Mediagazer: Is Jason Kilar Trying to Get Fired? (Peter Kafka/MediaMemo)

5:45 PM ET, February 3, 2011

Top News:

The Daily: Indexed — Anybody else think it's weird that The Daily, News Corp's new iPad-only magazine, posts almost every article to their official website... but with no index of the articles to be found? They spent $30M on it, but apparently forgot a homepage! — So I went ahead and made one for them!

Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:

The Daily, a tablet newspaper for ‘everybody,’ is as much Apple as News Corp. — Yesterday, at the press launch of Rupert Murdoch's new Ipad newspaper, The Daily, held in a below-grade auditorium at the Guggenheim Museum, a reporter asked Murdoch what demographic The Daily was after. “Upmarket?

Discussion: Yahoo! News

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
“Serendipity and surprise”: How will engagement work for The Daily?

Discussion: The Next Web, Daring Fireball, CJR, Poynter, The Huffington Post, The Daily, Mediaite and Nieman Journalism Lab

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Fake, unofficial Daily Tumblrs terrorize Murdoch's iPad pub

Discussion: TechCrunch, USA Today and John Gapper's blog

Rex Hammock / Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com:
The Daily isn't as bad as Virgin's Project

Discussion: Media Nation, GigaOM, New York Times, Gannett Blog, Editors Weblog, Product Reviews, bookforum.com, Garcia Media, SAI, magCulture.com/blog and News Corporation

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Jon Stewart's Hulu Price Tag: At Least $40 Million — Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were two of Hulu's biggest draws until they left the video site last March. And it will cost Hulu at least $40 million to get them back. — That's according to people familiar with the new deal …

Discussion: paidContent, Mediaweek, rbr.com, VentureBeat, New York Times, Company Town, Electronista, Gothamist, TVNewser, The Wire and CNET News

Jason Kilar / Hulu Blog:

Stewart, Colbert, and Hulu's thoughts about the future of TV — We are extremely happy to announce a broad content agreement between Viacom and Hulu that brings The Daily Show and The Colbert Report back to Hulu and now also to Hulu Plus, beginning this morning.

Henry Blodget / The Wire: Hulu CEO Jason Kilar Infuriates TV Bosses/Partners With Unapproved …

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Is Jason Kilar Trying to Get Fired?

Discussion: Lost Remote

Hollywood Reporter: Hulu, Viacom Announce Content Partnership

New York Times:

Gangs Hunt Journalists and Rights Workers — CAIRO — Security forces and gangs chanting in favor of the Egyptian government hunted down journalists at their offices and in the hotels where many had taken refuge on Thursday in a widespread and overt campaign of intimidation aimed at suppressing reports from the capital.

Discussion: ABCNEWS, newsfeed.time.com, Committee to Protect …, Deadline.com, The Wrap, Yahoo! News, Mediaite, New York Magazine, Big News Network.com, LA Observed, BlogPost, Broadcasting & Cable, Poynter, Gawker, Politics Daily, The Daily Dish, Gothamist and New York Times

Committee to Protect Journalists:

Journalists under physical assault in Egypt — Supporters of President Hosni Mubarak have begun violently attacking journalists reporting on the streets of Cairo today, a shift in tactics from recent media censorship, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Quarterly Income Fell 26% for The New York Times Co. — Reflecting a slow advertising recovery across the newspaper industry, The New York Times Company reported on Thursday a 26.2 percent drop in net income in the fourth quarter from the period a year before.

Discussion: The New York Times Company, Gawker, Guardian, Poynter, The Wrap, FishbowlNY and Media Buyer Planner

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
New York Times will release paywall details in ‘near future’

Discussion: Poynter and Future of Journalism

Kunur Patel / AdAge:

Apple, Campbell's Say iAds Twice as Effective as TV — A Nielsen Study Shows iPhone Users Are Paying Attention, While TV Viewers Not so Much — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — It's been seven months since the first iAds — Apple's bid to reinvent mobile advertising — started popping up on iPhones and iPods …

Discussion: iMediaConnection Blog, CNET News, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, TechCrunch, Fortune and iLounge

Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

MTV UK Tries Charging For Online Catch-Up TV — If you thought that pay-per-view online catch-up TV had been replaced by the free, ad-supported model, think again - MTV has launched a dedicated UK VOD portal, MTV OD, costing £1 ($1.61) a day or £2 ($3.24) a week.

Discussion: The Next Web, Pocket-lint and WatchingTV Online

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Medill and McCormick launch a news innovation lab with $4.2 million in Knight funding — In 2009, while announcing that year's Knight News Challenge winners at a conference at MIT, Knight Foundation president Alberto Ibargüen mentioned the foundation's desire to launch “test kitchens” …

Discussion: Knight Foundation News …, Tower Ticker, News for Digital Journalists and KnightBlog

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Viacom Ad Gains Canceled Out By Lower Home Video Sales — Viacom's cable properties benefitted from the advertising recovery of the past year, but lower DVD sales erased any of its gains in the last quarter. The poor earnings performance comes a day after its MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) …

Declan McCullagh / CNET News:

U.S. defended Egyptian activist's YouTube videos — U.S. State Department officials successfully pressured Google to restore a YouTube video showing torture and murder by Egypt's state police, a WikiLeaks cable reveals. — The Cairo embassy and the State Department's bureau of democracy …

Discussion: ABCNEWS and TechCrunch

AdAge:

Groupon Snags Last-Minute Super Bowl Ad Time — Social-Shopping Phenom Had Been Relegated to Pre- and Post-game Spots — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Groupon's got game time. — Less than a month ago, the online company was shut out of the Super Bowl and was planning on only pre-game and post-game commercials.

Discussion: The Wire, New York Observer, AdFreak, rbr.com, CNET News and newsfeed.time.com

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Storify Gets Funding From Khosla Ventures to Reinvent Media Online — Storify, a San Francisco-based startup that launched a social-media aggregation service for journalists last fall, announced today that it has closed a $2-million Series A round of funding from Khosla Ventures …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Mashable! and paidContent, more at Techmeme »

Joe Grimm / Poynter:

Ongo.com CEO: Centralized subscription removes ‘high frustration walls’ between readers & news — Some early observers of Ongo.com may be missing the point. — The subscription site, which launched Jan. 25, is intent on being a great “personal news experience.”

Discussion: paidContent

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

The AP's Digital News Licensing Agency Will Launch This Summer — The Associated Press is moving ahead with a plan to establish an independent digital news licensing agency to help news organizations make additional money off their digital content. The AP initially announced its intention …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable