Mediagazer: Ebersol: Versus Will Get New Name (Jon Lafayette/Broadcasting & Cable)

4:10 PM ET, April 19, 2011

Top News:

Justin Prichard / Media Week:

MailOnline overtakes Huffington Post to become world's no 2 — Associated's MailOnline has overtaken the Huffington Post to become the world's second largest ‘newspaper’ site, as defined by ComScore. — ComScore data for March today (19 April) highlights how the disruptive news …

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, Guardian, Techland, The Awl, The Wall Blog, The Wire, Noted and Poynter

Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

Chart: The Battle For Global News Supremacy … To the competition between NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) and HuffingtonPost.com, add two British challengers... World news site traffic chart — Mail Online, the celebrity-laden website of the conservative British Daily Mail tabloid …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Editors Weblog and Future of Journalism

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Huffington Post Doubles Down on Social Media

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Thanks:mathewi

Reuters:

Thomson Reuters overhauls news management team — * Hires several Wall Street Journal alumni — * Seeks to streamline structure and decision-making — * To bolster enterprise reporting resources — Thomson Reuters Corp (TRI.N) (TRI.TO) named Pulitzer-prize winning journalist …

Discussion: Media Decoder, FishbowlNY, paidContent, @jwpetersnyt, New York Magazine, On Media's Blog, mediabistro.com, Talking Biz News and Adweek

Glynnis MacNicol / The Wire:

EXODUS: Managing Editor Of Rupert Murdoch's ‘The Daily’ Jumps Ship For Reuters — Further proof Rupert Murdoch's The Daily may be a sinking media ship. — Jim Gaines, who was long-time editor at Time Inc. before he joined The Daily as managing editor, is already leaving the struggling iPad newspaper …

Discussion: Soup

Al Tompkins / Poynter:

Few entries, no consensus, no Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting — The Pulitzer Prize jury that reviewed the Breaking News Reporting category recommended three finalists to the Pulitzer Board. But for the first time ever, no entry won the category that recognizes local coverage of breaking news events.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, BrauBlog, On Media's Blog, Pulitzer and ProPublica

Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Why Didn't WikiLeaks Reporting Earn A Pulitzer? The NY Times Didn't Submit It

Discussion: Online NewsHour, The Awl and New York Magazine, Thanks:forbestech

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Another online milestone for the Pulitzer Prize

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, Poynter, KnightBlog, Editors Weblog, Nieman Storyboard, Tower Ticker and CJR

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Big year for business journalism in Pulitzers

Discussion: Speakeasy, CJR, Mixed Media, Folio, NetNewsCheck Latest, Poynter, New York Times and Media News

Alex Heard / Outside:

Greg Mortenson Speaks — The embattled director of the Central Asia Institute responds to allegations of financial mismanagement and that he fabricated stories in his bestselling book Three Cups of Tea. Brace yourself for a new Central Asian conflict involving powerful American forces, and count on this one to last a while.

Discussion: GalleyCat, Media Decoder, CNN, Mediaite, bookforum.com, The Atlantic Wire, This Just In, Hit & Run, Personanondata, CBS News and CBS News

Anya Kamenetz / Fast Company:
What The Scandal Of “Three Cups of Tea” Author Greg Mortenson Is Really About

Discussion: Forbes.com, Techno-tainers and GalleyCat

Chris / cdixon.org:

Experiment: blog in Kindle book form — There is an amazing amount of useful, free information available on tech blogs for fledgling tech entrepreneurs (this list is a great place to start). I think sometimes we techies forget that this wealth of content is unknown to the non-startup world.

Discussion: The Next Web and eBookNewser

Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Chris Dixon Turns His Blog Into a Book

Discussion: MediaMemo

Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:

Disney's ESPN Removing Poker Programming After Gambling Websites Charged — Walt Disney Co. (DIS)'s ESPN sports cable channel will remove poker advertising and programming after the U.S. indicted gambling websites that sponsor televised tournaments and froze their bank accounts.

Discussion: MediaPost, The Atlantic Wire, Free Press, Bloomberg and TVbytheNumbers

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

SAY Media Acquires Dogster (And Has More Acquisitions In The Works) — Just six months after its creation, SAY Media is already going to the dogs: it's acquired Dogster, a web community for dog-owners that draws around 2 million unique visitors a month. It's a move that sounds confusing at first …

Discussion: paidContent, more at Techmeme »

Matt McLernon / YouTube Blog:

The Royal Wedding live on YouTube — As the historic day approaches, the much-anticipated wedding of Britain's Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton has people around the world buzzing with excitement. — While millions will be in London for the big day, it's clear that people around the world have wedding fever.

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Next Web, Forbes.com and Guardian

Wall Street Journal:

At Tribune, Battle Expands — Ex-Holders Reserve Cash as Creditors Aim to Claw Back Funds; Deutsche's Market Creditors Aim to Claw Back Funds From Ex-Holders Using Novel Legal Concept — Tribune creditors allege that Sam Zell's buyout was ‘among the worst in American corporate history.’

Discussion: @iwantmedia

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Amazon's Lovefilm Strikes Disney Deal — Lovefilm, the “Netflix of Europe,” now has something Netflix doesn't have-a deal with Disney to stream the studio's movies. — Netflix does carry Disney's stuff on its Web service. It has the ability to show Disney movies, like “Toy Story 3,” …

Discussion: The Wire and Online Video News

News & Tech:

Google: One Pass to work with publishers — LONDON — Google said it expects its One Pass subscription management service to help publishers monetize content as the search engine seeks ways to work more closely with the newspaper industry. — Madhav Chinnappa, Google's strategic partner development manager …

Discussion: The Wire and Noted

Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:

Ebersol: Versus Will Get New Name — Will incorporate NBC brand — NBC Sports Group Chairman Dick Ebersol said he was about 90 days away from renaming the cable sports network Versus. — Ebersol, speaking on a conference call announcing a new deal with the NHL, said the new name would prominently incorporate the NBC brand.

Discussion: MediaPost, rbr.com and Multichannel

Irina Slutsky / AdAge:

Facebook to Ad Agencies: Let's Be ‘in a Relationship’ — Social Network Rolls Out Community Site Aimed at Creatives — Facebook today launched a stand-alone community site (facebook-studio.com) where ad agency creatives can share ideas, comment on campaigns and learn what it takes to create a successful page for a brand.

Discussion: Inside Facebook, MarketingVOX, Marketing Pilgrim and AdPulp, more at Techmeme »

Christian Rudder / OkTrends:

10 Charts About Sex — This was one of the first infographics ever made: — Later remembered as “the map that made a nation cry”, it depicts Napoleon's failed invasion of Russia in 1812. The wide tan swath shows his Grande Armée, almost half a million strong, marching East to Moscow …

Discussion: Betabeat, The Daily Beast, Runnin' Scared, The Atlantic Online and newsfeed.time.com

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Advice for PR pros: ‘Tips to woo your next reporter-friend’ — Mickie Kennedy, CEO and founder of eReleases, wrote a list of 10 ways that PR folks can “make reporters fall in love with you.” Some make sense: learn their schedules, be on call, speak concisely. But how about this?

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The app divide between casual readers and news junkies — Can a single app please both casual news readers and news junkies? — That's the question I found myself asking upon rereading that report from a couple weeks ago on iPad users' reactions to The Daily.

ABCNEWS:

Sherwood Names Fedida, Ruffolo and Mercandetti to Senior Posts at ABC News — ABC News President Appoints Leaders to Talent, Business Development & Digital Teams — ABC News President Ben Sherwood announced three additions to his senior leadership team at ABC News:

Discussion: TVNewser and paidContent