Mediagazer: Back to the Future! NBC's Ignore-the-Web Ad Pitch (Peter Kafka/MediaMemo)

3:55 PM ET, May 17, 2011

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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, Mixed Media, Adweek, FishbowlNY, Editors Weblog and MediaPost

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.

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post Disputes Study Touting Drudge's Influence

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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: the blip.tv blog, Bits, MediaPost, AdAge, Marketing Pilgrim, GigaOM, SAI, PC Magazine and Betabeat, more at Techmeme »

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: @gillianmae, @zseward, @zseward, Beyond Search, Future of Journalism and Search Engine Land, more at Techmeme »

Chase Hensel / The Official Google Blog:
Expanding Google News for more variety and multimedia

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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: New York Times, Gothamist, New York Magazine and ShortFormBlog

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 …

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Al-Jazeera journalist has vanished — Al-Jazeera English journalist Dorothy Parvaz has been disappeared. Authorities in both Syria and Iran now deny that she is being held in their countries. — It is known that Parvaz, pictured here, flew from Doha to Damascus on assignment for the network, landing on 29 April.

Discussion: Media News, Future of Journalism, Journalism.co.uk and Reporters Without Borders

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.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Back to the Future! NBC's Ignore-the-Web Ad Pitch — At the annual “upfront” presentations this week, the broadcast networks try to sell advertisers the shows they'll air next fall, using splashy presentations and cocktails. — Depending on the year and the network, you'll also hear some lip service paid to digital.

Discussion: Media Decoder

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: Future of Journalism, PRNewser and Gawker

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Sam Feist Named CNN Washington Bureau Chief — CNN's EVP Ken Jautz has named Sam Feist as the new bureau chief in Washington, DC, effective immediately. — In a note to the staff, obtained by TVNewser, Jautz writes, “Sam has a unique combination of skills that will allow him to not only lead the bureau …

Discussion: Mediaite, On Media's Blog, Multichannel, FishbowlDC, Media Decoder and mediabistro.com

Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:

Glamour Editor Reflects on Early Days of iPad Publishing — The June issue of Glamour hit the App Store Monday morning, as the tenth issue the magazine has specially formatted for the iPad and the first available via digital subscription. — The issue [iTunes link], replete with engaging …

Discussion: Future of Journalism and MediaPost

Reuters:

Tech Summit Q&A, day 1: AOL's Tim Armstrong, Arianna Huffington — AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and Editor in Chief of The Huffington Post Arianna Huffington joined us Monday for the premiere of the 2011 Reuters Global Technology Summit. — Here's a clip of Tim Armstrong answering why he thinks …

Discussion: Saul Hansell's Blog, Forbes.com and Future of Journalism

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
AOL Huffpo Goes Trade with Energy, Gov't and Defense Sites

Discussion: Reuters, AOL Corp, Yahoo! News and MarketingVOX

Elissa Lerner / The Book Bench:

Biblion Roars to Life on the iPad — “The ‘world of tomorrow’ is here today,” according to a press release unveiling the new iPad app from the New York Public Library. The app, “Biblion: the Boundless Library,” is part of the “Find the Future” Centennial celebration, and lives up to its extraordinarily clever name.

Discussion: VentureBeat, eBookNewser and TeleRead

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

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.