Mediagazer: Benjamin Millepied Leaps Into the Spotlight (Joshua David Stein/New York Times)

7:40 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.

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

Discussion: Swampland, MediaShift and The Daily Dish

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, Reason and Nieman Journalism Lab

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, CNET News, The Wall Blog, Media Nation and Switched

Henry Blodget / The Wire:

Hulu CEO Jason Kilar Infuriates TV Bosses/Partners With Unapproved Comments About Traditional TV — Three years ago, when Hulu was created, we expected the company would eventually fall prey to the massive conflicts of interest between its TV owners and its online product and customers.

Discussion: SAI, MediaPost and Hulu Blog

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

Discussion: Electronista, Gizmodo and Lost Remote

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Jon Stewart's Hulu Price Tag: At Least $40 Million

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

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

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: Company Town and Broadcasting & Cable

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 …

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

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.

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

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.

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

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, New York Magazine and Eater National

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