Mediagazer: Cairo attacks continue; reporter dies from earlier shooting (Committee to Protect Journalists)

1:10 AM ET, February 5, 2011

Top News:

2 Detained Reporters Saw Secret Police's Methods Firsthand — CAIRO — We had been detained by Egyptian authorities, handed over to the country's dreaded Mukhabarat, the secret police, and interrogated. They left us all night in a cold room, on hard orange plastic stools, under fluorescent lights.

Discussion: Guardian and Boing Boing

Committee to Protect Journalists:

Cairo attacks continue; reporter dies from earlier shooting — Journalists in Cairo faced assaults, detentions, and threats again today as supporters of President Hosni Mubarak continued their efforts to obstruct news coverage of protests demanding the Egyptian leader's ouster.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Associated Press, Guardian, Future of Journalism, Yahoo! News, The Daily Dish, AOL News and Poynter

Sheila Carapico / Foreign Policy:

What Al Jazeera shows and doesn't show — The wide-angle aerial view from television cameras trained down on Tahrir Square in central Cairo is unprecedented in the history of world revolutions. We all have a ring-side seat. The satellite feed has become part of the story; the video frame is itself a site of contestation.

Discussion: Jillian C. York

World News:
We've compiled a list of all the journalists who have been in …

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Network Anchors Leave Egypt Amid Crackdown

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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.

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Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:

The meaning of Elizabeth Spiers at The New York Observer — So what does everyone think of the news that just broke, that Elizabeth Spiers is to be the editor of The New York Observer? — In some ways there is an inevitability here. From the mists of time, Nick Denton's original manifesto for Gawker:

Joe Coscarelli / Runnin' Scared:

Elizabeth Spiers to Replace Kyle Pope as Editor-in-Chief of New York Observer — Founding Gawker editor Elizabeth Spiers will replace Kyle Pope as editor-in-chief of the New York Observer, the paper announced today on their website. Pope, formerly of Portfolio …

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post: EXCLUSIVE: New York Observer Editor Out After ‘Tension’ With Top Brass

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

NBC Fires Guy Who Posted The Bryant Gumbel/Katie Couric ‘What Is Internet’ Video — Like a bunch of sites, we posted about the amusing video that had been posted to YouTube, that showed Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel, back in 1994, very confused about the internet. The video itself went viral pretty quickly.

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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:

Discussion: Gawker, FishbowlNY, Poynter and New York Magazine

Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:
‘Ethicist’ Randy Cohen Out at New York Times Magazine

Discussion: @media_ink and @koblin

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

DemandAlJazeera: How Al Jazeera is using social media to cover Egypt—and distribute its content in the US — Mark noted in today's This Week in Review that “the organization that has shined the brightest over the past 10 days is unquestionably Al Jazeera.”

Discussion: Mashable!, Media Matters for America, News for Digital Journalists, Company Town, Broadcasting & Cable, Lost Remote, Multichannel, BlogPost, ReadWriteWeb and MediaShift

Christopher Heine / ClickZ:
Al Jazeera Aims to Harness Twitter Momentum

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and The Huffington Post

Kevin Anderson / Journalism.co.uk:

Newsroom integration: the past taking over the future? — Are print executives still running the show when it comes to integrating with the digital side? The New York Times newsroom, 1942. Image: US Library of Congress — Last October, I was at the Online News Association conference …

Discussion: Strange Attractor

Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:

Why Did Hearst Let Go of the Magazine Industry's Only Winner? — Town & Country was the magazine industry's newsstand standout for 2010, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations numbers, which makes the magazine's the recent shakeup even stranger.

Discussion: Media & Entertainment

Nat Ives / AdAge:
Magazines' Newsstand Struggles Continue, but Not Without Bright Spots

Discussion: Poynter

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: NewsGrange, MacStories and eMedia Vitals

Nicholas Carlson / The Wire:

ESPN.com Boss John Kosner On Yahoo: “I'm More Concerned With The Guy In The Garage” — Men aged 18 to 34 spend more time on ESPN.com properties each month than they do anywhere on the Internet except Google, Facebook, all of Yahoo's sites combined, and all of Microsoft's sites combined.

Dana Oshiro / NetShelter Technology Media:

The 4 Day Work Week: Staffing for Breaking News — There's an old saying that the “news never sleeps” but in the tech world it seems like it takes a three day weekend. After looking at the top news posts by engagement across our network for the last 90 days, only ten percent …

Jennifer Saba / Reuters:

Apple's iPad boosts FT online subscriptions — (Reuters) - Financial Times Chief Executive John Ridding said that Apple Inc's iPad and other mobile devices are driving 20 percent of the newspaper's new online subscriptions. — Ridding, who was speaking at an investor conference in New York on Thursday …

Discussion: IR Web Report

Damon Kiesow / Poynter:

Publishers have tough choices ahead with Apple's new subscription program — With the unveiling of The Daily, we got our first look at Apple's new iTunes-based periodical subscription service. The feature has been long awaited by publishers, but its implementation is likely to leave many unsatisfied.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, TPMDC and Computerworld

Zeke Turner / WWD Media Headlines:

Debating Wikileaks and the Law — New York Times executive editor Bill Keller and Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger — partners in crime, perhaps, with Julian Assange — sat together on a panel at Columbia University's Low Library last night. Former assistant attorney general Jack Goldsmith joined …

Discussion: The Wire