Mediagazer: KPRC Anchor Owen Conflenti Flips the Bird On-Air (Andrew Gauthier/mediabistro.com)

6:35 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.

Discussion: Yahoo! News

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

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

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

Discussion: The Next Web, Daring Fireball, CJR, The Huffington Post, Mashable!, The Daily and Mediaite

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

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

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, Company Town, New York Times, Electronista, TVNewser, Gothamist, The Wire and CNET News, more at Techmeme »

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

Discussion: SAI

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

Discussion: Lost Remote

Jason Kilar / Hulu Blog:
Stewart, Colbert, and Hulu's thoughts about the future of TV

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, BlogPost, LA Observed, Broadcasting & Cable, Poynter, 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

Andrew Gauthier / mediabistro.com:

KPRC Anchor Owen Conflenti Flips the Bird On-Air — With the advent of HD broadcasting and the increasing popularity of widescreen TVs, the TV news industry has had to make adjustments. Stations have erected new, HD-optimized studios, photographers have had to learn new equipment, and anchors have had to change their makeup.

Discussion: Mediaite, Gawker, The Wire, TVSpy, Chickaboomer, Boing Boing and WebNewser

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: MediaFile and Broadcasting & Cable, more at Techmeme »

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

Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:

It's An App World — Cable Companies Just Live In It — Two significant announcements from cable companies served to highlight the shift in power that is occurring between consumer electronics manufacturers and traditional distributors of TV content. During this past January's CES …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

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) …

Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:UK:

Rdio: Funded To The Tune Of $17.5 Million; Warner Records' Cavallo On Board — Last week we wrote about how social music service Rdio was picking up a round of funding from Mangrove Capital Partners. Today the company officially announced the news. It's a $17.5 million investment in a round being led by Mangrove.

Discussion: MediaFile, PR Newswire, SAI and VentureBeat, more at Techmeme »

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

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.