Mediagazer: INTERVIEW : Megan McCarthy [Mediagazer] - ‘Queen of Aggregation’ (Paul Armstrong/Don't Fear the Firehose)

8:15 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: Guardian, Truthdig, CJR, Hollywood Life, AdAge, 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: Salon, MediaPost, New York Times, CJR, Inside TV, Gawker, mediabistro.com, The Nation, The Huffington Post, TVNewser, @carr2n, Broadcasting & Cable and FishbowlNY

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

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

At the NYT, no paywall exemption for Bin Laden — When The New York Times announced its pay meter back in March, publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. also announced that — along with the many, many other pores and passages the paper had built into its gate — the Times had built into its new system …

Discussion: New York Observer, Broadcasting & Cable, Media Decoder, The Daily Beast, Mediaite and AdAge

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

Andrea Morabito / Broadcasting & Cable:

At CNN, Scrambling to Prepare for an Unknown Story — With limited initial information, network prepped for multiple scenarios — When CNN got word the evening of May 1 that President Obama was going to make a statement, it immediately fired up its Washington-based operations without knowing what the story was.

Discussion: Adweek, splicetoday.com, MediaPost, Online NewsHour and Mediaite

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

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

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

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

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

Discussion: Slate, BBC, Mediaite, Adweek, www.wnyc.org, @nickbilton, Epicenter, Tuned In, Online NewsHour and Poynter

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

Discussion: The Social, Poynter, Neowin.net and The Daily Caller

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

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.

Discussion: Echo

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

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.

CBS News:
Lara Logan breaks silence on Cairo assault

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

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

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

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

Paul Armstrong / Don't Fear the Firehose:

INTERVIEW : Megan McCarthy [Mediagazer] - ‘Queen of Aggregation’ — Megan McCarthy currently runs Mediagazer, a news aggregator focusing on stories examining the changes in the media industry and the implementation of technology into mass communications (read: my bible).

Discussion: @themediaisdying

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 and The Daily Caller

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

David Kaplan / paidContent:

New York Magazine E-Newsletter To Aggregate Weekly Deals — New York magazine is about to launch a weekly “deals” e-newsletter and online adjunct, but instead of matching offers play to advertisers, it will aggregate “the best of the best” of other e-commerce sites' picks.

Discussion: Folio, MediaPost and FishbowlNY