Mediagazer: AARP Begins an Internet Radio Service, Mixing Familiar Hits With New Artists (Ben Sisario/New York Times)

10:25 AM ET, July 4, 2011

Top News:

Ben Dowell / Guardian:

BBC acts to stop Twitter leaks by talent — Corporation executives consider adding clause to contracts in an attempt to prevent sensitive information from becoming public — A group of senior BBC executives are campaigning to introduce a BBC-wide ban on actors, writers and other talent involved …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, Pocket-lint and Adweek

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

The New Faces of Digital Readers — First of all, note the evolving language: the term Online Readers is now passé as it morphed into Digital Readers. The shift reflects two trends: a broader range of device types and, in news consumption, the spectacular rise of mobility.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:

Surrounded by Opinion, the Times Raises Its Voices — YOU'RE sitting in your office at The New York Times and there's a din outside in the street. You crack the door to listen: mass bloviating on a worldwide scale! Opinion journalism in full bellow on television, the Internet and digital ports of call of every description!

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Networks Want Slices of a New Pie — Two weeks ago, KSFX, a Fox television station in the Ozarks, told its viewers that the Fox part was going away in the fall. The station said it would still show all of its local newscasts, but the station's fans on Facebook had other concerns.

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

AARP Begins an Internet Radio Service, Mixing Familiar Hits With New Artists — With constantly changing technology, and blogs that cover the latest indie bands minute-by-minute, online music is usually considered a young person's game. But now the AARP, one of the biggest symbols of life …

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Paging unemployed investigative journalists! — Romenesko Misc. — Several weeks ago I posted an item about grants being offered to investigative journalists who have been laid off. I asked George Polk Awards curator John Darnton how many reporters applied for the money.

Emily Bell / Guardian:

The Daily Beast is turning into a personal vanity project for Tina Brown — Beast is missing out on digital expansion and Newsweek Diana cover was ill-judged — It is a humbling fact that as a British citizen in the US your expertise in any given area is always considered by Americans …

Nancy Messieh / The Next Web:

Cinemoz: The Middle East's answer to Hulu set to launch this summer — Cinemoz is the Middle East's very first on-demand online video service. With an obvious comparison to Hulu, the service is set to officially launch by the end of summer. — Founded by 27 year old Lebanese-French Karim Safieddine …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

“CNN Leaves it There” is Now Officially a Problem at CNN — You can't have a “he said, she said” brand and yet stand out as the only real news network. There are signs that the new boss at CNN understands this. — Shocking developments in a story I have been following for a long time.

Discussion: Future of Journalism and All Things CNN

Nicola Hughes / Data Miner UK:

Why Data Needs Journalism and Journalism Needs Data — I've come specifically to the Open Knowledge Conference for the track on data journalism (although I'm very interested in the open data scene anyway). It was a call to action more than an educational exposition.