Mediagazer: E-reader ownership doubles in six months (Kristen Purcell/Pew Internet)

10:30 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: Adweek, Nieman Journalism Lab, eMedia Vitals, Media News, Softpedia News, CJR, ReadWriteWeb, Editors Weblog, VentureBeat, BusinessJournalism.org … and The Atlantic Wire

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

Discussion: Poynter, 10,000 Words and @twittermedia

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

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, NetNewsCheck Latest, VentureBeat and Electronista

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 …

Discussion: The New York Observer and digiday:DAILY

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: MediaFile, Future Journalism Project, Press Gazette and Financial Times

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

AOL Consolidates 53 Brands Down To 20 “Power Brands;” The Huffington Post Gets Bigger — AOL CEO Tim Armstrong likes to streamline things. And he is about to streamline AOL even more. Somewhat reversing the anti-portal strategy he inherited, he will start to consolidate 53 different content brands into 20 “power brands.”

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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 …

Keach Hagey / On Media's Blog:

CNN takes a stand — In the U.S., CNN may be kicked around by everyone from Jon Stewart to Jay Rosen for tending to present both sides of the story and then just “leaving it there,” but on the international issue of human trafficking, the broadcaster has decided to make a stand.

Discussion: Journalism.org and Inside Cable News

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

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Gov. Christie may join Allen & Co. mogulfest in Sun Valley — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie may be “100 percent certain” he won't be joining the 2012 presidential race, but it's a fair bet he'll be making his first trip to the much-watched Sun Valley mogulfest.

Discussion: The Wire

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, eMedia Vitals, The Buttry Diary, Teaching Online Journalism, Jason Kristufek's … and The Copy Box, Thanks:accessnetflix

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: Journalism.org and FishbowlNY

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 …