Mediagazer: Righthaven Target Hits Back With Class Action Counter-Attack (Joe Mullin/paidContent)

8:30 PM ET, May 17, 2011

Top News:

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

What Journalism Is Like Now: Working With 2,000 Sources — We've written many times at GigaOM about how the media industry is being disrupted, and how that is being caused in part by the “democratization of distribution” that social-media tools such as Twitter and Facebook allow.

Discussion: Future Journalism Project, Future of Journalism and BBC College of Journalism Blog, Thanks:mathewi

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

Tina Brown: Newsweek Daily Beast Co. will be profitable in ‘two to three years’ — There was a moment during the chattery outset of Monday night's New York Deadline Club Awards dinner when Newsweek Daily Beast Company editor-in-chief Tina Brown appeared to be lost in thought.

Discussion: The Wire, FishbowlNY, Editors Weblog and Adweek

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
The Daily Beast/Newsweek Profitable in 2-3 Years? Hmmm.

Discussion: Runnin' Scared

Charles V. Bagli / New York Times:

Condé Nast Will Be Anchor of 1 World Trade Center — Condé Nast Publications, whose stable of magazines chronicles the American zeitgeist as meticulously as any anthropologist, has reached an agreement to lease one million square feet at 1 World Trade Center …

Discussion: New York Magazine, FishbowlNY and The Wire

virtualeconomics:

A citizen journalism model that really breaks news? — London-based citizen journalism start-up Blottr, which destealthed towards the end of February with a Techrunch write-up and recently announced a round of angel funding, led the news agenda for much of Monday by breaking the day's major UK news story.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Wall Street Journal:

French Watchdog Reins In Media Coverage of IMF Chief — PARIS—France's broadcasting watchdog called Tuesday on the country's television channels to be extremely cautious in showing footage of International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn in handcuffs, a practice that contravenes French law.

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, New York Times, Gothamist, New York Magazine and ShortFormBlog

Will Bunch / Philly.com:

How Drudge “stays on top”? Pandering on race, right-wing paranoia — It's been a noteworthy springtime for news here in my hometown of Philadelphia — a mayoral election, a fast start for the Phillies while the Flyers imploded in the NHL playoffs, the gruesome murder of a 9-year-old girl.

Discussion: Poynter, AdPulp, Editors Weblog, eMedia Vitals and Future of Journalism

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

With 1 Billion Views Per Quarter, Blip.tv Becomes A Video Destination (Interview) — Blip.tv started five years ago with a focus on helping budding video producers manage and distribute their shows across the Web. Slowly but surely, though, it's become a video destination in its own right …

Discussion: AdAge, Bits, the blip.tv blog, PC Magazine, SAI, GigaOM, Techland, Mashable!, Marketing Pilgrim, Betabeat and MediaPost

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

How Conor Friedersdorf created a magazine-club experience through his “Best of Journalism” list — Several years ago, when Conor Friedersdorf was working at the startup (and soon-to-be-departed) web magazine Culture 11, he and a few friends would gather regularly at Kramerbooks near Dupont Circle …

Shea Bennett / AllTwitter:

Updated AP Stylebook Adds Geolocation, Link Shortener, Unfollow And Other Twitter Terms — The Associated Press Stylebook, aka “the journalist's bible”, have released their 2011 guide and have included some new social media terms, including Twitter-friendly words and phrases such as geolocation, stream, link Shortener and unfollow.

Discussion: PRNewser and Gawker

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Web Ad Pioneer Dave Morgan Adapts Simulmedia To TV's Reality — The TV networks are spending the week telling advertisers to keep buying TV ads. — Great idea, says Dave Morgan. — If you pay attention to Web advertising but haven't kept track of Morgan recently, his position might strike …

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Eventually, One Of These Updates Will Make Google News Not Suck At Tech News, Right? — For as long as I can remember, there has been one constant in tech news: Google News sucks at it. — Now, that's not entirely fair since Google News doesn't actually provide any of their own content.

Discussion: GigaOM, @gillianmae, @zseward, @zseward, Techland, Beyond Search, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Softpedia News and CNET News

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Social TV Startup BeeTV Raises $1.5 Million, Releases iPad App — It's been two years almost to the day when Israeli startup BeeTV raised $8 million in funding for a - really impressive - personal TV suggestion engine they'd been building. — Fast forward to today, and the company has shifted …

Discussion: GigaOM and Future of Journalism

David Lieberman / Deadline.com:

Upfronts: Fox Offers One-Stop Ad Shopping For TV And Digital — Fox executives told advertisers today during its upfront presentation that it will embrace digital platforms by offering opportunities to buy spots that will run on a TV show anywhere it airs — including digital sites such as Hulu.

Joe Mullin / paidContent:

Righthaven Target Hits Back With Class Action Counter-Attack — Copyright enforcer Righthaven is on the ropes in its home state of Nevada, where defense lawyers are attacking its agreement with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, saying the flawed agreement doesn't give Righthaven the right to sue.