Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
1:05 PM ET, February 17, 2012

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Anthony Shadid, A New York Times Reporter Dies in Syria  —  Anthony Shadid, a prize-winning newspaper correspondent whose graceful dispatches for both The New York Times and The Washington Post covered nearly two decades of Middle East conflict and turmoil, died, apparently of an asthma attack …
RELATED:
Margalit Fox / New York Times:
Anthony Shadid, Reporter in the Middle East, Dies at 43  —  Anthony Shadid, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent who died on Thursday at 43, had long been passionately interested in the Middle East, first because of his Lebanese-American heritage and later because of what he saw there firsthand.
Julie Bosman / Media Decoder:
Release Date Is Moved Up for Shadid Book  —  Anthony Shadid, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter who died on Thursday while reporting in Syria, was weeks away from embarking on a book tour.  —  He was scheduled to return to the United States for a 20-city tour to promote …
Discussion: New York Times and Washington Post
Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk:
Murdoch: Sun on Sunday will be launched ‘very soon’  —  News Corporation chairman reportedly sends internal email to staff also announcing that the suspensions of all staff will be lifted  —  News International will launch its new national Sunday tabloid, The Sun on Sunday, “very soon”, it was reported today.
RELATED:
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Rupert Murdoch Announces Sun On Sunday, Says Suspended Employees Can Return To Work … The Sun , News Corp Bribery Scandal , Phone Hacking , Rupert Murdoch London , Rupert Murdoch The Sun , Sun Bribery Scandal , Sun On Sunday , Media News  —  Rupert Murdoch, in London to calm a staff revolt …
Reuters:
Murdoch arrives in London to quell staff backlash
Discussion: Press Gazette, Time and Guardian
Matthew Creamer / AdAge:
Reuters' U.S. News Push Signs on Yahoo, AOL, MSNBC.com  —  Reuters introduced its general U.S. news service, Reuters America, in late 2010 with one client, the Tribune Co. Now three major portals — Yahoo, AOL and MSNBC.com — have signed on to Reuters' U.S. news push.
Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk:
BBC World Service to broadcast morning news conference  —  Global broadcaster to use Twitter, Facebook and Skype to encourage listener input in news meeting on 29 February  —  The World Service is celebrating its 80th anniversary  —  The BBC World Service is to open up its morning editorial meeting …
Discussion: Guardian
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
Apple Is Going To Anger A Lot Of Big Media Companies With AirPlay On The Mac  —  One of the coolest features in Apple's new desktop operating system, Mountain Lion, is AirPlay.  —  AirPlay already exists for the iPad and iPhone, but this version appears to be extend what AirPlay can do.
Michael Grotticelli / Broadcast Engineering:
Five states propose ending support of public television  —  Right-wing politics and tough economic conditions have combined to threaten public television systems in at least seven states—including North and South Carolina, Rhode Island, Oklahoma, Idaho, Kansas and Maine.
James Crugnale / Mediaite:
Pat Buchanan Is ‘Departing’ MSNBC: I Was ‘Blacklisted, But Not Beaten’  —  Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan is out at MSNBC, writing in The American Conservative that “My days as a political analyst at MSNBC have come to an end.”  MSNBC confirmed the news.
Emil Protalinski / ZDNet:
Facebook announces more media apps for Timeline  —  Summary: Do you think Facebook news apps are annoying?  Well, they're not going away.  Instead, even more are being added from major media organizations, including from ZDNet's parent company.  —  Facebook today announced that 12 …
Mike Armstrong / Philly.com:
Papers, website to begin sharing some news coverage  —  Although they've shared ownership since the late 1950s and an office building, The Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News remained rivals in separate newsrooms, hustling for stories and photos.  —  With an impending relocation …
RELATED:
Dylan Byers / Politico:   Ed Rendell weighs in on Inquirer bid
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 1:05 PM ET, February 17, 2012.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Who's Hiring in Media? 
 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
TV's Big Ad-Sales Bazaar Inspires an Online Copycat
Discussion: TVWeek.com and The Verge
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Arianna Huffington's loyal flack departs to hang up his own shingle
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
The Huguely case: What makes for a media mob?
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Open Road Responds To HarperCollins E-Book Lawsuit
Federica Cherubini / Editors Weblog:
Journalistic standards and media regulation after Wikileaks and the News of the World
Discussion: Techdirt
Peter Lauria / Reuters:
For The Economist, the uncommercial pays off
 Earlier Picks: 
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Apple and the New York Times not meshing
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Jeremy Lin Is Shopping a Memoir. Start the Bidding!
Discussion: Forbes, Forbes and The Atlantic Wire
Andrew Wallenstein / On The Air:
CBS producing for Netflix? Oh, the horror!
Discussion: AllThingsD
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Twitter + Robots = Instant Stories, No Humans Required
Discussion: WebProNews
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
Stephen Colbert Suspends Production of His Show
 

 
From Techmeme:

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

Hannah Lang / Reuters:
Sources: a16z, Ripple, Kraken, and Circle are jostling for a seat on Trump's promised crypto advisory council, which is expected to set up a bitcoin reserve

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page