Mediagazer: Six things aggregator app News.me must do to beat Zite, Flipboard (Damon Kiesow/Poynter)

1:23 PM ET, April 5, 2011

Top News:

Jason Kilar / Hulu Blog:

Q1 — We just completed the first quarter of 2011. Given the ongoing discussion around the evolution of premium content distribution — and Hulu's role in it — we thought it would be worthwhile to share some of our progress from the first 90 days of 2011:

Discussion: MediaMemo, NetNewsCheck Latest, GigaOM, Epicenter and The Wire, more at Techmeme »

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Hulu Q1 By The Numbers: On Pace For $500 Million 2011 — In a new blog post, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar says the online video joint venture finished the first quarter of 2011 up 90 percent in revenue over the same period last year and is on pace to bring in a half-billion in revenue this year.

Discussion: GigaOM

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Vice Media Empire Is Near a Big Infusion of Cash — Vice was born in 1994 as an underground magazine in Montreal, financed by a government subsidy and run by three friends who started their own company because no one else would hire them. — Today it is a pan-media confederation with a record label …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, New York Magazine and paidContent:UK

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Decline, plateau, decline: New data on The Daily suggests a social media decline and a tough road ahead — While the news industry looks at smartphone and tablet apps as a chance to build more engaged readers — and maybe even get people to pay! — for those of us who watch the business, apps are frustratingly opaque.

Discussion: mediabistro.com and FishbowlNY, more at Techmeme »

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Can a Content Farm Do Quality? How Examiner's Trying — Sick of all the shoddy articles content farms churn out? Well, guess what? So are some of the content farms, and they're even sicker of the perception that everything they publish is badly-written Google clutter.

Discussion: Examiner

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

The New York Times launches its first Tumblr blog — More than eight months after media reporters first stumbled upon a URL that the New York Times had quietly registered with Tumblr, the paper of record has finally launched its inaugural editorial product on the influential blogging platform.

Discussion: Noted, FishbowlNY and eMedia Vitals

Neil Vidyarthi / SocialTimes.com:
Tumblr's Mark Coatney: Do Most Websites Treat Commenters As Second Class Citizens? [Video]

Discussion: mediabistro.com

New York Times:

Katie Couric Has a Few Regrets — When you started hosting the “CBS Evening News” in 2006, there was a lot of talk about mold-breaking. Now the show looks very much like the other network broadcasts. — In retrospect I would have given people what they were used to, a traditional newscast.

Discussion: TVNewser, Open Mic, Tower Ticker, Mixed Media, newsfeed.time.com, The Wire, The Huffington Post, Tuned In, The 6th Floor, TVLine, Associated Press and Random Pixels and Loose Talk

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Amid Rumors She's Leaving CBS, Couric Heads to Iraq

Discussion: mediabistro.com, TVNewser and NY Daily News

Patrick May / Mercury News:

Apple makes bid to become gatekeeper for newspapers and magazines — Apple's (AAPL) bold foray into the world of digital publishing could make it the online gatekeeper for newspaper and magazine content, just as it is for music. — But for a plan ostensibly designed to help ailing print publishers sign …

Discussion: Noted

Markcuban / blog maverick:

Whats the role of media for sports teams ? — I'm going to make this short and sweet. In the year 2011, I'm not sure I have a need for beat writers from ESPN.com, Yahoo, or any website for that matter to ever be in our locker room before or after a game.

Discussion: Nodes - Quickish

Damon Kiesow / Poynter:

Six things aggregator app News.me must do to beat Zite, Flipboard — Personalized news app Zite made headlines last week for a minor skirmish with a group of major publishers, but the personalized aggregation app expected to make news any day now is Betawork's News.me.

Discussion: Editors Weblog and Jonathan Stray

Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:
Whining isn't winning — Please quit whining about “aggregation …

Discussion: Metamedia and Future of Journalism

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

‘The conditions are finally right to give newspaper paywalls a fair shake’ — That's what former NPR chief executive and ex-head of NYTimes.com Vivian Schiller said at the 12th International Symposium on Online Journalism. This is the first time I've felt this way, and possibly the first time I've …

Discussion: Austin American-Statesman and CJR

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Report: San Francisco Chronicle to put up paywall — Report: San Francisco Chronicle to put up “hard” paywall as early as the end of the month. http://journ.us/h86Mdu 2 minutes ago — Loyalty ain't what it used to be: @roypeterclark justifies journalists as ketchup & explains …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, MediaPost and Gannett Blog

Informer:
Conde Nast Paid $8 Million To Scammer Who Sent One Email

Discussion: The Wire, FishbowlNY, Techdirt, Threat Level, New York Magazine, Poynter, Geekosystem and Gawker

Meg James / Company Town:

Discovery's David Zaslav awarded $42.6 million in compensation in 2010 — David Zaslav, chief executive of the Maryland-based Discovery Communications Inc., was awarded a compensation package valued at $42.6 million in 2010 — more than triple his compensation for the previous year. — That's a lot of TLC.

Discussion: TVWeek.com

Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:

The View From Somewhere — Neither ideology nor politics defines my work, but that doesn't mean I'm without bias - consider me a partisan for public discourse, California roots, and disagreement in conversation. — The press critic Jay Rosen often complains about The View From Nowhere …

Discussion: GigaOM