Mediagazer: PR Industry Fills Vacuum Left by Shrinking Newsrooms (ProPublica)

6:20 PM ET, May 2, 2011

Top News:

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Newspaper front pages capture elation, relief that Osama bin Laden was captured, killed — Nearly 10 years after the September 11 attacks planned by Osama bin Laden, the terrorist leader was captured and killed by American forces. The word first spread on Twitter, then on network and cable news.

Discussion: CJR, Hollywood Life, FishbowlLA, The Note and TPMDC

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

NYT: No honorific for Bin Laden — Times staffers received this memo early Monday morning: — From: Jolly, Tom — To: — At Jill and Bill's request, we dropped the honorific for Bin Laden. — Without a “Mr.” in front of his name, it was decided that we should capitalize the “B” in Bin Laden on second references.

Discussion: MediaPost, Salon, New York Times, Inside TV, CJR, Gawker, @carr2n, mediabistro.com, TVNewser, The Nation, The Huffington Post and FishbowlNY

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

How the Bin Laden Announcement Leaked Out — The terse announcement came just after 9:45 p.m. Sunday from Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director. “POTUS to address the nation tonight at 10:30 PM Eastern Time,” he wrote on Twitter, sharing the same message that had just been transmitted to the White House press corps.

Discussion: News Desk, The Huffington Post, AdAge, Broadcasting & Cable, The White House, Lauren Young, MediaMemo, Mediaite, msnbc.com, NY Daily News, White House.gov Blog, The Atlantic Online, Associated Press, Deadline.com, New York Times, CNET News, Nieman Journalism Lab, ABCNEWS, Search Engine Land, MediaFile, New York Times, CNN, Nicholas D. Kristof, GigaOM, BuzzMachine, bizjournals, MediaShift, Guardian, The Lede, The Daily Beast, Big News Network.com, Poynter, Lost Remote, The Wire, Online Journalism Review, Political Punch, New York Observer, The Hill, Online NewsHour, CNNMoney.com, Boing Boing, New York Magazine, Media News, Gawker, GigaOM, Mogulite, City Room, AllTwitter, SportsGrid, FishbowlNY, TVNewser, Daily Mail, Epicenter, The Daily Dish, PC World, Don't Fear the Firehose, Fast Company, News Desk, The Next Web, Danger Room, MarketWatch, Talking Points Memo, @parislemon, VentureBeat, Mediaite, Jon Slattery and LA Observed, more at Techmeme »

Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:

The New York Times Adjusts Printing on The Fly — It's an overused phrase that is rarely used to mean exactly what it's supposed to mean, but last night it literally happened: Someone gave the order to stop the presses. Eileen Murphy, Vice President of Corporate Communications at The New York Times …

Discussion: Chicago Tribune, FishbowlLA, Gawker, Runnin' Scared, Movieline, SocialTimes.com, TVNewser, GalleyCat, Gizmodo and The Cheat Sheet

Andrea Morabito / Broadcasting & Cable:
At CNN, Scrambling to Prepare for an Unknown Story

Discussion: Mediaite and The Daily Beast

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
Here's the guy who unwittingly live-tweeted the raid on Bin Laden

Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Online, an Urge to Be a Part of the Bin Laden News

Discussion: Media Decoder, Mediaite and WebProNews, more at Techmeme »

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Media Scrambles To Cover Bin Laden News

Discussion: Slate, BBC, The Daily Caller, www.wnyc.org, Poynter, Adweek, @nickbilton, Tuned In, Online NewsHour and Reportr.net

Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter Just Had Its CNN Moment

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Twitter Does Not Supplant Other Media, It Amplifies It

Discussion: Poynter, The Social, The Huffington Post and Epicenter, more at Techmeme »

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
First Credible Reports Of Bin Laden's Death Spread Like Wildfire On Twitter

CBS News:

Lara Logan breaks silence on Cairo assault — Talks to Scott Pelley about sexual assault, her rescue and recovery — Lara Logan feared she would die a “torturous death” during a sexual assault and beating she suffered at the hands of a violent mob in Egypt's Tahrir Square.

Discussion: NY Daily News, The Wire, Gothamist, Mediaite and Boing Boing

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

In aftermath of Lara Logan's attack, CPJ learns more about journalists sexually assaulted on the job — In an interview with 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley, CBS reporter Lara Logan recounted the day she was sexually assaulted by a mob of 200 to 300 men while covering the protests in Egypt.

Emily Bell:

Real time, All the time: Why every news organisation has to be live — Twitter does not have many users in Abbottabad in Pakistan, where Facebook is apparently more the social platform of choice. But it has enough to break the first sounds of gunfire in the fight which was to eventually lead to the death of Osama bin Laden.

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Coming soon to a theater near you: The New York Times — The New York Times just announced a new initiative: The paper is teaming up with the theater network Emerging Pictures to produce “Times in Cinema,” a branded preshow tailored for independent theatrical venues.

Discussion: The New York Times Company and FishbowlNY

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Freemium Revisited: Paying For Content-Based Applications — Last week, Instapaper's founder Marco Arment gave us a remarkable insight into the economics of content applications. For readers who haven't used Instapaper on their iPad or iPhone (preferably on both): this application is an absolute must-have.

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu

New York Times:

NBC Expected to Pick Curry as ‘Today’ Co-Host — NBC is about to shuffle the deck of the most profitable news program on television. — The network is expected to hold a news conference Monday morning to announce that Ann Curry will succeed Meredith Vieira as the co-host of “Today,” …

Discussion: Hollywood Life, Adweek, Wall Street Journal, TVWeek.com, The Daily Caller and New York Magazine

ProPublica:

PR Industry Fills Vacuum Left by Shrinking Newsrooms — by John Sullivan, Special to ProPublica — This story has been co-published with the Columbia Journalism Review. — The Gulf oil spill was 2010's biggest story, so when David Barstow walked into a Houston hotel for last December's hearings …

Discussion: Poynter

AdAge:

Facebook's Sales Chief: Madison Avenue Doesn't Understand Us Yet — Microsoft Vet Everson Says It Is About More Than Ads and Collecting ‘Fans’ — Carolyn Everson made a big splash when she jumped the Microsoft ship for Facebook in February. She'd only spent nine months in charge …

Discussion: Betabeat and SAI

Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:

Time Inc. in iPad Deal With Apple — Time Inc., the country's largest magazine publisher, has reached a deal with Apple Inc. to make all its iPad editions free for print subscribers, marking a break in the impasse between publishers and Apple and lending support to Time's contention …

Aljazeera:

Al Jazeera journalist missing in Syria — Al Jazeera demands information from Syria on whereabouts of journalist missing since arriving in Damascus on Friday. — Al Jazeera has demanded immediate information from Syria about one of its journalists who has been missing in the country since Friday afternoon.

Discussion: Media Decoder