Mediagazer: Stop Calling It A Blog, Please (Andy Boyle)

1:45 AM ET, April 4, 2012

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

News Corp. Still Backing James Murdoch — News Corp. is making a show of publicly backing James Murdoch, its deputy chief operating officer, after he stepped down as chairman of BSkyB. — Here's the full statement the company (which also owns this Web site) just released:

Discussion: Guardian, Media Week, Company Town and Telegraph

Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
News Corp shareholders renew call for Rupert Murdoch to step down

Discussion: business.time.com, Media Week, AllThingsD and Guardian

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch and son James expected at Leveson inquiry

Discussion: Media Week

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Ex-Met police boss John Yates attended News of the World reporter's wedding

Discussion: Press Gazette and Journalism.co.uk

Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
Leveson inquiry: Rebekah Brooks reapplies for core participant status

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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
James Murdoch quits another News Corp group to spare BSkyB from fall-out

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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

Olbermann on Joining Current TV: 'I Didn't Think the Whole Thing Through' — Making his first public statements since being fired from his Current TV anchor position last week, Keith Olbermann told David Letterman Tuesday night that he considered quitting 10 days into the job …

Discussion: TVNewser

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

Letterman and Ferguson Extend Runs on CBS — CBS, closing the lid on any speculation that change might be coming for its late-night lineup, announced Tuesday that both David Letterman and Craig Ferguson have agreed to continue in their shows for at least two more years.

Discussion: Gawker, The Wrap, TVNewser, TV Tonight, Media & Entertainment, Adweek, Radio & Television …, Broadcasting & Cable and Splitsider

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Time Inc. Hearst, Conde Nast, Meredith Launch “Netflix For Magazines” — Remember Next Issue Media, the “Hulu for Digital Magazines” consortium made up of the biggest names in publishing? It has finally delivered something worth talking about: Call it Netflix for Magazines.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Adweek, Forbes, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, ZDNet, The Verge, Digits, @pkafka, Techland and paidContent

Andy Boyle:

Stop Calling It A Blog, Please — News organizations, can we all do ourselves a favor? We should stop calling things “blogs.” I know, that probably stings a little, but let me try and explain why. — A little history first: In the early days of News Organizations On The Internet …

Jesse Hicks / The Verge:

The Verge interview: David Carr on curation, crowdsourcing, and the future of journalism — David Carr has written about media for over 25 years, from his early days in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Washington, D.C., to his current post at The New York Times, where he's been for almost a decade.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

2012 National Magazine Awards nominees announced — After years of refining its unique blend of irreverent hipster screeds and hard-hitting international journalism, it seems that Vice is officially all grown up: The title will go head-to-head with industry stand-bys Bloomberg Businessweek …

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Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress:
Women and the National Magazine Awards

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Matt Buchanan / Buzzfeed:

When Republishing Goes Really Wrong: The Random Longreads Generator — You are looking at piece written by Maud Newton for The Awl. But you're not seeing it on The Awl. This screencap is The Long Reader, a “Random #LongReads Generator!” It has fully duplicated the content of another website …

Read it Later:

Read It Later's Secret: Our Users Love Video, Too — Video saves in Read It Later are up 138%, and YouTube is our most-saved domain; The median length of a video saved in Read It Later is nearly 30 minutes — As our name implies, Read It Later launched in 2007 as an app for quickly …

Discussion: The Verge, Poynter and The Next Web, Thanks:@markarms

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Why the Denver Post is putting more local news on A1 — Denver Post editor Greg Moore penned a surprising announcement on the front page of the print edition today: “Every day except Sunday, the front page and the first part of Section A generally will be devoted to our metro report …

Discussion: Denver Post, The Latest Word and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:

‘Today’ Tops ‘Good Morning America’ With Katie Couric On First Day — The ratings for the first day of the intense morning show war between the morning shows and the winner is... “Today.” The NBC morning show came in 333,000 viewers ahead of “GMA” on Monday, according to Nielsen.

Eric Deggans / Tampa Bay Times: Sarah Palin knocks lamestream media while getting two hours free publicity on NBC's Today

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Sarah Palin Co-Hosts ‘Today’

Discussion: New York Magazine, Mediaite, Chickaboomer and TVNewser

Daniel Frankel / paidContent:

Why Variety's street value has plummeted in 4 years — Four years ago, Dutch-Anglo publisher Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) put its 107-year-old showbiz trade paper, Variety, on the auction block. It ultimately failed to find a buyer willing in the middle of a global recession to pay …

Daniel Frankel / paidContent:

Researcher: Over 1 Million U.S. Cable Subscribers Cut Cord In 2011 — Cable and satellite TV subscription growth slowed down more than had been previously reported, and cord-cutting was a primary factor. But don't worry about it — a revolution that will re-create the current multi-channel access paradigm is still a long way away.

Justin D. Martin / CJR:

Which Countries Jail the Most Journalists Per Capita? — At the end of each year, the Committee to Protect Journalists counts the number of journalists imprisoned worldwide and lists the countries in which they're locked up. — These data are very helpful, but I think we can consider …

Discussion: Guardian