Mediagazer: Jon Stewart: Media can't pick a GOP frontrunner (Julie Moos/Poynter)

1:35 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, Future of Journalism, City Room, Boing Boing, www.thetakeaway.org, eMedia Vitals, New York Times, 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: Poynter, The Awl, Forbes, @jcstearns, ANIMAL and Capital New York

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

Discussion: Pixiq and Forbes

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Journalists Beaten, Arrested During Occupy Wall Street Protests

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Reporters Committee News and Threat Level

Juli Weiner / Vanity Fair:
An Oral History of a Vanity Fair Photographer's Arrest at Occupy Wall Street

Discussion: AdAge

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, FishbowlNY, Future of Journalism, Poynter, New York Magazine, Boing Boing and Felix

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

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: Gawker, Forbes, Digits and paidContent:UK, more at Techmeme »

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Heather Harde's Quitting AOL

Discussion: WebProNews and VentureBeat

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

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

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

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 and Poynter

Tim Bradshaw / FT Tech Hub:

The unexpected impact of Facebook's “seamless sharing” on newspaper sites — Mark Zuckerberg said in September that Facebook's new sharing tools for music, video and news would “transform” the media world, with the social network “rethinking the whole way the news industry works”.

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NY Daily News:

Regis Philbin says goodbye to ‘Live!’ in front of star-studded audience after 28 years on morning show — The TV host also received the key to the city from Mayor Bloomberg — Regis Philbin was joined by wife Joy (l.) and co-host Kelly Ripa on his last day on ‘Live!’ Friday.

Discussion: Media Decoder, The Huffington Post, Speakeasy, ArtsBeat, EW.com and @brianstelter

Matt Kinsman / Folio:

Glamour Gets 50,000 “Likes” From Social Media Campaign — Interactive mobile tactics drove social engagement for content and advertisers. — Conde Nast's Glamour magazine rolled the dice when implementing the new Social SnapTag technology in a recent mobile advertising campaign this past September …

Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:

Dennis' The Week Launches iPad App, New Web Site — Dennis has relaunched the website for its weekly printed news digest The Week after buying The First Post website to power its rolling daily news ambitions. But, for its new iPad app, The Week is preferring weekly content.

Dana Rubinstein / Capital New York:

War Room: After police flood the Occupy Wall Street protest, the Bloomberg administration floods the media — Yesterday afternoon, reporters were summoned to the Blue Room at City Hall, where they gathered in a semi-circle around two deputy mayors and lobbed questions at them.

Discussion: PolitickerNY, NY Daily News and The New Yorker Blog