Mediagazer: Rick Sanchez in Talks to Co-Host Bilingual Talk Show (Gail Shister/TVNewser)

Gail Shister / TVNewser:

Rick Sanchez on Cable News: 'It's an ugly, nasty, vitriolic business' — CNN exile Rick Sanchez is not a big fan of cable news. — “It's an ugly, nasty, vitriolic business,” Sanchez, 53, says from his home in Atlanta. “Every day, it's a knife fight in an alley, and you don't walk away …

Discussion: Poynter and TVWeek.com

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Time Inc. Doubles Down on Tablets, Promises All Magazines on All Platforms by End of Year — Magazine publishers have veered back and forth on what tablets means for their business — Savior! Disappointment! Maybe sort of promising! — but here's Time Inc. making another bet on the technology …

Discussion: MinOnline, Future of Journalism, PC Magazine, Betabeat and Poynter

Keach Hagey / On Media's Blog:

CNBC drops ‘World Business’ — CNBC has pulled its weekend international business show, “World Business,” after a blog edited by Gordon Brown's sister-in-law found that the show's production company was doubling as a PR firm for Malaysian politicians. — The blog, the Sarawak Report …

Discussion: Mediaite, TVNewser, Sarawak Report, The Wire, Inside Cable News and Media Matters for America

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Warner Bros. Pulls Back the Curtain on Flixster Collections, Its Ambitious Digital Video Bet — Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes spent a lot of yesterday's earnings call discussing the company's future in digital video. Here's one of his focal points: Flixster Collections …

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Nieman Journalism Lab:

Transparency, iteration, standards: Knight-Mozilla's learning lab offers journalism lessons of open source — This spring, the Knight Foundation and Mozilla took the premise of hacks and hackers collaboration and pushed it a step further, creating a contest to encourage journalists …

Discussion: Online Journalism Review and P2PU (beta)

Pentagram:

Inside The New York Times Building — One of the best-reviewed documentaries of the summer, “Page One: Inside The New York Times” is a new film directed by Andrew Rossi that takes viewers inside the newsroom of the world's greatest newspaper. The film portrays a particularly tumultuous year at the Times …

Discussion: Poynter

Greg Marx / CJR:

The NY Times's New Top Editor in D.C. — A conversation with incoming Washington bureau chief David Leonhardt … Let's start with the basics about your new assignment. What does a Washington bureau chief do? You had a pretty great job before, so what appealed to you about taking on this new role?

Discussion: Poynter and LA Observed

Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

Meltwater Buys Ice Rocket For Pro Social Monitoring — The news monitoring service Meltwater is branching out in to social media monitoring, after its core business of crawling professional news sites was made more expensive by new industry fees. — Meltwater is acquiring Ice Rocket …

Discussion: TechCrunch and NetNewsCheck Latest

R. Scott Moxley / Navel Gazing:

Ex-Arnold Schwarzenegger Flight Attendant Files $40 Million Libel Suit Against Gawker, National Enquirer — Arnold Schwarzenegger's longtime personal flight attendant has filed a $40 million lawsuit that claims Gawker, National Enquirer, London Daily Mail and other news outlets libeled …

Discussion: The New York Observer, New York Magazine and The Informer

Charlie Savage / Media Decoder:

Judge Explains Letting a Reporter Protect His Source — A federal court on Wednesday unsealed a judge's opinion from last week explaining why she had issued an order on July 20 largely quashing a subpoena to the writer of a book on the Central Intelligence Agency.

Discussion: New York Times and Future Journalism Project

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

The Atlantic Launches a Video Aggregator With a Twist — The Atlantic, which added a photo section to its brainy Web site earlier this year, has taken the next logical step: A digital nook dedicated to moving pictures. — The site's new section joins many other sites' video verticals which bring you clips from around the Web.

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

Carole Simpson: ‘Things have changed drastically’ for women & minorities in newsrooms — When Carole Simpson began her career in the 1960s, there was little diversity in newsrooms. Hoping to carve a path for women and minorities, Simpson became the first female to broadcast radio news in Chicago …

Discussion: Future of Journalism and Associated Press

Micheal Miner / News & Features, Chicago Reader:

To feed or not to feed the digital beast — How do investigative outlets like ProPublica and the Voice of San Diego keep Web traffic flowing? — “This is the core struggle of my human existence right now,” Andrew Donohue, editor of the nonprofit website Voice of San Diego, says of journalism's digital age.

Discussion: Poynter