Mediagazer: It's an Ad Within an Ad Within a TV Show for Univision Novela (AdAge)

4:40 AM ET, March 28, 2011

Top News:

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

The NYT Pay Plan's Most Dangerous Foe: Perception — By now, we were supposed to have clarity about how The New York Times will use a meter to create a digital subscription revenue stream. After all, the plan went into effect in Canada March 17 and is supposed to start rolling out in the United States and globally Monday afternoon.

Discussion: SteveOuting.com, Felix Salmon, Poynter and Internet News

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

The NYT's Melting Iceberg Syndrome — Could the New York Times be viable as an digital-only operation? What a ridiculous question: With almost a million copies sold every day, why would this preeminent newspaper even consider such a drastic withdrawal from the physical world?

David Carr / New York Times:

Long-Form Journalism Finds a Home — In 2009, Evan Ratliff, a freelance writer for Wired, and Nicholas Thompson, a senior editor there, had just concluded a particularly satisfying article in which Mr. Ratliff tried to drop off the grid for a month and obscure his whereabouts in the digital age …

THE OUTSIDER:

Journalism needs pollinators — What is that bee doing with his nose buried in that flower? If you remember your elementary school science class, you'll know the bee is either pollinating this flower or gathering pollen from it to take to another flower. Though there are other ways …

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Jonathan Stray:

The editorial search engine — [Updated 27 March with more material on social curation, Bill Joy's maxim, and other good bits.] — It's impossible to build a computer system that helps people find or filter information without at some point making editorial judgements.

Steffen Konrath / Future of Journalism:

Search-neutrality? Can Google's algorithm substitute editorial judgement? — Google's algorithm changes comes at a time where critics are wondering whether its search quality has flagged. Steven Levy delved into the mysteries of the search engine had breakfast with Google's search-quality …

Fox News:

Biden Aide Apologizes After Reporter Kept in Storage Closet During Fundraiser — The vice president's press secretary has apologized to a local political reporter after he was kept in a storage closet during a Florida fundraiser. — Scott Powers, a reporter with the Orlando Sentinel …

Discussion: Mediaite, Runnin' Scared and Big Journalism

AdAge:

It's an Ad Within an Ad Within a TV Show for Univision Novela — Hispanic ad agency head Eva Rodriguez won GM's Buick account and created the car brand's first Spanish-language commercial. But Eva isn't real. She's the heroine of the telenovela “Eva Luna,” and part of her role …

the nytpicker:

HuffPo's Peter S. Goodman: “I Don't Get Why” NYT's Bill Keller Misrepresented Comments In Sunday Magazine Column. — In an email reponse to questions from The NYTPicker, former NYT economics writer Peter S. Goodman has questioned NYT executive editor Bill Keller's motives in mangling a quote from a recent column in the Huffington Post.

Discussion: Media Myth Alert

Felix Salmon:

Bill Keller vs openness and transparency — Bill Keller has now written two three columns for Hugo Lindgren's NYT Magazine, and both of them the last two have taken aim at the Huffington Post. — The first one didn't go so well: not only did it have an opening paragraph of astonishing braggadocio …

John Koblin / WWD:

Maer Roshan, Back on the Radar — BACK ON THE RADAR: Maer Roshan, the former Radar founder and media survival artist who has been largely absent from the publishing world for the last 30 months, launches his latest venture Monday: a Web site called Thefix.com.

Reuters:

Two Reuters TV journalists missing in Syria — * Last contact as they set off for border on Saturday — Two Reuters television journalists have been missing in Syria since Saturday night, when they were due to return to Lebanon. — Beirut-based producer Ayat Basma and cameraman Ezzat Baltaji …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and The Daily Beast