Mediagazer: Tea Partiers Create Their Own TV Show and Production Company (Exclusive) (Paul Bond/Hollywood Reporter)

11:40 AM ET, June 25, 2011

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Tea Partiers Create Their Own TV Show and Production Company (Exclusive) … Those who belong to the conservative movement known as the Tea Party are acutely aware of the power of popular culture, so they have been cautiously delving into the creation of entertainment that promotes their values.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Mediaite, Company Town, TVWeek.com and Gawker

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

“Adding context to content”: Swift River gets Knight funding to tackle the problem of real-time verification — One of the biggest challenges news organizations face is the real-time aspect of newsgathering: the massive problem that is making sense of the torrent of information that floods in when breaking-news events take place.

Discussion: Future of Journalism and Editors Weblog

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Bonnier Revs Up Magazine Licensing Efforts — Bonnier Corp., publisher of Popular Science and Parenting, has been buying up print in recent years, absorbing Time Inc.'s enthusiast magazines and smaller acquisitions like Working Mother Media and then-Hachette Filipacchi Media's hobby titles.

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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Brian Kennedy Returns to ABC as Executive Director of Newsgathering Operations — CBS News executive Brian Kennedy is returning to ABC News as executive director of newsgathering operations. Kennedy had been executive director of digital newsgathering for CBS News.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, TVSpy and MediaPost

Joe Flint / Company Town:

Comcast has to sit on its hands while Hulu drama plays out — Imagine owning a big chunk of a company and having no say in its operations or future. — That's the position Comcast Corp. finds itself in with regard to Hulu, the online video site that consists primarily of content from its owners who …

Discussion: MediaPost

MediaShift Idea Lab:

How Newsrooms Can Win Back Their Reputations — The journalism industry ships lemons every day. Our newsrooms have a massive quality control problem. According to the best counts we have, more than half of stories contain mistakes — and only 3 percent of those errors are ever fixed.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Kirk LaPointe's … and Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Fair use isn't much good if you can't afford it — All around us, the web is enabling an explosion of “remix culture,” in which bits and pieces of text, images and video are cut and spliced to create new forms of art. Whatever you think of the specific outcomes of this process …

Discussion: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Betabeat, PlagiarismToday, Techdirt, SAY Media and Free Press, Thanks:mathewi

Patrick B. Pexton / Washington Post:

Why did The Post deport Jose Antonio Vargas's story? — Journalists are not public officeholders, nor do they manage public funds. But they do hold, precariously, a public trust. And at the foundation of that trust is the pledge to tell the truth, or at least to get as close to it as they can.

Discussion: On Media's Blog, NPR's On the Media and Mediaite

Yahoo! News:

Rolling Stone draws fire for attribution SNAFUs in Michele Bachmann profile — It's been a few months since we've had ourselves a good-old plagiarism incident to get riled up about. But thanks to Rolling Stone, our sleepy summer Friday just got a bit more scandalous!

Discussion: The Blotter, Mixed Media, Poynter, The Atlantic Wire, Runnin' Scared, National Review, FishbowlNY and @penenberg

Alison Flood / Guardian:

How self-publishing came of age — What used to be seen as a last resort is fast becoming the most successful trend in writing. Alison Flood talks to the authors doing it themselves — GP Taylor is one of self-publishing's success stories. The former vicar sold his motorbike to fund …

Brett Pulley / Bloomberg:

AOL's Huffington Post Expands Local News Ahead of Campaign — AOL Inc. (AOL), after buying the Huffington Post website this year to revive sales growth, is accelerating its expansion of local coverage to lure readers interested in campaign news ahead of the 2012 presidential election.

Discussion: The Corsair, FishbowlNY, The Wire and Future of Journalism

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Harvard's Shorenstein Center launches research tool for journalists — Romenesko Misc. — The goal of the free, open-access site is to make scholarly research more accessible for journalists, journalism educators and students. “It is new and evolving, and we are eager for feedback …

Discussion: The Rural Blog