Mediagazer: First try at using Xtranormal for news at TBD (Zombie Journalism)

10:00 PM ET, February 15, 2011

Top News:

Trudy Muller / Apple:

Apple Launches Subscriptions on the App Store — Apple® today announced a new subscription service available to all publishers of content-based apps on the App Store℠, including magazines, newspapers, video, music, etc. This is the same innovative digital subscription billing service …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Reflections of a Newsosaur, Ars Technica, Think Vitamin, Mediactive, Mixed Media, Fortune, SAI, John Gapper's blog, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable!, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Poynter, Digital Daily, SAI, The Atlantic Wire, paidContent, Mediaweek, GigaOM, Newsonomics, Billboard.Biz, Top Digital Journal News, Between the Lines Blog, paidContent:UK, CNET News, Pulse2, Engadget, Faster Forward, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Computerworld, CrunchGear, MacStories, GigaOM, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, eBookNewser, GMSV, Inside Mobile Apps, The Wrap, ryanfaas's blog, Evolver.fm, Fast Company, Future of Journalism, AOL News, Tech Trader Daily, Epicenter, paidContent:UK, AdAge, FishbowlNY, MacRumors, New York Observer, WebNewser, Electricpig.co.uk, AppAdvice, Soup, Media Buyer Planner and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Popular Science Accepts Apple's Terms, Starts Selling iPad Subscriptions — Apple Asks In-app Subscribers: ‘Share Your Information?’ — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Popular Science has become apparently the first magazine to accept the iPad subscription plan that Apple detailed this morning.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and MacStories

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

What Apple's new subscription policy means for news: new rules, new incentives, new complaints — Apple has announced its long-awaited subscription policy for newspapers, magazines, and other outlets who want to sell content for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The high points:

Discussion: GigaOM, SAI, Between the Lines Blog, Computerworld, Mixed Media and Faster Forward, more at Techmeme »

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Apple Launches Subscriptions For Content-Publishers On The App Store — As we heard at the Daily's launch a few weeks ago, Apple was planning to launch a new subscriptions model for content-publishers on the App Store. And today, Apple is officially announcing the new service for magazines …

Discussion: MediaMemo, CNET News, MediaPost, NetNewsCheck Latest, Engadget and Noted, more at Techmeme »

Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Updated: Apple's Subs Rules Could Suck $1 Million From Financial Times

Discussion: Future of Journalism

CBS News:

CBS News' Lara Logan Assaulted During Egypt Protests — CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent Separated From Her Crew And Brutally Assaulted on Day Mubarak Stepped Down — On Friday February 11, the day Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS correspondent Lara Logan was covering …

Foster Kamer / Esquire:
Lara Logan Assaulted in Egypt: Notes from the Night Before

Discussion: Media Decoder, Mediaite and Yahoo! News

Adam Pasick / New York Magazine:

Daily Editor Rallies the Troops — Jesse Angelo, editor-in-chief of Rupert Murdoch's iPad-only tabloid, The Daily, sent out a memo to his editorial team this week, urging them to go beyond “scraping the web and the wires” and do some actual reporting: … The memo continues:

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, CJR, Runnin' Scared, Vanity Fair, The Daily Caller, FishbowlNY, ThinkProgress, MediaPost, On Media's Blog and Gawker

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

It's not all about content and work — In his column complaining about Huffington Post and the new economics of content competition, I think David Carr makes two understandable but fundamentally fallacious assumptions about news and media: that the value in journalism is in content and that making content must be work.

Discussion: NPR, MediaPost, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, Techdirt, Online Journalism Blog, Burst Media Company Blog and The Huffington Post

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
72 Hours: Inside Arianna's Mission To Change AOL

Discussion: Guardian, MediaPost, L.A. Times Tech Blog and NYConvergence.com

Ryan Chittum / CJR:
AOL's HuffPo Premium Doesn't Mean Much For the NYT

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
First AOL Q1 Luge Update Since HuffPo Acquisition: We've Got Work To Do (No Kidding)

Discussion: SAI and LA Observed

Zombie Journalism:

First try at using Xtranormal for news at TBD — In a wjchat a few weeks ago, we were brainstorming ways to use non-traditional new media tools for news. One of those tools was Xtranormal, an animation site that allows you to make cartoon videos with no offsite tools or experience.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab and TBD All News

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

1,900 copies: How a top-selling Kindle Single is generating new audiences for ProPublica — Listing the eight big trends journalism will see over the next year, Josh highlighted the increasing role that the singles model will play in the news. He was talking about the disaggregation …

Kate Kaye / ClickZ:

Yahoo Explores Deals Offering for Newspaper Partners — Yahoo's partnerships with newspaper publishers - including one of its biggest scores, Gannett - are chugging along. The company continues to consider new ways of working with its so-called consortium of local media partners.

Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:

Does W Have a Carine Roitfeld Problem? … When Stefano Tonchi named Alex Gonzalez creative director of W magazine, we were relieved that the expecting father and newlywed would be getting a helping hand. But a line at the end of the announcement gave us pause: “In addition to his role …

Philip B. Corbett / Times Topics:

Phrases We Love Too Much — Notes from the newsroom on grammar, usage and style. (Some frequently asked questions are here.) — Almost two years ago, my colleague Adam Bryant noted in After Deadline our fondness for the “he/she is not alone” device. As Adam said, it's a popular …

Kunur Patel / AdAge:

WPP to Roll Up Digital Agencies Into New Unit — Schematic, Bridge and Others Combine to Create Top 20 Digital Network — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — WPP will roll up multiple digital agencies into a new agency with a yet-to-be-released name, according to multiple people familiar with the plans.

Discussion: AdScam/The Horror!

Josh Levin / Slate:

The TV Guide — Alan Sepinwall started writing about television in 1993, as a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania. He stank at it. In 2004, Sepinwall characterized his early work thusly: “Misspellings, bad grammar and, even worse, observations that make me cringe and wonder exactly when …

Discussion: Brow Beat, Poynter and Tuned In

Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:

Michael Wolff Vs. Elizabeth Spiers: The Anatomy Of A Media Feud — From the “What New York Media Types are Fighting About This Week” file comes a(n ongoing) feud between Rupert Murdoch biographer and Vanity Fair columnist Michael Wolff and Elizabeth Spiers, Gawker founding editor and current editor in chief of The New York Observer.

Discussion: The Wire, Michael Gross, New York Magazine and Adweek

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Hulu Plus Gets an Art House Upgrade With Criterion Collection — Hulu's primary appeal is for people who want to watch TV shows on the Web, but the joint video venture does offer a selection of movies, too. Now that selection just got a bit bigger, and more appealing to cinephiles …

Discussion: Hulu Blog, The Criterion Current, GigaOM, PopWatch, Brow Beat and The Consumerist