Mediagazer: Effort to Provide TV Ratings by Brand Moves Ahead (Stuart Elliott/Media Decoder)

1:35 AM ET, February 12, 2011

Top News:

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

Wall-to-wall coverage as Mubarak resigns — Cable news went wall-to-wall with special reports and broadcasters broke into their daytime programming as crowds in Egypt erupted following the news shortly after 11 a.m. EST Friday that embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has resigned, handing over power to the nation's army.

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

Kcaldwell / Journalism.org:
Egypt Takes Center Stage on Blogs

Discussion: The Atlantic Online and Yahoo! News

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Despite HP Deal With Time Inc., Magazines and Apple Still Stuck on iPad Subscriptions — The Daily's Model Might Work — If You Think Subscribers Will Opt in to Marketing Messages — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — It suddenly feels like Apple and publishers must be close to a deal on selling subscriptions to magazines' iPad editions.

Discussion: Media & Entertainment, Mixed Media and digiday:DAILY

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 …

Discussion: WWD Media Headlines

New York Post:
Sports Illustrated suits up for subscription app

Discussion: MediaFile and FishbowlNY

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

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.

Discussion: paidContent and Digits, Thanks:loic

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

Discussion: TomiLaw, ReadWriteWeb and The Next Web

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.

Discussion: Deal Journal, DealBook, Electronista, TechCrunch, Engadget, Jacket Copy, GalleyCat, Gawker and Kindle Review, more at Techmeme »

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

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.

Discussion: eMoney, FT tech hub and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »

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.

Discussion: Moneywood

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.

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 and MediaPost

Emily Bell / Guardian:

Can Google provide neutral news? — The search engine's foray into the Egypt crisis with SayNow shows how it is becoming an active ingredient in political debate — It is hard to think of many American business executives who have been detained for dissent against repressive regimes.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, @emilybell and @rightexpression, more at Techmeme »

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 …

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Gawker's Nick Denton: See, You Ingrates? This Is What We're Trying to Do (Video) — Gawker Media's Nick Denton has spent much of the week responding to whiny readers and armchair Web designers who don't like his sites' new look. — If you didn't know any better, you'd think the publishing impresario …

Discussion: Runnin' Scared, NetNewsCheck Latest, Tuned In, Mixed Media and News Desk

Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:

The Daily vanishes into the memory hole — The Daily blog crowed about their three, count 'em, three different news covers yesterday tracking the fast-metamorphosing Egypt story. And they got some props for it from folks like PaidContent's Stacy Kramer. Today, they're proudly showing …

Discussion: The Daily and magCulture.com/blog