Mediagazer: NYT vs HuffPo, cont. (Felix Salmon)

Felix Salmon:

NYT vs HuffPo, cont. — The NYT's declared war on the Huffington Post shows no sign of dissipating, and as ever the new-look NYT Magazine is at the front lines of the attack. Andrew Goldman's interview with Arianna Huffington is quite astonishing, but first it's worth looking at other news of the week.

Discussion: Mediaite

Michael Walker / Los Angeles Times:

Why should writers work for no pay? — Contributors to the Huffington Post have begun to chafe at the no-pay policy. They could take a lesson from stand-up comedians who faced a similar insult in the 1970s. — Arianna Huffington, president and editor in chief of Huffington Post Media Group.

Discussion: Mixed Media, Random Pixels and Loose Talk, Poynter, The Atlantic Wire and MediaPost

New York Times:
Arianna Huffington's Next Move

Discussion: Poynter, The New Republic, New York Magazine, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Runnin' Scared, The Wire, On Media's Blog, The Raw Story, The Atlantic Wire, FishbowlNY and Weigel

Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:

Standards That Everyone Can See — LAST week The Times reached a strategic frontier with the full introduction of paid subscriptions for digital access to its content. Perhaps less visibly, but also importantly, the newsroom has moved toward a remarkable integration of its print and electronic operations.

Discussion: For the Record

James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:

On the Media: A small-town reporter's big influence — A black businessman was burned to death in tiny Ferriday, La., in 1964. Justice may finally be served, thanks to the reporting of Stanley Nelson of the weekly Concordia Sentinel. — from ferriday, la.

Tom Huang / Poynter:

Coverage of Japanese citizens' ‘stoic’ response to tragedy both accurate, stereotypical — A master narrative has developed around the media's coverage of Japan's earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, leading us to believe that there are cultural roots in the Japanese citizens' stoic response …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

The Daily Dot Wants to Be the Web's Hometown Paper — People often talk about how the social web makes the Internet seem like a small town, and now former VentureBeat and Valleywag editor Owen Thomas says he wants to give the web “its own hometown newspaper” called The Daily Dot.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Thanks:davidfg

Discussion: Poynter

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

The More Bill Keller Says, the Worse He Gets — Bill Keller, the editor of America's greatest newspaper, continues to systematically dismantle his professional reputation by writing an unnecessary, vainglorious, and ill-advised column in the New York Times Magazine, in which he demonstrates …

Bill Keller / New York Times:

Secrecy in Shreds — Last year, Gabriel Schoenfeld, a veteran of the conservative magazine Commentary, published a book that explained how The New York Times could be prosecuted under the Espionage Act. The book said a lot of other things too, but you'll understand why that particular proposition stuck in my mind.

Martin Belam / currybetdotnet:

News innovation isn't just about writing code, it is about how we use that code to tell stories — This blog post is my contribution to the third Carnival of Journalism — Nick Petrie on the Wannabe Hacks blog recently asked why news organisations were only getting to grips with the concept of online community now in 2011.

Mike Spector / Wall Street Journal:

Icahn, Dish Submit Bids for Blockbuster — Billionaire investor Carl Icahn and satellite-television provider Dish Network Corp. have each submitted bids for Blockbuster Inc. ahead of a bankruptcy court auction next week, said people familiar with the matter.

Discussion: GigaOM, Electronista and Voices on All Things Digital

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Goodbye, NYTClean, hello new name? A Canadian coder gets a letter from the NYT's legal department — Remember David Hayes, the Canadian coder who, when confronted with the new New York Times paywall, figured out a way to evade it with four lines of JavaScript? (Technically, only three lines of code and one line of comment.)

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, Techdirt and mediabistro.com

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire and CJR

The Huffington Post:

Page Six Lands New Editor — For the first time since longtime editor Richard Johnson left the column, Page Six is getting a male face. — The New York Post's gossip column will welcome Ian Mohr as its deputy editor. — Former Page Six Deputy Editor Paula Froelich tweeted the news Friday morning …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Alfred Hermida / Reportr.net:

Studies find journalists use Twitter for broadcast — The final research paper at the ISOJ focused on how newsrooms were using Twitter. — Dale Blasingame from Texas State University, San Marcos, looked at how Twitter was changing TV news. — He started by saying that a web first approach …