Mediagazer: Why We Often Blindside Companies (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

9:30 PM ET, June 20, 2011

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Why We Often Blindside Companies — A couple of weeks ago I apologized to the CEO of AdMeld for writing about their acquisition without even contacting him to let him know beforehand or ask for a comment. He wrote back “the call would have been nice.” — I know how frustrating …

Discussion: cdixon.org, Digital Media, Caterina.net, AllThingsD, Betabeat, @dangillmor, Future of Journalism, @sarahcuda, @alexbraunstein, @tcarmody, @furrier, @marshallk, @gnat, @tcarmody, @megan, ReadWriteWeb and SAI, more at Techmeme »

Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:

CNN's Ed Henry Jumps To Fox News To Become Chief White House Correspondent — EXCLUSIVE: CNN's Senior White House correspondent Ed Henry is jumping ship. Fox News Channel is expected to announce later today that they have signed Henry as their Chief White House correspondent.

Deutsche Welle:

World needs journalists now more than ever, says expert — Joel Simon is executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an international non-profit organization run by journalists for journalists. Founded in 1981 and headquartered in New York, the CPJ campaigns for freedom …

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Spotlight on exiled journalists as foreign press crackdowns persist

Discussion: Guardian and Committee to Protect …

Committee to Protect Journalists:
Journalists in exile 2011: Iran, Cuba drive out critics

Discussion: Jon Slattery and Guardian

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Meet The First Indie Publisher To Sell A Million Kindle Books — Amazon is touting its self-publishing platform today with the announcement that John Locke has become the first independently published author to become a member of the “Kindle Million club,” selling over 1 million Kindle books using Kindle Direct Publishing.

Discussion: Business Wire, Future of Journalism, Pocket-lint, GalleyCat and paidContent, more at Techmeme »

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Future of media: The rise of the million-selling Kindle author — Amazon's Kindle platform doesn't just allow people to read millions of e-books, it also allows them to publish millions of them: the company announced on Monday that John Locke, who self-publishes his work through Kindle's …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:mathewi

David Carr / New York Times:

Ugly Details in Selling Newspapers — Any look behind the curtain of Wall Street is not going to be pretty. But there is not pretty and then there is plain ugly. — James O'Shea, the former editor in chief of The Los Angeles Times, found a classic of the genre in the course of reporting out …

Discussion: LA Observed, The Atlantic Wire, The Wire and Money & Company

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

The Onion Is Seeking a Pulitzer, Any Pulitzer — Despite a professed designation as “America's Finest News Source,” The Onion has never actually won the highest honor in American journalism: the Pulitzer Prize. — Not that it hasn't tried. Editors at the satirical newspaper have submitted …

Discussion: The Onion, New York Magazine, Runnin' Scared, Mediaite, Salon, The Atlantic Wire, Adweek, FishbowlNY, PopWatch, Splitsider and Hit & Run

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Revealed: Facebook's music plans involve Spotify, others — For the past few months, I have been hearing about Facebook and Spotify getting a lot closer as companies, with a much tighter integration between the two services. However, Facebook's musical ambitions go beyond Spotify and include other music services and applications.

Discussion: Gawker, SAI, The Business Insider, ZDNet, Mashable!, Inside Facebook, Pocket-lint, ReadWriteWeb, WebProNews, Consumer Reports News, I4U News, 9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web, Gizmodo and Digital Media, more at Techmeme »

Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:

Spin Magazine Fires Publisher and Editor — Spin, the alternative-music magazine founded in 1985, has fired its editor and publisher, a move that may be part of a larger transformation that will expand the publication's presence online. — On Friday the magazine, owned by Spin Media …

Discussion: paidContent, MinOnline, Yahoo! News, Folio, MediaPost, The Wire and FishbowlNY

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Hulu Plays Along With Apple's New Rules. Who's Next? — Apple's new subscription rules could have posed a problem for services like Hulu. But when Steve Jobs changed his mind earlier this month, life got a lot easier. — Here's the old version of the Hulu Plus subscription app for the iPad:

Discussion: SAI, NetNewsCheck Latest, TUAW, PC Magazine, AppleInsider, paidContent, MacRumors, eBookNewser and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

The Daily's Launch Exec Picton Joins Mail Online — Former Sun Online editor Pete Picton, who we revealed in September was called up to help launch News Corp.'s The Daily in New York, has now joined A&N Media's Mail Online as deputy publisher. — Picton was the managing editor of News Corp.'s iPad-only title.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and New York Magazine

Joe Mullin / paidContent:

‘Hot News’ Doctrine Not Looking So Hot After Apppeals Court Ruling — In the past couple years, media companies doing battle with news aggregators—or competitors—began to turn to the little-known legal doctrine of “hot news.” It stems from a 1918 Supreme Court case that found news organizations might …

Discussion: Threat Level, @gaberivera, @kouroshk, ap.org and Bloomberg

Noah Davis / The Wire:

LOVE: New York Magazine Launches Personals Site — Back in the pre-internet days, New York made millions on personal ads. Then the web arrived, and sucked that revenue stream dry. — On Monday, the magazine is venturing back into the personals territory in a big way.

Discussion: MediaPost and FishbowlNY

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Boston investigative nonprofit NECIR finds its path through thinking like a business — It's telling that when Joe Bergantino talks about his job as co-director of the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, he often references the time his father ran a restaurant.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

‘Wake Up Call’ With Ali Velshi To Launch Next Week — CNN is launching its new 5 AM program anchored by Ali Velshi next week. — Called “Wake up Call,” the show will run from 5-6 AM ET Monday-Friday starting June 27. CNN has committed to the program through September 23, 2011.

Discussion: Inside Cable News

Colby Hall / Mediaite:

The NBC News/CNBC Exodus, Why Is So Much Top Talent Leaving The Network? — With the announcement last week that long time MSNBC star Norah O'Donnell is jumping ship to CBS, many insiders are now asking what is going on over at the Peacock network? On air talent jumping between networks …

Discussion: Chickaboomer

David Kaplan / paidContent:

IAB: 5 Changes That Would Get Brand Advertisers To Spend More Online — When it comes to the gap between the amount large brand advertisers spend offline compared to offline, the usual answer is that there aren't any simple agreed-upon ways of measuring penetration with online ads, in the way that you can with, say, TV ratings.

John Sellers / The Wrap:

New York Times Cuts Reader Chat: '5,000 Words Isn't a Comment, That's an Article' — You can still comment on New York Times articles — just be more succinct about it. — With only a cryptic explanation, the paper announced Monday on its homepage that it would be cutting the character limit …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

Have newsrooms relaxed standards, sanctions for fabrication and plagiarism? — When the Chicago Sun-Times fired Paige Wiser for fabricating earlier this month, readers shared mixed reactions about whether the punishment was too harsh. — Wiser, who had been at the paper for 17 years …

Discussion: Regret the Error

Tim Cushing / Techdirt:

The Many Killers Of The Music Industry: The Digital Era — Welcome to the second half of our rather longwinded look at the attempted industriacide committed by various music formats over the years. Part two concerns itself with the Digital Era, an era that started with the introduction of the CD …

Ellie Behling / eMedia Vitals:

Reinventing the article with Storify — Storify is one of the most exciting journalism tools of the year. The mission of the platform is to make social media the story not just the distribution tool, explained Xavier Damman, co-founder of the site. — “Storytelling has to be reinvented …