Mediagazer: Too Lazy Or Busy To Read? Topicmarks Summarizes Long Texts For You (Alexia Tsotsis/TechCrunch)

1:20 PM ET, February 4, 2011

Top News:

We've compiled a list of all the journalist who have been in some way threatened, attacked or detained while reporting in Egypt. When you put it all into one list, it is a rather large number in such a short period of time. (UPDATED - send us more stories if you get them)

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Network Anchors Leave Egypt Amid Crackdown — Two of the most prominent television news anchors covering the protests in Egypt this week, Brian Williams and Katie Couric, have exited the country. — The anchors' departures came on a day of increasing violence and intimidation directed at journalists in Egypt.

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, The Wrap, mediabistro.com, Broadcasting & Cable, Gawker, Speakeasy, The Wire, On Media's Blog, Company Town, New York Times, New York Observer and Yahoo! News

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Egyptian VP criticizes ‘unfriendly TV stations’

Discussion: Swampland, MediaShift and AOL News

New York Times:
Gangs Hunt Journalists and Rights Workers

New York Observer:

Elizabeth Spiers Taking Over As Editor In Chief of The New York Observer — Elizabeth Spiers is taking over as Editor-in-Chief of The Observer today, overseeing both the print and digital content. — “I am very excited to be working with Elizabeth to further build on the great progress we have made over the past few years.

Discussion: The Wire, Mediaite, WWD Media Headlines, Gawker, The Awl, @rafat, @joepompeo, @real_kaplan, @maura, @caro, @rovzar, @behrle, @lock, @timnyc, @dvnjr, @zekeft, @romenesko, @penenberg, @weareyourfek, @katierosman and New York Magazine

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:

New York Observer Editor Kyle Pope Out After ‘Tension’ With Top Brass … The New York Observer's editor, Kyle Pope, is stepping down after clashing with his bosses over the direction of the paper, the Huffington Post has learned. — The paper announced Pope's exit on Friday.

Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:

Murdoch's Daily: post-Web innovation or CD-ROM flashback? — A decade ago, if you were a “digital” person — if you were interested in how computer technology was changing our culture and economy — then you were a Web person. The Web, built on top of the Internet and ultimately eclipsing its source …

Discussion: AdAge, Poynter, Nieman Journalism Lab, Freelance Unbound and Reason

Waxy.org:
The Daily: Indexed — Anybody else think it's weird that The Daily …

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: Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day, The Wall Blog, CNET News, Switched and Media Nation

Matt Kinsman / Folio:

Media Dealmakers Summit: “The Web Is Dead” — Panelists say torch has passed to the “app Internet.” — New York—There was a question during the morning session today at the DeSilva + Phillips Media Dealmakers Summit that crystallized what a lot of people are thinking about the future.

Wall Street Journal:

Billboards Get Wired — Billboards and posters are one of world's oldest forms of advertising. Now, some marketers and start-ups say wireless technology could revamp outdoor advertising by bringing interactivity and pay-for-performance models. — Super Bowl Fans Sing Same Song

Discussion: THINQ.co.uk

Sam Gustin / Threat Level:

Times Editor Alarmed By Prospect of WikiLeaks Prosecution — NEW YORK — New York Times executive editor Bill Keller may not regard Julian Assange as a journalistic peer, but he made clear Thursday that he doesn't think the WikiLeaks founder should face criminal prosecution in the United States.

Discussion: Yahoo! News, Poynter, Future of Journalism and Guardian

Zeke Turner / WWD Media Headlines:
Debating Wikileaks and the Law

Discussion: The Wire

Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:

Exclusive: Deborah Solomon Out at New York Times Magazine — Deborah Solomon will no longer interview, transcribe, condense and edit the “Questions For” page of The New York Times Magazine in its Hugo Lindgren incarnation. She wrote to The Observer:

Nick Bilton / Bits:

A Race Between Digital and Print Magazines — This morning I decide to try a little experiment: I opened up my iPad, clicked on the little Wired icon and purchased the magazine's latest digital issue. After I agreed to fork over $4, it began downloading. For the next phase of the experiment …

Discussion: MacStories

Gabriel Snyder / @gabrielsnyder:

Pageviews look like they're down 25-33% in Gawker Media's new format. Jalopnik: http://t.co/tEGQo4M io9: http://t.co/ZfKOHas

Discussion: Fimoculous, The Wall Blog, tag me with a spoon and Soup

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Magazines' Newsstand Struggles Continue, but Not Without Bright Spots — An Average of 27,000 iPad Edition Sales Helped Wired Improve ‘Newsstand’ 28% — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Rolling Stone increased newsstand sales nearly 19% in the second half of last year as its story on Gen. Stanley McChrystal …

Discussion: New York Observer and Poynter

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Too Lazy Or Busy To Read? Topicmarks Summarizes Long Texts For You — Ever come across a lengthy Malcolm Gladwell New Yorker essay that all your unemployed friends will probably be talking about later, but you simply don't have time in between working to read?

Discussion: The Awl, technosociology and The Wire

Oliver Luft / Press Gazette:

Supreme Court allows reporters to use Twitter — Tweeting is allowed from hearings in the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, it was announced yesterday. — Supreme Court justices are “content” for journalists, members of the public and legal teams to use “live text based communications” …

Mike Shields / Adweek:

Yap.TV Preps Product That Synchs Tablet and TV Ads — Yap.TV, a startup behind a fast-growing iPad application designed to make TV viewing more social, is close to launching an ad product that will be able to synch up tablet ads with live TV ads. — The Los Altos, Calif.-based company rolled …

Discussion: GigaOM

Christopher Heine / ClickZ:

Al Jazeera Aims to Harness Twitter Momentum — Al Jazeera is Twitter's Promoted Trend advertiser today, as the Qatar-based cable channel attempts to rally support among Americans who want to see it more available in the United States. On Jan. 28, Twitter users drove traffic …

Discussion: BlogPost

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Is Jason Kilar Trying to Get Fired? — Is Hulu's CEO trying to get pushed out the door? — That's the question of the day for the TV and Web video world, prompted by a blog post Jason Kilar published last night. — It's a lengthy read about the TV business and where it's headed …