Mediagazer: A field guide to YouTube talent companies (Liz Shannon Miller/GigaOM)

7:55 PM ET, June 26, 2011

Top News:

Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:

On NYTimes.com, Now You See It, Now You Don't — WHEN Jill Abramson takes over as the new executive editor at the end of the summer, The New York Times that she oversees will be a very different organization than it was when she joined it 14 years ago. — The Times's transition …

Discussion: Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard

Adam Hochberg / Poynter:

How misinformation spread about Delta, Jews and flights to Saudi Arabia — An incendiary news story about Delta Air Lines flew quickly around the Internet this week. It left a vapor trail of misinformation and confusion as websites eagerly posted it without thoroughly checking the facts, while Delta was slow to adequately respond.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Hot Air and Gothamist

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

From @-reply triage to journalistic meme-tracking: How NPR may scale Andy Carvin's Twitter curation — On a busy day, Andy Carvin gets 2,000 Twitter @-replies. Which, wow. We all experience, in some way or another, information overload; Carvin experiences it on a whole different level.

Discussion: Guardian, ...My heart's in Accra, Soup and Knight Foundation

Charlie Beckett:

WikiLeaks As Journalism — Journalist? — This is another small clip from an early draft of a book I am writing about the significance of WikiLeaks. To be published by Polity in the autumn: — In this early phase we see how WikiLeaks is constantly evolving away from its pure ‘Wiki’ format …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Pcrossfield / Civil Eats:

Why Laying Off Ag Reporter Philip Brasher is Bad for Food — Well-known DC-based agriculture reporter Philip Brasher was just let go by the Des Moines Register. His reporting also often appeared in USA Today; both papers are owned by the parent company Gannett.

Discussion: Gannett Blog and The Rural Blog

Liz Shannon Miller / GigaOM:

A field guide to YouTube talent companies — YouTube's self-made stars have grown in popularity, and it's little wonder that companies are being built around maximizing their online influence across multiple platforms. Some operate as traditional management companies …

Jeremy Peters / New York Times:

Citizen Kushner — ON a recent Monday evening, Jared Kushner, the 30-year-old publisher of The New York Observer, was holding court in the grand ballroom at the Harmonie Club on East 60th Street. The occasion marked the newspaper's annual “100 Most Powerful People in New York Real Estate” …

Discussion: The Corsair

Vanessa Fox / Search Engine Land:

How The Food Network Suddenly Spiked In Popularity & Why comScore Isn't Buying It — In May 2011, the mantle of the most-trafficked food site according to comScore passed to Food Network from AllRecipes, who had held the position for over two years. What was its secret recipe?

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Front pages in NY feature historic passage of same-sex marriage law — Late Friday night, the New York State Senate passed by 33 to 29 a law that gives same-sex partners the right to marry. Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the law almost 90 minutes later, at 11:55 p.m. Thirty days from its passage …

Discussion: New York Times, FiveThirtyEight, Gothamist, Soup and The New Yorker Blog

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

It's all about accountability — Compared to Anglo-Saxon journalism standards, French practices are regrettably lax. It doesn't mean that France doesn't have remarkable writers, editors or medias; but, too often, their practices are just sloppy. Here, journalists abuse anonymous quotes and are too cozy with their sources.

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

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.