Mediagazer: NBC Wins TV Rights to 4 Olympics for $4.38 Billion (Richard Sandomir/New York Times)

8:35 PM ET, June 7, 2011

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

AOL After the Honeymoon — Arianna Huffington. Image by Getty Images for AOL via @daylife — What happens when you mix the ambition of Arianna Huffington with the desperation of Tim Armstrong? AOL shareholders will soon find out. — AOL Chairman Tim Armstrong seemed to find his ideal mate in Arianna Huffington.

Discussion: CJR, The Atlantic Wire, Poynter, LA Observed, Future of Journalism, SAI and FishbowlNY, more at Techmeme »

Ryan Tate / Gawker:
The Implosion of the Huffington Post-AOL Merger

Discussion: Co.Design

Financial Times:

The new FT app for iPad and iPhone — We have launched a new, faster, more complete app for the iPad and iPhone which is available via your browser rather than from an app store. — We're encouraging our readers to switch immediately to the new FT web app, as many new features and sections will be added over the coming weeks.

Discussion: New York Times, AllThingsD, paidContent, Poynter, Benedict Evans, GigaOM, CNET News, iPodNN, Globe and Mail, Guardian, MacRumors, MacStories, FT Alphaville, TeleRead, Press Gazette and Future of Journalism

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

FT Bypasses Apple's iTunes, Launches HTML5 Web App (Free Access First Week) — The Financial Times would rather not have Apple take a 30 percent cut of in-app subscriptions for its iOS publications, and has launched a HTML5 Web app that enables readers to access content across tablets and smartphones.

Discussion: Gizmodo, Financial Times, New York Observer, NetNewsCheck Latest, Strange Attractor, IntoMobile, TUAW, Betabeat, Guardian and eMedia Vitals, more at Techmeme »

Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:
Can the FT help publishers quit their Apple addiction?

Discussion: Newsonomics, Financial Times, Guardian, MediaFile and Macgasm

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Financial Times shuns the App Store, but not the iPad

Discussion: Macgasm, PadGadget and TUAW

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Twitter as media: What happens when anyone can publish? — We often take for granted what Twitter and other social-media tools offer in terms of instant publishing, until someone live-tweets a historic event like the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound or a congressman torpedoes his political career with an ill-advised photo.

Discussion: @penenberg and Poynter, Thanks:plrodriguez

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

When crime victims tweet, new and old dilemmas meet for news organizations — Soon after a young woman in Tampa, Fla., was allegedly raped, she tweeted about the crime. “6'2 black man w scruffy beard blue shirt tan shorts driving commercial truck ... raped me,” she tweeted. “Glad im alive.”

Discussion: http://www.Stinkyjournalism …

Committee to Protect Journalists:
The silencing crime: Sexual violence and journalists

Discussion: Poynter and Jon Slattery

New York Times:

A Conservative Blogger Looks for Legitimacy — When Meagan Broussard asked one of her friends what she should do about an intimate online relationship she had been having with Representative Anthony D. Weiner, the friend, a Republican, told her to go to Andrew Breitbart.

Joel Meares / CJR:
The Man Who Cried Scandal

Discussion: The Politico, The Atlantic Wire, On Media's Blog and Mediaite

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Why the Web Could Make Glenn Beck Richer Than TV Ever Did — For a guy who always seems to think the apocalypse is just around the corner, Glenn Beck has been doing some pretty keen thinking about the digital future. His next venture, announced this morning, has a business model …

Discussion: rbr.com, Media Matters for America, NetNewsCheck Latest, Future of Journalism, The Wrap, Most Recent Home Page Posts …, mediabistro.com, Mediaite and Broadcasting & Cable

Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Online, Beck Will Impose a Fee Model

Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:

Keith Olbermann Breaks Silence On MSNBC Exit; Could Earn $100M at Current TV … For the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter, out in Los Angeles and New York on Thursday, Keith Olbermann sat down with senior writer Marisa Guthrie in his first wide-ranging interview since leaving MSNBC …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, Adweek, Mediaite, TVNewser, Show Tracker, MediaPost, The Atlantic Wire, From Inside the Box, Inside Cable News, The Huffington Post, National Review, The Wire and On Media's Blog

mirrorawards.syr.edu:

Newhouse School Announces Winners In Fifth Annual Mirror Awards — The Newhouse School today presented seven awards at the fifth annual Mirror Awards luncheon honoring excellence in media industry reporting. The event, emceed by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, co-hosts of MSNBC's …

Discussion: Poynter, FishbowlNY, CJR, Adweek, Gannett Blog and Yahoo! News

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Why newspaper paywalls are still a bad idea — Media industry research shows that more and more newspapers are implementing paywalls, possibly inspired by the launch of a “metered” wall at the New York Times earlier this year. Frederic Filloux argues in a blog post at The Monday Note …

Discussion: Guardian, MediaPost and eMedia Vitals, Thanks:suranga_blinkx

Adweek:
Media Buyers Don't Know Jack About Jill

Discussion: Future of Journalism and MediaPost

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

New York Observer to emphasize long-form, scoops with new web design — Change has been perhaps the most reliable constant at the New York Observer in recent years. In the past two years alone, the Manhattan weekly blew through three top editors and about as many redesigns in print and online.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Richard Sandomir / New York Times:

NBC Wins TV Rights to 4 Olympics for $4.38 Billion — NBC extended its Olympic reign until 2020 as Comcast, its parent company, agreed Tuesday to acquire the rights to the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia; the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro; and the next two Olympics, in unspecified cities.

Discussion: TVSpy and Inside TV

Marco.org:

What Safari's Reading List means for Instapaper — Before today, I knew that a reading-list feature similar to Instapaper's core bookmark-saving purpose was being added to Safari in Lion, and wrote a big blog post about its potential impact on Instapaper. — I speculated that they wouldn't add …

Discussion: Stowe Boyd, GigaOM, the Econsultancy blog, Betabeat, The Next Web, SocialTimes.com, App Advice, Apple, paidContent, Bits, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, MacStories and AllThingsD

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Don't call it retirement: An exit interview with Bill Kling, public radio's original entrepreneur — As he prepares to step down from the top of American Public Media, his job for the last 44 years, I recently made the mistake of congratulating Bill Kling on his retirement.

Discussion: SPJ News and LA Observed

Simon Owens / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Pilates approach: How CNN is trouncing its competitors on the web — For the past several years, news outlets that cover the media industry have focused predominantly on television ratings when reporting on the cable news wars — a metric that, at least until recently, has been almost exclusively dominated by the Fox News Channel.