Mediagazer: NPR's Music App For iPad is What Radio Should Look Like in the 21st Century (John Paul Titlow/ReadWriteWeb)

4:20 AM ET, February 20, 2012

Top News:

Martin Phillips / The Sun:

The Sun next Sunday — A historic announcement — from Britain's most popular paper — THE Sun on Sunday has arrived. — Next weekend will see the birth of the first ever Sunday edition of your favourite paper. — Rupert Murdoch announced last week that The Sun on Sunday would be coming “very soon”.

Discussion: Reuters, Digital Spy, @rupertmurdoch, FleetStreetBlues, Guardian, @paulcarr, @dansabbagh, Guardian and Jon Slattery

Guardian:

Rupert Murdoch to launch Sun on Sunday next weekend — News International says media mogul will stay in London to oversee birth of News of the World replacement — The Sun on Sunday will publish for the first time next weekend, News International has announced.

Discussion: Press Gazette and Globe and Mail

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Profitable news — One of the most controversial things I have said (you're welcome for that straight line) is that I insist my entrepreneurial journalism students at CUNY build only for-profit businesses. When I said that at a recent symposium for teachers of entrepreneurial journalism …

Discussion: Recovering Journalist, daniel sinker, Media Decoder and @paulcarr

Michael Miner / Chicago Reader:

Why CNC is closing — James O'Shea, founder and editor of the Chicago News Cooperative, told his staff Friday afternoon that on February 26 the CNC would shut down. Or to be more specific, it would stop publishing in the New York Times and stop maintaining its website, the two forums in which it publicly exists.

Discussion: Chicago Tribune

David Carr / New York Times:

Media Hype for Lin Stumbles on Race — You don't have to be an economics graduate from Harvard like Jeremy Lin to do the math on the media explosion about Linsanity. — The suddenly celebrated Lin is a four-fer: a God-fearing, Asian-American, Ivy League benchwarmer who has changed the fortunes of the New York Knicks.

Darren Rovell / @darrenrovell:
ESPN fires employee for ESPN Mobile that made Lin slur & ESPN anchor Max Bretos has been suspended a month http://frontrow.espn.go.com/ ...

Discussion: ESPN, CNN, Poynter, Outsports, The Huffington Post, SBNation.com, ShortFormBlog, Deadspin and The Huffington Post

Will Bunch / Philly.com:

An open letter to the next owners of Philadelphia Media Networks — Dear next owner of Philadelphia Media Networks...whoever you are, — I've been meaning to write you for a couple of weeks — it's been hard what with all the confusion not only about what we're allowed or not allowed …

Discussion: Naked Philadelphian, @jeffjarvis, @stevebuttry, @romenesko and Philadelphia City Paper

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Rendell Inquirer? The specter of the instrumentalization of American news media

Discussion: Philly.com and mediabistro.com

Jxpaton / Digital First:

Old Dogs New Tricks and Crappy Newspaper Executives — (Speaking notes for an address to the Canadian Journalism Foundation — Good evening. — I'm old media. — This is my 36th year as a newspaper man - apologies - my 36th year as a multi-platform news executive.

Discussion: Recovering Journalist, Media, disrupted and @cressman

Brian Stelter / ArtsBeat:

‘Colbert Report’ to Resume Taping — Stephen Colbert will resume production of his late-night show “The Colbert Report” on Monday, a spokesman for Comedy Central said Sunday. — Production was abruptly halted last Wednesday without explanation, prompting concern among the comedian's fans.

Discussion: Gothamist

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

The Guardian Thrives in Facebook's Walled Garden — In September, British newspaper The Guardian was one of the first publishers to build an app designed specifically for its content to be consumed (and shared) within Facebook. The upside: The prospect of added visibility to 850 million users.

Jen Doll / The Atlantic Wire:

Brian Stelter: What I Read — How do people deal with the torrent of information pouring down on us all? What sources can't they live without? We regularly reach out to prominent figures in media, entertainment, politics, the arts and the literary world, to hear their answers.

Discussion: Rhetorica and JackLail.com

Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online:

A Year After the Egyptian Revolution, 10% of Its Social Media Documentation Is Already Gone — Twitter gives us a new version of ‘the first rough draft of history.’ But tweets are fragile things. — In April, OR Books published Tweets from Tahrir, a book of tweets sent from Ground Zero …

John Paul Titlow / ReadWriteWeb:

NPR's Music App For iPad is What Radio Should Look Like in the 21st Century — Before the rise of smartphones and tablets, it was hard to imagine Internet audio content ever supplanting radio. The limited Web programming that was available may have been convenient to listen to at one's desk …

Discussion: TUAW