Mediagazer: Future Mulls Radical U.S. Digital Publishing Re-Think, Sell-Off? (Robert Andrews/paidContent)

9:05 PM ET, September 28, 2011

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Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet, Targeting IPad — Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), the world's largest online retailer, unveiled its Kindle Fire tablet computer, taking aim at Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s bestselling iPad with a device that's smaller and less than half the price.

Brad Stone / Business Week:

The Omnivore — First it was Earth's Largest Bookstore. Then came TVs, cameras, appliances, auto parts, music, diapers... Now, with the new Kindle Fire, Amazon's Jeff Bezos is making his boldest move yet — Jeff Bezos is channeling Steve Jobs. It's mid-September and the wiry billionaire founder …

Discussion: Amazon Silk, CNET News, AllThingsD, ZDNet, GigaOM, Business Insider, Gizmodo, broadstuff, GeekWire, Digits, Mashable! and Guardian, more at Techmeme »

Steven Levy / Epicenter:

Playing With Fire: Amazon Launches $200 Tablet, Slashes Kindle Prices — One year ago, almost to the day, Jeff Bezos gave me the reason why people should carry around a Kindle in the age of the iPad. No Angry Birds. — “The number one app for the iPad when I checked a couple of days ago …

Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Amazon's Lukewarm Fire: No Kindle Tablets Outside U.S.

Discussion: paidContent:UK, Poynter, Mashable!, Forbes, ReadWriteWeb and CNET News, more at Techmeme »

Joe Flatley / This is my next:
Kindle Fire Newsstand announced, featuring Conde Nast magazines, DC Comics

Discussion: Garcia Media, GigaOM, FT Tech Hub, 9to5Google, TUAW and Fortune, more at Techmeme »

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:
Amazon Unveils New $79 E-Ink Kindle, $99 Kindle Touch

Discussion: VentureBeat, ZDNet, AllThingsD, Engadget, Kindle Review, This is my next, Forbes and Softpedia News

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

News Corp.'s ‘Daily’ Trails Murdoch Reader Goal — News Corp. (NWSA)'s the Daily is averaging about 120,000 readers a week, or less than a quarter the number the company said it needs to make money, according to an advertising executive working with the iPad-only publication.

Discussion: paidContent, Future Journalism Project, The New York Observer, Adweek, New York Magazine, Guardian, Electronista, The Wrap, AllThingsD, The Next Web and Cision

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Yahoo Cofounder Jerry Yang “Has Re-assumed Command” — The leadership situation at Yahoo right now is incredibly murky, and no two sources close to the situation see it the same way. — That said, one thing is clear. — Jerry Yang - who is at once a beloved cofounder and a hated former CEO - has reinserted himself at the top.

Discussion: Gawker and Electronista

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: Board Member David Kenny Wants The Yahoo CEO Job

Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:

Media coverage of Wall Street protest ramps up following cop clash — Major media outlets—Yahoo included—have drawn criticism for their collective lack of coverage of the ongoing, youth-led protests near Wall Street. But it appears that tide is changing.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Capital New York, NPR and The New York Observer

Adrianne Jeffries / The New York Observer:
Overnight at Occupy Wall Street

Discussion: New York Magazine, Poynter, thephoenix.com, Forbes, Death and Taxes, MetroFocus, The Atlantic Wire, BAGnewsNotes and Media Matters for America

Julia Angwin / Digits:

Wall Street Journal Revises Its Privacy Policy — The Wall Street Journal revised its website privacy policy on Tuesday to allow the site to connect personally identifiable information with Web browsing data without user consent. — Previously, the Journal's privacy policy stated that it would obtain …

Discussion: New York Magazine, Betabeat, Wall Street Journal, Felix and Lauren Weinstein

Dan Gillmor / Google+:
What a crappy and hypocritical move by the Wall Street Journal …

Discussion: Poynter, MediaPost and LA Observed

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

IAB: Internet Advertising Reaches A Record $15B In First Half Of 2011; Up 23 Percent — The Internet Advertising Bureau just released its numbers of the first half of 2011, and it looks like internet ad revenue reached record highs during the time period. Internet ad revenues rose 23.2 percent …

Discussion: Business Wire, Forbes, paidContent, NetNewsCheck Latest, Marketing Pilgrim, MarketingVox News & Trends, GigaOM and paidContent

Micah L. Sifry / techPresident:

Can Facebook's Media Partners Cover It Objectively? UPDATED — Pete Cashmore, the founder and CEO of Mashable, has a post up on CNN.com gushing about the wonders of the new Facebook Timeline, a major revamp of the site that users will be experiencing soon. He writes:

Discussion: Mashable!

Raphael Satter / The Huffington Post:

News Of The World Paid Spies For Scoops During Piers Morgan's Tenure — LONDON — No one suspected the secretary. — Efficient, well-dressed and well-liked, Sue Harris was at the heart of the Sunday People, the smallest of Britain's weekly tabloids. She booked flights, reserved accommodation …

Discussion: Adweek and On Media's Blog

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Independent editor backs plan for bad journalists to be ‘struck off’ — Chris Blackhurst supports proposal to licence journalists and says paper's Johann Hari should hand back Orwell prize — Chris Blackhurst, the editor of the Independent, has come out in support of the Labour party's …

Discussion: http://www.Stinkyjournalism …, AndyDickinson.net, Future of Journalism and FleetStreetBlues

Liz Castro / Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis:

Apple's iBookstore opens in 25 new countries — Christian Peters just alerted me to the fact that he can choose Spain as a market for his books on the iBookstore. Before today, you could only choose US, UK, France, Germany, Australia, and Canada. — Now, you can add twenty-five new markets …

Discussion: The Next Web

Ben Popper / Betabeat:

AOL Editor Who Fired Grouper's Jerry Guo in 2008 Wishes He Had Warned Others — Betabeat received an email this morning from Grant Martin, Editor-in-Chief at the travel site Gadling, alerting us that Jerry Guo, the notorious Newsweek writer and startup scammer, had a troubled history with AOL as well.

Discussion: Gawker and Poynter, Thanks:megan

Rick Robinson / Street Fight:

Patch Pushback: Warren Webster Fires Back Amid Analysis and Criticism — Besides the drubbing Groupon has taken lately, few have withstood more blows from the media than AOL (as of this writing) and its hoped-for field of greens known as Patch. — Others have reported insiders calculating …

Discussion: Poynter

Sharon McLoone / Clarendon-Courthouse-Rosslyn Patch:

Connection Newspapers CEO Sentenced to Six Months in Jail, Must Pay $650K — Peter Labovitz pleaded guilty in July to two counts of failing to pay taxes to the IRS. — The president of Old Town Alexandria-based Connection Newspapers, which publishes community newspapers throughout Northern Virginia …

Discussion: Poynter

Jose Antonio Vargas / Define American:

JOSE REPORTS: “View from Somewhere” — A Real Conversation on Immigration — REPORTING FROM NEW ORLEANS — “A good newspaper,” the playwright Arthur Miller once said, “is a nation talking to itself.” — Newspapers, of course, don't have the monopoly in facilitating our national conversations …

Discussion: Erik Wemple, The Huffington Post, Poynter and On Media's Blog