Mediagazer: Apple television gamble the talk of CES (Scott Martin/USA Today)

8:50 AM ET, January 5, 2012

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Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:

Current says Keith Olbermann refused to anchor Iowa caucus coverage — Analyses of Tuesday's Iowa caucuses are the top of most news sites right now—including Current TV's homepage, which features images of Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich above a video featuring former U.S. vice president …

Matthew Belloni / Hollywood Reporter:

Olbermann Attorney: 'Keith's Lawyers and Current's Lawyers Are Communicating' — The lead attorney for Keith Olbermann tells The Hollywood Reporter that the disgruntled Current newsman is negotiating his next moves with his employer in the wake of a falling out over his participation in coverage of the Republican primaries.

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Keith Olbermann's Days on Current Are Numbered

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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Keith Olbermann Blasts Current TV; Internal Memo Reveals Tension Over GOP Primary

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Azi Paybarah / Capital New York:

Mort Zuckerman changes editors, again: Kevin Convey's out, former News Corp. guy Colin Myler is in — In the Daily News newsroom this afternoon, a memo announcing that editor-in-chief Kevin Convey was being replaced was met with “shock” and “amazement,” according to newsroom sources.

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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Colin Myler: the great survivor — Former News of the World editor is back - as editor-in-chief at Mort Zuckerman's New York Daily News — The man who was editing the News of the World when it was closed by Rupert Murdoch, and whose editorship of the Sunday Mirror ended after his paper collapsed a trial …

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
At ‘Daily News,’ a culture of using ‘permalancers’ gets shaken up

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Scott Martin / USA Today:

Apple television gamble the talk of CES — Apple is the only company that consistently gets big buzz out of the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas — without even attending. — This year will be no different. — Connected TVs — TVs that connect to and can access content …

Discussion: TechCrunch, 9to5Google, The Verge, Pocket-lint, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Electronista, Fox News and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

The Case of the Unfortunate Underscore: How Twitter Verified the Fake Wendi Over the Real Wendi — I went all Encyclopedia Brown yesterday after I and many others had been led astray by an account — @wendi_deng — that Twitter had verified with its famous blue check mark over the holiday weekend …

Discussion: FT Tech Hub, MediaFile, Erik Wemple, Gawker, Business Insider and The Daily Beast, more at Techmeme »

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Should CBS also disclose its ties to Romney's Bain Capital? — Last week MSNBC and NBC News starting disclosing that its parent company, NBCU is a partner in the Weather Channel with Bain Capital, of which Mitt Romney is a partner. Now Fortune reports CBS News, at least Radio, might want to start disclosing this:

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Where Did Nine Million Cable Subscribers Go? — New year, new chance to talk about cord-cutting/shaving/avoiding. Which is either a big deal that's going to get bigger, or basically imaginary, depending on who you like to listen to. — If you're in the big deal camp …

Discussion: Future of Journalism, more at Techmeme »

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

FT Buys Its Web App Maker; CEO Ridding's Memo — The Financial Times has acquired London-based web and application developer Assanka, which made the web app on which the publisher has based its independence from iTunes. — Assanka launched the HTML5 web app with the paper's in-house product team …

Discussion: AllThingsD, Beyond Search and TechCrunch Europe

Clay Shirky:

Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users — This may be the year where newspapers finally drop the idea of treating all news as a product, and all readers as customers. — One early sign of this shift was the 2010 launch of paywalls for the London Times and Sunday Times.

Discussion: Recovering Journalist, Media, disrupted, stdout.be and Boing Boing

Justin Elliott / Salon:

Lockheed Martin goes to bat for oppressive regime — A top executive for the military contractor worked with lobbyists for Bahrain to publish Op-Ed defending the regime — A top executive at Lockheed Martin recently worked with lobbyists for Bahrain to place an Op-Ed defending …

ap.org:

AP names Eric Carvin social media editor — NEW YORK (AP) — Eric Carvin, an AP Nerve Center news producer and former National Desk editor, has been named the organization's social media editor, based at headquarters in New York. — Carvin will lead the AP's ongoing social media efforts …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, @acarvin, @katzonearth, @pkafka, @sashak, @ericcarvin, @mathewi and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

New Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson: 'We'll Be Back to Innovation' — Scott Thompson. Image via CrunchBase — Who will own Yahoo a year from now? Will its workforce be dramatically smaller? Scott Thompson didn't answer these questions in his first conference call as CEO of the online media giant …