Mediagazer: Beyond banners? Making content do the talking (Fiona Graham/BBC)

1:10 PM ET, March 25, 2011

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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Huffington Post to launch in UK this summer — Arianna Huffington to launch UK edition as US news and current affairs website moves to expand internationally — Arianna Huffington is to launch a UK edition of the Huffington Post this summer, as the US news and current affairs website recently acquired …

Discussion: Telegraph, GigaOM, On Media's Blog, Media Week, FT Tech Hub, Poynter, Press Gazette, Editors Weblog, Media News, The New Yorker Blog, Extra!, Mediaite and Future of Journalism

Alex Pareene / Salon:
The stupid saga of Andrew Breitbart and the Huffington Post

Discussion: Weigel, Big Journalism, New York Magazine, FishbowlDC, Mediaite and The Daily Caller

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

NY Times Clarifies: Tweet Our Stories, But Don't Use Our Logo — In case you've been wondering why the @freeNYTimes Twitter feed continues to serve up a steady stream of links to New York Times articles even after the paper asked Twitter to shut it down, I have an answer.

Discussion: blogs.forbes.com, Gizmodo and Techdirt

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:

New Cable Fight at Hand — TV Networks Cry Foul as Time Warner Cable Offers Channels via iPads at Home — Time Warner Cable Inc. is digging in its heels in a dispute with several big media companies over whether it can beam live TV channels to Apple Inc. iPads, exposing tensions between …

Discussion: VideoNuze, Company Town and mediabistro.com, more at Techmeme »

Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Time Warner Cable iPad flap heats up

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and Multichannel

Mandy / Zombie Journalism:

Channeling the news brand on Twitter and Facebook — The other day, I mentioned that I've been transitioning TBD's social media channels to a new team and doing some basic training in how to communicate as a news brand. I got into how news brands need to have a planned persona and strategy …

Discussion: BBC College of Journalism Blog and Nieman Journalism Lab

Vlad Savov / Engadget:

OMG, FYI, and LOL enter Oxford English Dictionary, foreshadow the apocalypse — In an acknowledgement of the internet's overwhelming influence on the triviality we sometimes refer to as “real life,” the Oxford English Dictionary doyens have decided to add a few of the web's favorite pronouncements to their lexicon.

Discussion: J-Source, The Daily What, Washington Post, The Consumerist, Jezebel and Flavorwire

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Price Tag For Journalism Online Could Go As High As $45 Million — RR Donnelley execs aren't talking —neither are Steve Brill and Gordon Crovitz, at least about deal details—but paidContent has learned from multiple sources that the value of the Journalism Online-Press+ deal is in the range …

Discussion: Poynter, Media Decoder, FT Tech Hub, investor.rrd.com, Media & Entertainment, MediaPost and MinOnline

Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
Beyond Journalism, Beyond Press, Journalism Online Moves into the B2B World

Discussion: Tower Ticker, Publishing Executive …, Poynter and The Wire

Joe Flint / Company Town:

Relationship between CBS and Couric ending with a whimper, not a bang — Katie Couric was chided by David Letterman this week for thinking of leaving her job as anchor of the CBS Evening News. — “It's not like it's a temp gig,” Letterman told Couric, reminding her that other anchors “ride into the sunset.”

Discussion: Poynter

Jim / Gannett Blog:

Bulletin: CEO Dubow earned $9.4 million last year; includes $1.8M bonus after more layoffs, wage cuts — Gannett just disclosed that it paid Chairman and CEO Craig Dubow $9.4 million last year — double his 2009 pay — as the company laid off hundreds of workers and imposed wage cuts on thousands more.

Discussion: Poynter and Thomson IR

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Find The Best Stuff Around You With Village Voice Media's “Best Of ...” App — In the era of crowd-sourced recommendation services it's hard to remember that people actually recommend stuff for a living. My old employer Village Voice Media, which built the foundation of its 20 online properties …

Discussion: Publishing Executive News, New York Observer and Riptide 2.0

Dan Friedman / Inside AdWords:

Media Ads Joins the New Ad Formats Family — Over a year ago we introduced the AdWords New Ad Formats Initiative to bring more relevant ads to Google.com. Since then, we've launched over a dozen new ad formats, and tested many more. Our new ad formats are designed to make sure that you're able …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Search Engine Land and eMedia Vitals

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Twitter Ads Move Forward by Carving Up The Globe — A small but important step in the evolution of Twitter's ad business: The company is now letting some marketers segment some of their purchases by location. — Which means a Twitter user in, say, the U.K. may now see a different ad than one in the U.S.

Discussion: Local Media Watch and ClickZ

Sonya Hubbard / footnoted.com:

Reading the fine print on pay at WaPo... Last spring, the co-chairs of The Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild wrote an open letter to The Washington Post Company's (WPO) publisher, Katharine Weymouth, expressing their disappointment that Weymouth - a granddaughter of the Post's legendary Katharine Graham …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, On Media's Blog, CJR and Poynter

Greg Sandoval / CNET News:

Google begins testing Google Music internally — Google has begun testing Google Music internally, a sign that the much anticipated service is nearly ready to launch. — Google employees have begun a process commonly referred to in Silicon Valley as dog fooding, when employees try …

Discussion: MediaMemo, Techland, hypebot, Fast Company and SAI, more at Techmeme »

Steve Myers / Poynter:

How 'Hamlet's BlackBerry' & ‘Think Quarterly’ show why we should stop toggling between screens and stretch our minds — Google, the company that helped create our culture of constantly clicking, has unveiled Think Quarterly, a new magazine aimed at creating “breathing space in a busy world.”

Joe Flint / Company Town:

Starz to delay new series on Netflix streaming, movies may follow — Add Starz to the list of premium cable channels pulling away from Netflix. — Just two days after Showtime said it would soon stop making its original series available to stream from Netflix, Liberty Media's Starz …

Discussion: GigaOM, Multichannel, Online Video News, The Wrap and Broadcasting & Cable, more at Techmeme »

Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

UK Times Plans Upgrade To Its ‘Berlin Wall’ — The Times is planning some changes to its paid digital model that could lead to more nuanced additions to its current hard in-or-out system. — Enders Analysis just published a research paper with this intriguing lead line …

Discussion: FT Tech Hub