Mediagazer: Don't Touch His Junket! Undermine Mike Albo Tells All (Kat Stoeffel/The New York Observer)

8:00 AM ET, August 10, 2011

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Wall Street's Demand for Demand Media Falls Off — After the markets close tomorrow, Demand Media will report its second-quarter earnings. — Wall Street is expecting a solid performance from the Santa Monica, Calif.-based online content maker compared to last year.

Discussion: Business Wire, TechCrunch, paidContent and Future of Journalism

Edmund Lee / AdAge:
Demand Media Will Sell Web Ads for Village Voice, Awl After $14M IndieClick Buy

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David Kaplan / paidContent:
Demand Media Buys IndieClick, RSS Graffiti; Expands Google Ad Deal

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Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:

Patience on AOL Wears Thin — With Turnaround Prospects Looking Far Off, Stock Sinks 26%, Pressuring CEO — AOL Inc. lost a quarter of its market value on Tuesday after reporting a loss and cutting its earnings outlook, sparking concerns about its ability to turn itself around.

Nicholas Carlson / The Business Insider: AOL CEO Says The Ad Side Of The Company Doesn't Have Enough “Operational Scale”

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
AOL Earnings: Shares Plummet Despite Ad Revenue Gains

Bloomberg:

News Corp.'s James Murdoch to Explain Story Holes — James Murdoch's testimony last month to U.K. lawmakers about phone hacking by News Corp. (NWS) journalists produced responses that he'd been mistaken, misled or just lied. This week he's supposed to explain which of those it was, if any.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
News Corp.'s Independent Directors Have Strong Ties to Murdoch

Discussion: Company Town, Poynter, CJR and Guardian

Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Murdoch to face Wall Street on News Corp earnings call

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Company Town, Runnin' Scared, Stop Big Media News and The Independent

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Randall Lane returns to Forbes as editor — Romenesko Misc. — Randall Lane, 43, worked at Forbes in a variety of positions from 1991 to 1997. As editor, he'll be responsible for editorial content development and “will also be charged with developing fresh ideas and recruiting new voices and writing talent,” says a release.

Discussion: Folio, MinOnline, Adweek, The Wrap and On Media's Blog

Melanie Sill / Online Journalism Review:

Duke University's new Reporter's Lab for investigative tools — By Melanie Sill: When Sarah Cohen looks back at the exhaustive work she and other Washington Post journalists poured into a Pulitzer-winning investigation on child deaths, she sees not just accomplishment but opportunity …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Steve Myers / Poynter:

U.K. photographer explains how she captured dramatic photo during riots — All the major newspapers in the U.K. published a dramatic photo of a woman jumping from a burning building during the riots that have terrorized the country, captured by Amy Weston of the photo agency WENN.

Discussion: Yahoo! News, Disruptors, Guardian, Guardian, Mashable!, The Daily What, Barbara Krasnoff's blog, Future of Journalism, Adweek, Boston Globe and Telegraph

Guardian:
London riots: Sky, ITN and CNN reporters attacked

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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Abundance of News, but Mixed Sales, for News Magazines — The first six months of 2011 brought the kind of news explosion that can be a boon for major news organizations: the Arab Spring, nuclear catastrophe in Japan, a royal wedding and the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

Phone-hacking scoopster Nick Davies may join Guardian's planned U.S. operation — When not tirelessly chronicling the ongoing British phone-hacking saga, The Guardian has been lining up journalists to staff the U.S.-based website that the U.K. broadsheet plans to have up and running sometime this fall.

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, The New York Observer and Jon Slattery

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The “situational stylebook”: AP creates a reference guide for the upcoming Sept. 11 anniversary — This September will mark the ten-year anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks. It's an occasion that will be commemorated, both on the day itself and, in many cases, in the weeks leading up to it …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Armed With $7M In New Funding, Movieclips Lands Deal With YouTube To Be The Vevo Of Film Clips — We're big fans of online movie clips site Movieclips.com, which launched in 2009 as a search engine with over 20,000 different clips from thousands of titles from the libraries of 20th Century Fox …

Discussion: GigaOM, SocialTimes.com, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Business Wire, Home Media Magazine, VideoNuze, Gizmodo and ReadWriteWeb

Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:

Host your own crowdsourced investigation with the Help Me Investigate plugin — When we open-sourced the code for Help Me Investigate the plan was to move from a single site to a decentralised, networked structure. Now, thanks to Andy Dickinson, it has become even easier for anyone to host their own journalism crowdsourcing platform.

Discussion: The Help Me Investigate blog

Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:

Don't Touch His Junket! Undermine Mike Albo Tells All — Mike Albo, the former New York Times Critical Shopper columnist who was fired for attending a garish Thrillist boondoggle in Jamaica, self-published an account of the experience as a Kindle Single yesterday, entitled The Junket.

Kindle Review:

Finally, someone goes after the Agency Model in a court of law — A very interesting bit of news today - Lawsuit claims Apple and Publishers colluded on eBook pricing in fear of Amazon. — A Seattle Law Firm is saying that 5 Publishers and Apple ‘colluded’ on ebook prices and 'increased …

Discussion: MacRumors, hbsslaw.com, GeekWire, SlashGear, TUAW, 9to5Mac, Electronista and eBookNewser, more at Techmeme »

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Brooklyn's Latest Local News Site Aims For Gritty, Not Trendy — The world isn't lacking for news about Brooklyn's artisanal pickles, flea markets and beekeeping, but a new site, Brooklyn Bureau, aims to focus on the less hip side of New York City's largest borough.

Discussion: Brooklyn Community Foundation