Mediagazer: The Curious Case of Media Opposing Government Transparency (David Eaves/Governing People)

12:45 PM ET, March 5, 2011

Top News:

Mother Jones web traffic up 400+ percent, partly thanks to explainers — February was a record-breaking traffic month for Mother Jones. Three million unique users visited the site — a 420 percent increase from February 2010's numbers. And MotherJones.com posted 6.6 million pageviews overall — a 275 percent increase.

Discussion: Mother Jones, FishbowlDC, Runnin' Scared, digiday:DAILY and Future of Journalism

David Eaves / Governing People:

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Chris Ariens / FishbowlNY:

Outside.in's Josephson ‘Thrilled’ to Join AOL; Patch Produces a Piece of Content Every 15 Seconds — Fresh off the news this morning that AOL had acquired hyperlocal aggregator Outside.in for $10 million, representatives from both companies appeared this morning on a panel …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:

Hyperlocal Heartbreak: Why Haven't Neighborhood News Technologies Worked Out? — Neighborhood news aggregator Outside.in has been acquired by AOL, according to multiple reports this morning. Apparently it's being bought for less than the big pile of money that high-profile investors put into it, back when hopes were high.

Discussion: GigaOM, Local Media Watch, Lost Remote, WebProNews and SAI

Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:

What the Egyptian Revolution Taught Al Jazeera About Digital — Much has been made of the role that social media played in the Egyptian revolution, including the way international news network Al Jazeera used social media in its reporting. But the crisis also taught the organization a number …

Tim Molloy / The Wrap:

Top Programming Exec Mitch Metcalf Leaving NBC — Mitch Metcalf, NBC's top programming executive, is leaving the network. — The decision is mutual, a network insider tells TheWrap. It comes as new NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt looks to assemble his own team and reinvigorate the network.

Discussion: Company Town and Broadcasting & Cable

Piers Morgan:

More than just winning: Why Charlie Sheen is news, like it or not — In the tiger blood-fueled media blitz of the last week, which has seen Charlie Sheen show up everywhere from TMZ to Howard Stern, from sports radio to network news, in only one appearance did he directly admit to violence against a woman (video above).

Discussion: Mediaite, The Wire, AlterNet.org and The Wrap

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Newspapers Need to Be Of the Web, Not Just On the Web — The secret to online success for newspapers doesn't depend on the choice of technology, or decisions about content, or even specific kinds of knowledge about the web, says Emily Bell — the director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism …

Dana Lacey / J-Source: How the Guardian went digital — and survived

Fast Company:

Hey Jimmy Wales, What Do You Think of Content Farms? — Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and CultofMac.com editor Leander Kahney discuss Google, content farms, and Demand Media (plus a personal account of how the tweaked algorithm almost ruined Kahney's business) in our latest edition of The Cold Call.

Richard Ziade / Readability Blog:

Sarah Chubb Joins Readability's Advisory Board — Today, we're excited to announce that Sarah Chubb, the outgoing president of Condé Nast Digital, will be joining the advisory team for Readability. Over the past 20 years, Sarah successfully spearheaded all of Condé Nast's …

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blogs.journalism.co.uk:

From alpha users to a man in Angola: Adventures in crowdsourcing and journalism — Yesterday's Media Standards Trust data and news sourcing event presented a difficult decision early on: Whether to attend “Crowdsourcing and other innovations in news sourcing” or “Open government data, data mining, and the semantic web”.

Discussion: Media Standards Trust

Reuters:

Media companies ready themselves for tough NFL break — (Reuters) - Media companies are bracing for a big revenue hit from a possible lockout by the National Football League but hold out hope that college football and other prime-time shows could pick up the slack for lost advertising dollars.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal

Jack Shafer / Slate:

Credit Score What's with the New York Times Magazine adding editor credits to the end of features? — The March 6 issue of the redesigned New York Times Magazine will contain—among many other changes—this new wrinkle: credits at the end of features that name the piece's editor.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, Scocca, The Book Bench, Editors Weblog and Poynter

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Is This a Glimpse at What's Next for Demand Media? — Demand Media has been awfully busy since it went public in January in a $1.5 billion IPO. The low-cost, high-output publisher — “content farm,” to use the popular but unflattering coinage — has forged partnership with Tyra Banks and Rachael Ray …

Discussion: Mashable!