Mediagazer: The crucible of print — Britain's embattled newspapers … (Economist)

3:00 PM ET, January 6, 2011

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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 …

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

Mark Memmott / NPR:

Review Of Juan Williams' Firing Done; NPR News Exec Resigns — NPR just released two statements — one on the completion of an independent review of the dismissal of news analyst Juan Williams and another on the resignation of Senior Vice President for News Ellen Weiss:

Discussion: Poynter

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, TVWeek.com, New York Observer 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: New York Observer, Digits, Fashionista, PopEater, Gawker, BlogPost, Styleite, AOL News, Movieline, Techland and The Wire

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, Media Money …, VideoNuze, paidContent, Between the Lines Blog and Multichannel

Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
Pay TV industry moves to adapt to Internet age

Discussion: Company Town

Phawker:

DEBUNKED: The Great Philadelphia Paywall Scare — As you may have seen by now, Philebrity is trumpeting an exclusive on news that Philly.com will be going behind a paywall some time soon, according to what they claim are reliable sources. We have it on good authority …

Discussion: Poynter and philebrity.com

Economist:

The crucible of print — Britain's embattled newspapers are leading the world in innovation — BY MOST conventional measures, Britain's newspapers look doomed. Young readers are abandoning them for the internet and television. The Daily Express and the Daily Mirror, both tabloids …

Discussion: Big News Network.com

Mark Leccese / Boston Globe: The Future of Newspapers: National and Hyperlocal

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: Styleite, New York Observer and Gawker

Nick Davies / Guardian:

Phone hacking: full list of the victims identified so far. As a spreadsheet — The News of the World phone hacking scandal affected thousands, but so far only a few of them are known. Nick Davies lists the victims identified so far — • Get the data

James Robinson / Guardian:
News of the World executive suspended over alleged phone hacking

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

Fortune:

Las Vegas's copyright crapshoot could maim social media — Righthaven founder Steve Gibson is going after copyright infringers using the murky legal definition of fair use to power a sue-first strategy. Yet with sharing tools booming online, could clicking a Like button lead to a lawsuit?

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: CNET News, paidContent, Online Video News and NetNewsCheck Latest, more at Techmeme »

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

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

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, The Blaze, Poynter, Yahoo! News, TVWeek.com, Gawker, The Wire, The Daily Caller, On Media's Blog, The Wrap, paidContent and New York Observer

Todd Spangler / Multichannel:

CES: Yahoo Teams With Cable Nets, Broadcasters On Internet TV — Pilot Program to Run Through First Half of 2011 — Las Vegas — Yahoo is working with cable and broadcast programmers and advertisers including ABC, CBS, HSN, Showtime Networks and Ford to provide enhanced interactive TV …

Discussion: Lost Remote and MediaPost

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 …

Dave Levinthal / OpenSecrets.org:

Major Influence Peddlers Fill Capitol Hill Newspapers With Advertisements on Congress' Inauguration Day — Nothing says lobbying like splashing your company's name in bright colors across the pages of Capitol Hill's three must-read specialty publications on the first day of a new congressional session.

Discussion: Poynter