Mediagazer: Hyper-Local Heaven at UC Berkeley's Journalism School (MediaShift Idea Lab)

10:30 PM ET, September 29, 2011

Top News:

Claire Cain Miller / Bits:

Should Google Tweak the News We Consume? — Should Google play an editorial role in presenting readers with news? — That question was a matter of debate at Zeitgeist, a Google conference this week in Paradise Valley, Ariz., where Larry Page, Google's co-founder and chief executive …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Stark Insider, @penenberg, @mathewi, @thomnagy and @j_fuller

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Is it Google's job to somehow improve the media?

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Bloomberg:

Microsoft Said to Add Comcast, Verizon Pay TV to Xbox Live — Microsoft Corp. plans to offer online pay television service from Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) and Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) through Xbox Live, in an bid to channel more entertainment to its video-game console, people with knowledge of the situation said.

Discussion: Deadline.com, PC Magazine, @pkafka, CNET News, Between the Lines Blog, GigaOM, Multichannel, MarketBeat, Engadget, WPCentral.com and Electronista, more at Techmeme »

Kunur Patel / AdAge:

Amazon's Kindle Fire Could Ignite Tablet Media Consumption — At Less than Half the Price of iPad, New Device Pulls Down Barriers to Entry — By pricing its new Kindle Fire tablet at less than half the cost of an Apple iPad, Amazon is setting up tablet consumption of media to spread …

Discussion: Forbes, MediaFile, Poynter, Epicenter, GigaOM and Bloomberg

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Magazines Join With New Tablet Challenger

Discussion: Deal Journal, eMedia Vitals, Digits and Mashable!

Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:

The Yes Men Raise Money to Publish the Occupy Wall Street Journal — Media activists The Yes Men are raising money on Kickstarter to publish a four-page broadsheet about the 99% represented at Liberty Plaza called The Occupy Wall Street Journal, Animal NY noticed.

Discussion: ANIMAL and Death and Taxes

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
The ‘Occupy Wall Street’ media blackout myth: Plenty of stories, none of them big

Discussion: Folio, http://www.Stinkyjournalism …, The Book Bench, Forbes, The New York Observer, The Huffington Post, Media Matters for America, Death and Taxes, Yahoo! News and The Atlantic Wire

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

With ‘frictionless sharing,’ Facebook and news orgs push boundaries of online privacy — Facebook again may have gone too far in its quest to make privacy obsolete, and this time some news organizations could get burned by going along with it. — Facebook spent years making it easier …

Discussion: Hillicon Valley, Inside Facebook, The Atlantic Online, Journalism.co.uk, Betabeat and Social Media Philanthropy, more at Techmeme »

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

Dear Marco Arment! Sorry About Last Week. We Finally Figured Out What Happened... Last week, an entrepreneur and writer named Marco Arment trashed us in a blog post, which was then picked up and forwarded around the Twitter-sphere. — Marco accused us of lots of horrible things …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Felix Salmon:
Business Insider and over-aggregation

Discussion: Business Insider, Future of Journalism and Poynter

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

A female columnist writes about football and is told to ‘stay in the kitchen next time’ — Albany Times Union columnist Jennifer Gish wrote last week that the Buffalo Bills' 2-0 start “has brought the worst out” in some fans and that “one of you left voicemails for the [Times Union] …

Discussion: Albany Times Union and The Huffington Post

eMarketer:

Twitter Ad Revenues to Near $400 Million by 2013 — Ad dollars expected to triple this year — Twitter will earn $139.5 million in global ad revenues this year, up 210% from $45 million in 2010, according to a new forecast from eMarketer. By 2013, eMarketer estimates worldwide ad revenues at Twitter will reach nearly $400 million.

Discussion: Softpedia News, Marketing Pilgrim, VatorNews, MediaPost, Mashable!, Search Engine Journal, TechCrunch and Forbes, more at Techmeme »

MediaShift Idea Lab:

Hyper-Local Heaven at UC Berkeley's Journalism School — I've said this many times before: The driving force behind my career has been to increase the level of transparency and participation in the process of journalism. — That driving force has taken my career in all kinds of fun …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and Street Fight

David Plotz / Slate:

Meet the New Slate — The same great stories, but a better home page, improved tools, and a brand-new CMS. — Did you notice that Slate looks a little bit different today? It's not a new haircut, and we haven't lost weight. There is a series of small, but we hope excellent …

Discussion: The Awl, Nieman Journalism Lab, ShortFormBlog and CyberJournalist.net

Peter Farago / Flurry:

iOS & Android Apps: Prime-time All the Time — On broadcast television, brands seek to reach their target audiences as efficiently as possible. For example, a brand might run a TV campaign targeting 24 - 35 year old females through prime-time shows that reach that desired audience.

Discussion: GigaOM, VatorNews, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat and AllThingsD, more at Techmeme »

Jalopnik:

Why we're pissed Arianna Huffington is destroying Autoblog — Last night, the newly-formed Huffington Post Media Group had to fire another writer — the second this month — for an obvious and preventable ethical breach. — Jeff Glucker, an Autoblog contributor, published what seemed …

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Bruce Rushton / Illinois Times:

SJ-R gets a sour Apple from GateHouse — While employees at the State Journal-Register fear for their jobs, brass at GateHouse Media, the daily newspaper's parent company, has announced a turnaround plan for a corporation that has shown precious little profitability.

Discussion: Deal Journal and Poynter

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

The Michael Wolff Era at Adweek Is Over — Media bomb-thrower has been editor of Adweek for less than a year. Earlier this month, rumors began circulating that he would soon be replaced. Now, we hear, Wolff's days at Adweek are definitively coming to an end.

Discussion: Poynter, FishbowlNY and New York Magazine

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Washington Post Chairman — and Facebook Director — Don Graham Talks About Social Reader (Video) — Last week at Facebook's f8 developers confab, I ran right into my old boss, Washington Post Chairman Don Graham. — While I could go on about what a privilege it was to spend …

Discussion: Poynter and GigaOM

MG Siegler / parislemon:

Fake Steve Jobs: Funny. Real Dan Lyons: Sloppy, Lazy, Too Old For This S**t. — Like everyone else, I used to be a big fan of Fake Steve Jobs. Then he was revealed to be Dan Lyons. The magic was over. The 15 minutes was over. He had to go back to doing his actual job — though not before he got a book out of it.

Discussion: @mathewi