Mediagazer: Yahoo! Taps Top Hollywood Talent for Web Original Series (Andy Plesser/Beet.TV)

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Big Media Hands Over Its Locks And Keys To Facebook — Facebook's overhaul we're about to see is meant, in part, to bring the media world even further into the social network's play-space. — But one of the most important elements of today's news will take place outside of Facebook's walls.

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Those ‘Facebook Editions’ Will Be Unveiled at F8 — I'm not even gonna bother with a caption here. You obviously know who this guy is. Image by Getty Images via @daylife — Most of the buzz around F8, Facebook's annual developer conference, centers on innovations in music and video sharing …

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Joe Mandese / MediaPost:

Nielsen Discloses Major TV Ratings Glitch, Could Impact Millions In TV Ad Buys — A week after unveiling an aggressive plan to convince the ad industry to use its new Facebook panel as the “GRP” for online advertising and media buys, Nielsen Wednesday began informing clients about a major snafu …

Discussion: rbr.com, TVbytheNumbers and Inside Cable News

Nielsen's Undercount of News: Why the Numbers Don't Add Up — Social networking has become the 800-pound gorilla of the Internet. That's what Nielsen is trumpeting in a new report. And news, it says, is a tiny mouse. — Or is it? — Nielsen's Social Media Report says news accounts …

Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:

Hulu has more than 1 million paying subscribers: CEO — (Reuters) - Hulu, the popular online video service which has been put up for sale by its joint owners, now has more than 1 million paying subscribers, Chief Executive Jason Kilar said on Wednesday. — Earlier this year Kilar forecast …

Discussion: VentureBeat, Electronista and The Next Web

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

News teams forced to give riot footage to police — Scotland Yard gains hours of unbroadcast material of August riots after serving court orders — The BBC, ITN and Sky News have handed hundreds of hours of unbroadcast footage of the August riots to police after being served with court orders by Scotland Yard.

Discussion: New York Magazine, Jon Slattery and Editors Weblog

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

A Huge Thank-You To IVP And RRE For Giving Us A Boatload Of New Money — We're pleased to announce that we just raised a bunch more money. — This means two things: — First, that we'll be able to do a ton more cool stuff over the next couple of years, all of which we hope …

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Steve Myers / Poynter:

To be sure, blog highlighting unnecessary journalism phrases is absolutely necessary — Freelance writer Josh Sternberg has introduced a new Tumblr, “Unnecessary Journalism Phrases,” a very unique blog that is in the process of calling out the filler phrases in news stories.

David Kaplan / paidContent:

NYT Paywall: 12 Percent Of Subs Are International; IHT Paywall Coming — Part of the bet that the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) made when it began building the metered paywall for the NYTimes.com was that the audience was larger than just northern, east coast readers.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and Future of Journalism

Discussion: FishbowlNY

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: Betabeat, Softpedia News, CNET News, NetNewsCheck Latest, SlashGear, The Next Web and Electronista, more at Techmeme »

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

AOL Patch Ad Sales Leaders Are Suddenly Gone — Patch, AOL's very expensive bet on local news blogs, lost its director of sales today - a month after AOL's SVP of local ad sales also bolted. — Scott Colontonio quit today for a job at Google's New York office, where he'll …

Discussion: paidContent

Patrick Gavin / The Politico:

Another Walter Cronkite at CBS — People who've called CBS News' DC bureau lately may have been shocked to hear this: “CBS News, this is Walt Cronkite.” — The legendary newsman passed away in 2009, of course, but a new generation of Cronkites now hangs his hat at the news organization: Walter Cronkite IV, a grandson.

Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:

Burberry's Evolving Role as a Media Company — A detail shot from Burberry's Spring/Summer 2012 runway show on Monday. — Burberry staged a “Tweetwalk” earlier this week during which the London-based fashion house premiered every look on Twitter moments before the models hit the runway.

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Yahoo! Taps Top Hollywood Talent for Web Original Series — LOS ANGELES, Calif — Yahoo! has green-lighted eight new, short-form Web orginal video programs, producing them both in-house and with leading Hollywood shops including Electus, Principato-Young, FishBowl Media and Warrior Poets …

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Online Video Measurement Platform Visible Measures Raises $13M — Exclusive: Visible Measures, a third-party online media measurement solution for advertisers and publishers, is announcing $13 million round of funding, led by DAGVentures with participation from new strategic partner Advance Publications …

Discussion: Multichannel and VideoNuze

Farida Zeynalova / Press Gazette:

Survey shows five per cent of Britons trust tabloid journalists post hacking scandal — Trust in newspaper journalists has dropped over the last year in the wake of the hacking scandal according to a survey carried out by YouGov for the University of Nottingham.

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:

Zite Brings Personalized News Content to the iPad — Recently CNN bought Zite. Here we talk with Zite's CEO, to find out what's going on in this hot category and how Zite differs from the other players in the field. — There are a host of different applications that are available …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Media Matters Takes a Stab at Satellite Radio — Media Matters for America, the media monitoring group that directs most of its ire at Fox News and talk radio, is getting a radio show of its own, albeit temporarily. — For six weeks, the group will have a two-hour show on Sirius XM Radio.

Discussion: The New York Observer and On Media's Blog