Mediagazer: NY Times CEO: We Jumped Onto the Horse of Change (Jeff Bercovici/Mixed Media)

1:35 AM ET, May 20, 2011

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

NY Times CEO: We Jumped Onto the Horse of Change — If Twitter makes you stupid, as New York Times executive editor Bill Keller believes, then the Times is extinguishing more brain cells than any other newspaper — and CEO Janet Robinson is darn happy about that.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Forbes.com, The Buttry Diary, Techland, Most Recent Home Page Posts … and FishbowlNY

Alex Leo / MediaFile:

Bill Keller's war on the Internet keeps the Times down — It seems every time Bill Keller takes pen to paper (or hand to keyboard) these days it's to express displeasure with some aspect of the Internet. Last week he tweeted “#TwitterMakesYouStupid. discuss.”

Discussion: Runnin' Scared and Future of Journalism

Reuters:
Bill Keller's blind spots

Discussion: Poynter and Poynter

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of the missing link — Picture Pre-Tablet Man (or Woman). Let's go back to the time before Palm Pilots, at the dawn of consumer digital civilization itself, a time of AOL, Prodigy, and Compuserve. Hunched heavily by the analog world on his shoulders …

Scott Karp / Publish2 Blog:
How to Make It Easy for Newspapers to Link on the Web

Thanks:p2chairman

Mathew Ingram / GigaOMGigaOM:
Why Is It Still So Hard to Get Some Media Outlets to Link?

Discussion: Future of Journalism and Editors Weblog, Thanks:sue_anne

Amazon.com:

Amazon.com Now Selling More Kindle Books Than Print Books — Kindle with Special Offers for only $114 is already the bestselling member of the Kindle family — (NASDAQ:AMZN)—Amazon began selling hardcover and paperback books in July 1995. Twelve years later in November 2007 …

Richard Sandomir / New York Times:

Dick Ebersol to Leave NBC Sports — Dick Ebersol, who has run NBC Sports since 1989 and engineered the network's bids to acquire the rights to more Olympics than any other, resigned on Thursday when he said he could not come to an agreement on a new contract.

Discussion: Company Town, SportsNewser, Multichannel, Broadcasting & Cable, Adweek, The Wire, Globetrotting, TVNewser, The Atlantic Wire, Mediaite, paidContent, Forbes.com, rbr.com, Deadspin, CNBC, TVWeek.com, New York Magazine, TVSpy and Inside TV

The Atlantic Online:

Did the New York Public Library Just Build the Magazine App of the Future? — The new Biblion app could be a model for how to present information on the tablet — Silicon Valley watcher Tom Foremski likes to say that “every company is a media company” in the Internet age.

Discussion: Poynter, App Advice, SocialTimes.com and Forbes.com

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
The Future of Media: Brands Are Publishers Now Too

Discussion: TechCrunch, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Adweek and TUAW, Thanks:bamonaghan

Carol Marie Cropper / NetNewsCheck Latest:

Honolulu Says Aloha To Add-Free Experiment — Hawaii's palm trees and gentle breezes have given rise to one of the nation's boldest experiments in online news. Honolulu Civil Beat, founded by eBay creator Pierre Omidyar, is vying to take its place among the usual newspaper and TV sites in the Honolulu online arena.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Nikki Usher / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Conversation, the startup Australian news site, wants to bring academic expertise to breaking news — What would happen if you had close to 1,000 academics available to contribute to the breaking news cycle? Would it change the course, and the discourse, of news? — Andrew Jaspan thinks it will.

Discussion: J-Source

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Breaking: Liberty Media Offers Nearly $1 Billion For Barnes & Noble — Bankrupt Borders needs a sale the most but Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), which put itself in play last August, is the book retailer with a serious suitor—and they don't come much more serious than John Malone.

Discussion: The Wrap and Tech Trader Daily, more at Techmeme »

The Atlantic Wire:

What We've Learned So Far from Radical Transparency — The reason for our experiment in transparency, moving the editorial conversation that keeps the site running out into the open, was primarily that we couldn't think of a good reason not to do it. If anything it would be interesting …

Discussion: Mashable!, Forbes.com, Future of Journalism, J-Source and MediaMemo

Tom Cleary / Westport News:

Tech writer David Pogue, wife, charged in Westport dispute — David Pogue, the New York Times technology columnist and CBS News correspondent, speaks at the Technology Today Business Forum at the Courtyard by Marriott in Shelton, Conn. Thursday, May 19th 2011.

Discussion: Gawker, The Wire, The Wrap, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine, Adweek and FishbowlNY

Edmund Lee / AdAge:

Wenner Media, Publisher of Rolling Stone, Names a New Chief Digital Officer — Michael Bloom Succeeds Steven Schwartz — Rolling Stone and Us Weekly publisher Wenner Media has named Michael Bloom its new chief digital officer, a role that's enjoying a bit of resurgence at media companies even as it evolves.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Twitpic changes reveal conflict as users, journalists, photo sharing services have competing goals — The popular photo-sharing service Twitpic this month took more control over the photos that millions of Twitter users upload to its site each month. — Although it provoked an outcry …

Discussion: PlagiarismToday

Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:

How the Los Angeles Times Got Its Schwarzenegger Love Child Scoop — With its bracing expose of former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's “lust child,” the financially-stricken L.A. Times has once again proven that it can still break important stories in its backyard.