Mediagazer: Chasing pageviews with values: How the Christian Science Monitor has adjusted to a web-first, SEO'd world (Nieman Journalism Lab)

9:15 AM ET, April 21, 2011

Top News:

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 …

cjchivers.com:
Almost Dawn in Libya: Chris & Tim, Heading Home.

Discussion: Poynter

Glynnis MacNicol / The Wire:
Oscar Nominated Documentary Filmmaker And Photographer Killed In Libya*

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, SocialTimes.com, Engadget, ZDNet, ReadWriteWeb, Brave New World, TechCrunch Europe, 9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web, Between the Lines Blog, The Consumerist, Media Buyer Planner, GeekWire and eMoney

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

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

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Times Company Profit Falls on Weak Ad Revenue — The New York Times Company reported a sharp drop in net income in the first quarter as the print advertising market remained stubbornly depressed for newspapers. — The company said net income fell 57.6 percent to $5.4 million, compared with $12.8 million in the quarter a year ago.

Discussion: paidContent, MediaMemo and TechCrunch

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 …

Discussion: Crikey

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: eMedia Vitals, Media News International, MediaPost and paidContent

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.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and Folio

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: City Room, FishbowlNY, The Atlantic Wire and The Huffington Post

Cory Doctorow / Guardian:

In the digital era free is easy, so how do you persuade people to pay? — To compete with piracy, content providers need clear value propositions that don't conflict with the product — The seemingly straightforward act of purchasing a good or service is fraught with mystery.

Discussion: TeleRead and Boing Boing

THE GUN by C.J. Chivers:

Guns & Consequences in Libya, II. — To watch Libyan rebels head to battle is to watch young men calling for freedom step toward a bloody mismatch, often to their deaths. To arm them is to assume other risks. What might foreign supporters of Libya's uprising against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi do?

Andrea Morabito / B&C:

NBC News Brings the Monarch into the Digital Age — The royal wedding may still be more than a week away, but the conversation around the upcoming marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton has already started trending on Twitter. — Last week alone, 43,000 tweets mentioned the impending royal nuptials.

Discussion: The 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

Roy Greenslade / paidContent:UK:

Brooks Aims To Change News International's Game With Big Review — News International's chief executive Rebekah Brooks has launched a three-year internal review of the company under the slogan “changing the game.” — Every division - including editorial, advertising and marketing …

Discussion: Marketing Week and Guardian

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: bookforum.com, New York Magazine, FishbowlNY and mediabistro.com

Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:

HBO Sets Pulitzer Prize Winner ‘A Visit From The Goon Squad’ For Series Treatment — EXCLUSIVE: It has been some week for Brooklyn-based author Jennifer Egan. Her novel A Visit From The Goon Squad won the Pulitzer Prize and she cited the HBO series The Sopranos as her inspiration.

Discussion: Movieline and Screen Junkies

Teemu Henriksson / Editors Weblog:

Big Issue aspires to turn its vendors into citizen journalists — Homeless people who sell The Big Issue magazine are to be equipped with smartphones so that they can act as news gatherers in their communities, the charity announced, according to Press Gazette.

Discussion: Poynter

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.

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 …