Mediagazer: Who'll Save Time Inc. Now? (Lucia Moses/Adweek)

Tanzina Vega / New York Times:

Cutting Out Middleman To Sell Small Ads Online — Online publishers, who have long been dismayed with the revenue from some of their advertising, are increasingly taking matters into their own hands. — In the last month, CBS Interactive and Forbes.com have both created their own ad exchanges …

Discussion: AdAge, eMedia Vitals, @iwantmedia and AdExchanger.com

Edmund Lee / AdAge:

New York Times Co., Hearst, Tribune and Gannett Form Private Online Ad Exchange — Local News and TV Properties Are Latest To Cut Networks, Other Middlemen, Out Of The Market — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The nations largest newspaper and local TV companies have created a new system …

Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:

Home News — The Dish is moving! In April, we'll be joining The Daily Beast. — For me, it's a strange mixture of excitement and sadness. Sadness because the Atlantic has been a very special home for me and all the interns and staffers who have worked at the Dish.

Discussion: Yahoo! News, The Wrap, FishbowlNY, Media Nation, The Wire, The New Yorker Blog, New York Observer, New York Magazine, NetNewsCheck Latest, bookforum.com and Gawker

Tina Brown / The Daily Beast:

Andrew Sullivan Joins The Daily Beast! — In exciting news for the two-year-old Daily Beast, the blogging trailblazer is moving his influential Daily Dish to our site. His blog will occupy a new channel starting in early April, and he will become a Newsweek contributor.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Mediaite, Poynter, GalleyCat, The Huffington Post, mediabistro.com, Recovering Journalist, The Daily Beast and On Media's Blog

Barry Newman / Wall Street Journal:

Today's News, Brought to You by Your Friends at the CIA — Spy Service Translates World's Papers at Secret Cost; Mr. Hounsell Has Few Buyers — ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Now that the revolution is over, Egypt's newly free press will make a fascinating read—if you happen to know Arabic.

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu

Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:

An American in Pakistan — “What is the purpose of this supposedly independent paper — to ask permission of the government before reporting what the government is doing?” — Kevin Maher, Geneva, Ill. — “The New York Times is now, quite obviously and by its own admission, in the business of concealment.”

Discussion: Guardian, Editors Weblog, TPMMuckraker, Jon Slattery, Firedoglake and Mediactive

Dylan Byers / Mediaweek:

Tina Brown, Media Darling — Anyone outside of New York City's media fishbowl could be forgiven for waking up last Monday and wondering what the heck some lady named Tina Brown was doing on the front page of The New York Times. In the 21st century, Brown has edited a failed magazine …

Discussion: Mediaite

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Who'll Save Time Inc. Now? — Rothenberg exit leaves publisher without clear digital strategy — There's been fallout big and small from the firing of Time Inc. CEO Jack Griffin, but the most significant was surely the loss of the company's digital head, Randall Rothenberg.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Justin Elliott / Salon:

The story behind the “Roger Ailes indictment” story — On Sunday morning, the economics analyst and TV commentator Barry Ritholtz dropped a bombshell on his blog: Roger Ailes, the powerful president of Fox News, will be indicted in connection with allegedly telling a News Corp. executive …

Discussion: The Wire

Mike Shields / Adweek:

Profile: Say Media — Merged ad net, tool vendor strives to become modern media company — What are Jane Pratt, the celebrated editor of Jane and Sassy, and marketing guru Seth Godin (13 books and counting) doing working for the company that created those video overlay ads that YouTube eventually co-opted?

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Ad Age Digital A-List: All Things D — Blog Thrives by Competing — Aggressively — Against Other Blogs, as Well as Parent Dow Jones' Flagship Wall Street Journal — You might not think it sounds like a big scoop: A post last Tuesday revealed the date of a tech company's next publicity event.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and BoomTown

Eli James / Novelr:

The Very Rich Indie Writer — Meet Amanda Hocking. She's been in the news for quite a bit now, and I've been meaning to write about her since January (or really, to write about the phenomenon she represents - and what it means for web fiction). But if you don't already know of her, allow me:

Discussion: SAI, more at Techmeme »

WWD Media Headlines:

Memo Pad: Commemorating a Catastrophe... NYT Poaches Ian Adelman... COMMEMORATING A CATASTROPHE: March 25 will mark the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, New York's deadliest workplace disaster until 9/11. On March 21, HBO will air “Triangle: Remembering the Fire.”

Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:

The Billboard That Knows — Ad Industry Experiments With Technologies That Recognize Expressions, Gestures — In the labs of some tech-savvy advertising agencies, engineers are testing new ways to use advanced technologies to make ads that can recognize human gestures and facial expressions.