Mediagazer: Stripped — Here's how a reporter loses credit for his work: (Joe Coscarelli)

4:50 PM ET, January 27, 2011

Top News:

The New York Times, Demand Media Edition — Demand Media — widely described as a “content farm” — went public yesterday and quickly racked up a valuation higher than the New York Times. I figured the news might cause some at the New York Times to wonder if they needed to be more Demand Media-like.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Poynter and Runnin' Scared

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Demand Media Says It's Getting Along Just Fine With Google, Thank You Very Much — So the first wave of investors has taken a look at Demand Media, and they're buying: The “content creation platform,” as the company likes to describe itself, closed at $22.65 yesterday, up 33 percent on its first day of trading.

Discussion: Mixed Media, Poynter, Deal Journal, NetNewsCheck Latest, ReadWriteWeb, paidContent, The Social, Money & Company, FT tech hub, VatorNews and CNNMoney.com, more at Techmeme »

Felix Gillette / Business Week:
Demand Media's Planet of the Algorithms

Discussion: SAI

Keith Richman / AdAge:
Why Demand Media Really Is a Media Company and Its IPO Will Succeed

Discussion: Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Deal Journal and MediaMemo

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Congratulations, Demand Media. You're Still Pretty Dumb.

Discussion: The Informer, New York Magazine, CJR, paidContent, The Wire, The Atlantic Online, SAI and Deal Journal

Shira Ovide / Deal Journal:
New York Times Almost Bought Into Demand Media

Discussion: @rafat, Poynter and NYConvergence.com

Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:

News Corp.'s iPad magazine launching Feb. 2 — News Corporation has chosen Groundhog Day for its launch of The Daily, a digital publication designed for tablet devices—and it's chosen New York, not the previously rumored San Francisco, for the Feb. 2 event.

Discussion: Media Decoder, NetNewsCheck Latest, The Wrap, TechCrunch, FishbowlNY, The Wire, Ars Technica and NYConvergence.com, more at Techmeme »

Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:

Apple, News Corp to hold event to launch The Daily — Apple and News Corp sent out invitations on Thursday to press for the launch of the Daily, a newspaper designed specifically for iPads. — According to the invitation received by The Loop on Thursday, News Corp Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch …

Discussion: Mashable!, @jwpetersnyt, Yahoo! News, The Next Web, AppleInsider, AOL News, Erictric, @edgecliffe, Digital Daily, MacRumors, Engadget, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac and MacStories, more at Techmeme »

Nick Summers / @nicksumm: Rupert's The Daily now set to launch at the Guggenheim in NYC next Wednesday. Steve Jobs looking like a no-show.

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

The disruptors arrive at Davos — Last year at Davos, I said I was among the disrupted when I preferred to be among the disruptors. — The disruptor arrived last night. Daniel Domscheit-Berg, former spokesman for Wikileaks and founder of the competitive OpenSecrets …

Discussion: Canadian Press

Audrey Watters / ReadWriteWeb:

Localeaks: A Drop-Box for Anonymous Tips to 1400 U.S. Newspapers — Although the mission of WikiLeaks is to “open governments,” it's done quite a lot to make us think about how to open journalism as well. We've seen a number of new whistleblower sites crop up - OpenLeaks and Rospil …

Discussion: Editors Weblog, NetNewsCheck Latest and WebNewser

Wall Street Journal:

Hulu Plots New Script — Just as the digital wave transforms the television industry, Hulu, a pioneer of Internet TV, is in internal discussions to dramatically transform itself. — The free online television service has become one of the most-watched online video properties in the U.S …

Discussion: paidContent, Burst Media Company Blog, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Gizmodo Australia, Future of Journalism, Los Angeles Times, Post Tech, CNET News, SAI, The Wire, Mashable!, Engadget, SlashGear, Black Web 2.0 and Electronista, more at Techmeme »

The Fix:

White House picks Jay Carney as new press secretary — President Obama has chosen Jay Carney to serve as his new press secretary, replacing longtime loyalist Robert Gibbs who is leaving his post in mid February, according to a senior Administration official.

Discussion: Mediaite, The Huffington Post, CNN, Political Punch, USA Today, Fox News and The Caucus

Anthony De Rosa / @antderosa:
New White House press secretary Jay Carney was one of the first mainstream journalists to take up blogging.

