Mediagazer: ABC News and Yahoo! Launch New Political Web Shows (Chris Ariens/TVNewser)

4:15 PM ET, January 24, 2012

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Jamie Condliffe / Gizmodo:

Julian Assange Is Getting His Own TV Show — Julian Assange has announced that he's going to have his own TV show, where he'll interview “key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries”, and it's going to be hitting the screens in spring. Is there anything this man won't do?

Discussion: Digital Spy, CNET, The Next Web, Guardian, New Statesman, Future of Journalism, Charlie Beckett, WikiLeaks, Mashable!, The Atlantic Wire, Gawker, Editors Weblog and New York Magazine

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Is Julian Assange's Talk Show For Real? — Larry King...Charlie Rose...Julian Assange? — Well, maybe. The voluble, volatile Wikileaks founder is getting his own talk show, or so he says. Beginning in March, Assange will be “hosting a series of in-depth conversations with key political players …

Discussion: Guardian and Fast Company, more at Techmeme »

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

ABC News and Yahoo! Launch New Political Web Shows — ABC News's partnership with Yahoo! has resulted in several new web shows launching this week. — Two of the shows are extensions of long-running blogs from George Stephanopoulos and Jake Tapper. “George's Bottom Line” …

Discussion: FishbowlDC, Forbes, Broadcasting & Cable, NetNewsCheck Latest and Media Buyer Planner

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

How ABC News built a top social media presence with a small dedicated team — Upon his return to “This Week” earlier this month, George Stephanopoulos introduced a new feature that's expected to become a staple of the show. “Your Voice This Week” uses Twitter and search trends to tell …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and MediaPost

Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:

Jon Miller, News Corp.: It's All About Video For Us Right Now — Jon Miller, the chief digital officer for News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), described his company's digital strategy today as very “focused on video”, with a view that even properties that come from a print tradition should be producing more video content than they are today.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Future of Journalism, Epicenter and CJR

Felicia Pride / FishbowlNY:
News Corp To Train Wall Street Journal Reporters To Film Videos on Their iPhones

Discussion: TVNewser and GalleyCat

Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

Gannett Goes Long With Acquisition Of Fantasy Sports Ventures — Gannett (NYSE: GCI) Co. has bought The Big Lead and a family of other sports blogs. The company hopes the acquisition, when combined with its existing USA Today properties, will vault it into the major leagues of the online sports scene.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, FishbowlNY and Poynter

Jim Hopkins / Gannett Blog:
Memo: GCI to reveal new model for weak USCP; plan could be biggest news revamp in five years

Discussion: AllThingsD and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

More questions for Mahmood to answer at his Leveson recall — Mazher Mahmood is due to to reappear before the Leveson inquiry tomorrow. — Guido Fawkes may well be correct in saying that the Fake Sheikh has been recalled because of my blog item, The real reason Mazher Mahmood left the Sunday Times under a cloud.

Discussion: George Galloway, allmediascotland, @skynewsbreak and Journalism.co.uk

Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:
John Kampfner: Westminster lobby coverage ‘extraordinarily pliant’

Discussion: Guardian

Richard Huff / NY Daily News:

Lara Logan: Life is not about dwelling on the bad — Exclusive Interview: CBS news star talks about PTSD, her recovery, her family, her work and the women that inspire her — CBS News Correspondent Lara Logan in Tahrir Square moments before she was assaulted by a mob of protesters.

Discussion: PopWatch, msnbc.com, Mediaite and TVNewser

Peter Ogburn / FishbowlDC:
New York Daily News Takes Passive Stance on Commenters Doubting Logan's Rape

Discussion: TVSpy

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

E-Book Bummer: Growth Slower Than Thought—'Incremental, Not Exponential' — 2011 is widely perceived as a year of outrageous e-book growth, but some new research suggests otherwise. According to new data from Bowker and the Book Industry Study Group, the number of book buyers who also purchased …

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Barnes & Noble: We're ‘Not Competing’ With Independent Bookstores

Discussion: GalleyCat

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

David Kenny Replacing Mike Kelly As CEO Of The Weather Channel Companies — In a surprise move, The Weather Channel Companies is swapping out CEOs. David Kenny is replacing Mike Kelly as CEO effective immediately; the Akamai-Digitas vet also will be chairman of the company owned by a consortium …

Discussion: rbr.com, AdAge, Multichannel News, mediabistro.com, Broadcasting & Cable and TVNewser

Jay Yarow / Business Insider: Yahoo Board Member David Kenny Is Going To Be CEO Of The Weather Channel

Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:

News agency chief: Why Google News doesn't work — A news agency has expressed unease over how Google News operates and criticised the search engine's reluctance to discuss the “closely guarded” criteria it uses to judge media organisations. — Michael Leidig, the founder and owner …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

Social TV Startup Bluefin Labs Lands $12 Million Investment — A Bet That Social Data Will Become Essential for TV Marketers — If there's any doubt that social TV is poised to become big business, Bluefin Labs is trying to put that to rest. The Cambridge, Massachusetts social-analytics startup …

Discussion: Lost Remote, Adweek and Future of Journalism, more at Techmeme »

Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:

iBooks Author EULA restrictions invite antitrust concerns — Apple's end user license agreement for the iBooks Author app has generated extensive controversy among authors and publishers. Namely, the agreement restricts paid distribution of “works” created with the software to the iBookstore only.

Discussion: Daring Fireball

Politico:

New Yorker's ‘Obama Memos’: Why post-partisanship didn't pan out — The White House likes to describe them as “process” stories and is famously uncooperative with reporters trying to do them, so the tantalizing glimpse into President Barack Obama's decision making that appears in The New Yorker this week …

Elana Zak / 10,000 Words:

Surprise As ProPublica Image Posted On Facebook Goes Viral — The next time you log onto Facebook to post your latest article, think twice about what you share. Instead of copying in the link, why not share an image from the story instead? — That method worked well for ProPublica.

Discussion: Future of Journalism and eMedia Vitals

Patrick Smith / TheMediaBriefing:

Has blogging queen Huffington really failed in the UK? — It's been a long-running discussion among UK online journalism enthusiasts over why blogging didn't develop the same way it has in the US. For all the Guido Fawkes and Mumsnets we have, there isn't much to match Gawker, Techcrunch …

Discussion: paidContent

Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Updated: Can HuffPo Pull Off A Double Whammy With A New Video News Service?

Discussion: New York Times

Jim Romenesko:

Washington Post's shrinking newsroom — A tipster writes: … He's referring to departing Post managing editor Raju Narisetti's remarks posted by the D.C. chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Here's the passage that's said to be causing concern: