Mediagazer: Dan Abrams on Profitability, a New Food Site and Impending Fatherhood (Matthew Creamer/AdAge)

2:30 PM ET, January 27, 2012

Top News:

Thoughts on Twitter's Latest Move — Today, Twitter announced a new system that will allow the company to geolocationally block (or, to use their terms, “withhold") specific tweets in specific countries. On the company blog, Twitter explained: … It's been difficult to comment …

Discussion: The Next Web, Forbes, Engadget, The Realtime Report, ReadWriteWeb, Bits, Wired.co.uk, WebProNews, Technobabble, Mashable!, Bigmouthmedia Search …, TechCrunch, PandoDaily and VentureBeat, more at Techmeme »

Zeynep Tufekci / technosociology:

Why Twitter's new policy is helpful for free-speech advocates — I know many people are upset at Twitter's announcement that it will now be able to block tweets country by country. There has been a lot of excellent writing / reporting on the content explaining that this is not as bad as it looks.

Discussion: J-School, ReadWriteWeb, The Wall Blog, FT Tech Hub, Anthony De Rosa and Boing Boing, more at Techmeme »

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Twitter Now Able To Censor Tweets, If Required By Law, On A Country-By-Country Basis — Until now, Twitter's not had the ability to censor certain tweets or accounts, to prevent them from being seen — if legally required — by users in particular countries.

Bloomberg:

New York Times Co. Faces Leadership Vacuum — The departure of New York Times Co. (NYT) Chief Executive Officer Janet Robinson last month leaves the company with a leadership vacuum amid falling revenue, profit squeezed by pension costs and pressure from family members to restore a dividend once worth more than $20 million a year.

Discussion: Capital New York, FishbowlNY, The New York Observer, Future of Journalism, @edmundlee and Business Insider

Matthew Creamer / AdAge:

Dan Abrams on Profitability, a New Food Site and Impending Fatherhood — Plus Why Jane Dough, the Rebranded and Refocused Mogulite, Is Already Doing Better Than Its Predecessor — TV host. Entrepreneur. Friend of David Zinczenko. Acceptor of Andrew Breitbart.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and @romenesko, Thanks:@matt_creamer

Alex Klein / Jim Romenesko:

Yale Daily News editors sat on explosive Patrick Witt story for months — Earlier this year, national news outlets breathlessly reported that Yale's quarterback, Patrick Witt, had chosen to skip a Rhodes Scholarship finalist interview in order to lead our team against Harvard in the annual Game.

Discussion: Forbes, Deadspin, Gawker, New York Times, College Media Matters and Bleacher Report

David Lipke / WWD:

Bloomberg to Launch Luxury Lifestyle Magazine — A design spread from the first issue of Bloomberg Pursuits. — Photo By Courtesy Photo Photo By Courtesy Photo — BLOOMBERG'S FASHIONABLE PURSUITS: Users of the Bloomberg Terminal are among the richest demographic in the world …

Discussion: The New York Observer and Media Buyer Planner

Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:

Assertive, conflicting presentations of the Greg Kelly rape accusation — Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? — I'm going to do this a little …

Discussion: Mediaite, msnbc.com, Runnin' Scared and DNAinfo

Richard Huff / NY Daily News:
Greg Kelly, ‘Good Day New York’ co-host accused of rape, ‘has requested some time off’: station

Discussion: New York Post, New York Magazine, New York Times, The Huffington Post and Chickaboomer

Charles Arthur / Guardian:

Acta protests break out as EU signs up — MEPs of 21 EU states, including the UK, have signed off on the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement — The UK and 21 other European Union member states on Thursday signed an international copyright agreement treaty called Acta …

Discussion: Michael Geist Blog, Electronic Frontier Foundation, WebProNews, Mashable!, Associated Press, Boing Boing, Policy Blog, Techdirt, BBC, Fortune and Wired.co.uk, more at Techmeme »

Janet Paskin / CJR:

The Velvet Rope — Why do journalists still care about seeing their name in print? — If print media is truly in an advanced stage of decline, if journalism's great hope is online, why do journalists still like so very much to see their names in print? By now, it ought to be like …

Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:

How the Daily Mail became the web's biggest newspaper — It's official. According to figures from comScore, Britain's Daily Mail has become the biggest newspaper on the web, hauling its way past everybody else... even the grand old New York Times. — And although the Gray Lady both disputes …

Discussion: Press Gazette, Jon Slattery and Editors Weblog

Richard Horgan / FishbowlLA:
The Problem with the Daily Mail's Latest Internet Brag

Discussion: FishbowlNY, eBookNewser and @pressgazette

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Ad Pages Up for Fashion Magazines' Important March Issues — Vogue's March Issue Includes 443 Ad Pages — Most fashion magazines increased ad pages in their important March issues again this year, showing some strength in an uncertain economy. — Vogue's March issue includes 443 ad pages …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Steve Myers / Poynter:

New York Times releases code to help journalists collaborate on WordPress, other platforms — More and more journalists use blogging platforms to write and edit stories, but those text editors are pretty basic: It's not easy to see what changes others have made to a post.

Discussion: Future of Journalism and Nieman Journalism Lab

KPLU News for Seattle and the Northwest:

Facebook wanted journalists to sign non-disclosures before news conference — What they DID want us to see: Facebook attorney Craig Clark, right, talks to reporters with Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna, second from right, at the press conference in Seattle on Thursday.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, FleetStreetBlues, ShortFormBlog, 10,000 Words and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Memo to media: Supply and demand are out of your hands — There are plenty of reasons why the traditional media business — including the advertising industry — is in the shape it is in, including a failure to move quickly enough to adapt to changing market conditions.

Discussion: Poynter and eMedia Vitals

Aziz Ali / PSFK:

Why The Graphic Novel Will Save Business Journalism — Caleb Melby recently graduated and joined Forbes Magazine. As an intern, he took on the responsibility of writing The Zen of Steve Jobs, which we wrote about last month. — The big take away point is the fact that journalism remains an industry in crisis.