Mediagazer: Getting ‘digital first’ right in the ‘newsroom’ (Steve Yelvington/Yelvington's Blog)

10:00 AM ET, October 11, 2011

Top News:

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Memo to newspapers: Let your readers inside the wall — The Guardian, the U.K. newspaper that has been one of the biggest mainstream-media champions of a “digital first” approach and a proponent of “crowdsourcing” the news, says it's now going to experiment with allowing readers to help decide what news to cover.

Discussion: Editors Weblog

Guardian:

An experiment in opening up the Guardian's news coverage — Help shape the Guardian's news coverage by talking to editors and reporters about upcoming stories as we work on them — We often report big breaking stories as they happen, but have you ever wondered what stories we're working on - and what's about to drop?

Discussion: @niemanlab, FleetStreetBlues, Mashable!, 10,000 Words, Rhetorica, Magforum, Press Gazette and Poynter

MediaMonkey / Guardian:
Telegraph correspondent launches Twitter offensive | Media Monkey

Discussion: @benfenton

Noam Cohen / New York Times:

Link by Link: Pastebin Helps Occupy Wall Street Spread the Word — A STRENGTH of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement has been its flexible organization and nondoctrinaire agenda: “The one thing we all have in common is that we are the 99 percent that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1 percent.”

Discussion: Forbes, Garcia Media, The Raw Story, Future of Journalism, NYConvergence.com, The Huffington Post, Betabeat and Poynter

Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Geraldo Greeted By Occupy Wall Street Protestors Chanting ‘Fox News Lies’

Discussion: Washington Post, The Wrap, Gothamist, Capital New York, Gawker, Erik Wemple, The New York Observer, Forbes, New York Post, Future of Journalism, The Huffington Post and ThinkProgress

Deggans / St. Petersburg Times:
Occupy Wall Street coverage reveals some financial journalists still mired in Wall Street culture

Discussion: New York Times

Jay Rosen / Quote and Comment:
FED UP WITH WEAK REPORTING ON OCCUPY WALL STREET, THIS GUY WENT DOWN THERE AND DID THE JOB HIMSELF

Discussion: Capital New York and The New York Observer

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
Jessie LaGreca, Occupy Wall Street Protester, On ‘This Week’: Media Has Failed Working Class People

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Runnin' Scared and The New York Observer

James Hibberd / Inside TV:

Discovery orders Steve Jobs documentary with ‘Mythbusters’ hosts — EXCLUSIVE — Discovery has ordered a documentary on the life of the late Steve Jobs, with the Mythbusters duo on board to host. The network is teaming with NBC's Peacock Productions for iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World, a one-hour special.

Discussion: Fast Company, Softpedia News, TUAW, Business Insider and MacRumors, more at Techmeme »

Bloomberg: Jobs's Death Leaves Hollywood Without Tech Envoy

Gianna Caserta / WALB-TV:

Political blog buys The Albany Journal — A political blog is buying an Albany newspaper. — In what appears to be a first of its kind move, Knighton Media, Inc. signed a contract to purchase the community-based paper The Albany Journal. — Knighton is a company formed to run the Albany political blog called Laws-N-Sausages.

David Lieberman / Deadline.com:

News Corp Fires Back At Attacks On Board Candidates And Compensation — News Corp is acting like it will have a fight on its hands at the Oct. 21 shareholders' meeting, even though CEO Rupert Murdoch controls more than enough votes to pretty much dictate the outcome.

Katie Feola / Adweek:
News Corp. Shareholders Advised to Oust Rupert Murdoch

Discussion: Guardian and The First Post

Steve Yelvington / Yelvington's Blog:

Getting ‘digital first’ right in the ‘newsroom’ — “Digital First!” is a great battle cry, and thank you, John Paton, for giving it to us all. It is pure leadership, a flag planted forward declaring that newspapers now see print as the past and digital as the present and future.

