Mediagazer: ABC News Teams with Vook for Multimedia Products for iPad, Android, Nook (Andy Plesser/Beet.TV)

8:20 AM ET, June 27, 2011

Top News:

A Newsroom That Doesn't Need News — This is when TMZ punches in and goes to work making a television show that is beamed out five nights a week to the rest of us, mining our culture's need to know every single little thing about celebrities. — Syndicated by Fox Broadcasting for the past three years …

Discussion: LA Observed

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

James Murdoch warns over the new technology challenges facing News Corp — Competition from companies such as Google and Apple must be addressed, he tells Cannes festival — The shadows of “big beasts” such as Google and Apple hung over Cannes last week, and they were singled out by James Murdoch …

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

The Right's Blogger Provocateur — MINNEAPOLIS — Andrew Breitbart wasn't supposed to be sitting here in a television studio makeup chair. But when he heard that Anthony Weiner was about to announce his resignation, he dropped everything. — Mr. Breitbart, the conservative author …

Discussion: Poynter

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

Politico Enters E-Book Venture With Random House — Politico, an accelerant to the news cycle like wind is to brushfire, is taking on the one realm of political news that it has not yet sped up: book publishing. — The all-things-politics Web site is teaming up with Random House …

Discussion: The Book Bench

Lewis DVorkin / The Copy Box:

Journalists and Statistics: Paying Attention to the Data of a New Media World — I'm pretty obsessed with watching our traffic on Forbes.com. My preferred data enabler of the moment is my Android cell phone (somewhat sadly, I also have an iPhone, an iPad and a new Galaxy Tab for backup …

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.

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …

Jeff Jarvis / Guardian:

Digital first: what it means for journalism — Journalists have roles to play in collaborating with and organising communities - and the article is just part of the mix — The article is no longer the atomic unit of news. It's not dead. I didn't kill it.

Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:

Meredith Expands Its Menu — Publisher Acquires EatingWell Media, Aiming to Extend Reach of Food Magazines — Meredith Corp. is adding two food magazines as it expands into a category the company says is ripe for targeting cost-conscious consumers. — Meredith said it acquired EatingWell Media Group …

Wall Street Journal:

Hulu's Owners Weigh Cons of a Possible Sale of the Site — Online-video pioneer Hulu LLC has been a headache for its Hollywood owners at times. But now the owners who control Hulu's fate are asking themselves whether the website might be an even bigger nuisance to them in someone else's hands.

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

ABC News Teams with Vook for Multimedia Products for iPad, Android, Nook — ABC News is producing a multimedia offering of text and video reporting in the form of a video book, or “vook” for the Apple iOS devices, Android and Nook Color. — ABC is working with the New York-based company Vook …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and Future of Journalism

Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:

Take that Netflix, HBO Go app sees big growth too — If you don't believe cord cutting exists and that there isn't any competition between Netflix and cable programmers ,then you needn't read on. — If on the other hand, you at least see the potential for Netflix's meteoric growth …

Discussion: Lost Remote

David Lieberman / Deadline.com:

TV Stations To Reap 2012 Election Windfall — If you hate political ads, then I have bad news for you: next year, White House and Congressional candidates will flood television and other media with campaign messages as the 2012 election shapes up as the most expensive in history.