Mediagazer: Former Longtime WNBC Anchor Carol Jenkins Says TV News Industry Going ‘Right Direction’ for Women, Blacks (Jerry Barmash/FishbowlNY)

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: TVWeek.com and Poynter

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 and Betabeat

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

9 reasons newspapers are suddenly asking print subscribers to pay for full Web access — After years of searching for a workable paid digital content model, a wave of small and mid-sized newspapers have all hit on the same solution: Ask print subscribers to pay just a little more to get full website access.

Discussion: paidContent

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: Sarawak Report, Mediaite, TVNewser, 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 …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Mashable!, more at Techmeme »

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)

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: The New York Observer, Poynter and LA Observed

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

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

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Digitas Jordan Bitterman: ROI for Online Video Advertising is Double Television's — While advertisers and ad networks are driving online video ad rates “to the floor,” the lower prices are making the media more efficient, providing a return on investment of 3 to 5X for digital video versus 2X …

Thanks:daisywhitney

Jerry Barmash / FishbowlNY:

Former Longtime WNBC Anchor Carol Jenkins Says TV News Industry Going ‘Right Direction’ for Women, Blacks — Carol Jenkins was a top-notch broadcast journalist for several decades in New York. She is most remembered for her nearly quarter-century at WNBC as an anchor and reporter.

Discussion: womensmediacenter.com and TVSpy

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

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of ARPU — 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. — We've seen lots of consternation over numbers recently.