Mediagazer: A Brief History of Digital News (Harry McCracken/Time)

8:55 PM ET, February 23, 2011

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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Clayman: The Daily's Free Trial Run Will Continue — News Corp.'s The Daily launched Feb. 2 with a two-week free trial sponsored by Verizon, ostensibly enough time to give potential subscribers a full taste. But launch glitches that stretched out for a week kept a lot of those potential subscribers …

Discussion: Poynter, New York Magazine, Future of Journalism, NetNewsCheck Latest and Soup, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

The Daily's Apple-Only Days Are Numbered: Android Coming This Spring — Rupert Murdoch leaned heavily on Apple to launch the Daily, and for now the iPad is the only place you can read News Corp.'s new digital newspaper. — But that exclusivity will end in a few months …

Discussion: Poynter, CrunchGear, Future of Journalism, Engadget, Runnin' Scared, Examiner, NetNewsCheck Latest, Electronista, Techie Buzz, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Erictric, MacStories, The Next Web and New York Observer, more at Techmeme »

Waxy.org: How I Indexed The Daily — For the last three weeks, I've indexed The Daily.

Jeff Clabaugh / bizjournals:

Most TBD.com jobs being eliminated — Two weeks after Allbritton Communications' WJLA Channel 7 assumed operations for its startup TBD.com website, the company is eliminating the majority of TBD.com's jobs, according to an employee with knowledge of the cuts.

Discussion: The Wrap, Poynter, @mthomps, @chanders, @mathewi, FishbowlDC, Mediaweek, We Love DC, The Huffington Post and On Media's Blog

Michael Schaffer / City Desk:

TBD's Night of the Long Knives — Allbritton Communications is giving up on its efforts to reinvent local news for the online era. — Staffers at TBD.com, launched with great fanfare by Politico's parent company last summer, were informed one at a time this morning by editor Erik Wemple …

Discussion: Lost Remote, Washington Post, Zombie Journalism, Poynter, paidContent, @schoolofold and NetNewsCheck Latest

Reporters Without Borders:

Middle East & North Africa - Media continue to be targets as governments crack down on protests — As more and more people take to the streets in Libya, Bahrain and Yemen to demand democratic reforms and change, the authorities in these countries are responding with violence and are cracking …

Discussion: Jon Slattery and Committee to Protect …

Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Libya calls western journalists ‘outlaws’

Discussion: News: News blog, Committee to Protect …, Libya February 17th, NPR and Media News, Thanks:joshhalliday

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

NHL Denies Talks To Stream Games Live On YouTube; NBA Looking At Asia — The National Hockey League is denying a Bloomberg report from Seoul that it is in talks with YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) to stream live games. Asked about the report based on comments by Google executives …

Discussion: Bloomberg

Jun Yang / Bloomberg:
Google's YouTube Says It's in Negotiations to Stream Live NBA, NHL Games

Discussion: Fast Company, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, Click Here Blog, MediaPost, NetNewsCheck Latest, Guardian, Mashable!, Switched, 901am, Bloomberg, The Consumerist, Online Video News and SAI

Mike Taylor / New York Observer:

Huff? Nooo! As Longtime Huffington Hands Cash In, Others ‘What If?’ — A certain amount of grumbling is par for the course in the media business these days—an ambient hum so pervasive you almost forget it's there. But that disconsolate keening seems to have reached a new pitch …

Discussion: Poynter, The Corsair, NetNewsCheck Latest, @lavrusik and The Wire

Telegraph:

X Factor fans to vote via Facebook — Fans of The X Factor will soon be able to vote for their favourite act on the social networking website Facebook, according to a report. — Executives at ITV's resoundingly popular talent contest are in talks with Facebook about creating a voting application, The Sun newspaper claimed.

Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:
Facebook TV Invasion Looms Via ‘American Idol’ Voting

Discussion: Inside TV, Popdust and People.com

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Journal Register CEO: We Will Beat AOL's Patch and Huffington Post — The Journal Register Company, the big local newspaper chain with nearly 324 publications serving over 900 communities in 10 states, will beat AOL's Patch or the Huffington Post in its home markets, says CEO John Paton in this interview with Beet.TV.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and WebNewser

Elissa Strauss / Forward.com:

New Yorker, Harper's, NYRB and TNR Editors on the Dearth of Female Bylines — After my post last month about the gender disparity in magazine publishing, which was followed by VIDA's much more thorough and ultimately conclusive study, I, perhaps naively, expected to see a comment …

Discussion: New York Observer, New York Magazine, Poynter, MediaPost and Runnin' Scared

Fortune:

How Vimeo became hipster YouTube — Vimeo is the web's go-to for high-quality, DIY digital video. And its founders might've invented the Like button. Not bad for a side project. — Image via Wikipedia — By John Patrick Pullen, contributor — November 17, 2005 is a day that lives in online infamy.

Guardian:

Churnalism or news? How PRs have taken over the media — As press releases and hoax stories flood newsrooms, the Media Standards Trust has found a way to sift fact from fluff — • Dan Sabbagh: Churnalism, journalism and a penazzle — A new website promises to shine a spotlight on …

Discussion: Jon Slattery and Silicon Valley Watcher

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

That Rupert Murdoch Script No One Will Touch? We Have It. — Image by World Economic Forum via Flickr — Back in December, I told you about a screenplay that's been making the rounds in Hollywood, earning praise from numerous producers but failing to find one willing to make it.

Discussion: mediabistro.com, FishbowlNY, Company Town, Yahoo! News and Movieline

Paul Reynolds / BBC:

A glimpse of journalism's future — World affairs correspondent, BBC News website — As I leave my post as world affairs correspondent for the BBC News website, I would like to reflect on the shock I experienced nine years ago when I left the “mainstream” BBC to join the then orphan child of News Online.

freemedia.at:

IPI News Innovation Contest: International Press Institute and Google announce 2.7 Million Dollar Grant — Project aimed to create “breakthrough ideas with the potential to create lasting impact” — The International Press Institute (IPI) today announced that it has been awarded $2.7 million …

Discussion: The Official Google Blog, paidContent:UK, The Next Web and TechCrunch

The Louse & the Flea:

The Guardian Newsblog and the Death of Journalism — It is about 1pm GMT and I have been surfing the UK web news sites looking for info about the latest disaster to afflict my homeland: the earthquake that hit Christchurch, New Zealand. — Most of the newspaper and TV sites have treated …

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Emily Badger / Miller-McCune:

Might Public Broadcasting Follow BBC Model? — Efforts to defund public broadcasting arrive as the commercial model of broadcasting shows its qualitative seams. — SHARE AND ENJOY: — As politicians in Washington debate defunding public media outlets like NPR and PBS …

Harry McCracken / Time:

A Brief History of Digital News — Rupert Murdoch finally launched his much anticipated (at least in media circles) “iPad newspaper” today, making News Corp. the first company to create a daily news publication exclusively for a tablet. “The Daily” is essentially a streamlined app …

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Google's Decision to Get Into “Real Time” Ads Was Really Smart, Says Google — Google makes almost all of its money selling search ads. But it is pushing hard into display ads, along with technology that lets marketers buy display ads in “real time.” Great idea, Google says.

Discussion: AdWords Agency Blog, AdExchanger.com and ClickZ

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:

Exclusive: Apple Halves Minimum iAd Buy — Apple set the bar high for its debut in the mobile advertising business, demanding a minimum spend of $1 million from advertisers looking to hawk their wares from its iAd platform. — It was a daunting premium for a nascent system, and one that limited its appeal to big-name companies.