Mediagazer: Following layoff, Jack Shafer tells journalists: ‘Always be looking’ (Joe Grimm/Poynter)

Joe Grimm / Poynter:

Following layoff, Jack Shafer tells journalists: ‘Always be looking’ — In this week's career chat, we talked with longtime media critic Jack Shafer, who has covered the media for about 25 years. Just last week, he was laid off from Slate. — Shafer, who said no audience questions were off-limits …

Discussion: AllThingsD, GalleyCat and FishbowlNY

How to reboot Slate — The opinions expressed are his own. — There's really no schadenfreude to be had for Slate, which laid off four staffers and a few freelancers last week. After all, this is the online magazine that gave birth to a Twitter meme, #Slatepitches …

Discussion: Poynter

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

How The New York Times is taking Twitter reporting faster and deeper with @NYTLive — After 346 tweets and 22,000 followers in three days, @NYTLive has gone dormant — for now. — The Times' new Twitter megaphone for in-depth, real-time curation of big news stories got its first test run this weekend for Hurricane Irene.

Discussion: NYConvergence.com and Bits

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

NYT business editor responds to ombud's ‘absurd’ column — Times business editor Larry Ingrassia tells his staff that public editor Art Brisbane's Aug. 28 column on DealBook “was so absurd and so poorly reasoned that I felt compelled to write a response.” Ingrassia tells Brisbane that …

Discussion: The Public Editor's Journal, New York Magazine, FishbowlNY, The Huffington Post, The New York Observer, Talking Biz News, New York Times and Future of Journalism

In praise of DealBook — Every so often, Andrew Ross Sorkin will ask me when I'm going to write something nice about him. It doesn't happen very often, because I'm more likely to feel the need to disagree with someone on the internet than I am to feel the need to agree with them.

Discussion: Talking Biz News and The Awl

Tim Carmody / Epicenter:

Without Jobs as CEO, Who Speaks for the Arts at Apple? — What is the secret to Apple's success? After introducing the iPad 2 in March, Steve Jobs offered one answer: … Steve Jobs' resignation as CEO of Apple leaves the company without its founder and lead visionary, but still in very capable hands.

Discussion: Felix Salmon, Evolver.fm, VatorNews, Forbes and FT Tech Hub

Reuters:

How to hack like a News of the World reporter — World renowned computer hacker, Kevin Mitnick, shows you step-by-step how the News of the World journalists hacked into private voicemails.

Discussion: The Huffington Post and FishbowlNY

Cotton Delo / AdAge:

Which Marketers Should (and Shouldn't) Tap Social-Media Darling Tumblr — As Brands' Presence Grows, Blogging Platform Finds Sweet Spot in Fashion, Media — New York-based blogging platform Tumblr has experienced astronomic growth in the past year, more than tripling its audience …

Dave Winer / Scripting News:

Why doesn't the Times have something like Quora? — There are all these Quora-like services coming online these days. — Why doesn't the Times have one? — I'm not suggesting that they develop it. Partner. The Times is a distribution channel. They already have a lot of smart readers and a smart website.

Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:

JRC journalists use social media to cover earthquate and hurricane — I've curated Journal Register newsrooms' use of social media in covering Hurricane Irene and last week's earthquake. I'm not sure why I can't get this to publish to my blog (I've done that several times with Storify), but you can read it at the link above.

Polly Curtis / Guardian:

Labour seeks law change to stop News Corp renewing BSkyB bid — Fears that Rupert Murdoch could reopen bid prompts ‘public interest test’ motion by shadow culture secretary Ivan Lewis — Labour is trying to secure cross-party support for an emergency change in the law to prevent News Corporation …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

To @ or not to @? When and how to name drop in social media — Imagine for a moment that you are at a party, standing in a circle of people and exchanging stories. You start to tell the one about the time your friend John, who is across the room, fell into the lake on a fishing trip.

Discussion: A VC

New York Times:

A News Corp. Decision — To the Editor: — David Carr wrote about a corporate merger that was reviewed by the Justice Department in 1997, when I was assistant attorney general in charge of antitrust under President Bill Clinton ("News Corp.'s Soft Power in the U.S.," The Media Equation column, Aug. 8).

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Fantasy Football at ESPN: Record 500 College Games Live this Fall — With an expanded digital platform for live sports, ESPN will stream 500 college football games this fall, says Tim Connolly, VP for Distribution for Disney/ESPN in this interview with Beet.TV

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Flattering words from Schmidt - but he isn't going to save the TV industry — The boss of Google charms the Edinburgh TV festival but the company's relationship with the media is complex — Google is the loveable monopolist. It didn't set out, perhaps, to dominate internet search.

Discussion: ZDNet, GigaOM and Guardian

Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:

How NY1 won the Irene-hits-New York story, and what national cable news could learn from them — Somewhere around midmorning on the day Hurricane Irene landed in New York City, I switched from NY1 to CNN. This was a mistake. — Things had been calming down in the city …

Discussion: Erik Wemple, Washington Post, mediabistro.com, The Huffington Post, CJR, Forbes, TVNewser, Pat's Papers, Yahoo! News, Company Town, Future of Journalism, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, The Daily Beast and New York Times

Lifehacker Australia:

The Onion's Digital Guru Explains How To Use Tech (And Why Chaos Is Great) — Baratunde Thurston is the director of digital for everyone's favourite satirical news source The Onion, but being funny is easier when you're organised, technically proficient and open to inspiration.