Mediagazer: $2 a Word? Chump Change! With Byliner and Atavist, Hungry Freelance Writers Seek Out Alternatives To Magazine Work (Emily Witt/The New York Observer)

12:20 PM ET, September 14, 2011

Top News:

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

All for One! Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft Band Together for Ad Plan. — AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft compete for ad dollars. But a new pact calls for the rivals to cooperate on ad sales, too. — The three companies are going to start selling ad inventory on each others' sites …

Discussion: Business Insider, VentureBeat, paidContent, Future of Journalism, ClickZ, CNET News, Mashable!, mediabistro.com, The Next Web, Search Engine Land, Marketing Pilgrim, GeekWire and WebProNews, more at Techmeme »

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Wall Street Journal Adds to Live Video Programming — Operating a bit like a stealth business news network, The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday announced a major expansion of its video unit, which is now producing three and a half hours of live programming each weekday and will soon produce even more.

Discussion: The New York Observer, AndyDickinson.net, Editors Weblog and Future of Journalism

Inside Cable News:

Wall St. Journal vs. CNBC? — Buried in Brian Stelter's New York Times article on the expansion of the Wall St. Journal's web video section is what appears to be a juicy little shot at CNBC from Deputy Managing Editor Alan Murray... Update: Putting Murray's accusation into context, 2005 …

Jennifer Saba / MediaFile:
WSJ pushes further into video with free app

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, FishbowlNY, Talking Biz News and BtoB Magazine

Wall Street Journal:

Scandal Clouds James Murdoch's Path — Future Muddied by U.K. Hacking Probe — Rupert Murdoch has long said he wants one of his children to succeed him. The scandal at News Corp. has threatened that prospect. — Youngest son James, 38 years old, has been groomed as heir apparent.

Discussion: Company Town and On Media's Blog

Ed Pilkington / Guardian:

News Corp shareholders lodge complaint against Rupert Murdoch — Major US banks accuse Murdoch and News Corporation of corporate misconduct extending far beyond UK — A prominent group of US banks and investment funds with substantial investments in News Corporation has issued …

Discussion: Press Gazette, NetNewsCheck Latest, Erik Wemple, Broadcasting & Cable, Company Town, MediaPost, Media & Entertainment and On Media's Blog

James Robinson / Guardian:
Phone hacking: News International finds ‘large caches’ of documents

Discussion: On Media's Blog, Telegraph, The Huffington Post, Guardian and Guardian

MediaShift Idea Lab:

Why News Organizations Should Follow HuffPost's Lead and Try E-Books — Last week, BookBrewer had the great honor to be chosen by The Huffington Post, which used our platform to create and distribute its first e-book: “A People's History of the Great Recession” by Arthur Delaney.

Discussion: The New York Observer, Reuters, Editors Weblog, TeleRead, eMedia Vitals and Future of Journalism

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Glenn Beck Reveals Big Plans For Web Network — NEW YORK — ESPN fans are likely to tune into the sports network each day without knowing what those four letters stand for. Glenn Beck says he wouldn't mind the same thing happening with his new web-only TV network, GBTV.

Discussion: Future Journalism Project

Emily Witt / The New York Observer:

$2 a Word? Chump Change! With Byliner and Atavist, Hungry Freelance Writers Seek Out Alternatives To Magazine Work — William T. Vollmann on assignment in Japan for Byliner Originals. (Photo from Byliner) — When the journalist David Dobbs first had the idea of writing an article …

Discussion: CJR

The Independent:

Exposed after eight years: a private eye's dirty work for Fleet Street — Files seen by The Independent detail 17,000 requests to investigator Steve Whittamore — Former police officer has revealed how the authorities have known for more than eight years the vast scale …

Discussion: FleetStreetBlues, Guy Fawkes' blog and Jon Slattery

Hollywood Reporter:

Top Viacom Ad Exec Out Over Alleged Kickbacks (Exclusive) … A senior Viacom advertising executive has exited the company following an investigation into allegations of a kickback scheme involving millions of dollars over a period of years. — Brian Fays was senior vp at MTV Networks …

Discussion: Business Insider

Shelby Grad / L.A. NOW:

Google News removes website financed by water district — Officials at Google News on Tuesday removed a website from its search index that had contracted with a local water district to produce promotional pieces “written in the image of real news.” — The move came in response to a Times story …

Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:

How Tumblr is Changing Journalism — Earlier this week we looked at the remarkable growth of Tumblr, a blogging and curation service that now gets over 12 billion page views per month. Tumblr is mostly used as a consumer curation tool - it's an easy way for people to re-post articles, images and videos.

Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

Righthaven Defendant Asks Judge Not To Let Company ‘Slither Away’ — The Righthaven saga continues. Recall that the controversial copyright enforcer last week begged a federal court to lift a $30,000 fee award, saying the payment could force it into bankruptcy.

The Independent:

Female war reporters: 'We're given the softer side of war' — Female war reporters have a glorious history - so why are they still judged by their sex? Glenda Cooper asks the women who were the frontline faces of the Libyan revolution, including Sky's Alex Crawford, to explain

Ryan Hupfer / isocket:

AOL Tech Expands On isocket Plus Other Great New Pubs — We're happy to announce that AOL Tech, the parent group of TechCrunch, is launching additional properties on isocket and buyads.com! — As you may recall, the uber popular blog TechCrunch was our very first publisher.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Media Decoder:

Times Names Sifton National Editor and Bryant Features Editor — Sam Sifton, the Times' dining critic and a former editor of both dining and the culture section, has been named the new national editor for the paper by the executive editor, Jill Abramson. Ms. Abramson also named Adam Bryant …

Discussion: Poynter, The New York Observer, Gothamist, On Media's Blog, FishbowlNY and LA Observed