Mediagazer: Gawker Is Big Immature Baby (Katie Roiphe/Slate)

Jerry Barmash / FishbowlNY:

Cuts, Changes Come to Financial Video Service, Reuters Insider — It's been 17 months since Thomson Reuters debuted an online financial video news service, available to Reuters subscribers. — However, much like the recent layoffs dotting the radio landscape, (Cumulus, Clear Channel) …

AllAccess.com:
Hundreds Cut By Clear Channel Yesterday

Discussion: The New York Observer

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Longtime Washington Post exec Bo Jones to MacNeil/Lehrer — After more than three decades with The Washington Post, Bo Jones will become President and CEO of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, which produces “PBS Newshour.” Jones, who is currently chairman of The Washington Post …

Discussion: On Media's Blog, The Wrap, @bobbymacreports and TVNewser

Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

Netflix Takes Up a Third of Internet Bandwidth Traffic shifting from computers to connected devices — Netflix may have lost 800,000 subscribers last quarter, but there are still more than enough streaming fans left over to hog nearly a third of peak Internet bandwidth.

Discussion: Digits, Bloomberg, FT Tech Hub and VentureBeat, more at Techmeme »

Brooks Barnes / Media Decoder:

Disney Channel to Be Introduced in Russia — LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Company on Thursday said it had completed a deal to introduce the Disney Channel in Russia, one of the world's last big untapped entertainment markets and one in which Disney has struggled to gain a foothold.

Discussion: Company Town and The Wrap

Yahoo Finance:

Analyst: Digital fees not enough to help NY Times — Citigroup analyst downgrades NY Times, expects print ad woes to trump gains from digital fees — Related Quotes … NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times' digital paywall is unlikely to collect enough revenue to offset a long-running decline …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Dan Gillmor / Guardian:

Wikileaks payments blockade sets dangerous precedent — The mainstream media should be up in arms about corporations' ability to choke off sources of WikiLeaks' funding — Suppose you are the proprietor of an information service. Your customers buy what you sell using the major payment systems …

Eric Jackson / Forbes:

David Kenny Won't Be the Next CEO of Yahoo! — Image by Getty Images Europe via @daylife — David Kenny stepped down as President of Akamai (AKAM) yesterday at the same time the company reported good numbers that caused the stock to jump 14% after-hours.

Christopher Soghoian / New York Times:

Without Computer Security, Sources' Secrets Aren't Safe With Journalists — BRAVE journalists have defied court orders and have even been jailed rather than compromise their ethical duty to protect sources. But as governments increasingly record their citizens' every communication …

Discussion: Editors Weblog

CBC News:

Kobo to become a publisher — Canadian-based e-book seller Kobo is following in Amazon's footsteps and creating a publishing arm that will deal directly with authors, CBC News has learned. — Kobo, whose major shareholder is Indigo Books, will roll out its program sometime next year, according to CEO Michael Serbinis.

Discussion: GalleyCat, eBookNewser and TeleRead

Katie Roiphe / Slate:

Gawker Is Big Immature Baby — Why can't Gawker do nastiness the right way? — One bright day a book came across my desk with a letter from its editor saying that the writer was a “big fan” of my work and would like a blurb. As the writer was from Gawker it seemed a tiny bit surprising that she would be …

Discussion: The New York Observer, New York Magazine, Gawker and Poynter

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

Stop the press releases! PR Newswire sued by rival — (Reuters) - When one distributor of corporate press releases concluded that a rival was trying to steal its secrets, it didn't issue a press release, it went to court. — Marketwire on Wednesday filed a $25 million lawsuit accusing rival PR Newswire …

Steve Myers / Poynter:

James O'Keefe takes aim at Clay Shirky, Jay Rosen — In the second installment of his “To Catch a Journalist” series, James O'Keefe has produced a surreptitiously recorded, heavily edited video starring NYU professors Clay Shirky and Jay Rosen. In the video, Shirky, who is described …

Discussion: James O'Keefe's Project …, Forbes, Mediaite, Big Journalism, The Politico and The Wrap

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel Back Next-Generation Digital Book Publisher Hyperink — Hyperink, a next-generation digital book publishing platform, has raised $1.2 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, Launch Capital, Cyriac Roeding, Jack Abraham, and others.

Discussion: Forbes, VatorNews, The Next Web and Business Insider

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Comcast Moves NBCU Local's Shopping Guide To DailyCandy — A year after NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Universal's local division launched shopping guide network The Feast, the property is being handed over to its Comcast sibling, lifestyle e-newsletter and deals network DailyCandy.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:

Bloomberg TV Begins Live Streaming to the iPad — Bloomberg is bringing its 24-hour live broadcast to the iPad, the financial media conglomerate announced Thursday. — Unlike CNN or ESPN, which make their live feeds available only to select subscribers, Bloomberg is boldly making its broadcast available to anyone with an iPad.

Discussion: 9to5Mac, Talking Biz News and paidContent

Nick Bilton / New York Times:

What's Really Next for Apple in Television — “I've finally cracked it!” Steven P. Jobs, co-founder of Apple, told his biographer, Walter Isaacson. — Although Mr. Jobs was referring to Apple's plans to build a full-fledged television, he was not actually referring to the TV set …

Discussion: Mashable!, Electronista, AppleInsider, App Advice, MacStories, GigaOM, The Next Web, 9to5Mac and Fast Company, more at Techmeme »

Stuart Dredge / Guardian:

CNN's Richard Quest hails news impact of ‘the almighty mobile’ — But worries that teens' screen preferences mean ‘the days of the physical paper are seriously numbered’ — Are mobile phones changing the news industry? An easy question to answer: just look at the number of TV networks …

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Guardian launches n0tice, an open community news platform — One of the most common complaints about newspapers' adaptation to the digital world — or, depending on your perspective, their lack thereof — is their failure to create their own versions of Craigslist.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Journalism.co.uk, eMedia Vitals, Matt McAlister and SiliconFilter

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Future's Stevie Spring resigns — Former ITN chief takes over as executives depart from Metal Hammer publisher in move that will save almost £1m a year — Future, publisher of magazine titles including Fast Car and Metal Hammer, is to save almost £1m a year after the resignation …

Discussion: paidContent, Press Gazette, Private Frazer's Doomed … and Media Week

Ian Darby / Campaign:

Dennis Publishing to launch iPad edition of The Week — The Week, Dennis Publishing's news digest title, is launching an iPad edition. — The Week: releasing app — Dennis, which is also testing a web version of the title, is expected to launch The Week app in mid-November.

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:

“Makers Against Takers”: Viacom drums up 'Net censorship support with tasty half-muffins — It's no secret that major copyright owners like Viacom have been working with members of Congress on legislation to censor so-called “rogue sites” on the Internet. With today's introduction …

Discussion: Business Insider

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:UK:

E-Book Sales Grow By 564%, Now Make Up 5.5% Of Bloomsbury Sales — Bloomsbury Publishing, which operates in both the U.S. and UK (and is the UK publisher of the Harry Potter series) is seeing “unprecedented” digital growth: E-book sales are up 564 percent for the six-month period ending August 31 …

Discussion: The Wrap

Nina Lovelace / Guardian:

Introducing @GuardianTagBot, your new Twitter-based search assistant — Got something you want to find on the Guardian website? Tweet your question at our new @GuardianTagBot service to get an answer with the help of the Guardian's Open Platform — The Guardian is experimenting …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, Journalism.co.uk and Fast Company