Mediagazer: New York Times Cuts Reader Chat: '5,000 Words Isn't a Comment, That's an Article' (John Sellers/The Wrap)

10:20 AM ET, June 21, 2011

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Upending Anonymity, These Days the Web Unmasks Everyone — Not too long ago, theorists fretted that the Internet was a place where anonymity thrived. — Now, it seems, it is the place where anonymity dies. — A commuter in the New York area who verbally tangled with a conductor last Tuesday …

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Van Jones Considers Legal Action Against Fox News — NEW YORK âÂ"- After challenging Glenn Beck to a debate over the weekend at Netroots Nation and in a MoveOn.org-sponsored ad Monday, Van Jones may have taken his beef with Beck a step further. — Jones, a senior fellow …

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Tanzina Vega / New York Times:

Bloomberg TV Pushes for a Wider Audience — Bloomberg has begun a major marketing effort for its television operation in a bid to persuade business executives to see the company as more than just a maker of the terminals that are popular on trading floors. — “We want to be the most …

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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 …

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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: Refinery29, Future of Journalism, Adweek, FishbowlNY and Mediaite

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Economist group results defy downturn — Almost all British-based newspaper and magazine publishers are contemplating losses or declining profits. But the Economist group, as it does on a regular basis, is telling a very different story today. — According to its results …

Discussion: Adweek and Press Gazette

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 …

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Keach Hagey / On Media's Blog:

Olbermann's return — Keith Olbermann resumed his old position as host of “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” at 8 p.m. tonight, albeit on a cable network that with only about two thirds of the reach of his former perch, and brought enough of his show with him for his fans to feel at home.

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David Bauder / Associated Press:
How MSNBC is surviving after Olbermann

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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 …

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Committee to Protect Journalists:

Prominent Mexican columnist, wife, son shot to death — A prominent Mexican newspaper columnist, his wife, and a son were shot to death in their home in Veracruz, according to state investigators, a shocking assault that underscores the country's ongoing crisis.

Discussion: BBC and Journalism.co.uk

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 …

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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Meet The First Indie Publisher To Sell A Million Kindle Books

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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 …

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

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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

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.

Discussion: Street Fight and eMedia Vitals

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.

Katy Culver / Poynter:

How class wikis can help journalism students collaborate, stay organized — A few semesters ago, a student stopped by my office with her laptop because she had broken the links between a slideshow file and the images in it. — Easy fix, I thought. Locate the folder of images and relink it.