Mediagazer: Why small devices are big news for journalists (Marc Settle/BBC College of Journalism Blog)

11:00 AM ET, February 12, 2011

Top News:

Mathew Ingram / GigaOMTech:

It's Facebook Vs. Twitter In the Race to Make the News Social — Facebook has disrupted or helped to re-engineer many businesses and markets, including the photo-sharing market and the social-gaming market. But one thing it hasn't really focused on so far is the news business.

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BBC:
Stop the presses: Facebook CTO says news next in social revolution

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Nat Ives / AdAge:

Sports Illustrated to Stop Selling Print-Only Subscriptions — $48 Package Bundling in Android Apps Means End of $39 Print-Only Offer — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — When Sports Illustrated unveiled its new $48 “All Access” subscription package bundling print, web and app editions for Android tablets …

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Nat Ives / AdAge:
Despite HP Deal With Time Inc., Magazines and Apple Still Stuck …

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Mark Potts / Recovering Journalist:

When the News Gets Old — It's no secret that in a world of news at Twitter speed, print seems to be getting left farther and farther behind. Like others, I've written about this a couple times previously, and of course there was the Daily Show's fabulously snarky take on “aged news” a couple of years ago.

Discussion: TechCrunch

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Wall-to-wall coverage as Mubarak resigns

Wall Street Journal:

Chapter 11 for Borders, New Chapter for Books — Borders Group Inc. is in the final stages of preparing a bankruptcy filing, clinching a long fall for a company with humble beginnings that helped change the way Americans buy books but failed to keep pace with the digital transformation rocking every corner of the media landscape.

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Media Week:

Thomson Reuters to make jobs cuts in 2011 — Thomson Reuters, the global news and information provider, is preparing to make hundreds of job cuts across its global Markets division, following a 7% drop in underlying profit in 2010. — Thomson Reuters: plans to slash jobs in 2011

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Joe Coscarelli / Runnin' Scared:

Yesha Callahan Outed Chris Lee, the Craigslist Congressman: No Gawker Source Is Safe — When Gawker took down New York GOP representative Christopher Lee of the 26th district, they did so based on the emails of an anonymous woman who made a Craigslist posting.

Discussion: Reliable Source, Politics Daily and The Daily Beast

Marc Settle / BBC College of Journalism Blog:

Why small devices are big news for journalists — The great and the good in the world of mobile devices are heading to Barcelona for their annual shindig, the Mobile World Congress. Many are likely to be in good cheer following the news this week that sales of mobiles in 2010 had increased by some 32% on the figure for 2009.

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

gave4andy: Andy Carvin and the ad hoc pledge drive — One of the winners of the January 25 uprisings in Egypt — besides, of course, the people of Egypt — has been Andy Carvin. NPR's social media guru has been doing an exemplary job of curating social media to report on a weeks-long protest …

Discussion: Poynter, Joho the Blog and Future of Journalism

Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:

Effort to Provide TV Ratings by Brand Moves Ahead — For decades, advertisers and agencies involved in advertising on television — meaning, practically all of Madison Avenue — have been seeking something their counterparts overseas have long had: brand-specific ratings …

Discussion: TVWeek.com

PR Newswire:

Pandora Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering — Pandora Media, Inc. ("Pandora") today announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") relating to a proposed initial public offering of shares of its common stock.

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Hollywood Reporter:

Television Business Scribe Lacey Rose Joins The Hollywood Reporter … The Hollywood Reporter is pleased to announce that Lacey Rose is joining the staff as a senior writer for the expanding television department. — Rose was a staff writer at Forbes magazine, where she most recently covered the business of television.

Adam Tinworth / One Man & His Blog:

Spam, technology and a bloody tough week — It's the end of a long working week, one that has been dominated by behavioural problems masquerading as technical ones. We've had a number of very intense spam attacks on our blog farm here, and it's taken both a number of technical efforts …