Mediagazer: We've compiled a list of all the journalist who have been in … (World News)

2:40 AM ET, February 4, 2011

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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)

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, The Wrap, Poynter, Yahoo! News, Mediaite, PopEater, The Huffington Post, Politics Daily, BlogPost, Broadcasting & Cable, Big News Network.com, Gothamist, The Daily Dish and New York Times

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Egyptian VP criticizes ‘unfriendly TV stations’ — New Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman didn't mention Al Jazeera by name, but he suggested that the Mubarak government isn't a fan of the Qatar-based network. — “I blame some sister countries that have unfriendly TV stations …

Discussion: Swampland and The Daily Dish

Committee to Protect Journalists:
Journalists under physical assault in Egypt

Waxy.org:

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!

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: Freelance Unbound, Poynter and Reason

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: CNET News, Media Nation, Switched, mocoNews and NY Daily News

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

Discussion: The Wall Blog, New York Times, The Next Web, SAI, Daring Fireball, News Corporation, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, The Daily, Mediaite and The Huffington Post

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 …

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

Discussion: MediaPost, SAI and Hulu Blog

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

Discussion: Lost Remote, Electronista and Gizmodo

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, WebNewser, Chickaboomer, TVSpy and Boing Boing

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 and Soup

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

New York Times will release paywall details in ‘near future’ — Since last summer, New York Times Co. executives have repeatedly said they would announce details about the paper's online metered pay model “soon” or “closer to launch” of the revamped nytimes.com site.

Discussion: Poynter and Future of Journalism

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Income Falls 26% at The Times Company as Print Advertising Drops

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

Peg Brickley / Bankruptcy Beat:

News That's Not Fit to Print in Tribune's Chapter 11 Case — Whatever you do, don't call Tribune Co.'s Don Liebentritt “Sam's guy.” — That's apparently a touchy subject for Tribune co-president Liebentritt, according to the flurry of activity on the docket of the media giant's bankruptcy case.

Discussion: Poynter

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 »

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

Amid IPO Reports, Pandora Adds Two Big Media Names To Board — Pandora, which is widely expected to go public this year, has added two big-name media executives to its board: Former News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). COO Peter Chernin (who most recently has been launching a new media company targeting Asia) …

Discussion: MediaFile and The Wrap

Meghan O'Rourke / Slate:

A new tally shows how few female writers appear in magazines. — Women may be shattering glass ceilings, but not in the literary world. So a new report from the women's literary organization VIDA suggests. VIDA has just posted a breakdown by gender of contributors to magazines …

Discussion: The Awl and The Rumpus.net

Choire Sicha / The Awl:

‘The Daily’ Really Is the “New York Post Goes to College” — As you know if you have been near the Internet, everyone is discussing The Daily, the Rupert Murdoch iPad publication that launched yesterday. You can meet the man who runs it, much-beloved of the Murdochs! The reviews are... all over the place.

Discussion: The Daily, Poynter and New York Magazine

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 …