Mediagazer: With 500 Million Views, TED Talks Provide Hope For Intelligent Internet Video (Sarah Kessler/Mashable!)

5:10 AM ET, June 28, 2011

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Kristen Purcell / Pew Internet:

E-reader ownership doubles in six months — e-Reader ownership surges since last November; tablet ownership grows more slowly — The share of adults in the United States who own an e-book reader doubled to 12% in May, 2011 from 6% in November 2010. E-readers, such as a Kindle or Nook …

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Twitter For Newsrooms!? Twitter *Is* A Newsroom — Earlier this morning Twitter released “Twitter for Newsrooms,” its primer on how to use Twitter to gather and report news in the 21st century. — #TfN is Twitter's official nudge to old school reporters, a heavy handed reminder …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, CJR, Future of Journalism, VentureBeat, The Atlantic Wire and BusinessJournalism.org …

Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Twitter finds its media home with Twitter for Newsrooms

Discussion: Poynter, 10,000 Words and @twittermedia

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Will the NY Times Give David Pogue Another Pass on Ethics? — David Pogue. Image by Getty Images North America via @daylife — David Pogue has weathered one mini-scandal after another in his years as the star technology columnist for The New York Times.

Discussion: The Business Insider

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
Want to know which PR pitches tickled Pogue? It'll cost you!

Discussion: CJR

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Hulu Buyers Would Get Exclusive Content, With Strings Attached — A few days after the news first broke that Hulu is for sale, we know a bit more about what, exactly, that means. Here's where things stand right now. — Hulu's owner/partners — Disney's ABC and News Corp.'s Fox …

Discussion: Betabeat, VentureBeat and Electronista

Wall Street Journal:
Hulu's Owners Weigh Cons of a Possible Sale of the Site

Discussion: Adweek, Digital Trends, CNET News, Electronista and ZDNet

Lymari Morales / Gallup:

Americans Regain Some Confidence in Newspapers, TV News — Confidence still lags behind levels of trust seen through much of the 1990s and into 2003 — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' confidence in newspapers and television news rebounded slightly in the past year, having been stuck at record lows since 2007.

Discussion: Poynter, On Media's Blog, Forbes.com, TVNewser, Hot Air and Free Press

Sarah Kessler / Mashable!:

With 500 Million Views, TED Talks Provide Hope For Intelligent Internet Video — When Director of TED Media June Cohen shopped around the idea for a television show featuring lectures from the organization's famously elite conference, she was told the talks didn't have mainstream appeal.

Discussion: Adweek, GigaOM, WatchingTV Online and Betabeat

The Atlantic Wire:

The Journalists Who Just Might Get Rich Off of WikiLeaks — “Whether the arrival of WikiLeaks has fundamentally changed the way journalism is made, I will leave to others and to history,” wrote Bill Keller in his sprawling account of working with Julian Assange that The New York Times Magazine published in January.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Press Gazette, Future Journalism Project and Financial Times

Keach Hagey / On Media's Blog:

Dan Balz staying at Washington Post — In the end, Washington Post political reporter Dan Balz decided to stay put. — “Yes, I'm staying at the Post,” Balz told POLITICO. — According to the Huffington Post's Michael Calderone, Balz had been in talks with Reuters about taking …

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Note to media: We are all brands now, so get used to it — There's been a lot of talk about “branding” and new media lately, sparked in part by Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten's recent anti-branding rant, in which the veteran journalist said that branding is “ruining journalism.”

Discussion: Facebook, Metamedia, Teaching Online Journalism, Jason Kristufek's … and The Copy Box, Thanks:accessnetflix

Mac McClelland / GOOD:

I'm Gonna Need You to Fight Me On This: How Violent Sex Helped Ease My PTSD — It was my research editor who told me it was completely nuts to willingly get f**ked at gunpoint. That's what she called me when I told her the story. We were drunk and in a karaoke bar, so at the time I came …

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

More Awesome: News Challenge grantee Awesome Foundation wants to fund journalism at the micro level — There's something inherently meta about the Awesome Foundation winning a grant from the Knight Foundation in order to...give grants. Also, something kinda awesome.

blogs.journalism.co.uk:

ScribbleLive: Four ways to make money from liveblogging — Liveblogging platform ScribbleLive claims to have come up with four different ways that news organisations can make money from liveblogging, a form of reporting described by Matt Wells, blogs editor of the Guardian, as …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Simon Dumenco / AdAge:

Not That New York Magazine Is Gloating About Poaching Frank Rich From The New York Times or Anything... Former Star Times Columnist Gets His Own Mini Outdoor Campaign — Nearly four months ago, New York magazine rocked the Manhattan media world by poaching star op-ed columnist Frank Rich from The New York Times.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

This Just In: How Your House Is Faring — Many of the residents who have fled Minot, N.D., where thousands of buildings have been swallowed by the Souris River, have turned to a modest, family-run enterprise to check the status of their homes: the tiny local television station.

Discussion: Save the News Blog and TVSpy

Andrew Adam Newman / New York Times:

Distracted by Online Banner Ads? Here's an Alternative — MANY consumers bypass Madison Avenue with software that filters out online advertising. Adblock Plus, for example, averages about 13 million daily users on one browser, Firefox, alone. — Now a tech start-up, AdKeeper …