Mediagazer: Tough Times at Newsweek (John Koblin/WWD)

3:10 PM ET, November 18, 2011

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Robert Mackey / The Lede:

Drone Journalism Arrives — Now that cellphone cameras have turned every protester with a Twitter account or a YouTube channel into a potential multimedia journalist, police officers in several American cities appear to be having trouble distinguishing between activists and reporters.

Discussion: GigaOM, The Takeaway, Boing Boing, City Room, Future of Journalism, eMedia Vitals, New York Times, Reporters Committee News, The Week, Gawker and thenation.com/blogs/122

Choire Sicha / The Awl:

26 Arrested Reporters and What They Do — Put together by Josh Stearns, this document has been a great resource to track journalists working on Occupy Wall Street stories around the country who've been arrested. So who are they? Only seven of the 25 arrested are full-time employed traditional news-gathering employees.

Elizabeth Spiers / The New York Observer:

Notes on the NYPD Press Credentialing Process, from the (Ineligible) Editor-in-Chief of the New York Observer — In a note responding to an earlier post from TheAwl detailing the various media organization associations of 26 reporters arrested during the Occupy Wall Street protests …

Discussion: Mediaite, Poynter, The Awl, Forbes, Gawker, @jcstearns, ANIMAL and Capital New York

Megan McCarthy / The New York Observer:
Bloomberg Spokesperson Admits Arresting Credentialed Reporters, Reading The Awl

Discussion: Mediaite, Pixiq and Forbes

John Koblin / WWD:

Tough Times at Newsweek — Photo By Jonathon Ziegler/Patrickmcmullan.Com … On Nov. 7, a memo was handed out to Newsweek reporters and editors. The note detailed a new process in how to pitch stories. — “Stories are generated in a variety of ways, from chance conversations with Tina or other senior editors...” the memo began.

Discussion: The Awl, Future of Journalism, FishbowlNY, New York Magazine, Poynter and Boing Boing

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

Iger Says No Hurry to Replace Regis Philbin — Now that Regis Philbin has completed his long run on his ABC morning show, attention will naturally focus on who might replace him alongside Kelly Ripa. But Robert A. Iger, the chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC …

Discussion: TVNewser and TVWeek.com

NY Daily News:
Regis Philbin says goodbye to ‘Live!’ in front of star-studded audience after 28 years on morning show

Discussion: Media Decoder, Mediaite, MediaPost, The Huffington Post, ArtsBeat, Hollywood Reporter, Speakeasy, @jimmykimmel, EW.com and @brianstelter

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

11% Of Magazine Exposures Are Digital-Only, Survey Shows — Eleven percent of U.S. adults' exposures to magazines are exclusively via digital platforms, new data from GfK MRI says. But with newsstands available on more devices, that number should increase.

Discussion: Folio and The FJP

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Jon Stewart: Media can't pick a GOP frontrunner — On Thursday night's show, Jon Stewart relived the coverage cycle of the GOP presidential race, pointing out that Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and Herman Cain received the same surge-slump story treatment that Newt Gingrich — now surging again — received.

Discussion: The Politico, Christian Science Monitor and unionleader.com

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Newsstand's Few Early Adopters Have Stolen A March On Laggards — Magazine and news publishers who have not yet joined iOS Newsstand have lost out to the system's early adopters, according to research data. … Company founder Rebecca McPheters explained to paidContent:

Discussion: Folio, Future of Journalism and Poynter

Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:

Jobs at risk as Guardian News & Media reviews printing costs — Publisher of the Guardian and Observer says review of printing operations is likely to lead to jobs cuts — Guardian Media Group chief executive Andrew Miller told staff today that the company needed to ‘become more efficient and make savings wherever we can’

Discussion: Guardian and TBIJ

Dan Hirschhorn / AdAge:

Fox News Eyes Bigger Ad Haul in This Election Season — Sprawling GOP Primary, Better Ratings and Super PACs — Rick Perry's $1 million buy on Fox News may have just been the beginning. — Political ad buyers have often viewed Fox News as the best place on cable to reach Republican primary voters …

Discussion: Erik Wemple, Inside Cable News, Pew Research Center, Mediaite and TVNewser

Meg James / Company Town:

CBS' Moonves: Political rancor boosts broadcast TV business — CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves, a seasoned media politician, has long insisted that the broadcast TV business was far from dead. When others — including Wall Street and some rivals — were ready to stick a fork in it …

Discussion: TVNewser, Broadcasting & Cable and Media Decoder

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

TechCrunch CEO Reported Out After Clashing with HuffPost-ers — The resignations keep coming at AOL. The latest to give notice, according to Business Insider, is TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde. Harde, a former News Corp. executive who joined TechCrunch five years ago …

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Gawker, Forbes, Digits, WebProNews, Business Insider and VentureBeat, more at Techmeme »

Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:

‘Wherever there was news, we went’: Libya's ‘A-Team’ fixers on getting the story out — When fighting broke out in Benghazi, Libyan construction workers Suliman Ali Zway and Osama Alfitory began working with international journalists. Their work was recognised last night when they won the Martin Adler Prize

Discussion: Poynter and Future of Journalism