Mediagazer: Reporting to Conclusions (Rem Rieder/American Journalism Review)

7:55 PM ET, February 17, 2011

Top News:

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

Time Inc. Chief Executive Jack Griffin Out — Time Inc.'s chief executive, Jack Griffin, is leaving the company after less than six months on the job — forced out because of what one Time Inc. executive said was a widespread realization that his management style was not a good fit for the company.

Discussion: The Wrap, MediaMemo, paidContent, AdAge and Poynter

Keith J. Kelly / @media_ink: Time Inc. CEO Jack Griffin fired after only five months on the job. Stunning development

ABCNEWS:

Bahrain Protests: At Least 2 Dead in Crackdown; ABC's Miguel Marquez Roughed Up — “There was a canister that looked like — No! No! No! Hey! I'm a journalist here!” he yelled. — “I'm going! I'm going! I'm going! I'm going!,” he said. “I'm hit. ”

Discussion: The Daily Caller, The Huffington Post, Hot Air, The Wire, Gawker, FrumForum, New York Magazine, TVNewser and Runnin' Scared

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker: Is It Possible to Make Dangerous Reporting Safe?

Taimur Khan / GQ:
How I Survived an Attack in Cairo

Discussion: Mediaite, Inside Cable News and TVNewser

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

Dueling Paywalls: Brill & Crovitz's Journalism Online vs. Google's One Pass — One company set to face new competition now that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is rolling out its paid content system is Journalism Online, which to date has helped roughly 24 publications, predominately smaller-circulation newspapers …

Discussion: MinOnline, Search Engine Land, PC World, Tech Trader Daily, FierceMobileContent, O'Reilly Radar, Open IT Strategies, Music Ally, Editors Weblog, DailyFinance, Future of Journalism, MediaPost and Poynter

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
With Google's One Pass, Two More Newspaper Chains Join The Paywall Brigade

Discussion: Burst Media Company Blog, Media Buyer Planner and NetNewsCheck Latest

Bill Mitchell / Poynter:

Thumbs up for Roger Ebert's new revenue model on Twitter — Six weeks into what some have billed “the year of paid content,” the most interesting ideas I've seen so far have less to do with corporate policy than they do with personal enterprise. — My colleague, Mallary Tenore …

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Tech firms help news sites with Mobile World Congress expenses — Romenesko Misc. — ReadWriteMobile discloses that “the author's travel, hotel and conferences expenses were paid for by Qualcomm. They did not request this coverage, it's just interesting.”

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb

Rem Rieder / American Journalism Review:

Reporting to Conclusions — Journalists shouldn't shrink from making judgments about factual disputes. Posted: Wed, Feb. 16, 2011 — Rem Rieder (rrieder@ajr.umd.edu) is AJR's editor and senior vice president. — When Larry Platt took over as editor of the Philadelphia Daily News on January 31 …

Discussion: @romenesko

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Stephen Colbert Rips Rupert Murdoch, Rips Off Arianna Huffington — If you like metamedia criticism and Web media, then last night's “Colbert Report” was for you. At least twice! — Colbert started out with an entire segment on the Daily, Rupert Murdoch's new iPad newspaper.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Mediaite, colbertnation.com, Digital Trends, Mixed Media, New York Observer and TPM LiveWire

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

Wired will add iPad subscriptions ‘as soon as we can’ — It's been three days since Apple debuted its digital-subscriptions iPad app for periodical publishers. And in that time, handful of iPad-equipped magazines have signed up for it, even though Apple's agreement involves several major concessions …

Discussion: MediaPost and @pkafka

Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:

Vogue Uses Lady Gaga to Hatch its iPad Egg — Vogue launched its first iPad application on Thursday. — The app, called “Vogue Cover Exclusive,” is just that: extra content featuring the cover subject — videos, interviews, audio, etc. — not found in the magazine or online.

Discussion: Speakeasy, Vogue.com and New York Observer

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Google And Facebook Continue To Lead Referral Traffic For Videos On Media Sites — In the third quarter of 2010, BrightCove and Tube Mogul's Online Video & The Media Industry report showed that Facebook passed Yahoo to become the No. 2 source of traffic to online videos at media sites.

Discussion: MediaPost

Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch Europe:

Tweetminster prepares to move beyond politics - relaunches as a ‘News Platform’ — Tweetminster, which we've been describing as a UK politics tracker powered by Twitter, has undergone another revamp today with the launch of the Tweetminster News Platform, which will replace the current version of the site.

Thanks:albertonardelli

New York Times:

Borders' Bankruptcy Shakes Industry — After Borders, the 40-year-old retail chain that helped define the age of the book superstore, filed for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday, the struggling book industry was left wondering what was next — and maybe even who was next.

Discussion: Fortune, Gothamist, Deadline.com, BusinessJournalism.org …, EW.com and Tech Trader Daily

NPR:

Google Digitizes Back Issues of ‘Spy’ Magazine … Spy magazine, the defunct satirical publication that launched a thousand magazine careers and dodged a thousand lawsuits, is now available digitally — thanks to Google. — digital life — The defunct satirical publication is now available digitally — thanks to Google.

Discussion: Runnin' Scared and @wired

Craig Morgan Teicher / PWxyz:

McSweeney's Launches ‘The Goods,’ A Newspaper Comics Page — In its ongoing effort to keep print journalism alive and breathing, McSweeney's has launched ‘The Goods,’ a standalone newspaper comics and activities page it is hoping newspapers will carry. McSweeney's is partnering …

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Next New Networks SEC Filing Pretty Much Confirms YouTube Buyout — While Google's YouTube is reportedly in talks to buy Web content producer Next New Networks, the New York-based startup has just filed with the SEC in relation to $19.4 million in equity financing.

Discussion: paidContent and NYConvergence.com

The Raw Story:

Talking Points Memo editor moves to Raw Story — Megan Carpentier to lead Raw Story, Raw Replay — Raw Story is pleased to announce that Megan Carpentier, an editor with Talking Points Memo and the former politics and news director at Air America Radio, has been selected as the company's new executive editor.

Dennis Publishing / Media Week:

MAGAZINE ABCs: High-flying Economist is UK's stand-out performer — The Economist puts in a stand-out performance in the UK consumer magazine market in the last six months of 2010, reporting a circulation rise of 11% year on year to pass 200,000 for the first time. — The Economist: the UK's stand-out performer

Discussion: Guardian