Mediagazer: Why CNN Acquired Zite [INTERVIEW] (Lauren Indvik/Mashable!)

1:00 PM ET, August 31, 2011

Top News:

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Campaign Reporters Are Younger, and Cheaper — WASHINGTON — A group of five fresh-faced reporters from National Journal and CBS News clicked away on their MacBooks one recent afternoon, dutifully taking notes as seasoned journalists from the campaign trail shared their rules of the road.

Discussion: Poynter, TVNewser, Mediaite, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, On Media's Blog, Free Press, American Journalism Review and Gawker

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Financial Times Apps Finally Pulled From iOS — Two months after the deadline for compliance hit, it's now clear The Financial Times and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) can't come to a compromise over the new requirement that in-app subscription payments must go through iTunes Store.

The Atlantic Online:

Fuego: A Bot That Turns the Twitter Firehose Into a Trickle — A new tool from the good people at Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab can help you find the best links buried among the tweets — Having troubles keeping up with your Twitter stream? Feel like you wade through hundreds of tweets …

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The NYT joins forces with YouTube and Storyful to collect and share video reflections of 9/11 — The New York Times is in collaboration mode. Last week, it announced a local partnership — with its fellow local news source, WNYC — to cover the city's education system; today …

Discussion: news:rewired, Free Press, Future of Journalism, Medacity and NetNewsCheck Latest

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The New York Times imagines the kitchen table of the future

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Garcia Media, Betabeat, Journalism.co.uk, Gizmodo, TechNet Blogs and GeekWire, more at Techmeme »

Jason Kirk / Kindle Post US:

@author: Connecting Readers and Writers — We're excited to announce a new way for readers to connect with authors and engage in the community around their favorite authors' books. @author lets readers ask questions while they're reading a Kindle book, or from an Amazon Author Page.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, The Digital Reader and GeekWire, more at Techmeme », Thanks:dangaba

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Ralph Lauren Buys Solo Sponsorship of NY Times iPad App for September — Ads Will Provide the Only Live Video of Designer's Fashion Week Runway Show, Suspend Pay Meter Around Five Sections — Polo Ralph Lauren has bought a solo sponsorship of The New York Times iPad app during September …

Discussion: paidContent and FishbowlNY

Henry Blodget / The Business Insider:
Analyst hearing rumors that Yahoo is bidding for The New York Times Company (NYT).

Discussion: @benzinga, @benzinga, @myersnews, @felixsalmon, @rdbgroep, @benzinga and @preetatweets

Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:

Why CNN Acquired Zite [INTERVIEW] — In tablets generally and the iPad particularly, consumers have found a device conducive to reading news. — It's no surprise then that a growing number of newsreading apps have appeared, from individual, branded apps such as The Wall Street Journal …

Discussion: Editors Weblog, Journalism.co.uk and eMedia Vitals

Ki Mae Heussner / Adweek:

Yahoo, Gannett Expand Local Ad Tie-In — Embattled media companies Yahoo and Gannett are getting even cozier. — Facing revenue declines, the Internet giant and the country's biggest newspaper publisher are hoping they can boost their bottom lines with an expanded local advertising partnership.

Discussion: MediaPost and Broadcasting & Cable

Alysia Santo / CJR:

After Irene: How a Hyperlocal Is Helping — In the Catskills, the Watershed Post is coordinating relief efforts — In the Catskills region of upstate New York, where flooding from Hurricane Irene wiped out entire towns, a hyperlocal site called the Watershed Post is helping …

Discussion: Street Fight, Medacity and www.wnyc.org

DigiDave:

Barriers to... Failure — At this year's ONA I'll be on a panel “I failed and so can you.” — I've always been a big fan of failure. I think journalism should hold a “fail camp” (inspired by Ethan Zuckerman). When I re-started the blog carnival I dedicated a month towards failure.

Steve Smith / minonline.com:

Vogue.com, SportingNews.com and Self.com Lead Y-o-Y Page View Growth Among Magazines — This week in min we feature our comprehensive run down of year-over-year growth among magazine Web sites, comparing June 2010 to June 2011 metrics. Most consumer titles enjoyed double digit increases in the last year …

Discussion: Folio and SAI

Josef Adalian / New York Magazine:

AMC Is Mulling a Talk Show About Its Own Dramas — Let's talk zombies! — Photo: Photo by Gene Page and Greg Nicotero - © TWD Productions LLC. All rights reserved — Bravo's Andy Cohen-hosted Watch What Happens: Live has turned into something of a blockbuster for the network …

Discussion: Adweek, TVLine, Washington Post and The Marquee Blog

Eric Savitz / Forbes:

Context Will Drive The Future Of Web Content Management — Subscribe to Forbes Get a Free Trial Issue … Web content management is at the most significant inflection point in its 15-year history. It's now all about the context. — By 2013, Gartner contends, 40% of large companies …

Maureen O'Connor / Gawker:

The Strange Case of Carl Bernstein's Paparazzi Shoot — This photo of Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein attracting bumblebees in Beverly Hills raises questions. — Why was a Beverly Hills paparazzo staking out Carl Bernstein? — Damn, is it really that hard out there for journalists …

Adweek:

Fox Fires Back at Gawker Dismisses story about Bill O'Reilly, his wife, and Nassau County cops By D.M. Levine — Fox News is firing back at Gawker for its Bill O'Reilly story. Earlier today, Gawker posted what it billed as a major exclusive—a story by John Cook claiming that prime …