadcasting & Cable)

11:20 AM ET, December 16, 2010

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Peter Applebome / New York Times:

Walk In, Grab a Muffin and Watch a Newspaper Reinvent Itself — At the new offices of The Register Citizen in this faded old mill town, there's a sign out front welcoming residents to come in for coffee and muffins at the Newsroom Café — sort of Starbucks meets “Lou Grant.”

Discussion: New York Observer and Center for Sustainable …

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

For NPR stations, a sigh of relief — A funny thing happened to NPR stations after the worst publicity fiasco in NPR's history: almost nothing at all. — Public radio outlets across the country braced for the worst from their listeners after NPR fired commentator Juan Williams for remarks …

Discussion: Free Press and On Media's Blog

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Facebook to Big Media: We Like You. We Really, Really Like You. — Facebook has more than 550 million users, but right now the company has its eyes on a very particular set of friends: Big media companies. — Mark Zuckerberg's company is working hard to win over heavyweight content distributors …

Discussion: New York Observer

New York Times:

YouTube Said to Seek a Producer of Web Video — By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and BRIAN STELTER — SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube, the video site owned by Google, is in talks to buy Next New Networks, a Web video production company, according to two people briefed on the discussions.

Discussion: TVWeek.com, eMedia Vitals, AdExchanger.com, GigaOM, Shelly Palmer Digital Living, ReadWriteWeb, paidContent, Fast Company, Fortune Favors The Bold, The Wire, Media Maverick, New York Observer and NYConvergence.com, more at Techmeme »

Next New Networks:
How We Had YouTube's Top 2 videos, and 1 Billion Views, in 2010

Discussion: nick burcher and Company Town

Jesse Walker / Reason:

Our Leaky World — WikiLeaks is only the beginning. — We've read so much in the last few weeks about Julian Assange, it's easy to forget the WikiLeaks story isn't ultimately about Julian Assange. It isn't even really about WikiLeaks, any more than Watergate was a story about a hotel.

Discussion: Hit & Run, Politics Daily, Hillicon Valley and The Wire

Barton Gellman / Time:
Julian Assange — On Dec. 9, 2006, an unsolicited e-mail arrived …

Discussion: Guardian, New York Times, Joel On The Road, Computerworld, The Wrap, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Urlesque and Poynter, more at Techmeme »

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Exclusive: Twitter Raises $200 Million at a $3.7 Billion Valuation; Adds McCue and Rosenblatt to Board — Twitter has completed its latest round of funding-$200 million at a $3.7 billion valuation-with Kleiner Perkins as the lead investor, according to sources familiar with the situation.

Nate Freeman / New York Observer:

Exclusive: Two More Top Editors Out at GQ — Having had a fairly stable masthead for years, Conde Nast men's title GQ is hemorrhaging top-level editorial talent. — In late October style editor Adam Rapoport was named editor of Bon Appetit, and now sources say two more top editors are set to exit.

Discussion: New York Magazine

Paige Albiniak / Broadcasting & Cable:

Exclusive: Multiple Syndicators Pitching Katie Couric on Daytime Talker — While many expect her to stay with CBS News, daytime option emerges — As Katie Couric's contract with CBS News nears its end, multiple syndicators are approaching her about daytime possibilities, confirm several sources.

Discussion: Gawker, TVWeek.com, Company Town, Mediaite and TVNewser

Quentin Hardy / At Your Servers:

Flipboard's CEO on the New Version — The new version of Flipboard, Apple's official iPad “App of the Year,” came out about 90 minutes ago. Not long before that, I had a talk with Flipboard CEO Mike McCue about what's new, why they've made the choices they have, and where they are going.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, NetworkEffect, ReadWriteWeb and Scobleizer, more at Techmeme »

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Bloomberg Voice: Opinions, Yes, But Only Factual Ones — Mike Bloomberg. You could disagree with him, but then you'd be wrong. Image via Wikipedia — Ever since its founding almost 30 years ago, Bloomberg LP has proceeded under the notion that there's a right way and a wrong way of doing …

Discussion: American Journalism Review, On Media's Blog and Yahoo! News

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
Bloomberg Hires 2 to Lead Opinion Venture

Discussion: Talking Biz News, Media News, WWD Media Headlines, paidContent, The Wire, New York Observer, On Media's Blog and The Huffington Post

Paige Wiser / Chicago Sun Times:

King's reign on CNN ends tonight — Larry King's era ended long before his show has. He's emblematic of a time when men were men, women were to be married, and celebrities were to be respected. — It worked for him. King got the big names because they knew he wouldn't ambush …

Discussion: Mediaite, St. Petersburg Times, Deadline.com, Los Angeles Times and Poynter

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Controversial Times sports editor bumped upstairs — Tweet — New York Times Sports Editor Tom Jolly will see his controversial eight-year reign come to an end next month when he moves upstairs to a new job. — His tenure was marked by the Times' widely criticized coverage …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Larry Yang / The Official Google TV Blog:

What's new with Google TV? — It's been two months since the first Google TV device went on sale. Since then, we have been hard at work thinking about how we can make the platform even better for our users. In fact, one of the greatest things about Google TV is that it comes with free …

Discussion: GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, The Digital Home, SAI, PR Newswire, Ars Technica, WebNewser, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Fortune, Lost Remote, Engadget, mobiputing and TechCrunch

Eric Pfanner / New York Times:

Le Monde Ousts Top Manager — PARIS — Only weeks after a group of French businessmen completed their takeover of Le Monde, the newspaper on Wednesday replaced its top manager, who had complained of “moral harassment” by the new owners. — Le Monde said the official, Eric Fottorino …

Discussion: Shaping the Future …

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

CBS News Bests ABC and Fox in Latest comScore Online Traffic Numbers — CBS News, long a major presence on television, has had a modest online presence, widely trailing industry online news giants MSNBC.com and CNN.com - as well the websites of ABC News, Fox News and the BBC.

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Time editor defends Zuckerberg choice over Assange — Time managing editor Richard Stengel believes that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg—who was named “Person of the Year” on Wednesday—is not only the best choice best choice for 2010, but for years to come.

Discussion: Guardian, The Not-So Private Parts, Geekosystem, ReadWriteWeb, AOL News, msnbc.com and Time

Stuart Elliott / New York Times:

He Sold a Vision at Fox, and Marketers Bought It — Four decades later, Jon Nesvig, the dean of network sales executives, can still recall details of his first job. — “It was buying spot television time for General Foods in the Milwaukee and Minneapolis districts,” said Mr. Nesvig …