Mediagazer: Coming Monday: First Knight-Mozilla innovation challenge launches (Marika Lynch/KnightBlog)

2:25 AM ET, April 20, 2011

Top News:

Thomson Reuters overhauls news management team — (Reuters) - Thomson Reuters Corp named Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and former Dow Jones Newswires President Paul Ingrassia to the new position of deputy editor-in-chief, one of four new hires brought in to overhaul its news operations.

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

Glynnis MacNicol / The Wire: EXODUS: Managing Editor Of Rupert Murdoch's ‘The Daily’ Jumps Ship For Reuters

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

News.me, the iPad News Aggregator Blessed By Big Publishers, Gets Ready To Launch — News.me, Bit.ly's social news iPad app, was supposed to launch by the end of 2010. But developers didn't submit it for Apple's approval until about a month ago. — Now it looks as if News.me is just about ready for public consumption.

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Are Apps Like Flipboard the Future of Media?

Discussion: digiday:DAILY

Dan Rowinski / ReadWriteWeb: How Flipboard Can Bring App Makers and Publishers Together

Rem Rieder / American Journalism Review:

Spreading the Wealth — Denting the big-paper domination of the Pulitzers. — Rem Rieder (rrieder@ajr.umd.edu) is AJR's editor and senior vice president. — In recent years, the Pulitzer Prize sweepstakes has often been dominated by a handful of large newspapers winning huge clusters of prizes.

Discussion: Google News Blog, BusinessJournalism.org … and Nieman Storyboard

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

Discussion: Crikey, The News About The News, Online NewsHour, The Awl, New York Magazine, New Jersey Online and Poynter, Thanks:forbestech

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: Guardian, On Media's Blog, The Atlantic Wire, The Awl, The Wall Blog, Techland, The Wire, Poynter and Noted

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

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Thanks:mathewi

Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
Chart: The Battle For Global News Supremacy

Discussion: Editors Weblog, FishbowlNY and Future of Journalism

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

How URL spoofing can put libelous words into news orgs' mouths — You really have to question everything you see on the web, even the supposedly sacrosanct URL. (That ubiquitous initialism stands for “uniform resource locator,” as in, one locator for every resource on the Internet.)

Discussion: Malcolm Coles, The Independent, Runnin' Scared, TechCrunch, Press Gazette and The Wire, more at Techmeme »

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

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: SAI, paidContent, digiday:DAILY, GigaOM and NetworkEffect, more at Techmeme »

James Gleick / Smithsonian Magazine:

What Defines a Meme? — Our world is a place where information can behave like human genes and ideas can replicate, mutate and evolve — With the rise of information theory, ideas were seen as behaving like organisms, replicating by leaping from brain to brain, interacting to form new ideas …

Discussion: Boing Boing

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: PC Magazine, TechCrunch, The Next Web, The Wrap, Digits, Media Week, Forbes.com, Guardian and SocialTimes.com

Kylie Davis / INMA:

Dopamine, Charlie Sheen and an addiction that is killing media — Media people have long joked that the industry is addictive, but new research shows that actually it is medically true. — The constant barrage of information, new facts, tight deadlines, demands from multiple inputs …

Discussion: The Daily Beast

Mark Kleinman / Kleinman:

Exclusive: News Corp Mulls F1 Bid (Updated) — News Corporation, the global media group, is in the early stages of talks about forming a consortium that would seek to acquire control of Formula One (F1) motor racing, I have learned. — News Corp has been in preliminary talks in recent weeks …

Discussion: The Wire

Grant Gross / PC World:

FTC Takes Action Against ‘fake’ News Sites — Several websites apparently featuring news reports that show the weight-loss benefits of acai berry products aren't what they appear to be, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Illinois Attorney General's Office said Tuesday.

Discussion: Federal Trade Commission, Media Decoder and The Atlantic Wire, more at Techmeme »

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

Marika Lynch / KnightBlog:

Coming Monday: First Knight-Mozilla innovation challenge launches — On Monday, the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership will launch its first innovation challenge. The contest (one of three running through May) aims to accelerate media innovation by solving technological challenges …

Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:

Byliner Launches With A Splash, Aims To Disrupt Long-Form Journalism — The media is buzzing with allegations that Nobel Peace Prize nominee Greg Mortenson fabricated his bestselling books and misused millions of dollars in donations. — Amazingly, within days of 60 Minutes breaking the story …

Discussion: Sun Herald and GalleyCat

Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:

‘Glenn Beck Threw Me Under the Bus’: Breakfast with Andrew Breitbart … Over crème brûlée oatmeal on Monday, conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart talked sting videos. Mr. Breitbart explained to the Transom that Breitbart blog protocol requires undercover video kingpin James O'Keefe …

Discussion: Media Matters for America