Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
2:00 PM ET, January 4, 2011

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Wayne Barrett / Runnin' Scared:
Time for Something New  —  ​Ed Koch and I were inaugurated on the same day in 1978.  He became mayor and I became his weekly tormentor.  —  I had written a few pieces for the Voice before I took over the Runnin' Scared column that January, going back as far as 1973.
RELATED:
Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
Barrett, Robbins Out at Village Voice
Discussion: New York Observer
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter And Facebook Really Are Killing RSS (At Least For TechCrunch Visitors)  —  Earlier today, we ran a “TechCrunch 2010 In Review” post featuring some key data WordPress.com sent our way for 2010.  Interesting stuff all around.  However, as some people have noticed, in our top referrers for the year …
Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:
3rd Quarter Ad Spending Accelerated, Report Finds  —  The recovery in advertising spending gained momentum in the third quarter, according to a report scheduled to be released on Tuesday morning, underlining the belief that Madison Avenue may be poised for continuing gains in the new year.
Discussion: MediaPost, Poynter, AdAge and Gawker
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Entertainment forecast 2011: Insider predictions on who and what will make headlines  —  Our informed crystal ball says: Apple will unveil its own TV set and Netflix will buy the Starz channel.  Also, CBS will move to gobble up Sony Pictures, and — surprise!  — Carl Icahn will continue to make trouble for Lions Gate.
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Hearst, Lagardère Finally Confirm Sales Talks  —  French publisher's U.S. arm Hachette includes Elle, Woman's Day  —  Could the media M&A market be primed to kick off?  Hearst Corp. and Lagardère SCA finally admitted they're in sales talks, confirming the growing buzz of an impending deal.
RELATED:
David Folkenflik / NPR:
In London, A Case Study In Opinionated Press … This is the first in a two-part series looking at ideology in the media.  —  British newspaper reporter Polly Curtis strides around back corridors of the Houses of Parliament with a steely confidence in her paper's mission:  —  Get the facts.
Discussion: New York Observer
Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:
New iTunes Features Aim To Outdo DVD  —  Some of the coolest so-called “extras” embedded only on the iTunes' version of several recent film releases from Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures aren't even mentioned in their promotional materials.  That's because Sony Pictures Home Entertainment …
Evan Smith / The Texas Tribune:
Lots of Good News in the Trib's 2010 Analytics  —  It was a very interesting and newsworthy year for Texas politics and public policy, so it makes sense that traffic on our still-new-ish site would be robust — but even we optimists at Trib HQ didn't imagine that it would be this robust.
David Carr / Media Decoder:
Facebook vs. Time Warner: A Not-So-Rigorous Financial Evaluation  —  Word arrived Monday that Facebook, the burgeoning social media company that surpassed Google last year as the most visited Web site, was worth $50 billion dollars based on a deal done by Goldman Sachs.
