Mediagazer: Epiphanies from Bob Woodward (Foreign Policy)

8:35 PM ET, August 15, 2011

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Market Ills Give CNBC a Bounce — When Nik Deogun was running the financial coverage of The Wall Street Journal during the crisis in 2008, he kept a constant eye on CNBC as the events played out on television. “It was news being made, all the time, in real time,” he said.

Discussion: TVNewser, The Huffington Post, The Wire, Gawker, Inside Cable News and The Big Picture

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The (actual) future of the Big Idea — The critics are right: Neal Gabler's essay in yesterday's New York Times — the one proclaiming the death of the big idea at the hands of Twitter and Facebook and the Internet in general — is wrong. And we should probably, after giving the thing …

Discussion: Techdirt, LA Biz Observed, Stephen Baker, Free Press, The Chutry Experiment, jenbayne.wordpress.com, New York Times, Mother Jones, Bit of Tech and The Huffington Post

Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:

Why Google's Motorola acquisition is a huge TV play — Google announced this morning that it's sweeping up Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, a whopping 60% premium over Friday's close. You've likely read that the acquisition will give Google access to a fresh crop of patents and allow …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Forbes, MediaFile, AllThingsD, PC Magazine, Between the Lines Blog, FOSS Patents, DealBook, Home Media Magazine, VentureBeat, Multichannel and BtoB Magazine, more at Techmeme »

Felix Salmon:

Whither the M&A scoop? — You've heard it here and everywhere: Google is buying Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. But here's the media twist to the story: you didn't hear it anywhere first. — Deal scoops are the most basic currency of business journalism.

Discussion: AllThingsD, TechCrunch, The Official Google Blog, The Atlantic Online, Business Wire, paidContent:UK and Gawker, more at Techmeme »

The New York Observer:

The Free Agent List: 2011′s 50 Media Most Eligible Bachelors — What goes into making a list of media bachelors? The proprietary formula is in the end just that, but a few of the standards are pretty transparent. — First and foremost, they should be desirable, be it by physical specimen …

Discussion: @moorehn, @fmanjoo, FishbowlNY, Runnin' Scared, @nmillions, @nickrizzo and ...the deadline

Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:

Why the Observer Is Going All In (the Pink) on Power Lists — Just two weeks ago, the Observer poked fun at itself for overplaying its hand when it came to “Power Lists.” At the time, editors were reacting to lots of (not entirely flattering) attention paid to their Media Power Couples list.

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

MediaNews Group Adds Paywalls To 23 More Newspapers — Readers of MediaNews Group's small- and medium-sized newspapers in California, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Massachusetts and Vermont will pay for online content under a metered model starting today, even if they are print subscribers.

Discussion: MediaPost, Nieman Journalism Lab and Free Press

Foreign Policy:

Epiphanies from Bob Woodward — A decade and five books later, the world's most famous investigative journalist has told us more about what happened behind closed doors in Washington's global war on terror than anyone. So how does he think it will be remembered? — Ten years since 9/11.

Discussion: ...the deadline

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Orlando Sentinel editor: ‘We chose to cut news pages to help bolster our bottom line’ — Give Mark Russell a few points for honesty. The editor of Orlando Sentinel tells readers that “the move to cut news pages was driven by our need to reduce expenses ...

Discussion: Orlando Sentinel and MediaPost

Lewis DVorkin / Forbes:

The Future of Digital Journalism is Transactions — There is a framed movie poster sitting on a radiator in my office almost directly across from my desk. I can't help but see it every day, all the time. It's an original “one-sheet” (creases and all) that was used in theaters to promote …

Guardian:

How the internet has all but destroyed the market for films, music and newspapers — The author of Free Ride warns that digital piracy and greedy technology firms are crushing the life out of the culture business — For most of the 80s and 90s, NBC dominated US television: Miami Vice, The Cosby Show, Cheers, Seinfeld, Friends.

Discussion: Techdirt, Techland and MPAA Blog

Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:

The Gregory Brothers Auto-Tune the Internet — When Diana Radcliff stepped into a convenience store in Kansas City, Mo., on the morning of Sept. 1, 2010, she had no idea she'd be a witness to a botched robbery and a frantic escape accompanied by a hail of bullets; or that her account of the thwarted crime …

Discussion: Betabeat

Felix Salmon:

Why the NYT paywall isn't like the FT's — Fred Wilson has nice things to say about my analysis of the NYT paywall — thanks, Fred! — but it's worth teasing out one area where he and I might differ. — Fred says that the NYT “went with the FT's model”, and I've also heard privately …

Discussion: TeleRead, bijan sabet and PSFK

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:

Painful Profits From Web Video — Media companies are starting to cash in on Internet video. But that new money could be coming at a cost as fewer young people watch traditional television. — That battle between the old and new ways of watching TV is putting networks and studios in a tricky position …

Discussion: Adweek

Drake Martinet / AllThingsD:

A Social Update From AllThingsD's Social Media Editor — A few months back, after our staff more than doubled in size, AllThingsD launched our redesigned Web site. Today, we're taking another step forward by launching an updated social media strategy. — You can explore the new features we've added by clicking the button below: