Mediagazer: 5 reasons broadcasters pay licensing fees for stories and why it corrupts journalism (Julie Moos/Poynter)

4:55 PM ET, June 9, 2011

Top News:

A Federal Study Finds That Local Reporting Has Waned — An explosion of online news sources in recent years has not produced a corresponding increase in reporting, particularly quality local reporting, a federal study of the media has found. — Coverage of state governments and municipalities …

Discussion: Associated Press, Nieman Journalism Lab, rbr.com, Gawker, Poynter, Multichannel, FishbowlNY, radioworld.com, Gannett Blog and The Rural Blog

fcc.gov:

Information Needs of Communities — The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age. In culmination of its work over the last year, the FCC Working Group on the Information Needs of Communities delivered a report on June 9, 2011 addressing the rapidly changing media landscape in a broadband age.

Discussion: TVNewser, Technology360 and NetNewsCheck Latest

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

Apple Reverses Course On In-App Subscriptions [Apple Confirms] — Apple has quietly changed its guidelines on the pricing of In-App Subscriptions on the App Store. There are no longer any requirements that a subscription be the “same price or less than it is offered outside the app”.

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Apple makes its subscription rules more friendly to news organizations; but were they really the target?

Discussion: TechCrunch, TeleRead and The Next Web

Derek Willis / The Caucus:

Help Us Review the Sarah Palin E-Mail Records — On Friday, the State of Alaska will release more than 24,000 of Sarah Palin's e-mails covering much of her tenure as governor of Alaska. Times reporters will be in Juneau, the state capital, to begin the process of reviewing the e-mails …

Discussion: Yahoo! News, FishbowlNY, Poynter, Hot Air, WebProNews, USA Today and Media Research Center

Ryan Kellett / Washington Post:

Help analyze the Palin e-mails — Over 24,000 e-mail messages to and from former Alaska governor Sarah Palin during her tenure as Alaska's governor will be released Friday. That's a lot of e-mail for us to review so we're looking for some help from Fix readers to analyze, contextualize …

Discussion: @mlcalderone, On Media's Blog and The Daily Caller

Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:

Jill Abramson: Our Lady of Gray — The climb to Valhalla is treacherous—but lawyers, babies, Howell Raines and a barreling truck couldn't keep Jill Abramson down. — LAST THURSDAY, Jill Abramson compared her appointment to executive editor of The New York Times to “ascending to Valhalla …

Discussion: The Wire, Poynter, Poynter, Yahoo! News, CJR, The Atlantic Wire, Adweek and Guardian

Adweek:
All Together Now: NYT, HuffPo, Observer, Gawker, Newsweek/Daily Beast, and Facebook It's the future of media!

Discussion: The Awl

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: Who'll Get The New York Times' Top Washington Job?

Julie Moos / Poynter:

5 reasons broadcasters pay licensing fees for stories and why it corrupts journalism — When Ann Coulter congratulated ABC News for its reporting on the Anthony Weiner story, her high praise was this: “You guys own the Weiner story.” She may not have meant it literally, but she could have.

Discussion: Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, TVNewser, Chickaboomer, Free Press and The Atlantic Wire

Nicholas Carlson / SAI:

Confessions Of Patch Salesperson: “It's Been A Disaster” — AOL is betting $120 million this year on a network of local news Websites called Patch. — It's overseen by Arianna Huffington. — Clayton Moran of the Benchmark Group says AOL's fate will “hinge on the success or failure of Patch.”

Discussion: Poynter, Yahoo! News, San Francisco Peninsula …, Street Fight, blogs.forbes.com and Future of Journalism

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Which will save AOL: Huffington Post or Patch?

Discussion: Yahoo! News

Clark Fredricksen / eMarketer:

Online Advertising Market Poised to Grow 20% in 2011 — New Forecast Shows Display on Trajectory to Overtake Search — The US online advertising market is poised for rapid growth this year, with spending expected to exceed $31 billion, according to a new forecast by eMarketer.

Discussion: paidContent, Forbes.com, TechCrunch, rbr.com and GigaOM

Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Online advertising explodes to $31B, but publishers getting squeezed?

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, the Econsultancy blog and Future of Journalism

Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal: Big Pop Seen for Online Ads

Adweek:

Hearst Opens App Lab — Fresh from closing on the Hachette Filipacchi Media deal, Hearst Corp. this week opened the Hearst App Lab, a “think tank” for digital apps. — The lab, on the 41st floor of the Hearst Tower on Eighth Avenue and 57th Street, is a corporate initiative …

Discussion: Mashable!, Betabeat, FishbowlNY and NetNewsCheck Latest

David Kaplan / paidContent:

CBS' Radio.com Gets A New Streaming Channel: Last.fm — Years after CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) acquired Last.fm, the personalized streaming music service will be added to Radio.com, the broadcaster's online player. Radio.com, which already hosts AOL's and Yahoo's streaming music as part …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:

David Carr Goes Hollywood in Page One — THE DAILY BEAST ON: — New York Times media reporter David Carr may joke about “looking homeless,” but he's the breakout star of Page One, the new documentary about the paper. He tells Lloyd Grove about his one stab at acting, troubles downloading The Daily, and new boss Jill Abramson.

Discussion: Gawker

Noah Davis / The Wire:

The New York Observer Wants To Pay Someone With No Experience $30,000 To Run Its New Magazine — We really enjoy the New York Observer's redesign (honest). And we like what Elizabeth Spiers and her team are doing to bring back the Salmon-colored paper. — But we have less faith …

Discussion: New York Magazine and FishbowlNY

Lance Whitney / Technology News:

Google adds feature to link content to its author — Google users interested in the work of a particular author or writer should now find it easier to track down that person's articles, stories, and bio. — Starting yesterday, the search giant started supporting a feature in HTML5 …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, CNET News, SocialTimes.com, NetNewsCheck Latest, ReadWriteWeb and 10,000 Words

The Atlantic Wire:

Ann Coulter: What I Read — How do other people deal with the torrent of information that pours down on us all? What sources can't they live without? To find out, we regularly reach out to well-informed people to learn more about their media diets. This is taken from a conversation …

Discussion: Jacket Copy, FishbowlNY and The Wire

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Twitter now charges $120,000 a day for promoted trends — Businesses are paying Twitter $120,000 to sponsor a promoted trending topic for a day, director of revenue Adam Bain told marketing news site ClickZ. That's up from $25,000 to $30,000 when the feature was launched in April 2010.