Mediagazer: The Potential for Google+ Stream for News (Jennifer 8. Lee)

4:50 PM ET, June 30, 2011

Top News:

Mark Halperin apologizes for Obama gaffe — Mark Halperin, editor-at-large for Time, called President Obama “a dick” on Thursday on a popular MSNBC morning show and then quickly apologized. — “I thought he was a dick yesterday,” Halperin, who also is a senior political analyst for MSNBC …

John Cook / Gawker:

Roger Ailes' Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint for Fox News — Republican media strategist Roger Ailes launched Fox News Channel in 1996, ostensibly as a “fair and balanced” counterpoint to what he regarded as the liberal establishment media. But according to a remarkable document buried deep within …

Discussion: Mediaite, Poynter, New York Magazine, The Atlantic Wire and On Media's Blog

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Flipboard 1.5 Integrates LinkedIn, Adds A Content Guide For Curated News Browsing — An update to social news viewing app Flipboard goes live in the app store today, with a new souped up 1.5 version that optimizes the reader experience even further. Earlier this week we had the chance …

Discussion: Poynter, GigaOM, The LinkedIn Blog, ReadWriteWeb, Time, ZDNet, AllThingsD, PC Magazine, NetNewsCheck Latest, Mashable!, PhoneArena, Appolicious ™ App Directory, The Business Insider, PC World, MobileBurn.com, Read It Later Blog and VatorNews, more at Techmeme »

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Fox News to debut ‘The Five’ in Glenn Beck Timeslot — Fox News Channel will debut a new program called “The Five” airing in Glenn Beck's soon-to-be vacated timeslot beginning Monday, July 11 and running through the summer. — The show, a “The View"-like ensemble program …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Mediaite, rbr.com, The Wire, Broadcasting & Cable, Inside Cable News, The Huffington Post, TVWeek.com, Chickaboomer and On Media's Blog

Yahoo! News:
Glenn Beck's future, and Fox News Channel's without him

Discussion: Baltimore Sun, mediabistro.com, TVNewser, Gretawire and The Wire

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Tablet owners read print newspapers, magazines less often — People who use an iPad or other tablet device read printed newspapers, books and magazines less than they used to, according to a recent study by Forrester Research. — Almost one-third (32 percent) of tablet owners …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of the British invasion — Editor's Note: Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab. — With the United Kingdom one of the countries suffering the economic doldrums …

Discussion: paidContent:UK

Dylan Byers / Adweek:

Forensic Art Expert Sues ‘New Yorker’ Author — Forensic art expert Peter Paul Biro brought a $2 million defamation suit Wednesday against The New Yorker staff writer David Grann and Advance Magazine Publishers (owners of Condé Nast, which publishes The New Yorker) …

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Birthers Sue Esquire Over Parody, Seeking More than $200 Million — Joseph Farah and Jerome Corsi have some pretty interesting beliefs. They believe there's no proof Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. * They also believe Hearst Corp. and a writer it employs ought to pay them hundreds …

Discussion: Adweek, The Wire, The Atlantic Wire, The Huffington Post, The Raw Story, FishbowlNY and New York Magazine

Jennifer 8. Lee:

The Potential for Google+ Stream for News — I got invited to try Google+, which has been written about a lot. Short summary: Facebook should be scared. — The Stream (similar to Facebook) is pretty nice UI/UX. Intuitive icons, clean design. Sparks, the newsy thing …

Discussion: Future of Journalism, blogs.journalism.co.uk and Rhymes with Reason

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Next Issue Media Works To Build The Storefront Before The Audience Arrives — Magazine joint venture Next Issue Media is adding six titles to its digital storefront on the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android-powered Samsung Galaxy as it unveils an integrated app that allows users to keep their digital reads …

Discussion: Media Maverick

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Penske's MMC Rebrands, Promotes Racer To President — Jay Penske's Mail.com Media Corp is simplifying things a bit by rebranding as PMC and promoting Chief Revenue Officer Aly Racer to the role of president. Also, CFO George Grobar will now add the COO post to his duties …

David Kravets / Threat Level:

Newspaper Chain Fights for Copyright Troll's Survival — Stephens Media, the Las Vegas-based media chain, is fighting to keep its latest business model alive: copyright-trolling. — After standing on the sidelines while professional content-troll Righthaven fights in court …

Discussion: Righthaven Victims

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Curiosity made collaborative: Apture's “Hotspots” feature brings crowdsourcing to link generation — How many times has this happened to you? You're reading an article online, and you come across a word or a reference you don't know — or a topic or term you want to learn more about — but it's not hyperlinked.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, The Apture Blog, TechCrunch, Future of Journalism, ShortFormBlog and GigaOM

Tom Grubisich / Street Fight:

The ‘Wishes and Dreams’ of Hyperlocal News Consumers — “Give me the news about my neighborhood, please,” wrote Marshall Kirkpatrick in March on Read, Write,Web. … What Kirkpatrick wants in his hyperlocal news is very close to the hot new thing in health care - “observations of daily living.”

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

A year after its big redesign, how Google News is thinking about the best ways to present news stories — It's been a year since Google News launched its big redesign, the first major update of the Google News interface since it launched in 2002. The revamp put a new emphasis on customized news content …