Mediagazer: Podcast: Richard Tofel on the Future of News (ProPublica)

3:15 PM ET, May 26, 2011

Top News:

Comcast Takes Online Rivals' Technology for a Spin — Comcast Corp., facing a growing threat from online video services, is fighting fire with fire. — The country's largest cable-service provider soon will start testing a new way to deliver its television channels, co-opting …

Discussion: gigaom.com, Light Reading, SAI, ZDNet, ReadWriteWeb, NetNewsCheck Latest, Electronista and Shelly Palmer Digital Living

Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:

ABC Deal Close for Katie Couric — THE DAILY BEAST ON: — The network is nearing an agreement with Katie Couric after upping the ante on a lucrative syndication offer. Howard Kurtz reports on the behind-the-scenes bidding for Couric's daytime show. — When Katie Couric started looking …

Discussion: TVNewser, Mediaite and The Atlantic Wire

Lauren Goode / Venture Capital Dispatch:

Groupon Founders Turn To Financial News With Benzinga Investment — In their latest investment through a separate seed fund, two Groupon founders are turning their attention towards a new area: financial news. … Lightbank, the seed fund created by Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell …

Discussion: Forbes.com and DailyDeal Media

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Zuckerberg: All Of Media Should Go Social Like Games Have — Facebook won't try to offer music, movie or book services - but CEO Mark Zuckerberg has grand pronouncements for those sectors nevertheless. … Whilst almost religiously celebrating internet users' ability to share …

Discussion: digiday:DAILY, Media News, Daily Mail, Digits, Consumer Reports News, Mashable!, AllThingsD, The Consumerist, SAI, ZDNet and Disruptors, more at Techmeme »

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Huffington-ization Of AOL Continues With Daily Finance Reset — AOL's Daily Finance channel has been one of its most highly trafficked over the past few years, but as the integration with Huffington Post continues apace, changes are coming. The company is announcing several new hires for the site …

Discussion: The Wire and FishbowlNY

Glynnis MacNicol / The Wire:
HuffPo Employees Flee AOL After “Brutal” “Awful” “Worst Few Weeks”

Discussion: FishbowlNY, NetNewsCheck Latest, Future of Journalism and SAI

Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:

Ed Schultz Apologizes On The Ed Show For Calling Laura Ingraham A ‘Right-Wing Slut’ — MSNBC's Ed Schultz, suspended by MSNBC Wednesday evening for calling conservative radio host Laura Ingraham a “right-wing slut” on his nationally syndicated radio show, addressed his comments …

Discussion: Facebook, On Media's Blog, Gretawire, NY Daily News, Washington Post, Adweek, FishbowlDC and Gawker

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Topolsky and Bankoff on Engadget, SB Nation, and the new tech site that's bringing them together — There can be a very real “through the looking glass” feel to working on a site that covers technology, especially when you start contemplating the technology of publishing.

Noah Davis / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

Magazine Editors Are 100% Sure Tumblrs Are Driving Subscriptions, But They Can't Prove It — The stunning success of Tumblr continues to filter its way across the internet landscape. — The rapidly maturing microblogging platform recently passed 250 million page views per day, shocking even founder David Karp.

ProPublica:

Podcast: Richard Tofel on the Future of News — ProPublica General Manager Richard Tofel joins the podcast this week to discuss the future of the news industry and where ProPublica's work fits in as a leading nonprofit outlet. — Although Tofel emphasizes that ProPublica alone cannot save …

Discussion: Poynter

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Yahoo, The Wall Street Journal and the Daily News Finding Revenue from Ashton Kutcher-backed SeatGeek — SeatGeek, the New York-based marketplace for premium tickets for sporting and entertainment events, is driving revenue for big publishers including Yahoo, The Wall Street Journal …

Discussion: New York Times, VentureBeat, gigaom.com, FishbowlNY and The Atlantic Wire

Jessica Roy / 10,000 Words:

Humans vs. Cyborgs: Four Ways @NYTimes Has Changed This Week — On Monday, New York Times social media editors Lexi Mainland and Liz Heron announced from the @NYTimes account that all week long, they would be engaging in a social experiment: the automated @NYTimes Twitter account …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, mediabistro.com, FishbowlDC, SocialTimes.com and NYConvergence.com

Brian McGrory / Boston Globe:

Connors joins group of investors looking to purchase Globe — (Dominic Chavez/Globe Staff/File 2008) — Prominent Boston businessman Jack Connors has joined a group of investors preparing an offer to buy The Boston Globe, adding new credibility to an investment team that has worked for over a year to raise funds.

Discussion: mediabistro.com, Poynter and DailyDeal Media

The Huffington Post:

Family Of Journalist Killed In Libya Trying To Get Body Home — JOHANNESBURG — The family of a South African photographer slain while covering turmoil in Libya is pleading with South Africa's president to help bring his remains home. — Bronwyn Friedlander, a spokeswoman for the family of Anton Hammerl …

Callum Borchers / NetNewsCheck Latest:

Online News Competition A Big Deal In Big D — Dallas-Fort Worth features a fragmented online news market, in which many outfits thrive in their chosen subjects, however narrow. Even those that are part of Dallas-Fort Worth's “Big Six” — the major newspaper and TV sites — display penchants for local and niche content.

Les Luchter / MediaPost:

Study: Online Video Ads Beat TV Ads In Viewer Recall — Viewers pay more attention to online video ads than to traditional TV commercials and also recall them better, according to new research that utilized Affectiva's facial tracking algorithms and second-by-second biometric modeling of cognition, excitement and stress levels.

Discussion: Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog

Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:

DMGT: Profits tumble in regions but rise for Daily Mail — Profits at Daily Mail and General Trust's Northcliffe regional newspapers division halved to £4m in the first half of this year. — But there was better news for Mail Online, the Daily Mail website, where its 66 million monthly browsers …

Discussion: Guardian and paidContent:UK