Mediagazer: Exclusive: Philly.com Inches Closer To Pay Wall, City Paper Content Swap (Tips/philebrity.com)

12:05 PM ET, January 6, 2011

Top News:

Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:

The Man Who Spilled the Secrets — The collaboration between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Web's notorious information anarchist, and some of the world's most respected news organizations began at The Guardian, a nearly 200-year-old British paper. What followed was a clash of civilizations …

Discussion: Slate, Media Decoder, New York Observer, The Huffington Post, On Media's Blog, Threat Level, Poynter, Yahoo! News, The Nation, Guardian, SAI, Free Press, The First Post, Felix Salmon, Press Gazette and Boing Boing

Nicholas Jackson / The Atlantic Online:

Julian Assange: I Own All of the WikiLeaks Documents — Three months after he had given the Guardian most of his collection of nearly a quarter of a million leaked documents, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.org, stormed into the office of Alan Rusbridger, the paper's editor, with his lawyer.

Discussion: Vanity Fair

Joe Flint / Company Town:

Turner CEO says heavy Web exposure made company lose interest in reruns of ‘Modern Family’ — “Modern Family” co-creator and executive producer Steve Levitan has not been shy about voicing his concerns that the show's exposure on the Web would hurt its long-term value and ratings.

Discussion: MediaMemo, New York Observer, NetNewsCheck Latest and Broadcasting & Cable

Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:
Turner Chief Explains How TV Industry Will Neutralize Netflix

Discussion: GigaOM

Hollywood Reporter:

Courtney Love's Tweets Lead to Unique Defamation Showdown … The following article appears in the current issue of The Hollywood Reporter available on newsstands Wednesday. — Courtney Love was very upset. — The firebrand rocker had been locked in a dispute with Dawn Simorangkir …

Discussion: Digits, Fashionista, PopEater, Gawker, BlogPost, Styleite, AOL News, Movieline, Techland and The Wire

Tips / philebrity.com:

Exclusive: Philly.com Inches Closer To Pay Wall, City Paper Content Swap — Like many of us, the brass at Philadelphia Media Network, Inc. — the new corporate entity (sometimes known here also as The Groovie Ghoulies) that controls the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News, and Philly.com …

Discussion: Phawker

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

Glenn Beck Hires Former Huffington Post Chief — Looking to further expand his growing media presence, Glenn Beck, the conservative talk-show host, has hired a one-time chief executive of the left-leaning Huffington Post to lead his new Web site, The Blaze.

Discussion: Mediaite, Gawker, Poynter, The Wire, TVWeek.com, The Blaze, The Daily Caller, On Media's Blog, The Wrap, paidContent and New York Observer

James Robinson / Guardian:

News of the World executive suspended over alleged phone hacking — News editor Ian Edmondson taken off ‘active duties’ as paper conducts internal investigation — A senior News of the World executive has been suspended following a “serious allegation” related to phone hacking.

Discussion: BBC, Press Gazette, The Lede and Jon Slattery

Nick Davies / Guardian: Phone hacking: full list of the victims identified so far. As a spreadsheet

Lauren Sherman / Fashionista:

Tumblr is Sending 20+ Bloggers to New York Fashion Week — Tumblr, the image-heavy platform beloved by top fashion bloggers like Tavi Gevinson and Jessica Quirk (What I Wore), is focusing more of its energy on the fashion industry. — In fact, it's sending more than 20 of its bloggers to New York Fashion Week.

Discussion: New York Observer and Gawker

Brent Lang / The Wrap:

Hollywood-Backed ‘Video Anywhere’ to Debut in Mid-2011 — It's been talked about for so long that it was beginning to feel like an impossible dream. — On Wednesday, the two and half year journey to make “video anywhere” a reality moved several important steps closer to completion.

Discussion: paidContent, NetNewsCheck Latest, CNET News and Online Video News

Robinsloan / Twitter Media:

The art of the hashtag — This is something we've been talking about with media partners more and more lately, so I thought it would be useful to mention it here on Twitter Media, too: — All hashtags are not created equal. — MTV's Video Music Awards hashtag—#ifbiebermetgaga— has become a canonical example.

Discussion: Poynter

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

Newsweek Hires Publisher — After months of staff turmoil including a new owner, editor and chief executive and scores of lower-level departures, the management ranks at Newsweek are beginning to stabilize. — The magazine has named a new publisher, Ray Chelstowski, a former publisher of Rolling Stone and Entertainment Weekly.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, MediaPost, The Wrap and Adweek

Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:

NBC to premiere ‘The Cape’ on iPad app — Here's a first. NBC is premiering the one-hour pilot episode of “The Cape” on an iPad app — and not NBC's app, but on DC Comics' free iPad app. — “What better partner than DC Comics, whose audience is devoted to the comic book genre from which 'The Cape …

Discussion: TVbytheNumbers

Matt Thompson / Poynter:

10 lessons for the future from women in media — As 2010 drew to a finish and the end-of-year lists started streaming in, I began to feel that there was something missing from the din of bold predictions and celebrated thinkers in the tech and media world: female voices.

Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:

Cisco's Videoscape: Ready to Reinvent TV? — Cisco announced an ambitious strategy for making high-quality video — whether it be from online or traditional TV and cable providers — pervasive across a wide range of devices, from broadband-connected set-top boxes to tablets and other mobile devices at CES Wednesday.

Discussion: Cisco, VideoNuze, Media Money …, paidContent, Between the Lines Blog and Multichannel, more at Techmeme »

Esther Bintliff / Financial Times:

Digital downloads fail to counter CD decline — Sales of music albums in the UK continued to fall in 2010, as a surge in digital album sales failed to offset the decline in CD sales. — The data from the Official Charts Company highlights the continuing transformation of the music market …

Adrianne Jeffries / New York Observer:

Forget Real-Time, NY Startup Predicts Pageviews 15 Min Into the Future — Oops, there go some journalism jobs. — We recently wrote about how Chartbeat gives reporters superhuman powers with its real-time pageview monitoring service. — But apparently the New York Daily News and eight …

Discussion: Visual Revenue and eMedia Vitals

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

The Desperate Campaign to Discredit Jane Mayer — Last August, Jane Mayer wrote a long investigative article in The New Yorker about the Koch brothers, the conservative billionaires who bankroll a host of right-wing causes. Since then, she's apparently become the victim of a disturbing, organized smear campaign.

Discussion: On Media's Blog and The Huffington Post