Mediagazer: Are Newspapers Civic Institutions or Algorithms? (Dominic Basulto/Endless Innovation)

5:35 AM ET, January 18, 2012

Top News:

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Sources: Four More Board Members Will Be Following Yang Out the Door — According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo Co-founder Jerry Yang is just the first shoe to drop in what is shaping up to be what looks like a large exodus of board members from the Silicon Valley Internet company.

Discussion: PandoDaily, The Wall Blog, Guardian, AdAge, PC Magazine, Forbes, Electronista, mocoNews and GeekWire, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Jerry Yang Leaves Yahoo — Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang has left the company's board of directors and all other positions, the company announced today, marking the start of what may be a series of changes in the boardroom. — Yang, who co-founded the Web giant in 1995 …

Discussion: Forbes, Yahoo! Inc., Pocket-lint, The Wrap, Future of Journalism, AdExchanger.com, Business Insider, CNET, PandoDaily, MediaNama, USA Today, GigaOM, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and MediaPost, more at Techmeme »

Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

SOPA Rep Blasts Wikipedia Blackout, Says Law To Go Forward In Feb. — Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tx), who is leading a push to pass a controversial anti-piracy bill, issued a statement today scolding Wikipedia over its plan to go dark with its English-language website for 24 hours in protest of the legislation.

Discussion: TechCrunch, Company Town, /Film, Softpedia News, The Wrap, Multichannel, Hillicon Valley, Home Media Magazine and Forbes, more at Techmeme »

David Beard / Washington Post:

Wikipedia Blackout: An #altwiki Band-Aid — When Wikipedia goes dark on Wednesday, The Washington Post is joining several other media organizations, including the Guardian and NPR, to encourage a one-day crowdsourcing solution for those left searching for answers: #altwiki. — That's basically it.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Digital Trends, Media Decoder, Boing Boing, Forbes and Telegraph, more at Techmeme »

David Folkenflik / NPR:

In Britain, Calls To Regulate A Freewheeling Press — The 168-year-old British tabloid, News of the World, was closed last July after a widespread scandal that involved phone and voice mail hacking. Now there's a debate about placing new regulations on the British press.

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: Murdoch editors warn of ‘chilling effect’ of state regulation

The Times:
The Future of the Press — The report of Lord Justice Leveson's …

Discussion: Guardian and Jon Slattery

Valerie Block / Crain's New York:

Huffington Post is developing a new video offering — Al-Jazeera could contribute content to the project. — Arianna Huffington, the president and editor in chief of Huffington Post Media Group, was quite the social butterfly during a recent trip to Doha, Qatar.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Forbes and Beet.TV

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: Howard Fineman explains the relationship between The Huffington Post and Patch

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Reuters Launches Web TV Channel, Bringing 10 New & Original Shows To YouTube — The move to bring original programming to the web continues to heat up this week, with today's announcement of Reuters TV, a new YouTube channel featuring ten new commentary and analysis shows from the news and media division of Thomson Reuters.

Discussion: Editors Weblog

Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:

Sarah Palin slams Newsweek for giving ‘conspiracy kook writer’ Andrew Sullivan cover story — Like many conservatives, Sarah Palin is up in arms over this week's controversy-baiting Newsweek cover story by Andrew Sullivan, who asks, “Why Are Obama's Critics So Dumb?”

Discussion: The Hollywood Gossip

Dylan Byers / Politico:
Tina Brown and the Newsweek covers

Discussion: Gawker, The Huffington Post, The Daily Dish and The Politico

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

A GarageBand for ebooks: Simplifying publishing could mean a flood of new content — It's not just the platform — it's the tools. — That's the line that kept coming to mind this morning as I read this Ars Technica scoop on what Apple has in store for its press event in New York Thursday.

Discussion: SiliconFilter, Business Insider, The FJP and ZDNet

Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Apple to announce tools, platform to “digitally destroy” textbook publishing

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

What Politico's Beltway cash cow, its print edition, wants from New York (and what it doesn't) — Mike Allen's influential daily Playbook email blast this morning had news of special interest to Politico's New York readers: The politics brand was now exporting its print edition to Manhattan.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Politico, Adweek and Poynter

Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Politico Comes to New York

Discussion: FishbowlDC, GalleyCat and 10,000 Words

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Why Is NBCUniversal Threatening To Report Commenters They Disagree With To Their Employers? — This one is a little bizarre. David Seaman, a contributor to Business Insider, claims that he lost his contributor status at the site following a dispute he had with an NBCUniversal employee …

Discussion: David Seaman

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Jenkins on Paterno story: 'I certainly didn't walk away from the interview satisfied' — Sally Jenkins interviewed former Penn State coach Joe Paterno twice and walked away unsure whether he was telling her the truth about Jerry Sandusky. “It was tough, tricky interview …

Discussion: Jerry Sandusky and Live Q&A's

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

AP tells staff how to correct erroneous tweets in new social media guidelines — The Associated Press updated its social media guidelines today, adding sections about correcting erroneous tweets and deleting tweets. The guidelines, which have been updated three times in the past year …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Press Association:

Brown impersonated for Sunday Times — Someone working for The Sunday Times called Abbey National pretending to be Gordon Brown to obtain details about the former prime minister's finances, the paper's editor has said. — John Witherow confirmed that the paper “blagged” …

Discussion: Press Association

David Allen Green / New Statesman:
The Times admission about computer hacking

Discussion: Reuters and FleetStreetBlues

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Atlantic Media Elevates Digital Chief — The Atlantic Media Co. has given its top digital executive responsibility for corporate finance, signaling the importance it sees digital media playing in the company's future. — In his new role, announced late Monday, Scott Havens becomes svp …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Nick Summers / The Daily Beast:

Big, Bigger, Biggest. — The once-scrappy network has swelled to massive size. But as the highest-priced network on cable TV, is the sports behemoth too big for its own good? — “Steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeve!” — It's Dec. 19, 90 minutes before kickoff at Candlestick Park …

Jim Romenesko:

Conversation-starter: Your Pulitzer Prize favorites? — Morning Call's Pulitzer contender

Matt Lynley / Business Insider:

The Cautionary Tale of Ustream: How A Star-Struck CEO Nearly Buried One of Silicon Valley's Hottest Startups — In late October 2011, John Ham went for a walk. — Ham cofounded video site Ustream in 2006 and had been its CEO since. — He went on a walk because suddenly, the investors wanted him to leave the company.