Mediagazer: Jonathan Alter talks about his post-Newsweek plans (Joe Pompeo/Yahoo! News)

9:45 PM ET, April 11, 2011

Top News:

Keach Hagey / The Politico:

Jonathan Alter out at Newsweek — The final member of the “Newsweek Six” has left the building. — Jonathan Alter, the only remaining member of the gang of television-loving newsweekly scribes so dubbed by Slate's Jack Shafer, is no longer with the publication.

Discussion: Runnin' Scared, @romenesko, @rafat, The Atlantic Wire, New York Magazine and FishbowlNY

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Jonathan Alter talks about his post-Newsweek plans

Discussion: Poynter

Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:

Facebook for Journalists: More Work Than Twitter, but With a Bigger Payout — Last week, Facebook launched a Page called Journalists on Facebook in an effort to encourage the news community to use the site's Page feature as a distribution and research tool.

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Front-Runner for CBS Anchor Is ‘60 Minutes’ Reporter — Growing up, Scott Pelley's journalistic dream was very specific: he wanted to work at “60 Minutes,” which was and is the nation's pre-eminent television newsmagazine. — He checked all the television correspondent boxes — wars …

Discussion: Yahoo! News

Bill Carter / New York Times:
After a Rocky Five Years, Talk of Couric Parting With CBS

Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:

Consolidation of Trade Publications Nears — The long-planned consolidation of three familiar trade publications into one is beginning at Prometheus Global Media. — Monday brought the final issues of two publications, Brandweek and Mediaweek, which have been published along with their sibling, Adweek, for almost 10 years.

Discussion: The Wire, FishbowlNY and Poynter

Heather Dougherty:

Impact of paywall on NYTimes.com — After months of speculation, the paywall for The New York Times went live at 2pm on Monday, March 28th, which limits online readers (non-print subscribers) to 20 articles each month. For smartphone and tablet applications, only the top news section …

Discussion: VentureBeat, paidContent and ReadWriteWeb, more at Techmeme »

Alex Mindlin / New York Times:

More Media Time, on Various Screens — Americans are spending about 20 percent more time consuming radio, television and the Internet than they were a decade ago, according to a survey by two media measurement firms. — That jump reflects in part a rise by 26 percentage points in the number of Americans with access to the Internet.

Discussion: TVWeek.com and Noted

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Film shoots to farmers markets: Users respond to Everyblock's community-focused redesign — Late last month, Everyblock launched an overhaul of its site — its “first major redesign,” and one “driven by the feedback we've been getting over the past year.” The revamp marked a significant shift …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Josh Tapper / Nieman Journalism Lab:

How Russia's top journalism school is revamping its curriculum to create a new culture of press freedom — The limitations on press freedom in Russia have been well-documented. With the Kremlin holding a stake in each of the country's six national television stations …

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Tessa Jowell phone-hacking admission changes everything — Am I alone in being troubled by the fact that News of the World journalists targeted the former culture secretary, the minister responsible for media policy? — Two days ago it seemed that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp had finally seized …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and The Wire

News of the World:
News International statement: News of the World says sorry

Discussion: Guardian, Editors Weblog, Journalism.co.uk, Media Law Prof Blog and BBC

Ted Nesi / WPRI.com Blogs:

NYT's Nocera on paywalls, Providence and CEO pay — “Local boy makes good.” In the news business, few Rhode Island natives fit that hoary headline better than Joe Nocera. — Nocera grew up in Providence, graduating from Classical High in 1970 before attending Boston University.

Discussion: The Big Lead and Talking Biz News

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:

Judge to copyright troll: your “business model” isn't my problem — Ars Technica freelancer Eriq Gardner was recently sued over a photo that appeared in a piece he wrote for us last year. The flimsy lawsuit was quickly dismissed, but the company behind it lives on—and has sued 50+ people in Colorado for their use of the same photo.

Discussion: Righthaven Victims

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Kiip Is An Entirely New Mobile Ad Model: Real Life Rewards For In-Game Achievements — Kiip, the seven month-old mobile ads startup, is finally coming out of stealth today and revealing an entirely new model for in-game advertising, one that offers users value instead of fighting an uphill battle for their attention.

