Mediagazer: CNN Readies “Social Network for News” (Andy Plesser/Beet.TV)

Why I Like Media Experiments — During the time when I'd normally have written a blog post or two, gone on a long run, and made some tortilla soup, the world had helped us to create several brand new things — It was 2:45 p.m., fifteen minutes before the end of the 48-hour period …

Discussion: Brain Pickings

Choire Sicha / The Awl:
Adventures in Paywalls: The ‘Longshot’ Magazine Nagwall

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, Poynter, Nieman Journalism Lab and Future of Journalism

Heather Billings / I came, I saw, I coded: HOW TO MAKE A LONGSHOT HAPPEN

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Boston Globe editor joins Twitter; 'Like it or not, you can't ignore it,' he tells other editors — Romenesko Misc. — Marty Baron started Tweeting last Friday, a day before his 10th anniversary as Boston Globe editor. “Welcome Boston Globe Editor @globemartybaron to Twitter (and 2011)!” tweeted CNBC's Herb Greenberg.

Discussion: Gawker

Tanzina Vega / New York Times:

A Rift Divides Members of Journalism Groups — As the National Association of Black Journalists opens its annual conference in Philadelphia on Wednesday, a topic of conversation is likely to be its recent efforts to get more black anchors on prime-time news programs.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Why Watch TV at Home When You Have a Perfectly Good iPhone to Squint At? — Yet more evidence that “mobile” is relative when it comes to smartphones, iPads, and online video. Here's another study that says lots of people are watching stuff on their gadgets when they're just a few feet from their own TVs.

Discussion: Nielsen Wire, SocialTimes.com, Broadcasting & Cable, Gizmodo, Electronista and Gawker, more at Techmeme »

Wall Street Journal:

McGraw-Hill in Cross Hairs — Two big investors have upped their stake in McGraw-Hill Cos. in a move that could lead to a push to break up the conglomerate, known as much for its financial data and bond ratings as its textbooks for school children. — Hedge fund firm Jana Partners LLC …

Discussion: Deal Journal

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

“A great story to tell to advertisers”: How TPM increased its ad sales revenue 88 percent from last year — This June, Talking Points Memo had the biggest ad sales month in its eleven-year history, closing out a half-year period that saw ad sales revenue grow 88 percent over the same period in 2010.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, Time and Future of Journalism

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Hayes to Host MSNBC's Weekend Morning Show — Christopher L. Hayes of The Nation magazine will host a weekend morning show for MSNBC beginning in September, the channel said Monday. — MSNBC was earlier reported to be developing a show for Mr. Hayes, who has been the Washington editor for The Nation, the liberal weekly magazine.

Discussion: mediabistro.com, The New York Observer, FishbowlDC, The Huffington Post, msnbc.com and TVNewser

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

CNN Readies “Social Network for News” — CNN iReport, the five-year-old platform for citizen journalists to upload and share photos and videos, will become something of a “social network for news” with its imminent redesign, says Lila King, Participation Director of CNN Digital, in this interview with Beet.TV

Discussion: Forbes.com and Poynter

Budd Mishkin / statenisland.ny1.com:

One On 1: Journalist Wayne Barrett Turns A New Page … Much is the same in journalist Wayne Barrett's world these days. He's still married to Fran, his wife of 42 years, and he's still passionate about his work. — There are a couple of key differences, however.

Amelia Hill / Guardian:

Phone-hacking scandal: Stuart Kuttner is latest NoW exec to be arrested — Former managing editor and one-time public face of the News of the World taken into custody — Stuart Kuttner, the public face of the News of the World and its most vocal public defender for 22 years …

Discussion: paidContent, USA Today, New York Magazine and Reuters

Malcolm Coles / Journalism.co.uk:

How to: get to grips with SEO as a journalist — The first part in a series on developing a better understanding of Search Engine Optimisation specifically for journalists — Journalism has an unhappy history with SEO. Actually, all online content has an unhappy history with SEO.

Market Wire:

ONA Selects 2011 MJ Bear Fellows, Journalism Stand-Outs Under 30 — The Online News Association, the world's largest membership organization of digital journalists, today announced its first 2011 MJ Bear Fellows, three journalists under age 30 whose innovative work in independent …

WWD Media Headlines:

Memo Pad: G-Star Taps Vincent Gallo... Battle of the Apps Begins... GALLO FOR G-STAR: G-Star has tapped actor and director Vincent Gallo for its fall men's campaign, which will break in Details, Nylon Guys, Complex and V Man in the U.S. in September. Gallo will join British actress Gemma Arterton …

Patrick Wintour / Guardian:

NI mass-deleted emails, tech firm says — HCL reveals News International's various requests for deletion but tells MPs it knew of nothing untoward — The technology firm HCL has told the home affairs select committee it was aware of the deletion of hundreds of thousands of emails …

Discussion: Press Gazette, Journalism.co.uk and paidContent

Steve Myers / Poynter:

News photographer arrested on Long Island for videotaping police — A news photographer was arrested Friday and charged with obstruction after he was ordered to stop videotaping police. An officer told the photographer, Phil Datz, to “go away,” after which he moved down the street and resumed taping.

Discussion: myfoxny.com, Gothamist, ANIMAL and TVSpy

The Atlantic Online:

The Impact of Next-Generation Data on the Practice of Journalism — How having access to more and more data about who is reading your stories when and where could help make journalism better — Over at GigaOm, Mathew Ingram has a fine write-up about NewsBeat, the journalism-centric product …

Discussion: Betabeat