Mediagazer: IRE takes over DocumentCloud as Knight funding expires (Jeff Sonderman/Poynter)

2:10 PM ET, June 9, 2011

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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, rbr.com, Nieman Journalism Lab, Gawker, Poynter, FishbowlNY, 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.

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

Apple Reverses Course On In-App Subscriptions — 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”.

Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
Apple loosens grip on subscription terms for news publishers

Discussion: ZDNet and Future of Journalism

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

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

Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
Jill Abramson: 'I'm a battle-scarred veteran'

Discussion: Media Research Center, CJR, LA Observed and mediabistro.com

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, comScore, Inc. and L.A. Times Tech Blog

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

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: TVNewser, Free Press, Chickaboomer 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, GigaOM, Street Fight, blogs.forbes.com and Future of Journalism

Henry Blodget / SAI:
AOL's Newsroom Is Now Bigger Than The New York Times's

Discussion: National Review and NYConvergence.com

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

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.

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

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

IRE takes over DocumentCloud as Knight funding expires — DocumentCloud, the startup that works with news organizations to post troves of primary source documents online in a searchable, shareable format, becomes a project of Investigative Reporters and Editors today.

Discussion: DocumentCloud and IRE

Aaron Gell / The New York Observer:

The Adventures of Maer Roshan, Editorial Boy Wonder — The former Radar editor bounces back from rehab with a new website, The Fix, and a top-secret iPad project called Punch. — On or around April 5, a group of prominent New Yorkers—including Andre Balazs, Gwyneth Paltrow …

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, ReadWriteWeb, SocialTimes.com and 10,000 Words

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

YouTube Expects Half of Ad Spending to be Cost Per View by 2015 — The conventional means of charging for online video at a cost per thousand impressions (CPM) for video ads is quickly changing. — By 2015, half of video ads will be charged on a cost per view basis, meaning advertisers …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

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 …