Mediagazer: Google deflects PR firm's attack of Gmail privacy (USA Today)

10:45 AM ET, May 11, 2011

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Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism:

The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism — A new report by Bill Grueskin, Ava Seave and Lucas Graves — A recording of this event will be posted soon. — Can digital journalism be profitable? What's making money, what isn't, and why?

Discussion: Poynter, AdPulp and FishbowlNY

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Future of Media: Lots of Questions, But No Easy Answers — The Columbia School of Journalism released a massive report on Tuesday that looks at the current landscape of digital media — the small and the large, the mainstream and the alternative — and finds what will come as no surprise …

Discussion: Future of Journalism and CJR

Emily Bell / Guardian:
Why integration can be a barrier to innovation in the digital world

Discussion: paidContent, CJR and Adweek

Felix Salmon:
The business of digital journalism

Discussion: One Man & His Blog, New York Magazine, The Daily Dish, CJR, CJR and Editors Weblog

USA Today:

Google deflects PR firm's attack of Gmail privacy — It's not as if Google lacks privacy controversies to quell. — Yet Burson-Marsteller, a top-five public relations firm, is attempting to pile more on. — Burson last week stepped up a whisper campaign to get top-tier media outlets …

Discussion: Adweek, Future of Journalism, SAI and PRNewser

Joe Mullin / paidContent:

PR Firm's Attempt To Plant Anti-Google Privacy Story Backfires — Almost every technology company these days is starting to take some heat over privacy issues, and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is certainly no exception. (Just this morning, its head of public policy was being interrogated by a Senate subcommittee.)

Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:

The news behind bars — Calvert Porter sits down behind the anchor desk and straightens his collar. His co-anchor, Keith Williams, studies his script. “Do you want a sound check?” Porter asks. 14 Comments Weigh InCorrections? Live Q&A, noon Yates: Broadcasting behind bars Ask Now “No, you're all right,” the cameraman says.

Discussion: Poynter

Jason Fry / Poynter:

How valuable is your brand? 4 questions to determine whether to stay or go, plus how to keep your biggest stars happy — The age of the individual brand was inevitable, a natural consequence of the way digital media has remade our reading habits. In print, columns have a home on a section front …

Keach Hagey / On Media's Blog:
John Solomon to NewsBeast

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Aljazeera:

Missing Al Jazeera reporter deported to Iran — Al Jazeera's Dorothy Parvaz, missing since arriving in Damascus almost two weeks ago, is now understood to be in Tehran. — Missing Al Jazeera journalist Dorothy Parvaz has been deported from Syria to Iran, the network has learned.

Discussion: Guardian and msnbc.com

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Wall Street Journal Deploying iPhone 4 Globally for News Gathering and Live Streaming — The Wall Street Journal is training its print reporters to use the iPhone 4 for video news gathering and live streaming via Skype Video, says Kevin Delaney, Managing Editor of the WSJ.com

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Helen Pidd / Guardian:

Celebrity scoop faker stars in biopic — Tom Kummer outdid his rivals with fabricated exclusives - now documentary tells how he fooled German media — The Hollywood press pack just couldn't understand it. How was a Swiss young buck persuading the world's biggest stars to lay bare …

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Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:

5 big problems with ‘Navigating News Online’ study — You might find some valid research in the Navigating News Online study published Monday by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a project of the Pew Foundation. — But the study needed lots of context that an organization committed to excellence in journalism should provide.

Discussion: Still Not Going To Do …, SocialTimes.com and Lost Remote

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Wenner Digital Chief Schwartz Returns To Reuters For Biz Dev Role — Steven Schwartz, who became Wenner Media's first chief digital officer about 2-and-a-half years ago, is leaving the Rolling Stone publisher to head up global business development for Reuters (NYSE: TRI) Media.

Discussion: Yahoo! News and Talking Biz News

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Roku Owners are “Cutting the Cord” in Substantial Numbers — Some 15-20 percent of Roku owners are cancelling their cable or satellite services agreement and are relying solely on a broadband connection to get their television programming, said company VP Jim Funk in this exclusive interview with Beet.TV.

Discussion: Streaming Media Magazine

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Pulitzer winner Stewart to join NYT biz desk — TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE — James Stewart, the Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist, is joining the New York Times business desk to write a column in the Saturday business section, a source confirmed to Talking Biz News.

Discussion: CJR, On Media's Blog, Media Decoder, WWD Media Headlines, Adweek, @romenesko, @felixsalmon and Cision

Xan Rice / The Atlantic Online:

Death by Tabloid — Uganda's most infamous journalist makes no apologies. — IT'S MID-AFTERNOON when Giles Muhame, 23, finally arrives at the canteen of Kampala's Makerere University. He first blames the traffic, and then suggests that he was observing me from a distance for some time.