Mediagazer: Long way from hot metal: the changing face of newspapers (Michael Shmith/The Age)

2:40 AM ET, May 31, 2011

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Mathew Ingram / gigaom.com:

No, Twitter Is Not a Replacement For Journalism — Updated: In the wake of a number of events, including the use of Twitter as a real-time reporting tool by New York Times writer Brian Stelter during the aftermath of the recent tornado in Missouri, media theorist and journalism professor Jeff Jarvis …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, Common Sense Journalism, newsplexer and Future of Journalism

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

The article as luxury or byproduct — A few episodes in news make me think of the article not as the goal of journalism but as a value-added luxury or as a byproduct of the process. — * See the amazing Brian Stelter covering the Joplin tornado and begging his desk at The Times to turn …

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Mathew Ingram / gigaom.com:
NYT Reporter Shows the Power of Twitter as Journalism

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What I Learned In Joplin

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Nat Ives / AdAge:

Jann Wenner: Magazines' Rush to iPad Is ‘Sheer Insanity and Insecurity and Fear’ — Successful Migration to Tablet Editions Will Take ‘Decades,’ Rolling Stone Co-Founder Says in Interview — Nobody mistakes Jann Wenner — whose Wenner Media publishes Rolling Stone, Us Weekly and Men's Journal — for a digital fanboy.

Discussion: Poynter, AllThingsD, Future Journalism Project, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, eMedia Vitals, Common Sense Journalism and mediabistro.com

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

Funny or Die: Groupon's Fate Hinges on Words — RACHEL HANDLER is struggling to say something funny or perhaps amusing or at least clever about horses. Her mind is empty. She can't recall the last time she was on a horse or even saw a horse. The minutes fly by. Horses are nothing to joke about.

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Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

Harvard Business Review Reinvention Is Paying Off — Shortly after editors at the Harvard Business Review tore up their magazine in 2009, adding pictures to the cover, reader comments to their signature case studies and colorful illustrations — the horror! — cranky reader comments started coming in.

Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level:

Hacktivists Scorch PBS in Retaliation for WikiLeaks Documentary — Hackers posted a fake news story to the website of PBS's Newshour on Sunday. — A hacker group unhappy with PBS Frontline's hour-long documentary on WikiLeaks has hit back at the Public Broadcasting System by cracking its servers …

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Michael Shmith / The Age:

Long way from hot metal: the changing face of newspapers — The composing room at the former Age building on Spencer Street, during the last days of hot metal in 1983. — ALTHOUGH there are many people, even of the iPad generation, who still automatically associate the word “qwerty” …

David Carr / New York Times:

An Outsider Making Waves in Hollywood — LOS ANGELES — On an unusually clear day in West Hollywood last week, Janice Min took a seat at the Soho House, the full expanse of the Hollywood Hills serving as a backdrop for lunch. It was odd to see Ms. Min, a fixture of Manhattan magazine publishing …

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

The Value Live Video Streaming at The Wall Street Journal is both the Audience and Process — In addition to connecting with a valued audience with live programming, the process of creating daily Webcasts is valuable to the news organization, explains Kevin Delaney, Managing Editor of the WSJ.com

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Here's How You Might Be Able to Watch Live TV, For Free, on Your iPad — Your iPad can do lots of things, but live TV generally isn't one of them. With a few exceptions, the TV networks don't want their programming going out live anywhere but your big screen, under their supervision.

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Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:

New Business Model in Vogue at Condé Nast — Condé Nast—the glitzy magazine empire that was brought to its knees by the advertising recession—is grappling with the fundamental challenge also facing many of its peers: how to preserve its print business while it also tries …