Mediagazer: Ex-Huffpo CEO Betsy Morgan on What Drew Her to Glenn Beck (Jeff Bercovici/Mixed Media)

9:20 PM ET, January 6, 2011

Top News:

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: The Huffington Post, Poynter, The Wrap, Gawker, Politics Daily, LA Observed, On Media's Blog, www.wnyc.org, NewsBusters.org blogs, Mixed Media, The Hill, New York Times and AOL News

Jim Rainey / The Big Picture:

Ellen Weiss' first comments on her NPR resignation — Ellen Weiss called her decision to step down Thursday as the top news executive at National Public Radio “extremely hard” but declined to criticize NPR or back away from her decision to fire Juan Williams, the action that led to her downfall.

Discussion: Media Matters for America, Mediaite and The Huffington Post

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

Discussion: Vanity Fair

Colby Hall / Mediaite:

Breaking: Bill O'Reilly To Sit Down With Barack Obama In Pre-Super Bowl Interview — Sources tell Mediaite that Bill O'Reilly has landed an exclusive pre-game interview with President Barack Obama scheduled to air on the Fox Broadcasting Channel before the Super Bowl.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, On Media's Blog, The Politico, The Wrap, Gawker, Yahoo! News, Media Decoder, The Wire, Inside Cable News, The Daily Caller and Politics Daily

Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:

Pay TV industry moves to adapt to Internet age — Cisco and Comcast unveil new technology meant to keep subscribers in the fold. — Reporting from Las Vegas — The pay television industry, under growing threat from the Internet, disclosed plans to prevent technology companies from luring away its customers.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and Company Town

Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Cisco's Videoscape: Ready to Reinvent TV?

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Alex Weprin / mediabistro.com:

Piers Morgan's First CNN Guest: Oprah Winfrey — The first guest on CNN's “Piers Morgan Tonight” will be legendary daytime talk show host Oprah Winfrey. — Morgan will announce the news at the Television Critics Association Winter press tour in Los Angeles Thursday afternoon.

Discussion: Speakeasy, Media Decoder, The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable, Mediaite, USA Today, Gawker, Inside TV and TVNewser

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, VentureBeat, Multichannel, TVWeek.com, New York Observer and Broadcasting & Cable

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

Discussion: GigaOM

Meg James / Company Town:

Top Fox TV executive Tony Vinciquerra out in shake-up — Tony Vinciquerra, chief executive of Fox Networks Group, is leaving the company, prompting a major reorganization of Rupert Murdoch's television empire. — He departs after a long year that involved several brutal retransmission battles with cable operators.

Discussion: Multichannel, Broadcasting & Cable, Los Angeles Times, MediaPost, TVWeek.com, AdAge, Media Decoder, The Wrap, rbr.com and paidContent

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

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

Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

First look at Ridley Scott's YouTube movie — Remember the video Ridley Scott was producing for YouTube? Today we get a first look at the results. — Last summer, YouTube announced that legendary Hollywood figure Ridley Scott would be producing ‘Life In A Day’, a movie consisting entirely …

Discussion: Underwire, The Official Google Blog and The Wrap

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Dallas Morning News publisher on paywall plans: “This is a big risk” — In talking about the Dallas Morning News' plans to begin charging for digital content next month, Jim Moroney is surprisingly candid about the decision and the economics of the industry.

Discussion: Poynter, NetNewsCheck Latest, WebNewser, Media Buyer Planner and The Consumerist

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Newsonomics of tablets replacing newspapers — [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] — Ready to trade up?

Discussion: Poynter and eMedia Vitals

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Ex-Huffpo CEO Betsy Morgan on What Drew Her to Glenn Beck — Why did the former Huffington Post CEO cross the political road? For a chance to work with Glenn Beck, who might just be the biggest multimedia personality since Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart.

Discussion: Mediaite, Poynter, The Blaze and The Wire

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Glenn Beck Hires Former Huffington Post Chief

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Andrew Golis:

Six month anniversary. — Since everyone in the world is either publishing or intentionally leaking their end of the year internal memos, I figured I'd do the same. To my own blog. — In fact, it's not just the end of one year and beginning of another.

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, TechCrunch, New York Observer, NYConvergence.com and Gawker

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

News agency seeks to cash in on celeb Twitter pics — Showbiz news agency WENN is to start charging publishers for using pictures posted by celebrities on social media website Twitter. — WENN has signed a deal with social media firm Plixi, formerly called TweetPhoto …

Discussion: AdScam/The Horror!