Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
2:25 PM ET, June 1, 2012

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Paul Sonne / Wall Street Journal:
News Corp. Could Face 500 Phone-Hacking Claims  —  LONDON—Lawyers for both News Corp. and phone-hacking victims on Friday estimated in court that the media company will ultimately face about 500 civil claims related to illegal voice-mail interception by the now-closed News of the World tabloid.
Discussion: Guardian and The Huffington Post
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Roger Ailes, Upstate Press Baron, Is in a Newspaper War  —  Roger Ailes, in his day job, rules the Fox News media empire that has been the dominant force in cable news ever since he took on CNN's entrenched monopoly in the mid-nineties.  But now Roger Ailes, community newspaper baron …
RELATED:
Jim Romenesko:
Roger Ailes cancels biographer's newspaper subscription
Discussion: Politico and Gawker
Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Wall Street Journal “cannot generate enough video streams” to meet advertising demand  —  The Wall Street Journal announced this morning the launch of a new early-morning show, Asia Today, which will broadcast weekdays at 6:30 a.m. (Eastern), with a focus on business, finance, and breaking news in the region.
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
Turner's Kent ‘Very Unhappy’ With Ratings Dive at CNN  —  Backs Cooper, Morgan, Burnett, but other shows may be replaced  —  Turner Broadcasting CEO Phil Kent admitted to being “very unhappy” with CNN's primetime ratings, but said it won't resort to tricks to increase viewership.
Daniel Bentley / Journalism.co.uk:
CoveritLive switches to paid-only service  —  Popular liveblogging platform CoverItLive has announced the end of its free usage tier, becoming an entirely paid for subscription service.  —  In an email to current subscribers the company wrote: … CoveritLive's ‘Starter’ subscription costs $9.99 per month …
Discussion: Examiner and 10,000 Words
Sarah Wachter / Poynter:
Google News Founder: To invent the future, news industry must hire ‘restless agents of change’  —  Media companies of the future must operate using a different business model that addresses the endless waves of disruptive new technology and staggering competition, said Krishna Bharat …
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
New York Times, Washington Post Defend Against Politico's Media Bias Claims  —  NEW YORK — Politico's executive editor, Jim VandeHei, and chief White House correspondent, Mike Allen, suggested Thursday that The New York Times and Washington Post are biased in favor of President Barack Obama …
RELATED:
Clay Shirky / CJR:   WaPo must transform to survive
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Kickstarting a Soccer Magazine: An Old Medium Finds A New Way Of Funding  —  To launch a print magazine in 2012, you almost by definition have to be something of a nostalgist.  But when it came time for George Quraishi and Mark Kirby to raise money for Howler, their new magazine for American soccer fans …
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
Katy Bachman / Adweek:
Microsoft's Do Not Track Browser Angers Online Ad Industry  —  Microsoft's new Do Not Track default browser may win the company points with Washington, but it pissed off the online ad industry.  —  Buried in yesterday's release of Windows 8 was a revelation that took the industry by surprise …
Jack Shafer:
Drug panics, bath salts, and face-eating zombies  —  Last Saturday afternoon, a naked man gnawed off most of the face of a half-naked man on a Miami causeway.  He continued chewing even after police shot him and did not stop until they shot him dead.  —  Things like that don't happen everyday …
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
What the Forbes model of contributed content means for journalism  —  Two years ago, Forbes.com was a news website like most others.  —  Today, it is less website, more operating system — an underlying layer of technology that hundreds of contributors use to publish independently.
Discussion: Forbes
Tim J. McGuire / McGuire on Media:
This I believe about journalism, newspapers and the future of media  —  I believe it's important to pause every now and then to write down my values and thoughts.  That's especially true in the ever-fluid media world where nothing is standing still.  This missive will attempt to take stock …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Why we need to blow the article up in order to save it  —  Many media outlets — and not just traditional players like newspapers or magazines, but even some newer and more digital-savvy ones — still think of the article or the story as the bedrock foundation of news and journalism.
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 2:25 PM ET, June 1, 2012.

View the current page or another snapshot:


Page version:
 
 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: 
Reuters:
French reporter back home after FARC captivity
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How important are all those ugly Tweet Buttons to news sites?
Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Wadar Khanfar: Social media content from Syria proved vital and accurate
Dan Kennedy / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How news executives can fend off the Wolff at their door
Discussion: The Wall Blog
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Dudley Clendinen Dies at 67; Wrote About Civil Rights, Aging and His Impending Death
Anna Heim / The Next Web:
Amazon nabs Dilbert and Doonesbury digital comics anthologies as a Kindle Fire exclusive
 Earlier Picks: 
Amy Wicks / WWD:
Wired to Release Inaugural Issue on iPad
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
Alan Horn to Run Disney Studios (Excusive)
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
This Graph Is Disastrous for Print and Great for Facebook—or the Opposite!
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Now playing: The New York Times signs on to Hulu to reach a new audience for its long videos