Mediagazer: Pro Sports vs. the Web Pirates (Brad Stone/Business Week)

8:35 PM ET, February 24, 2011

Top News:

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Pre-HuffPo Merger Changes At AOL; Eun Leaving, Brod To Be Arianna's COO — Regulatory approval of AOL's $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post is still pending but CEO Tim Armstrong already has a new structure for the evolving company. The changes were set off by the plan …

Discussion: TechCrunch, MediaPost, AdAge, SAI, Epicenter, @rafat, Wall Street Journal, SAI, SAI, The Wrap, Mixed Media and NetNewsCheck Latest

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

AOL Exec David Eun Out - Here's His Email To Staff — Update: Here's AOL CEO Tim Armstrong's email to staff about the exec team reshuffling. — David Eun, my boss's (Heather) boss since the acquisition, will shortly be leaving AOL. As President of AOL Media and Studios he oversaw …

Discussion: WebNewser, Mediaite, @rafat, MediaFile, Digital Trends and SAI, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Post-Huffpo, an AOL Reorg; Here's the Internal Memo — No surprise here: After paying $315 million for Huffington Post, AOL is shuffling its executive ranks. David Eun, the former Google executive who came to AOL a year ago to run its media business, is out, and several other executives have new responsibilities.

Discussion: SAI, Editors Weblog and Adotas

Edmund Lee / AdAge:
AOL's First Big Change for Huffington Post: Bigger Ads

Discussion: Poynter, NetNewsCheck Latest, Adotas and SAI

Russ Buettner / New York Times:

Affidavits Say Fox News Chief Told Employee to Lie — It was an incendiary allegation — and a mystery of great intrigue in the media world: After the publishing powerhouse Judith Regan was fired by HarperCollins in 2006, she claimed that a senior executive at its parent company, News Corporation …

Discussion: Guardian, Adweek, On Media's Blog, The Raw Story, The Atlantic Wire, Yahoo! News, The Wrap, Mediaite, CJR, Runnin' Scared, New York Magazine, Inside Cable News, TVNewser, The Wire, The New Republic, The Huffington Post, FishbowlNY and TPMDC

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

Roger Ailes Caught on Tape Urging Ex-Employee to Lie to Federal Investigators — Think back five long years ago, when hot shot publisher-to-the-stars Judith Regan was embroiled in a huge scandal that was the talk of the media world: after HarperCollins fired her, Regan sued them.

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

You Can't Play a New Media Game By Old Media Rules — If there's one aspect of the media business that has been disrupted more completely than any other, it's the whole idea of “breaking news.” Just as television devalued the old front-page newspaper scoop, the web has turned breaking news …

Thanks:mathewi

Om Malik / GigaOM: Old Media Is Being Unbundled, Just Like Telecom Was

Joe Mullin / paidContent:
‘Hot News’ Has MMC Steaming At TheWrap In Cease-And-Desist Letter

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:
Deadline.com's Parent Company MMC Sends ‘Cease & Desist’ Letter To TheWrap

Discussion: The Wire, LA Observed, Mediaite, Mediaweek, The Wrap and Future of Journalism

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

Six business lessons from TBD's early demise — TBD, one of the most ambitious local online launches of 2010, turns out to be a victim of crib death, reduced to an arts and entertainment mini-site barely six months after its launch last August. — Sure, hindsight is 20-20, but looking back …

Discussion: Digital Man, Washington Post, The Buttry Diary, Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, LocalNewser, Editors Weblog, eMedia Vitals, City Desk and bizjournals

Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Hyperlocals like TBD: More hype than hope — The rapid implosion of the high-profile TBD news site is further evidence that hyperlocal journalism is more hype than hope for the news business. — Launched with considerable fanfare and generous funding only six months ago by Allbritton Communications …

Discussion: Digital First, Poynter, The Politico and On Media's Blog

Eric Spiegelman / The Awl:

How to Watch Al Jazeera on Your Television — Al Jazeera is putting every American news channel to shame with its amazing coverage of the revolutions across the Middle East. But most cable systems in this country won't carry it! If you live in Toledo, Ohio, or Burlington, Vermont, or Washington D.C., you might have it.

Discussion: The Next Web

Mark Joyella / Mediaite:
Pushing For U.S. Cable, Al Jazeera English Exec Claims They Are ‘Anti-Nothing And Pro-Nothing’

Discussion: Media Buyer Planner and TVNewser

David Kaplan / paidContent:

National Magazine Awards To Include Magazine Apps This Year — It's an honor just to be nominated, the saying goes, and less than a year after major publishers rolled out magazine apps, tablet-based periodicals are among the finalists for the second annual National Magazine Awards for Digital Media—aka the “Digital Ellies”—this year.

Discussion: MPA, MediaPost and FishbowlNY

Bill Carter / New York Times:

Couric Assembles a Book of Essays to Raise Money for Scholarships — It is not, she assured, in any way a statement about her future career plans, but Katie Couric will take a step this spring into a different media arena with the publication of her first book.

Discussion: Yahoo! News, Company Town, Poynter and TVNewser

Patrick Smith / TheMediaBriefing:

Paywall Strategies 2011: Forrester Analyst Nick Thomas on ‘monetising the user, not the content’ — Forrester analyst Nick Thomas kicked off our inaugural conference Paywall Strategies 2011. Nick's a long-time observer of digital content and its place in the consumer economy, so we invited him to get us going.

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Laura Rozen joins Yahoo! News — Journalist Laura Rozen, most recently the chief foreign policy writer for Politico, is joining Yahoo! News. As Senior Foreign Affairs Reporter, Rozen will focus on reporting and analyzing foreign policy news out of Yahoo! News' Washington bureau.

Discussion: FishbowlDC, On Media's Blog and WebNewser

Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:

Enjoying the Oscar Awards on Several Small Screens — Sports fans make high art of the multiscreen experience, with TV broadcasts, laptop news feeds and a wide range of mobile apps for trivia, fantasy contests and kitchen runs. — For others, though, the biggest spectator sport comes with the Academy Awards.

Discussion: SocialTimes.com, CNET News and MinOnline

Jared Keller / The Atlantic Online:

Facebook Adds Reporting Tools, Seeks Journalist Program Manager — Are you a disaffected journalist, wary of conventional media companies and worn down from the perpetual limbo of freelancing? Facebook may have just the job for you. — The social network recently announced the new position …

Discussion: Inside Facebook, Thanks:jaredbkeller

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Who's in charge at Time Inc. — The executive triumvirate that took over Time Inc. on an interim basis after the ouster of CEO Jack Griffin sent a memo to staffers yesterday outlining how they would carve up their responsibilities. — Last week, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes tapped Chief …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and New York Magazine

Brad Stone / Business Week:

Pro Sports vs. the Web Pirates — Leagues from the NFL and NBA to Ultimate Fighting are finding it nearly impossible to block pirate video sites from streaming live events — It's Saturday, Feb. 5, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, and 11,000 screaming fans are watching …