Mediagazer: How Do You Define Web Series Success? (Liz Shannon Miller/GigaOM)

12:10 AM ET, May 9, 2011

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The hermetic and arrogant New York Times — The NYT employs some of the smartest and ablest users and analysts of social media: it's probably the most sophisticated newspaper in America on that front. And then it has dinosaurs like Bill Keller and Arthur Brisbane, whose respective columns …

Discussion: Salon and SocialFlow Company Blog

Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:

The White House's Bedtime Bombshell — As Helene Cooper, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, recalled it: — “I was in pajamas on my couch watching a DVR recording of the royal wedding a little before 10 p.m. when the Washington weekend editor, David Joachim …

Discussion: The Public Editor's Journal and TeleRead

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Lessons from the Bin Laden coverage — One after the other, the newscycles of momentous events keep reshaping the digital information landscape. The latest example of such alteration is the Bin Laden story, it just set a new reference point. For traditional media, this raises …

Discussion: Mashable!, The Atlantic Wire and TUAW

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

The Tech Press: Screw Them All — Last week I wrote a post about my current investment policy at TechCrunch, and pointing out already disclosed financial conflicts of interest. Our primary duty to readers, as I've said many times, is transparency. To that end we will (as we always have) …

Lewis DVorkin / Forbes.com:

Who's Doing It Right? How SBNation Marries Talent and Technology in Sports — I'm often asked, “Who's doing it right?” Or, “Who do you watch?” Or, “Who's doing things you wish you were doing?” — It's a simple answer: SBNation, the sports blogging network, and its CEO, Jim Bankoff.

David Carr / New York Times:

Now to Sell Advertisers on Tablets — If you wanted to get your message in front of a reader of The New Yorker, it would cost you $141,174 for a full-page ad in the magazine's glossy pages. — What would it be worth to reach the same reader if he or she were on an iPad? More, less or the same?

Peter Preston / Guardian:

Hold the front page - it's time US papers had a redesign — The Wall Street Journal looks fresh and modern, and circulation is rising. For many other American newspapers, neither of those things is true — Here are three seemingly unrelated things you notice this only-in-America week.

Liz Shannon Miller / GigaOM:

How Do You Define Web Series Success? — In the independent web series world, success can be tough to define. Sure, there are bootstrapping shows that are undeniably winners, but for every Guild there's the series that may have never reached mainstream success, but helped its creator land …

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Exclusive: Rachel Maddow Leads Video Consumption among NBC News Network Shows — The Rachel Maddow Show enjoys the highest degree of engagment, meaning minutes spent per month, among all the NBC News and MSNBC news programs, according to MSNBC.com president Charles Tillinghast, in this inteview with Beet.TV

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Michael Martin / The Business Insider:

How Social Media Is Affecting Investing And The Quality Of Financial Journalism … There were two great panels on social media and financial journalism that ran concurrently at the 2011 Milken Global Conference on Wednesday. CNBC's John Carney was a panelist on “Financial Journalism: Watching the Watchdogs.”

Discussion: SAI, Future of Journalism and Talking Biz News

Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:

Google Loses Copyright Appeal Over Internet Links to Belgian Newspapers — Google Inc. (GOOG) lost an attempt to overturn a Belgian ruling that blocked it from publishing links to local newspapers on its online news service. — The Court of Appeal in Brussels on May 5 upheld …

Discussion: TeleRead

Joe Mullin / paidContent:

Righthaven, Hoping To Turn Tide In Court, Hires Top NYC Copyright Lawyer — Controversial copyright-enforcement company Righthaven—which has worked with newspapers to file more than 250 copyright lawsuits against small websites—has not been faring well in court lately, to say the least.

Julia Boorstin / Media Money with Julia Boorstin:

What Warner Music Sale Means for the Music Business — After three months of bidding, Warner Music was finally sold to Access Industries' Len Blavatnik for $3.3 billion. Blavatnik, a Russian billionaire with a taste for deal-making is paying a premium of about a third over WMG's average share price …

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Krishna Bharat on the evolution of Google News and the many virtues of “trusting in the algorithm” — In a blog entry just posted to the Google News blog, Google News' founder, Krishna Bharat, offers a fascinating comparison between Google's “coverage” of 9/11 and the news it provided of Osama bin Laden's death earlier this week.

Discussion: Digital Inspiration …