Mediagazer: Did CEO McGrath Hate “Electric Barbarellas” so Much She Left MTV? (Amy Tennery/Mogulite)

3:50 PM ET, May 5, 2011

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Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

Telegraph Goes With Apple Subs For Newspaper-Like iPad Edition — The Telegraph, with its long-awaited version-two iPad app, out today, is the latest news publisher to try reasserting a paid news economy for its newspaper in digital tablet form. — The publisher's upgraded app …

Discussion: Media Week, Telegraph, Mobile Entertainment, Press Gazette, Electronista, MacStories, App Advice, The Next Web, One Man & His Blog and Garcia Media

Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:

Service launched for publishers to evade Apple cut — (Reuters) - Digital technology company Yudu launched a service on Thursday to help magazine publishers evade the 30 percent commission that Apple charges to deliver content to iPhones and iPads through its App Store.

Discussion: Media Week, YUDU Blog, App Advice and ReadWriteWeb, more at Techmeme »

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Hearst Makes Deal to Sell Subscriptions on iPad, But Will Conde Nast Deliver First? — Rumors Percolate That iPad Subs Are Imminent at Conde Nast — Hearst Corp.'s new deal with Apple will make subscriptions available for iPad editions of Esquire, Popular Mechanics and O …

Discussion: FierceMobileContent, Editors Weblog, Guardian and NetNewsCheck Latest

Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:
Hearst Strikes Deal with Apple on iPad Subscriptions

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Why the man who tweeted Osama bin Laden raid is a citizen journalist — When I wrote earlier this week about how quickly people around the world learned that Sohaib Athar had “live tweeted” the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, I thought carefully before calling him a citizen journalist.

Discussion: Journalism.org, The Atlantic Wire, AndyDickinson.net, CNET News, The Lede, Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, The 6th Floor, MediaMemo, The Snitch and loose wire blog

Rem Rieder / American Journalism Review:
Passing on Rumors — Why it's a bad idea to glorify …

Discussion: Poynter, Storyful, Mediaite, The Daily Beast and Broadcasting & Cable

MG Siegler / parislemon:
On Bin Laden Killing Tech Blogging

Discussion: WebProNews, @fredericl, @sg, broadstuff, Adweek and New York Magazine

TMZ.com:

Katie Couric On the Verge of $20 Million ABC Deal — Katie Couric and ABC television are on the verge of signing a $20 million deal, which would give Katie her own talk show, as well as significant involvement in ABC News — and the big casualty could be “General Hospital.”

Discussion: The Wire, TVNewser, New York Magazine, rbr.com, TVbytheNumbers, TVGuide.com, Hollywood Life, Gothamist, Deadline.com and PopEater

New York Post:
NBC exec out over ‘Couric link’

Discussion: Company Town, Hollywood Reporter, Mogulite and TVWeek.com

Amy Tennery / Mogulite:

Did CEO McGrath Hate “Electric Barbarellas” so Much She Left MTV? — She was the leader behind MTV's reality show boom, championing programs like “Jersey Shore” and “Teen Mom” — but, in an ironic turn of events, we suspect network veteran Judy McGrath is now ditching her CEO spot over true-life T.V.

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire and New York Magazine

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Judy McGrath Leaving MTV Networks; The Memo — Viacom (NYSE: VIA) and Judy McGrath said this morning that the longtime head of MTV Networks has resigned. Company sources stress the decision is McGrath's—and, after making it through some very tough sledding, she leaves MTVN at the top of its game.

Discussion: Adweek, The Wrap, rbr.com, AdAge, Media Decoder, Company Town, PR Newswire, MediaPost, Broadcasting & Cable and @kenli729

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Can Patch Become the Huffington Post of Local News? — AOL continues to pour millions of dollars into its Patch.com “hyperlocal” news project, the company confirmed on Wednesday as it released its latest financial statements. But it's also rolling out an expansion of that project aimed …

Discussion: Street Fight, Reuters, SAI and Mixed Media, Thanks:morisy

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Hot Damn, AOL Is Making One Big, Expensive Bet on Patch

Discussion: FishbowlNY and SAI, more at Techmeme »

Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post: Local Voices: Hyperlocal Blogging Comes to Patch

Bill Keller / New York Times:

The Inner Lives of Wartime Photographers — This has been a grievous season for the tight-knit tribe of combat photographers. For The Times, the sorrow began last October, when a land mine exploded under Joao Silva while he was shooting pictures of an American patrol near Kandahar …

Discussion: Lens, Forbes.com and The 6th Floor

The Atlantic Online:

The Wall Street Journal Launches a WikiLeaks Competitor, SafeHouse — The respected Washington, D.C.-based newspaper has built a site for securely uploading documents to its own internal servers — Once upon a time, WikiLeaks was just a place where a would-be whistleblower could submit documents …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Tom Foremski and WebProNews, more at Techmeme »

Wall Street Journal / @wsj:
Introducing WSJ SafeHouse, a secure way to share confidential documents with us. Check it out: https://www.wsjsafehouse.com/

Discussion: Guardian, Mixed Media, Poynter, Journalism.co.uk, @jason, NewsGrange and @wikileaks

Twitter Blog:

Watching Together: Twitter and TV — TV and Twitter have a special connection. Broadcasters are eager to provide new ways to drive viewer engagement. Twitter provides a forum for real-time context and commentary that turns watchers into participants. — Over the past few years …

Discussion: SocialTimes.com, Softpedia News, WebProNews and On The Air

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:

Amazon to Publish New Line of Romances — Amazon.com Inc. is expanding its fast-growing publishing business with a new line of romance books, its latest quest for original content to distinguish its print and digital bookselling services. — The imprint, Montlake Romance, will publish digital …

Discussion: O'Reilly Radar, Guardian, Digital Trends and GeekWire

One Reporter's Notebook:

Reporting from analytics: Example — I've written before on writing from analytics, but what happened today was just such a good example, I think it's worth sharing. Briefly: checking out my site analytics, and taking clues from them led me to an unreported homicide. — Here's the step-by-step.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab

The Steve Rubel Stream:

As Curators Proliferate, Media Brands Face Loyalty Crisis — Summary: — Suddenly media brands are facing increased competition from an array of upstart curators that are growing in popularity — There are three underlying trends that are driving their rapid rise: mobile devices, remixing technologies and, arguably, paywalls

Discussion: Folio, Thanks:steverubel

David Kravets / Threat Level:

CNET Accused of Copyright Infringement for Distributing LimeWire — CBS Interactive, the owner of CNET, is being sued for facilitating “massive copyright infringement” for distributing the LimeWire software, a file sharing service a federal judge ruled illegal last year.