Mediagazer: Times Editor Alarmed By Prospect of WikiLeaks Prosecution (Sam Gustin/Threat Level)

10:50 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.

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

Discussion: Swampland, MediaShift and The Daily Dish

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: Poynter, Freelance Unbound, Reason and Nieman Journalism Lab

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!

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, Media Nation and Switched

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.

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: New York Observer, Yahoo! News, TVNewser, Company Town and Broadcasting & Cable

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

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 …

Joshua David Stein / New York Times:

Benjamin Millepied Leaps Into the Spotlight — IT was the laugh heard around the Web. Natalie Portman, glowing in a pink Viktor & Rolf gown, bounded onstage at the Golden Globes last month to accept the award for best actress for her role in the psychological thriller “Black Swan.”

Discussion: Styleite and New York Observer

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, WWD Media Headlines and Guardian

John Vidal / Guardian:

Amazon's uncontacted tribe: how media coverage can trigger action | John Vidal — Huge exposure of photographs of Amazonian natives has finally made the Peruvian government take action to protect them — I am always amazed when certain stories go “viral” and whiz around the world, having an instant effect on governments or people.

Discussion: Green

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 …

Discussion: MediaPost, Electronista, Computerworld and Gizmodo

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

Discussion: MediaPost, SAI, Hulu Blog and GigaOM

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, WebNewser, Gawker, The Wire, Chickaboomer, TVSpy and Boing Boing

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

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Cramer steps down as chair of TheStreet.com — Jim Cramer, a co-founder of TheStreet.com and host of “Mad Money” on CNBC, has stepped down as chairman of the board of the financial news site's parent company. — Cramer will remain on the board, but he's being replaced as chair by Christopher “Woody” Marshall.