Mediagazer: Former Gannett CEO gets $32M severance package (Business Week)

11:00 PM ET, March 19, 2012

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“Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” — Many consider this week's THIS AMERICAN LIFE episode one of the most painful they've ever listened to. In particular the segment with me is excruciating—four hours of grilling edited down to fifteen minutes.

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Craig Silverman / Poynter:

4 important truths about Mike Daisey's lies & the way ‘This American Life’ told them — Fact checking is a real process, but what “This America Life” did wasn't fact checking. — When the news broke that “This American Life” was retracting the episode “Mr. Daisey Goes to the Apple Factory …

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Matthew Baldwin / defective yeti:
Putting the I in Story — I worked as a customer service …

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Adrian Chen / Gawker:
How I Was Duped By Mike Daisey's Lies

Discussion: Betabeat, The Next Web, Erik Wemple, Forbes, The Atlantic Online and BetaNews

Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

Newspapers And Video: Slow And Steady Or Flood The Zone? — The Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) has embraced video with gusto. The venerable paper is pumping out hours of live news clips and splashing them onto everything from the iPhone to the X-Box. — According to Alisa Bowen …

Discussion: Beet.TV and NetNewsCheck Latest, Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts

Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

Why The Wall Street Journal Isn't Adding Digital To Its Sunday Edition — Common wisdom says there's no future in print newspapers and that the rest of the country is fed up with Wall Street. But both propositions fall flat in the case of the Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) Sunday edition.

Discussion: Talking Biz News

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

If you have news, it will be aggregated and/or curated — The Pew Research Center has come out with a massive new report on the state of media as part of its Project for Excellence in Journalism, and it comes to a number of conclusions about where the industry stands …

Discussion: Daily Download and Forbes

John Cook / GeekWire:
Newspapers take it on the chin as online ad revenue falls into the hands of a few tech giants

Discussion: Hillicon Valley, Kirk LaPointe's …, TVNewser, Nieman Journalism Lab and Forbes

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Pew: Twitter, Facebook Aren't Moving As Much News As You Think

Discussion: Guardian, TPM IdeaLab, Adam Sherk, Betabeat, Online NewsHour and eMedia Vitals

stateofthemedia.org:
What Facebook and Twitter Mean for News

Discussion: AllThingsD, PC Magazine, Broadcasting & Cable, Adweek, Media Buyer Planner, WebProNews, Marketing Pilgrim, @butterworthy, ZDNet, broadstuff, Poynter, Journalism.co.uk, BtoB Magazine, TVNewser, Media Decoder and MediaPost

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

AOL Prepping New Weekly iPad Magazine Called ‘Huffington’ — Eat your heart out, Oprah. (Not actually what it will look like, probably.) — At a conference in London today, David Shing, AOL's “digital prophet” (actually his title), expressed a strong view on the superiority of websites …

Discussion: The Next Web

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

A year into the ‘Times’ digital subscription program, analysts and insiders see surprising success, and more challenges to come — Almost exactly a year ago, on March 17, about two dozen New York Times employees gathered in a conference room not far from where the paper's journalists …

Discussion: Capital New York and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Media Culture Shifts: theory vs. reality — This weekend, my ritual readings were dominated by corporate media culture issues: How to transition from the legacy media culture to the more agile and chaotic digital world? I've been reading up on this topic — and sometimes conferencing about it — for years.

Discussion: Guardian

Business Week:

Former Gannett CEO gets $32M severance package — MCLEAN, VA. — Former Gannett Co. CEO Craig Dubow's received a severance package valued at about $32 million after chronic health problems prompted his resignation from the largest U.S. newspaper publisher.

Daily Mail:

FBI threaten to step in on Met's investigation into Rupert Murdoch's empire in case Scotland Yard ‘drops the ball’ — The FBI has vowed to step in if the Met Police ‘drop the ball’ in its investigation into illegal activity within the Murdoch empire, it has been revealed.

Discussion: The Independent

Alan Travis / Guardian:
Murdoch met Thatcher before Times takeover

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and The Independent

Natalie Peck / Hacking inquiry:
News of the World jeopardised Ipswich murders investigation, claims former police investigator

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:

Where Pimps Peddle Their Goods — I WENT on a walk in Manhattan the other day with a young woman who once had to work these streets, hired out by eight pimps while she was just 16 and 17. She pointed out a McDonald's where pimps sit while monitoring the girls outside …

Discussion: NYConvergence.com and Via Meadia

Pandora Young / FishbowlLA:
Former Underage Prostitute Sold on Backpage.com: ‘Like Going Back to Slave Times’

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Daniel Frankel / paidContent:

Nielsen, GroupM To Develop New Ratings Tool — As more people watch TV content on something other than TV, ad firms and their clients are eager for a tool that lets them analyze the success of TV advertising across those devices and platforms. Recently, there's been a burst of activity on that front.

Discussion: ClickZ

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Vimeo Gets a New Boss: AOL, Yahoo Vet Kerry Trainor — Earlier this year, video site Vimeo showed off a new look. Now it has a new CEO: Kerry Trainor, who just left his job overseeing AOL's entertainment and video properties. — Trainor replaces Dae Mellencamp, who has been running the site since 2009.

Discussion: PR Newswire, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Betabeat and Forbes

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Keach Hagey leaves Politico for ‘Wall Street Journal’ — The Wall Street Journal has a new print media reporter: Politico's Keach Hagey, who will join the paper's media desk in mid-April, acccording to a memo that went out today. — Journal staffer John Jannarone, meanwhile …

Keach Hagey / Politico:

Breitbart to announce new management — Two of Andrew Breitbart's closest friends and business associates are stepping in to take over the roles he held in his eponymous media company and carry out the expansion plans he made before his sudden death earlier this month.

Discussion: mediabistro.com and FishbowlLA