Discussion: MediaPost, Mashable!, Marketing Pilgrim, Techland, GigaOM and Epicenter, more at Techmeme »

Jim O'Neill / Online Video News:

Ooyala launches Ooyala Everywhere, Ooyala Personal Playback — White label online video platform Ooyala is rolling out a suite of services designed to help content creators and distributors deliver rich, personalized viewing experiences directly to consumers, helping to bring more premium …

The Wrap:

Viacom's Philippe Dauman Is America's Top-Paid CEO, Report Says — Recession? What recession? A New York Times ranking of the top-paid CEOs says media-conglomerate chief made $84.5 million in just 9 months last year

Discussion: MediaPost

Wall Street Journal:

Time Warner Eyes Headquarters Move — Time Warner Inc. is considering moving its headquarters to Manhattan's far West Side as Related Cos. tries to kick-start its $15 billion Hudson Yards development planned there, people familiar with the matter said. — The talks are in preliminary stages and could fizzle.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and New York Observer

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Bloomberg BusinessWeek Launches iPad App With Monthly Subscription Plan — Bloomberg BusinessWeek could not have picked a better time to launch its iPad app. A year after a major overhaul following the sale from McGraw Hill, the latest Publishers Information Bureau figures had BBW's ad pages up 49 percent …

Discussion: MediaMemo, MinOnline, Fortune, AppleInsider, The Wire, FishbowlNY, GigaOM, everythingiCafe, Editors Weblog, AdAge, Publishing Executive News, PC Magazine, 9 to 5 Mac, TechCrunch, Betabeat, MacStories, parislemon, Daring Fireball and eMedia Vitals

Damon Kiesow / Poynter:

Bing's new iPad app is a newspaper in disguise — Microsoft's new Bing iPad app, released Thursday, does more than search — it begins to remake the newspaper experience in digital form. — The app is not being marketed as a news platform, but journalists should consider it one because it offers …

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Adam Hochberg / Poynter:

Twitpic, Flickr use by eyewitnesses raises questions for news orgs about image rights, compensation — When a Southwest Airlines 737 developed a six-foot hole in the fuselage in mid-air recently, some passengers screamed, others prayed. — Shawna Malvini Redden tweeted.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Simon / Bloggasm:

The New Yorker allows Facebook fans access to its paywall content — Though some of the articles published in The New Yorker each week are free, it still shelves many of them behind a paywall. But on my Facebook news feed I just caught a glimpse of a new roll-out from the magazine: web content only available on its Facebook page:

Discussion: Mashable!, Poynter, Inside Facebook and Journalism.co.uk, more at Techmeme »

Lewis DVorkin / The Copy Box:

Forbes Update: Re-Imagining a Magazine as Digital Media Marches On — How do you re-architect a magazine like Forbes in a digital era? What's the right content creation model to produce 22 issues a year? How should a print product relate to a Web site, or tablet apps, or other digital products?

Discussion: Talking Biz News, Thanks:taylorbuley

The Wrap:

Mark Burnett, Hearst Announce Joint Venture — Hearst and Mark Burnett announced a media, production and events-based joint venture Monday that will focus on media content, producing events around it, and spinning off television shows and other programming based on Hearst brands.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Hollywood Reporter, Adweek, Company Town, The Snitch, Media News International, rbr.com, MediaPost, FishbowlNY and Poynter

Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:

When to hyperlink within an online news story? — By Robert Niles: When to hyperlink within an online news story? — That's a question that challenges even the most experienced online writers. Hyperlinks imbue a news story with the power of the World Wide Web, allowing writers to source information …

Andrew Hampp / AdAge:

How One Man Is Trying to Make YouTube Talent Rich — Fullscreen Founder George Strompolos Looks to Bridge Gap Among Viral-Video Stars, Advertisers and Distributors — Want to make money on YouTube right now? Talk to George Strompolos. — Mr. Strompolos, a former business-development …

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Dan Abrams Hires Peter Lauria For Mogulite — Peter Lauria, who's covered his share of media moguls for the New York Post and the Daily Beast, is joining the soon-to-be-launched Mogulite as consulting editor. — Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein once jokingly dubbed Lauria the “No. 1 bastard” he knows.

Discussion: mediabistro.com and FishbowlNY

Simon Dumenco / AdAge:

How Twitter Can Stop Its Descent Into a Cable-News-Style Disinformation Network — It's Time to Make Sense of Those Disinformational Memes — Here's the ongoing problem with Twitter: It wants your love and respect, even as it wastes your time and insults your intelligence.