Mediagazer: Robert Gibbs leaving the White House (Rachel Weiner/Washington Post)

William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair:

Huffing and Puffing — Reminiscent of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Arianna Huffington is being sued by two political consultants, Peter Daou and James Boyce, who claim a critical role in creating her top-ranked Web site, the Huffington Post. So what exactly happened in the fall of 2004 when Huffington …

Discussion: Poynter, The Wire, Yahoo! News, The Atlantic Online and On Media's Blog

Discussion: Vanity Fair

Ruth Teichroeb / Safety Net:

Eighteen Months Later: What's happened to Seattle P-I journalists — Six months after Hearst shut down the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, I surveyed my former colleagues to find out how they were faring. Most were still looking for work, reeling from the shock of losing their jobs in the depths …

Discussion: Guardian and Poynter

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

An Electronics Show That Media Companies Dare Not Miss — LAS VEGAS — When ESPN announced a high-definition channel nine years ago, its executives barely knew about the Consumer Electronics Association. — By the time it was ready to announce a three-dimensional channel last year …

People-Press.org:

Internet Gains on Television as Public's Main News Source — More Young People Cite Internet than TV — The internet is slowly closing in on television as Americans' main source of national and international news. Currently, 41% say they get most of their news about national …

Discussion: Lost Remote, NetNewsCheck Latest, Noted, Post Tech, Switched, CBS News, Mashable!, NewsGrange, USA Today and On Media's Blog

Reynolds Journalism Institute / RJI:

The Transition - creating a new copy editor from the ashes of the old production desk. — Nick Jungman is Knight Visiting Editor in the Columbia Missourian newsroom and a visiting assistant professor in the Missouri School of Journalism. For 13 years, he was a reporter and editor for The Wichita Eagle …

Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:

Journalism's problem isn't the Internet or advertising; it's attitude — By Robert Niles: Forget about Internet competition, the alleged advertising crash, declining news program ratings and newsroom cutbacks. There's only one problem facing the journalism industry in 2011. — And that's... attitude.

Discussion: blogs.journalism.co.uk and Opinionator

Nick Summers / New York Observer:

Inside the Media Hiring Bubble — “I didn't feel like I was being interviewed for a job,” said the AP's Ron Fournier, about the lunch that would lead to his becoming the next editor of National Journal. — “It was not a job interview,” said The New Republic's Michelle Cottle …

Discussion: Poynter

Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:

Robert Gibbs leaving the White House — White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is leaving the White House, Democrats who have spoken with him say. Gibbs started informing his White House colleagues Wednesday. — The Post reported on Tuesday that Gibbs was considering leaving the administration …

Discussion: The Caucus, The Politico, Chickaboomer, Political Punch and The Fix

ProPublica:

Why We're Publishing Advertising, and Where We Stand on Funding — Starting tomorrow, ProPublica will begin publishing advertising on its web site, and likely soon we'll include it as well in our daily email, on our mobile site and in our iPad app. — We're doing this for the usual reason …

Discussion: Poynter and Nieman Journalism Lab

Emma Barnett / Telegraph:

Spotify 2010 US launch ‘delayed by labels’ high cash demands' — Spotify's long-awaited 2010 US launch failed because the major record labels demanded “extremely high cash advances”. — Spotify until recently has claimed it will launch stateside by the end of 2010.

Discussion: SlashGear

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Sure, RSS Is Dead — Just Like the Web Is Dead — A brush fire has been swirling through the blogosphere of late over whether RSS is dead, dying, or possibly severely injured and in need of assistance. It seems to have started with a post from UK-based web designer Kroc Camen that got picked up by Hacker News and re-tweeted a lot.

Discussion: currybetdotnet, The Atlantic Online, TechCrunch, Stowe Boyd and A VC, more at Techmeme »

David Kaplan / paidContent:

VC Money Keeps Pouring In For Ad Targeters: Turn Raises $20 Million — Turn is the latest ad tech firm to greet the new year with a whopping sum of venture capital. The Silicon Valley-based company has raised $20 million in a fourth round funding, bringing its total raised to $57 million in the past five years.

Discussion: Turn, more at Techmeme »

Anil Dash:

If You Didn't Blog It, It Didn't Happen — Clive Thompson's newest Wired piece argues that the flow of short-form messages as we see on Twitter and Facebook is encouraging longer meditations in other media. I've been thinking about this phenomenon for a while in terms of the impact …

Nieman Reports:

Gay Talese: On What Endures in Sports Writing Amid Change — Early in October Gay Talese came to the Boston Athenaeum to celebrate publication of “The Silent Season of a Hero: The Sports Writing of Gay Talese.” In this collection of his stories, his words span nearly five decades …

John Plunkett / Guardian:

Sky Atlantic to launch next month — New channel to showcase US programming with Boardwalk Empire and a lineup of HBO dramas and comedies — • Sky Atlantic's 2011 programme highlights — Sky Atlantic, BSkyB's new pay-TV entertainment channel showcasing US programming including HBO output …

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Reports: Newsweek Staff Gutting to Continue With Buyouts — After multiple rounds of layoffs and Daily Beast merger — Between financial instability and a change in ownership, Newsweek has lost a number of its top journalists over the past year. But now talk is spreading …

Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:

Today Show experiments with augmented reality — If you happen to be at Rockefeller Plaza in New York, you may see people swinging their iPhones randomly in the air. No, they're not crazy — they're looking for virtual objects planted by the NBC Today Show.

Tara Bahrampour / Washington Post:

'Daily Show'-type satire finds an audience in Iran, and a big enemy — For the past 30 years, state-approved television in Iran has consisted largely of Islamic prayers, interviews with government ministers, melodramatic soap operas and talk shows in which mullahs expound on the depravities …

David Folkenflik / NPR:

American Media's True Ideology? Avoiding One … This is the second in a two-part series looking at ideology in the media. — In a media landscape littered with opinionated talk show hosts and ideology-driven websites, strong points of view are hardly tough to find.

Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:

News Corp pay deal for Joel Klein worth over $4 mln — News Corp (NWSA.O) will pay former New York City Education Chancellor Joel Klein more than $4.5 million if he meets targets set in his new role as chief executive of the media company's new education unit.

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter

Steven Kurutz / Speakeasy:

A Journalism Prof's Thoughts on Preparing Tomorrow's Reporters … It must be strange to teach at a journalism school these days, with many publications shrinking or folding and many Web sites not yet able to pay living wages to writers. How do you prepare a young journalism student …

David Carr / Media Decoder:

HuffPo Hangs the ‘Help Wanted’ Sign — Pull up to the bar at any Manhattan media watering hole and you will hear the long, low groans of journos who bemoan the sad state of the industry. But the relative health of the media employment economy really depends on where you are looking.

Discussion: Poynter and The Huffington Post

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.

Discussion: New York Times, The Huffington Post, New York Observer, Poynter, New York Magazine, FishbowlNY, On Media's Blog, Showbiz411, The Empire and Gawker

Discussion: The Empire, New York Observer and The Wrap