Mediagazer: Al Jazeera journalist missing in Syria (Aljazeera)

3:15 AM ET, May 3, 2011

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Patrick Gavin / The Politico:

BOLD BIN LADEN HEADLINES IN NEW YORK — In New York, it's a daily competition to see which paper will have the catchiest front page: The New Post or the New York Daily News. And both papers were put to the test for Monday's paper when news broke late Sunday that Osama bin Laden had been killed.

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: The Politico, The Huffington Post, Slate, ThinkProgress, Folio, MediaMemo, Crikey, Speakeasy, MediaPost, New York Observer and Media Decoder, more at Techmeme »

Andrea Morabito / Broadcasting & Cable:

CBS News Chief On Bin Laden Reporting: Talks Couric, Gabby Giffords and More — News President tells B&C why the net opted for weekend anchor, Washington team for Sunday coverage — not exiting anchor Couric — CBS News President David Rhodes said his team was careful about everything …

Discussion: MediaMemo, New York Observer, The Daily Beast, Lauren Young, AdAge, Mediaite and Media Decoder, more at Techmeme »

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, Guardian, bizjournals, Yahoo! News, Hollywood Life, Salon, Truthdig, Mashable!, @jacksonjk, AdAge, New York Times, TPMDC, USA Today, Editors Weblog and TechCrunch

David W. Dunlap / Lens:

Firefighters Gather for News of Bin Laden — Michael Appleton managed to bridge a decade in a single photograph on Sunday night. — His perfectly distilled picture showed the firefighters of Ladder Company 4 — which lost seven men on 9/11 — perched together on their aerial ladder …

Discussion: CNNMoney.com and CNN, more at Techmeme »

Jenna Wortham / Bits:

Online, an Urge to Be a Part of the Bin Laden News — When President Obama delivered the news of Osama bin Laden's death late Sunday night, many of those watching were doing more than watching. — For example, users of Instagram, a popular photo-sharing application for the iPhone …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Mediaite, WebProNews and Poynter

Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
The New York Times Adjusts Printing on The Fly

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Chicago Tribune, TVNewser, Gawker, Adweek, @nickbilton, SocialTimes.com, Runnin' Scared, Movieline, GalleyCat, Kotaku, The Cheat Sheet and The Huffington Post

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
NYT: No honorific for Bin Laden

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Salon, Runnin' Scared, New York Times, Nicholas D. Kristof, MediaPost, mediabistro.com, Inside TV, Broadcasting & Cable, Gawker, The Nation, TVNewser, The Hill, The Huffington Post, The Lede, @carr2n and FishbowlNY

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

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

Discussion: The Social, Poynter, New York Times, GigaOM, Salon and The Daily What

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

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Claim: Krugman is top prognosticator; Cal Thomas is the worst — Romenesko Misc. — A Hamilton College class and their public policy professor analyzed the predicts of 26 pundits — including Sunday morning TV talkers — and used a scale of 1 to 5 to rate their accuracy.

Discussion: New York Magazine and The Wire

Ben Popper / Betabeat:

YouTube Pays Two New Yorkers to Become the Next Video Stars — For Franchesca Ramsey is started with hair, her dreads, which people on the street would sometimes reach out and touch without asking. “I got a new iMac and it had a camera, so I decided to try it out and just talk about whatever came to mind,” says Ramsey.

Matt McLernon / YouTube Blog:
Introducing the stars of the future - on YouTube today

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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

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

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Exclusive: Yahoo Nabs Jai Singh From AOL's HuffPo as Editor-in-Chief — According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo has grabbed one of Huffington Post's top editors, Jai Singh, to become its editor-in chief. — The move is a big one in the online editorial arena.

Discussion: paidContent

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: Digital Life

Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

If A Rumor Turns Out To Be True, Is It News? — I learned long ago not to feed the trolls — not even when they happen to be columnists in prominent trade publications like AdAge — but this guy seems so angry about my post calling Twitter the new CNN that I figured a quick reply was in order.

Discussion: Poynter, The Business Insider and The Not-So Private Parts