Discussion: Common Sense Journalism

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Here Comes Another Cloud: Hollywood Hopes “UltraViolet” Will Save DVDs — Say for this for UltraViolet: It actually launched. — When word first got out that most of Hollywood and the tech industry was working on a “Giant Media DRM Cloud Coalition Featuring Everyone Except Apple and Disney” …

Discussion: PC Magazine

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Phone hacking: Les Hinton to give committee evidence via video link — The former executive chairman of News International is to appear before the culture, media and sport select committee via video link later this month — Former executive chairman of News International Les Hinton giving evidence to the committee in 2007

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Business Insider hires VentureBeat writer — Matt Lynley, a tech writer with VentureBeat in San Francisco, has been hired by BusinessInsider.com to expand its tech coverage. — Lynley will move to New York later this year, but he will also recommend tech writers to BusinessInsider.com …

Dylan Byers / Adweek:

Bloomberg, ‘Post’ Tap Social Media Companies for GOP Debate — Technology has been playing a large role in the presidential primary debates this year. Google and YouTube have each cosponsored a GOP debate, drawing on data and video contributions to take the national pulse …

Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:

The Media's Mormon Fixation — Mitt Romney is determined to ignore a pastor's attack on Mormonism as a ‘cult.’ Howard Kurtz says the strategy may not work if the press keeps the spotlight on his Mormon faith. — After the Trump tease, the Daniels dalliance, the Huckabee hesitation …

Discussion: @peterlauria3, The Week and PolitickerNY

Paul Hamilos / @paulhamilos:

The best Irish reporter working for the Guardian in Pakistan @declanwalsh is leaving us for the NYT. Oh, Declan! How could you do it?

Ryan Chittum / CJR:

The Shorter-Form Journal — The number of long stories has plunged under Murdoch — Story length in journalism by itself doesn't mean much. We read too many news stories that are just too damned long. — But, on the other hand, without going long, it's hard to achieve greatness.

Discussion: Poynter

Richard Horgan / FishbowlLA:

Boston Globe Takes Heat for Blowing ‘Whitey’ Bulger Informant's Cover* — For anyone who followed the unlikely capture of James “Whitey” Bulger in Santa Monica, Sunday's front page Boston Globe feature article was a must-read, full of new details about the gangster's life on the lam.

Discussion: L.A. NOW, LAist and newsfeed.time.com

Felix Salmon:

How the New Yorker monetizes old content — I love the way that The New Yorker is using the iPad to construct a whole new revenue stream from its back issues. — It started* with “At the Ballpark”, an iPad-only collection of New Yorker baseball writing from 1929 to 2011 …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and bookforum.com

Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:

Ofcom dismisses PLO complaint against Al Jazeera English — Complaint made by negotiator on behalf of Palestinian Liberation Authority not upheld by regulator, which rules Al Jazeera English programmes were fair and in the public interest — Complaint against Al Jazeera's English-language channel …

Discussion: Guardian and Journalism.co.uk

David Pakman:

The media knowledge gap — During a recent publicity trip to Los Angeles, I confirmed that independent non-corporate media is alive and well in the United States ... kind of. My visits to The Young Turks, several KPFK/Pacifica radio shows and other local Los Angeles media brought in more website traffic …

Discussion: Erik Wemple and FishbowlLA

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:

Networks Reportedly Go To Extremes For Amanda Knox Interview — Network producers have reportedly resorted to babysitting Amanda Knox's half-sisters in an attempt to score exclusive interviews with now-freed American exchange student, according to the New York Post.

Discussion: The News About The News and New York Times

Ali Gharib / ThinkProgress:

Conservative Writer Admits ‘Infiltrating’ 99 Percent Movement To ‘Mock And Undermine’ It — Museum guards warn off demonstrators from entrance (AP) — An assistant editor with a right-wing magazine admitted in a column Saturday evening to posing as part of the 99 Percent Movement in D.C. “in order to mock and undermine” it.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, cgrapski's FDL blog, CJR, Business Insider, The Week and Editors Weblog