Damon Kiesow / Poynter:
Dallas Morning News to launch paid content on Web, mobile  —  The Dallas Morning News will launch new iPad and iPhone apps this month in conjunction with plans to move to a paid content model in February.  —  Brendan Case reports that the new initiative will launch on Jan. 18 …
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Yes, iNewsStand Is Coming, But Not From Apple  —  The fight is on for the nascent digital periodical market, with Apple and Google each positioning itself to be the leading vendor.  In the latest development, Google is courting publishers for a “digital newsstand for users of devices that run …
Discussion: MediaPost, DailyFinance and MediaPost
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Ziff Davis Shakes Up Publishing Model, Launches Ad Platform, Acquires Coupon Co.  —  Ziff Davis on Tuesday unveiled the launch of the ad platform BuyerBase and revealed the acquisition of LogicBuy.com, which provides tech deals and coupons.  BuyerBase, an audience-based ad targeting platform …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Chartbeat Says the Rise of the Machines Won't Be So Bad if You're a Cyborg  —  Tony Haile has a vision of the future, and it involves turning people like me into cyborgs.  —  And Haile thinks this is a good thing!  It's part of his pitch for Chartbeat, a Web analytics start-up …
Carl Court / Newsweek:
Why Journalists Aren't Standing Up for WikiLeaks  —  Three reasons that efforts to prosecute Julian Assange aren't drawing more of an outcry about the First Amendment.  —  If you think prosecuting journalists is the province solely of the sort of authoritarian governments in the developing world …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
USA Today Buys Consumer Electronics Review Network Reviewed.com  —  The USA Today just announced the purchase of Reviewed.com, a group of 12 consumer electronics review sites that focus on gadgets, technology and more.  Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
The New York Times is Capturing the “Character-Driven Drama” of Wall Street with Dealbook Videos  —  The newly expanded Dealbook section of The New York Times, is adding several video elements to its offering in an effort to capture the “character-driven drama” of Wall Street, says Mac William Bishop …
Discussion: WebNewser
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
St. Louis Beacon On Pace To Raise $3.5 Million  —  Nearly three years into its publishing life, the nonprofit St. Louis Beacon starts the new year with some breathing room thanks to a $1.25 million gift from the hometown Danforth Foundation.  The gift, the largest single donation so far …
Peter Costa / Wicked Local East Bridgewater MYSOURCE:
Telling stories as journalists  —  I'm often asked at holiday parties what I do.  Usually I respond, “I'm a print journalist.”  That used to mean something, but now young people might as well highlight the word “journalist” and hit control-p for print.  —  What is print?  Is that like the opposite of cursive?
Matthew Creamer / AdAge:
Your Followers Are No Measure of Your Influence  —  Popularity on Twitter or Facebook Is Just That; It's the Ability to Drive Behavior That Matters  —  Since Malcolm Gladwell began popularizing his “Tipping Point” theory 14 years ago, marketers have fantasized about a world in which they can identify …
Pats Papers / Pat's Papers:
Pat's Papers SOS: Call to Action  —  Message to readers from Pat Kiernan:  —  I wish this was a cheery New Year's greeting, but I'll get straight to the bad news.  As much as I love producing Pat's Papers each day, the website is a money loser.  We've been steadily building our audience …
Discussion: Runnin' Scared
Journalism.org:
Wild Winter Weather Tops the Web  —  A po werful East Coast winter storm—and complaints about the cleanup effort that followed it—topped the online news agenda last week, according to a special News Coverage Index from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Discussion: Yahoo! News
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 2:00 PM ET, January 4, 2011.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Who's Hiring in Media? 
 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Bob Provost / INMA:
Changing the culture of (newspaper) advertising sales
Walter Mayr / Spiegel Online:
Facebook Generation Fights Hungarian Media Law
Rob Horning / The New Inquiry:
Open Books: The E-Reader Reads You
Thanks:martinsfp
New York Post:
‘Week’ team fears NYC move
Discussion: Mediaite, The Empire and TVWeek.com
The Wrap:
BBC America Hires Discovery Exec Rachel Smith to Focus on Original Programming
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL's Internal Content Structure: “Towns”
Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
Ex-Sacramento Bee sports editor launches sports opinion site
Discussion: WebNewser
 Earlier Picks: 
Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
What's Ahead for Media and Digital Businesses in 2011
Discussion: New York Times
Craig Fehrman / Boston Globe:
The incredible shrinking sound bite
Discussion: Guardian and Poynter
Tonya Garcia / mediabistro.com:
Former ‘Early Show’ Producer Joins Gawker as PR Manager
Discussion: Poynter and NPR Topics
David Carr / Media Decoder:
Longreads: A Digital Renaissance for the Long-form?
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg Founder Kevin Rose Launches Private Newsletter Called Foundation
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
iPad Represented 5% Of Business Insider's Traffic Over The Holidays …
Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
Is Instagram the Next Distribution Opportunity for News Media?
Discussion: Lost Remote