Mediagazer: Tumblr is Sending 20+ Bloggers to New York Fashion Week (Lauren Sherman/Fashionista)

6:05 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 Big Picture, The Huffington Post, The Wrap, On Media's Blog, Mixed Media, LA Observed, Poynter, Gawker, New York Times, NewsBusters.org blogs, www.wnyc.org, The Hill and AOL 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 …

Nicholas Jackson / The Atlantic Online:
Julian Assange: I Own All of the WikiLeaks Documents

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: Multichannel, MediaMemo, VentureBeat, 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, The Informer, 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, CableTechTalk, VideoNuze, Media Money …, Between the Lines Blog, paidContent, Multichannel and TelevisionInfo.com

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

Discussion: Company Town

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 and The Blaze

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

Discussion: Poynter, Mediaite, The Wire, Media Matters for America, Yahoo! News, Gawker, The Daily Caller, TVWeek.com, On Media's Blog, The Wrap, paidContent and New York Observer

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: The Wrap, Mediaite, Media Decoder, USA Today, Inside TV and TVNewser

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

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

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

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!

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

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, rbr.com and MediaPost

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.

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

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?

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