Mediagazer: Future of Media: Curation, Verification and News as a Process (Mathew Ingram/GigaOM)

The Elephant in the Green Room — The circus Roger Ailes created at Fox News made his network $900 million last year. But it may have lost him something more important: the next election. — On Monday afternoon, March 28, Fox News chairman Roger Ailes summoned Glenn Beck to a meeting …

Discussion: Inside Cable News, Mediaite, The Atlantic Wire, TVNewser, The Daily Dish, The Huffington Post and ShortFormBlog

Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:

The Gossip Machine, Churning Out Cash — LOS ANGELES — In late July 2010, the Southampton, N.Y., police charged Michael Lohan, the father of the actress Lindsay Lohan, with physically harassing his fiancée. When the news hit on the gossip Web site TMZ, Mr. Lohan was at the Sunset Tower …

'Schwarzenegger's a parent' dilemma for media: What names are news? — Satellite TV trucks were parked around a cul-de-sac in Bakersfield, Calif., last week. — Whatever the former housekeeper of Maria Shriver and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did or did not consent …

Jim Rainey / The Big Picture:
Schwarzenegger child: How Gawker named wrong ‘baby mama’

Discussion: http://www.Stinkyjournalism …, The Wire and Speakeasy

Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:

How the NY Times' social media strategy is evolving — Social media is always in a state of change, and the New York Times is adapting with it, explains the news organization's social media editor, Liz Heron, at the BBC's Social Media Summit (video). There are lots of good lessons in here for TV, as well.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

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: Metamedia and One Man & His Blog

Adam Tinworth / One Man & His Blog: bbcsms - Technology and Innovation

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

News is a subset of the conversation — Here's a tale that reveals how journalists tend to think of their role in the conversation that makes up news and society. — I think the conversation is happening all around us, with or without the journalists. I teach now that it's the role …

Discussion: Future of Journalism and Journalism.co.uk

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Media & tech: Reconcilable Differences — Media and tech worlds must work together. There is not a shred of a doubt about it. The former have lost the dual battle for growth and economic performance; the latter are attracting eyeballs and endless funding. Still.

Chris Hastings / Daily Mail:

An international TV star, a pop singer, an author and a comedian - everyone's at it, but with 30,000 tweets - can judges jail the lot? — A Premier League footballer's attempts to gag discussion of his extramarital affair with a Big Brother contestant appeared doomed to failure last night …

Discussion: New York Times, Guardian, The Independent, @pkafka and FleetStreetBlues

Agence France Presse:

AFP chairman talks media future with US counterparts — WASHINGTON — Emmanuel Hoog, AFP's chairman and chief executive officer, wound up a US tour over the weekend involving talks with US counterparts on how news organizations are adapting to the rapidly evolving landscape of new mobile and Internet media platforms.

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

Mindy McAdams / Teaching Online Journalism:

Is it stupid to major in journalism? — A funny thing about writing a blog for a long time is that sometimes you want to write a post ... and you discover that you have already written it. — My original post (from two years ago) seems to be just as valid today: Why does anyone major in journalism?

Michael Wolf / GigaOM:

Amazon: The Book Industry “In a Box”? — While most thought the biggest news out of Amazon's e-book business this week was the revelation that e-books now eclipse print books, it was actually the launch of the company's second genre imprint in the span of two weeks (and fifth imprint overall) that's the bigger deal.