Mediagazer: George Monbiot urges journalists to register their interests (John Plunkett/Guardian)

1:40 PM ET, September 29, 2011

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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: GigaOM, Stark Insider, @j_fuller, @thomnagy, @penenberg and @mathewi

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.

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Murdoch's ‘Daily’ Has 120,000 Weekly Uniques; Nearly Two-Thirds Paid — The folks at News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) have been cagey about nearly every number to do with The Daily from the beginning—except for the amount of the investment, $30 million in the last fiscal year and a run rate of nearly $500,000 a week.

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: Forbes, Mashable!, Xark!, Gizmodo, Editors Weblog, Nieman Journalism Lab, broadstuff, Amazon Silk, PSFK, GeekWire, New York Times, ZDNet, Business Insider, Digits, The Week, GigaOM, CNET News and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »

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

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

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

Discussion: MediaPost, NetNewsCheck Latest, GigaOM, FT Tech Hub, ZDNet, Garcia Media, SocialTimes.com, 9to5Google, TUAW and Fortune

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

Dan Lyons / Real Dan Lyons Web Site:
Kindle Fire, and the tricky business of chasing scoops

Discussion: TeleRead, The Daily Beast, parislemon and TechCrunch

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 …

Felix Salmon:
Business Insider and over-aggregation

Discussion: Business Insider 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, New York Magazine and FishbowlNY

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

Declan Fahy / CJR:

Skeptical of Science — Among other new roles, journalists becoming more critical of research — The recent coverage of the subatomic particles found to have travelled faster than the speed of light—tentative evidence that could mean a revision of Einstein's special theory of relativity …

Discussion: Climate ShiftClimate Shift

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: VentureBeat, VatorNews and GigaOM

Karyn Campbell / Sparksheet:

Return of the Editor: Why Human Filters are the Future of the Web — If web 1.0 was about websites and 2.0 the power of network connectivity, whatever 3.0 looks like, better filters will play a big part. — The web has become too big and noisy. The design community has helped guide us through …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

The ‘Occupy Wall Street’ media blackout myth: Plenty of stories, none of them big — News interest in the demonstrators presently camping out in a park in the Financial District appears to have increased after a high-ranking police officer was caught on camera apparently pepper-spraying a pair of protesters Sunday.

Discussion: The New York Observer, Media Matters for America, The Huffington Post, Death and Taxes, The Atlantic Wire, Yahoo! News and ShortFormBlog

Sabrina Ford / Reuters:

Warner Bros puts your face in Facebook Web series — (Reuters) - Warner Bros. on Thursday will unveil a Web show from “Charlie's Angels” director McG that seeks to create a new genre the studio calls a “social series” by taking pictures, music and information from a viewer's Facebook page and putting it in the video.

John Plunkett / Guardian:

George Monbiot urges journalists to register their interests — Guardian columnist takes first step by revealing his own pay from paper, plus his other income and savings — Guardian columnist George Monbiot has called on journalists to sign up to a mandatory register of interests …

Discussion: Press Gazette and Editors Weblog

Neal Ungerleider / Fast Company:

The Netflix Of Terrorism — Terrorist organizations are notorious videographers—particularly when it comes to uploading clips to the web to spread messages or recruit sympathizers. Now private company IntelCenter has assembled one of the world's largest collections of streaming terrorist videos for viewing on demand.

Fox News:

Mexican Journalist Beheaded for Using Social Media to Cover Crime — MEXICO CITY - The editor-in-chief of the Primera Hora newspaper in Nuevo Laredo, a border city in northern Mexico, was beheaded for using social media to report on criminals, prosecutors said.

Discussion: The New York Observer

Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:

Onion joke about “screams and gunfire” inside Congress backfires — Image: From the Onion, a photoshopped image of John Boehner holding a child hostage on the steps of Congress. A series of tweets related to this article caused a stir today. — An oddly presented tweet from @theonion …

Discussion: The Onion, Forbes, On Media's Blog, New York Magazine, Mediaite, Gawker, The New York Observer, Washington Post, The Politico, @wusa9, Politics, newsfeed.time.com, DCist and Mashable!

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Phone hacking: second NoW journalist takes News International to tribunal — Former assistant editor Ian Edmondson is taking publisher to employment tribunal claiming unfair dismissal — A second journalist at the heart of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal is taking Rupert …

Discussion: Press Gazette