Mediagazer: Al-Jazeera chief's surprise resignation raises fears for channel's independence (Guardian)

Ben Smith / The Politico:

Twitter to launch political advertising — Trying to capitalize its status as a hub of the national political conversation, the social networking giant Twitter is beginning for the first time this week to sell political advertising, executives told POLITICO.

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Guardian:

Al-Jazeera chief's surprise resignation raises fears for channel's independence — Wadah Khanfar stood down after eight years that consolidated the satellite network's reputation and his own position — Seated behind a vast desk, surrounded by TV screens, deep leather sofas and a wall …

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Jennifer Saba / Reuters:

New York Times expects sharper decline in ad sales — * Weak categories include national auto and real estate — New York Times Co (NYT.N) warned its third quarter advertising revenue would drop by a larger-than-expected 8 percent, hurt by a pullback from real estate, help wanted and national automotive advertisers.

John Koblin / WWD:

More, and Less, of Harper's Bazaar — MORE, AND LESS, OF HARPER'S BAZAAR: Now that Hearst has had its hand on Elle for four months, the publisher is ready to roll out some changes at one of its other fashion titles: Harper's Bazaar. WWD has learned that, in the coming months …

Discussion: Media Week, Adweek, FishbowlNY and MediaPost

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Study: Commenters on CNN.com may call you an idiot; on msnbc.com they tell you why you're an idiot — Tim Libert, a Web developer for NYU's journalism department, conducted a detailed study of about 2,400 article comments posted on six news sites to learn how commenters view the hacking group LulzSec.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and timlibert.me

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Jad Abumrad, Radiolab's ‘genius’ storyteller, on what public radio needs now: ‘more joy, more chaos’ — First thing's first: Jad Abumrad does not know how he will spend half a million dollars, but it's probably going right into his labor of love, the mind-bending radio show that earned …

Discussion: This American Life Updates, Transom and UnBeige

Online Journalism Blog:

Hyperlocal research: “Can Big Media do ‘Big Society’?” — A research paper I've contributed to, with Jean-Christophe Pascal and Neil Thurman, on a regional publisher's experiment with hyperlocal publishing, has now been published on City University's website. You can download the full PDF from here.

Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:

Awl My Children: Spawn of Gawker Inspires and Advises Editorial Ideologues — During his first company-wide meeting two weeks ago, Nick Denton declared that Gawker Media is a technology company, not an editorial one, according to a report published on The Awl.

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

BBC Overhauling Its Website For ‘Swipability’ — Expect to see more of this. The BBC is redesigning its website to take account of how users are now “swiping” using touchscreen devices. — The programme began under new future media director Ralph Rivera's regime on Wednesday …

Discussion: 10,000 Words, Guardian, Pocket-lint, the Econsultancy blog, New Media Age and The Next Web

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

TV Everywhere is coming to Google TV — Get ready to look up your cable subscription credentials when Google TV launches a new version later this year: Turner will be launching new apps for TBS and TNT that will offer access to full-length episodes of TBS and TNT shows …

Discussion: Electronista, The Next Web and PSFK

Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

CBS Interactive's Lanzone: We Still Don't Need Hulu in the U.S. — CBS.com Got 1.8 Million Unique Viewers Yesterday Amid ‘Men’ Return — CBS has broken its standoff with Hulu by providing some shows to the video site's service in Japan. But don't expect that to mean a thaw with Hulu in the U.S. …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:

The Atlantic Hooks Politico's Ball — Politico's Molly Ball is headed to The Atlantic, where she will be a staff writer covering national politics for TheAtlantic.com. Before Politico she was a reporter for the Las Vegas-Review Journal and Las Vegas Sun. She attended Yale.

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Everyone wants to be a news filter now — As the avalanche of information coming through social networks and real-time tools like Twitter continues to grow, the need for filters to make sense of that tsunami of data also increases, and it seems as though everyone has a different way of trying to solve that problem.

Discussion: Poynter, Guardian and Digg Blog, Thanks:anttihirvonen

The Huffington Post:

Big Changes At The Onion — NEW YORK — The editorial team of The Onion, the beloved satirical newspaper that has called New York City its home for the last 10 years, may be moving to Chicago. — According to staffers who spoke to The Huffington Post, a business-side decision has been made to move …

The New York Observer:

How Dave Mays and Benzino Got Back in the Game with Hip Hop Weekly — In late 1997, The Source magazine celebrated the release of its 100th issue with an enormous bash at the Hammerstein Ballroom. Hip hop's era of excess was at its blinged-out height. Everybody was getting money and flaunting it.

Discussion: The Awl

Simon Dumenco / AdAge:

7 Things You Need to Know About ‘Social TV’ Right Now — The State of the Art — and Science — of Monitoring Social-Media Chatter About TV … 1. TV owns social — For more than two years now, AdAge.com has had an editorial partnership with Trendrr, the social-media-monitoring company.

Discussion: MediaPost