Discussion: NationalJournal.com and CBS News

Adam Sorensen / The Page:

O, Mark Salter!! — McCain wordsmith revealed as “anonymous” author of “O” the novel. — Confirmed by sources, but there were lots of in-plain-sight clues that led to Salter's Maine door. — (Flashback: Page Six touted Salter.) — Read them here. » — Tweet — FAN - FOLLOW - FEED

Discussion: Media Decoder, Mediaite, Yahoo! News, Runnin' Scared, CNN, NY Daily News, The Fix, Omnivoracious, Swampland, newsfeed.time.com, AOL News, The Awl, GalleyCat, bookforum.com, The Atlantic Online, The Huffington Post, Washington Wire and New York Magazine

Keren Blankfeld / Forbes:

The Optimist — Forbes Magazine dated February 14, 2011 — Undaunted by his Tribune debacle, Sam Zell is now cutting a bold path in emerging markets. — At the turn of each year since late 1994 Sam Zell, the real estate billionaire known as “the grave dancer,” has indulged in a fit of musical fancy.

Discussion: Poynter, LA Observed, The Wrap, @iwantmedia and @romenesko

David Lieberman / USA Today:

What are Comcast's plans for NBC News operations? — Keith Olbermann may have unwittingly done Comcast a favor last week when MSNBC's most popular commentator startled audiences by announcing that he had just hosted his last show on the cable news network. — Sure, it was awkward for Comcast.

Discussion: AdAge, Poynter, Company Town and On Media's Blog

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Forbes' New Changes Mean More Blending of Ads, Editorial — Mag unveils Web redesign that will place ad content on equal footing — Forbes Media took a radical step last year when it started to put advertisers and outside contributors on equal footing with its editorial staffers, in print and online.

Discussion: Noted

Jemima Kiss / Guardian:

Mail Online tops 3m daily users — Daily Mail network of websites scores another month of record traffic, reportedly driven by US growth — Mail Online was the only UK national newspaper website to defy a dip in online audience in December, topping 3 million daily users for the first time in the process.

Discussion: Media Week and Press Gazette

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

To target Fox News over ‘Nazi’ label, rabbis make use of Murdoch's other media — A coalition of rabbis wants Fox News chief Roger Ailes and conservative host Glenn Beck to cut out all their talk about Nazis and the Holocaust, and it's making its views known in an unusual place.

Discussion: Guardian, The Wire, MediaPost and On Media's Blog

Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:

MSNBC's Sarah Palin Sickness … The following article appears in this week's issue of The Hollywood Reporter on newsstands Thursday. — Now that Keith Olbermann has left MSNBC, perhaps cable news can begin weaning itself from its addiction to Sarah Palin.

Discussion: Mediaite, Yahoo! News, TVNewser, The Huffington Post, Vast Wasteland and On Media's Blog

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

What's Up, Mike? — Forbes Magazine dated February 14, 2011 — Bloomberg, the financial data company, is aiming more at consumers. Will Bloomberg, the New York mayor, ride it for his political aims? — Michael Bloomberg devoted his first term as mayor of New York City largely to local issues …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and @iwantmedia

New York Times:

A Little Less Drama at NBC — On Thursday, from Studio 6B in Rockefeller Center, home of “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” the NBC anchor Brian Williams will officially introduce the network's newest boss, Stephen B. Burke, in a closed-circuit presentation to the entire company.

Discussion: mediabistro.com and Moneywood

Jason Silverman / Underwire:

David Carr Is Journalism's New Superhero in Page One Doc — David Carr, left, chats with The New York Times media editor Bruce Headlam in a scene from Page One. — Photo courtesy Sundance Institute — PARK CITY, Utah — In an attempt to describe the new age of journalism …

Discussion: Cinema Blend Feeds

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Video: Anthony Rose On Google TV's Failure And His Next Big Project — As BBC future media controller, Anthony Rose took an unwieldy iPlayer by the horns and turned it in to the UK's VOD powerhouse. He recently left as CTO of the UK's YouView connected-TV consortium.

Discussion: ukaop.org.uk

Joe Coscarelli:

Stripped — Here's how a reporter loses credit for his work: — On Monday, dude who made phone calls reports exclusively in Women's Wear Daily that Kate Winick, a senior editor for Worth magazine, crashed a $250,000 Bentley during a test drive for members of the press.

Discussion: Mediaite

Sarah Schneider / Splitsider:

Why More Women Should Write Comedy: A Mathematical (But Not Boring) Study — The notion that women aren't funny is as old as the people still bringing it up. These days in comedy, funny women are everywhere. And yet the men writing comedy still outnumber the women by a wide margin.

Discussion: Most Recent Home Page Posts …

Nicholas Carlson / The Business Insider:

Patch Is A Huge Waste Of Money, And It Has Us Worried About Tim Armstrong's Ability To Run AOL — AOL CEO Tim Armstrong believes that its local blog network, Patch, will be a “major” part of the company's turnaround as it fills one of the largest “white spaces” left on the Internet.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, NetNewsCheck Latest and Change of Subject