Mediagazer: Times-Picayune editor on reporting ambitions, salary rumors (Jim Romenesko)

3:45 PM ET, May 31, 2012

Top News:

To GOP, blatant bias in vetting — On the front page of its Sunday edition, the New York Times gave a big spread to Ann Romney spending lots of time and tons of money on an exotic genre of horse-riding. The clear implication: The Romneys are silly rich, move in rarefied and exotic circles, and are perhaps a tad shady.

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Devin Gordon / GQ:

Five Points About Politico's Hatchet Job On NYT and WaPo — Here's the piece, published this morning. The upshot: The political coverage of The New York Times and The Washington Post is “blatantly biased” in their vetting of Romney versus Obama. (Guess which way they supposedly lean.)

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Politico, Erik Wemple and Talking Points Memo

Jim Romenesko:

Times-Picayune editor on reporting ambitions, salary rumors — New Orleans Times-Picayune editor's memo to staff, sent this morning: From: Jim Amoss Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 7:18 AM To: Newsroom Staff Subject: some facts Dear colleagues, In our meetings at Howard Avenue and the East Jefferson bureau …

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Will other Advance newspapers face cuts like Times-Picayune, Alabama papers? — Advance Publications' decision to cut staff and reduce printing to three days a week at its papers in New Orleans and Alabama has worried journalists at its other newspapers. Cleveland Scene's Kyle Swenson reported …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, JIMROMENESKO.COM and New York Post

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Mike Daisey: Perhaps tech writers 'aren't actually journalists either?' — KQED | Mike Daisey, back with more media criticism, casts a steely eye at AllThingsD's D10 (or is that DX?) conference, currently teching it up in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. Daisey thought AllThingsD's co-executive …

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John Hudson / The Atlantic Wire:

MSNBC Produced Its Own Anti-Romney Video in February — Fox News is taking a drubbing for broadcasting a four-minute video attacking President Obama yesterday but the network's arch-rival, MSNBC, has thus far avoided criticism for an anti-Mitt Romney video it produced and broadcast in February.

Discussion: Mediaite, Inside Cable News, The Huffington Post, Guardian and Media Matters for America

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Obama Video on Fox News Criticized as Attack Ad

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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Now playing: The New York Times signs on to Hulu to reach a new audience for its long videos — You can now find videos from The New York Times on Hulu, thanks to a content licensing agreement between the paper and the popular video site. — Video produced for NYTimes.com …

Discussion: New York Times

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Sorkin On ‘The Newsroom’: ‘None of the characters are inspired by real people, not even a little bit’ — TV and film writer Aaron Sorkin appeared at the All Things D conference, where he talked about writing the Steve Jobs biopic, and of course “The Newsroom,” his upcoming cable news-centric show on HBO.

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Google, Facebook vie for stake in Vevo — Vevo — a joint venture of Universal Music Group and Sony Music along with the Abu Dhabi Media Co. — is valued at about $1 billion on revenue of $150 million, according to industry sources. Vevo licenses its content to a number of partners …

Discussion: CNET, VentureBeat and The Next Web

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Letters to the DOJ: Public speaks out on e-book pricing case — As the Department of Justice's lawsuit against Apple and five big publishers for allegedly colluding to fix e-book prices moves forward, the public has the chance to respond with their take on the allegations.

Discussion: paidContent

Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:

Alan Horn to Run Disney Studios (Excusive) — UPDATED: The former Warner Bros. chief is Disney CEO Bob Iger's choice to run the studio — Former Warner Bros. chief Alan Horn is the choice to run Disney Studios, a source tells The Hollywood Reporter. — The source says the announcement …

London Evening Standard:

Jeremy Hunt on the rack over BSkyB text to James Murdoch — Jeremy Hunt sent a congratulatory text message to James Murdoch the day Vince Cable was removed from presiding over News Corp's controversial £8 billion BSkyB bid, it was revealed today.

Discussion: Guardian, Telegraph, Huffington Post UK, Guardian, @benfenton, Guardian, Guido Fawkes, Associated Press, New York Times, @arusbridger, Guardian, @tomjharper, @tomjharper, BBC and Press Gazette

Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:

Gawker Goes Colonial with New Commenting System — Gawker Media is eyeing an international expansion to harvest licensing revenue from its shiny, new commenting system, according to an internal memo sent out by proprietor Nick Denton Wednesday afternoon. — “Our international efforts …