Mediagazer: Kids Today: How the Class of 2011 Engages with Media (Nielsen Wire)

Adweek:

In 2 Years Nearly All TV Content Will Be Online On mobile too, predict network execs By D.M. Levine — Executives from Disney, Turner, and Comcast were in unanimous agreement that we are only two years away from 75 percent of TV content being available online and on mobile devices.

Discussion: MarketingVox News & Trends and MediaPost

Henry Blodget / SAI:

AOL's Newsroom Is Now Bigger Than The New York Times's — Here's a startling statistic about the enormous bet AOL is making on content: — AOL's newsroom is now bigger than the New York Times'. — Come again? — AOL's news and content operation now has three main parts: Huffington Post …

Discussion: The Wire

Ed Pilkington / Guardian:

Jill Abramson: 'I'm a battle-scarred veteran' — The first woman editor of the New York Times tells why she got the job, how she'll handle the crucial transition to digital - and why her tattoo is so important to her — Jill Abramson is congratulated by staff, including outgoing editor Bill Keller (centre).

Discussion: CJR, LA Observed, The Atlantic Wire and Media Research Center

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Familiar TV Anchors Move On, Hoping to Profit on Their Own — It's enough breaking news to make even an anchorman's head spin. — Television is undergoing a sea change this season as a dozen famous television anchors and celebrities — whose shows are watched by more than 40 million viewers every day …

Discussion: Company Town, TVNewser and Chickaboomer

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Columbia Journalism Review starts search for editor-in-chief — Romenesko Misc. — The job description says: “The editor-in-chief provides the editorial vision and voice, supervises a professional editorial staff of nine plus a large team of freelancers, and manages an editorial budget …

Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:

NBC finally ‘gets it,’ will kill the Olympic tape delay — The new-look NBC Universal, now owned by Comcast and helmed by Steve Burke, has kept one tradition from the previous regime intact by retaining rights to broadcasts of the Olympic games through 2020.

Discussion: Forbes.com, Company Town, MediaPost, Los Angeles Times and Tuned In

Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:

FCC Backs Away From Aiding Media — WASHINGTON—Two years ago, the FCC and FTC launched reviews of the media industry with an eye toward changes in laws or tax code that could help struggling traditional media companies. Since then, the federal government's interest in helping the newspaper industry appears to be waning.

Discussion: The New York Observer, News for Digital Journalists, Tech Daily Dose and Crikey

Nielsen Wire:

Kids Today: How the Class of 2011 Engages with Media — 1993 was a big year. The Mosaic Internet Web browser was launched, NAFTA was signed, Seinfeld won an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series and the high school class of 2011 was born. Nielsen congratulates the class of 2011 and takes look …

Discussion: VentureBeat

John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:

Genachowski Plans to Delete Fairness Doctrine From Code of Federal Regs — FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has told Congress he supports striking the so-called ‘fairness doctrine’ and a couple of its corollaries from the Code of Federal Regulations. — That came in a letter responding …

Discussion: Hillicon Valley, rbr.com, TVNewser and Free Press

Mark Landler / New York Times:

A New Voice of America for the Age of Twitter — WASHINGTON — When Walter Isaacson championed Voice of America's decision to shut down its shortwave radio broadcasts to China — and shift those funds to the Internet, cellphones and other forms of digital media — he viewed it as the sensible updating …

Discussion: On Media's Blog

Joe Flint / Company Town:

News Corp. general counsel Lon Jacobs to leave media giant [Updated] — Lawrence “Lon” Jacobs, the general counsel of media giant News Corp. and a close confidant to Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch, is leaving the company. — Jacobs, 56, has been with News Corp. for 15 years …

Discussion: Adweek

John Sellers / The Wrap:

Bill Simmons on Grantland Launch: 'We're Not Going to Chase Page Views' — On Wednesday at precisely noon ET, longtime ESPN columnist and crazy successful podcaster Bill Simmons will throw the switch on Grantland.com, a hotly anticipated and already controversial new website he's built for his Bristol overlords.

Discussion: Grantland, Nieman Journalism Lab, Deadspin, FishbowlNY, The Wire, The New York Observer and New York Magazine

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

House Hunters, data edition: Meet Curbwise, the Omaha World-Herald's real-estate news app — The Omaha World-Herald wasn't looking for blockbuster traffic and wave upon wave of pageviews with the launch of Curbwise. Rather, they were looking for a sustained audience, which would justify …

Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:

Big Pop Seen for Online Ads — Web Spending Expected to Rise 20%, Accounting for 20% of Marketers' Outlays — Marketers are poised to ramp up their spending on Web ads this year more quickly than previously expected, as advertisers allocate an increasing share of their budgets to the Internet …

Jon Slattery:

Jemima Khan joins Indy as new associate editor — Independent editor-in-chief Simon Kelner announced on Twitter today that Jemima Khan is joining the Independent and i as associate editor. — Khan generated masses of publicity when she guest editied the New Statesman earlier this year …

Discussion: Guardian and Press Gazette