Mediagazer: A reporter's view on the news industry's broken commenting system (Lauren Rabaino/10,000 Words)

1:25 PM ET, May 21, 2011

Top News:

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Future of Media: Curation, Verification and News as a Process — As part of a “social media summit” this week, the BBC posted an overview of how its user-generated content desk handles reports from the field — verifying and curating them in much the same way that Andy Carvin of NPR …

Discussion: Future of Journalism and Storyful, Thanks:shelholtz

Martin Belam / currybetdotnet:

My notes from the BBC Social Media Summit — I spent much of today at the BBC Social Media Summit, and thought it worth putting together a few quick notes on the things that stood out for me. — Nic Newman and social media research — First off, I thought Nic Newman's research on the use …

Discussion: BBC

Adam Tinworth / One Man & His Blog:

bbcsms - Technology and Innovation — Nic Newman — Social media is your friend, not your competitor. Visits to news sites is growing at about the same rate as social media visits. — So who is losing? — Search is starting to fall as a source of information - being replaced by social discovery.

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Lauren Rabaino / 10,000 Words:

A reporter's view on the news industry's broken commenting system — News comments are broken. It was a popular topic of last night's Hacks/Hackers Seattle meetup and the driving notion behind one of the Knight-Mozilla News Challenge, which asks, “How can we reinvent online news discussions?”.

Discussion: TVSpy and eBookNewser

Bloomberg:

TV Networks Fueled by Netflix Effect Introduce Most New Shows Since 2004 — The four biggest U.S. television networks are introducing the most shows in seven years as subscription services like Netflix Inc. (NFLX) make spending on new programs less risky. — This week, CBS, Fox …

Discussion: Bloomberg and MediaPost

Jim Rainey / The Big Picture:

Schwarzenegger child: How Gawker named wrong ‘baby mama’ — The story of Arnold Schwarzenegger and the household worker who bore his child more than a decade ago has created something like the Fog of War, I suggested the other day. When fact, fiction and journalistic standards blur …

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

On Copyright, Eric Schmidt Is Right and Britain Is Wrong — Google chairman Eric Schmidt has been taking some flak from large media and content companies for comments he made about copyright in Britain, where the authorities have been considering a rewrite of the country's 300-year-old copyright laws.

Discussion: Telegraph, eGov monitor and Future of Journalism, Thanks:mathewi

Dawn Chmielewski / Company Town:

Katie Couric is closing in on a deal with ABC for an afternoon talk show — One of the most high-profile media courtships may soon be consummated: Katie Couric is closing in on a deal with Walt Disney Co.'s ABC to host an afternoon talk show. — Couric, who anchored the CBS Evening News …

Discussion: The Corsair, Adweek, Hollywood Life, TVNewser, Mediaite, Guardian, New York Times and TVWeek.com

Gregory Ferenstein / Fast Company:

Meet Facebook's Journalist Ambassador (Yes, We Said Ambassador) — A 25-year-old Columbia Professor of Journalism, Vadim Lavrusik, is Mark Zuckerberg's media macher. — Facebook now accounts for more than 5% of traffic for many major news outlets. As the Internet floods users with options …

New York Post:

Battle over Condé Nast office space at 1 WTC — When Condé Nast finally moves into its new downtown digs at 1 WTC, many of the denizens of the city's glitziest publishing house will be in a for a rude surprise: the new office plan calls for open floor seating in the 1 million square feet of office space.

Discussion: MinOnline, FishbowlNY, New York Magazine and Gothamist

Brian Morrissey / digiday:DAILY:

Cheezburger's Ben Huh on Viral Snake Oil — Ben Huh is an Internet pioneer. He popularized the Internet meme of drawing funny, misspelled captions on cute cat photos, called LOLcats, using it as the basis of his media company Cheezburger. Its sites include Failblog and The Daily What.

Discussion: Poynter

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

Hyperlocal Network Main Street Connect Buys CentralMassNews — Main Street Connect, which owns 10 hyperlocal news sites in Connecticut, is expanding its portfolio significantly: The company has just picked up CentralMassNews, which owns ten local news sites in central Massachusetts.

Discussion: Street Fight, Media Nation and NYConvergence.com

Joe Mullin / paidContent:

Wall Street Journal Reporter Takes Heat Over Tone Of Privacy Series — In many ways, the series of articles about online privacy that the Wall Street Journal began publishing last year has set the tone for the privacy debate nationally—but not everyone is thrilled about that.

Discussion: Advertising Lab

Gena Chung / American Journalism Review:

Continuing the Struggle — Her husband, editor of a newspaper in Sri Lanka, was gunned down. Now in exile in New York City, Sonali Samarasinghe presses forward with their fight for press freedom and justice in their native country. Posted: Friday, May 20 2011