Mediagazer: Sarah Douglas Named Culture Editor of ‘The New York Observer’ (New York Observer)

11:25 PM ET, April 20, 2011

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C.J. Chivers / New York Times:

‘Restrepo’ Director Is Killed While Working in Libya — BENGHAZI, Libya — Tim Hetherington, the conflict photographer who was a director and producer of the film “Restrepo,” was killed in the besieged city of Misurata on Wednesday, and three photographers working beside him were wounded …

Glynnis MacNicol / The Wire:

Oscar Nominated Documentary Filmmaker And Photographer Killed In Libya* — *This post has been updated. — Oscar nominated director Tim Hetherington and Pulitzer Prize nominated photographer Chris Hondros were killed earlier today in Libya. Two other photographers were injured, one seriously.

Amazon.com:

Amazon to Launch Library Lending for Kindle Books — Customers will be able to borrow Kindle books from over 11,000 local libraries to read on Kindle and free Kindle reading apps — Whispersyncing of notes, highlights and last page read to work for Kindle library books

Discussion: VentureBeat, Gadget Lab, Engadget, ZDNet, Brave New World, ReadWriteWeb, 9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web, GeekWire, Between the Lines Blog, Media Buyer Planner, The Consumerist and eMoney, more at Techmeme »

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Amazon Launches Library Lending, But Who Owns the Books?

Discussion: paidContent, TechCrunch and Jacket Copy, Thanks:thibetian

Jenna Wortham / Bits:

News.Me, Social News Service, Debuts for iPad — News.me, the long-awaited social news service developed in collaboration with Betaworks, a technology incubator, and The New York Times Company, is ready for its debut. — News.me is a newsfeed that uses artificial intelligence to monitor …

Discussion: GigaOM, Marco.org, Techi.com and NYConvergence.com, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
News.me, the iPad News Aggregator Blessed by Big Publishers, Gets Ready to Launch

Discussion: INFOdocket, Adweek, Techland, Electronista, Poynter, MediaPost, Betabeat, mocoNews, PC Magazine, Yahoo! News, FishbowlNY, NewsGrange, eMedia Vitals, Future of Journalism, Garcia Media and Soup

Ellis Hamburger / SAI:
News.me's iPad App Will Get You Around The New York Times Paywall For A Fraction Of The Cost

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Magazine Publishers Scramble To Streamline Their App Production — Magazine publishers are not only trying to pack more features and content into their apps—they're also trying to design for an ever-growing variety of devices and formats. The result is wreaking havoc with traditional print …

New York Post:
Condé Nast is making customers very app-y

Discussion: Adweek, FishbowlNY and NYConvergence.com

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

The Washington Post Launches Trove, A Personalized Social News Site — The Washington Post Company this morning debuted its free, personalized, social news site and aggregator Trove in public beta. — First reported to be in the works and nearing launch by The Wall Street Journal in February 2011 …

Discussion: MediaMemo, Business Wire, Weigel, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Mediaite, Fast Company, @innovations, Lost Remote, Future of Journalism, NetNewsCheck Latest, On Media's Blog, FishbowlNY, MediaPost, The Wrap, Journalism.co.uk, Noted and Facebook

New York Observer:

Sarah Douglas Named Culture Editor of ‘The New York Observer’ — Elizabeth Spiers announced this morning that Sarah Douglas has been named culture editor of The New York Observer. — Ms. Douglas is currently a staff writer at Art+Auction magazine and its affiliate web site, Artinfo.com.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, New York Magazine and mediabistro.com

Ashley Parker / New York Times:

Covering (and Working for) Bloomberg — Henry Goldman writes his articles on a Bloomberg terminal. His paychecks are stamped Bloomberg L.P. His company ID badge: Bloomberg. And the subject of his stories? Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. — Mr. Goldman is Bloomberg's man on Mr. Bloomberg.

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, FishbowlNY and The Huffington Post

Susannah Breslin / Pink Slipped:

How Your Journalism Sausage Gets Made, Part One … The other day, I came across a post by a young journalist and recent college grad advising other young journalists who are recent college grads on how to get hired for an online journalism job after graduating.

Frances Martel / Mediaite:

Andrew Breitbart To Mediaite: Yes, He's After The ‘Institutional Right,’ Too — Andrew Breitbart isn't angry; he's just enlightened. That's the message of his contentiously-titled new book, Righteous Indignation, a work that may look and sound like the fruit of rage, but at its core …

Discussion: RealClearPolitics Video Log and Media Matters for America

Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:
‘Glenn Beck Threw Me Under the Bus’: Breakfast with Andrew Breitbart

Discussion: Mediaite, Media Matters for America, New York Magazine and On Media's Blog

Nieman Journalism Lab:

Chasing pageviews with values: How the Christian Science Monitor has adjusted to a web-first, SEO'd world — Editor's note: At the International Symposium on Online Journalism earlier this month, one of my favorite papers presented was by Drury's Jonathan Groves and Carrie Brown-Smith of the University of Memphis.

Jessica Roy / 10,000 Words:

The 5 Best iPad Apps For Consuming The News That's Important To You — With the recent release of the iPad 2, the Apple App Store is swarming with new and updated apps tailored for interactive news consumption. Some of the most compelling news apps are those that take a familiar concept …

Nicholas Jackson / The Atlantic Online:

Gawker's Traffic Numbers Are Worse Than Anyone Anticipated — When Gawker launched an aggressive redesign back in early February, the tech blogs were waiting to see what would happen. How would readers respond? (The assumption was that the reaction would be negative …

Discussion: @nicknotned, The Awl, Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog and FishbowlNY, more at Techmeme »

Matt DeRienzo / NewspaperTurnaround.Com:

Why our small-town daily is adding a full-time curator — We're adding a full-time curator position at The Register Citizen. — Jenny Golfin, whose duties have included morning shift web updating, social media management and reporting, will be devoted full-time to this new role.

Discussion: LocalNewser and Knight Digital Media Center …

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The writing on the wall: Why news organizations are turning to outside moderators for help with comments — When a news organization decides to have someone else deal with their online comments, it's sometimes seen as waving the white flag or the equivalent of dumping a problem child at a boarding school.

Discussion: Poynter

Media General:

Media General Reports First-Quarter 2011 Results, Provides Outlook — RICHMOND, Va. - Media General, Inc. (NYSE: MEG) today reported an operating loss in the first quarter of 2011 of $4.2 milllion, compared with operating profit of $8.7 million in the first quarter last year.

Discussion: Poynter, NetNewsCheck Latest and TVSpy

Steven I. Weiss / Slate:

A Baltimore Sun photographer who took a buyout, started a blog, and changed the photography business forever. … Like This Story … - Can Rich People Who Think They're Undertaxed Really Send the IRS Extra Money? - Christopher Hitchens' Advice to Kate Middleton …

Matt Kinsman / Folio:

Reader's Digest Buys Haven Home Media — Online vertical network joins RDA's Family Handyman, Fresh Home — The Reader's Digest Association today announced the acquisition of Haven Home Media, an online vertical network serving the do-it-yourself home and shelter category.

Discussion: MediaPost and paidContent

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Surprising Straight Talk About the Politics of AOL-Huffpo — Image by Getty Images for AOL via @daylife — Arianna Huffington is skilled at staying on message like the former political candidate she is. So it's interesting, sometimes, to hear what people who aren't Huffington …

Discussion: On Media's Blog, Poynter and FishbowlNY