Mediagazer: Time to let go of the teen mag dream | Sarah Ditum (Sarah Ditum/Guardian)

5:30 PM ET, January 20, 2011

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Eric Schmidt / The Official Google Blog:

An update from the Chairman — When I joined Google in 2001 I never imagined—even in my wildest dreams—that we would get as far, as fast as we have today. Search has quite literally changed people's lives—increasing the collective sum of the world's knowledge and revolutionizing advertising in the process.

Eric Schmidt / @ericschmidt:

Day-to-day adult supervision no longer needed! http://goo.gl/zC89p

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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Big Bang At Google: Larry Page To Replace Eric Schmidt As CEO On April 4 — Google has just announced their Q4 2010 earnings. Looking them over quickly, they look good. But that's the secondary story right now. The bigger story is that Google has just announced that co-founder Larry Page …

Discussion: VentureBeat, SAI and Search Engine Land, more at Techmeme »

Brett Pulley / Bloomberg:

NY Times to Charge Less Than $20/Month for Web Access — New York Times Co. will charge readers less than $20 a month for full access to its namesake newspaper on the Web when the company introduces its paid service, a person familiar with the matter said. — The price has been set at less …

Discussion: paidContent, The Wire, Yahoo! News, New York Observer, @romenesko, @pkafka and NYConvergence.com

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

A Racy Show With Teenagers Steps Back From a Boundary — MTV executives have a new hit drama on their hands, featuring the sexual and drug-fueled exploits of misfit teenagers. They also have something else — a fear that coming episodes of the show may break the law.

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, The Wire, Company Town, Tuned In, PopEater, TV Squad, Runnin' Scared, Mediaite, Communication Prof's News …, @lavrusik, @megrobertson, mediabistro.com, The Huffington Post, Gawker, Vanity Fair, Gothamist and New York Observer

Washington Post:

Warren Buffett to step down from Washington Post Co. board — Warren E. Buffett, the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, said today he would step down from the board of The Washington Post Co. this May. He has served on the board since May 1996 and previously had a tenure on the board from 1974 to 1986.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Deal Journal, Poynter, MediaFile, Gawker and The Daily Caller

Tim Radford / Guardian:

A manifesto for the simple scribe - my 25 commandments for journalists | Tim Radford — Former Guardian science editor, letters editor, arts editor and literary editor Tim Radford has condensed his journalistic experience into a handy set of rules for aspiring hacks

Discussion: @felixsalmon, @jayrosen_nyu, Common Sense Journalism and blogs.journalism.co.uk, Thanks:fredericl

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Amazon Buying Lovefilm To Build European Movie Rentals Business — Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has finally confirmed it's buying the 58 percent of Lovefilm it doesn't already own - its bid to become a major European online movie subscription business. There's no price disclosed …

Discussion: TechCrunch Europe, TechCrunch Europe, The Next Web, Media Week, Index Ventures Blog, Guardian, VentureBeat, Multichannel, FT tech hub, Company Town, The Business Insider, GigaOM, CNET News, SAI and MediaMemo

Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Interview: Lovefilm Investor Says Amazon Exit Is A Win-Win

Discussion: VatorNews

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

New year brings delays for expected media launches — For the media-obsessed, 2010 was largely spent looking ahead to 2011. — This January was to bring four major launches or relaunches. In the waning days of December, it still seemed reasonable to expect that each debut might happen before the second calendar month of the year.

Discussion: The Wire and Poynter

Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:

Arianna Huffington to Launch Site for Blacks — Arianna Huffington is set to launch a new website that will focus on the black community. — The site — dubbed “HuffPost Global Black” — will purportedly offer “news, politics, culture, opinion, and video through the lens of the black experience.”

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Yahoo! News, @spinsterellla, @jessicawakeman, @umanoid and WebNewser

Henry Blodget / The Wire:

DAILY BEAST: We're Not Paying Howard Kurtz $600,000 A Year! — Yesterday, we wrote about the rumors of astronomical salaries being paid to mainstream media stars who have jumped ship and joined new-media outfits like the Huffington Post and Daily Beast. — We said that we had been unable …

Discussion: Poynter, Gawker, Runnin' Scared, PE Hub Blog, Clusterstock and New York Observer

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Newsonomics of Mr. Murdoch's Daily — [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.] — Let's pause for a moment and reflect. — It's a daily newspaper being taken to the web.

Courtney Boyd Myers / The Next Web:

Techmeme and Mediagazer will now include Tweets as headlines — Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera and Mediagazer founder Megan McCarthy announced today, on Twitter, that they both news aggregation sites will be including Tweets as headlines going forward. — In July of last year …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and @mikepilarz

Megan McCarthy / @megan:
Tweets are now being shown directly on Mediagazer - @reply with something fun to join the Discussion!

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Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:

Magazines Still Struggling With This Social Media Business — The future of magazines is still in the 20th century, admits the Association of Magazine Media. — The message from publishing executives and their resident social media gurus at the MPA's inaugural Social Media conference …

Discussion: iMediaConnection Blog, GigaOM and FishbowlNY

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

You Can Ring Its Bell: Demand Media Heads to Wall Street Next Week — According to numerous sources with knowledge of the situation, Demand Media will finally launch its public offering later next week, after it completes its road show for investors. — Once it has its IPO …

Discussion: Mediaweek and WebNewser

David Kaplan / paidContent:

CNNMoney.com Integrates LinkedIn To Keep Readers On Site Longer — CNNMoney, the online face of Fortune magazine, is integrating business social network LinkedIn the Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) mag's annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. The is the first real test of LinkedIn's new …

Discussion: Talking Biz News and Denver Post

Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:

Joost Video Network Becomes Stand-alone Business Unit — Adconion Media Group plans to announce Thursday the spinoff of the Joost Video Network into a stand-alone business unit. The newly launched digital media company will provide premium branded solutions for advertisers and brand marketers seeking …

Sarah Ditum / Guardian:

Time to let go of the teen mag dream | Sarah Ditum — Sugar's demise shows today's teenagers have moved online. Looking back fondly at Just Seventeen won't change that — Need to get an idea of why times are hard for teen mags? Take a look at the current issue of soon-to-be-defunct Sugar magazine.

Discussion: Magforum