Mediagazer: Ahmed Bahaddou, Associated Press Journalist, Wounded In Syria (Associated Press)

1:15 AM ET, June 18, 2012

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Ricky Mathews / New Orleans Times-Picayune:

The Times-Picayune and NOLA.com are here to stay — Each of us has defining moments in our life. For me, surviving the pounding waves of Katrina with my family at our Back Bay home in Biloxi was, thank God, one of them. The day I decided to work at a newspaper was another.

Discussion: @jeffjarvis, @deanstarkman and Gambit New Orleans News …

Steve Outing:
In defense of fewer print editions

Discussion: GigaOM, Gambit New Orleans News … and Poynter

Greg Cox / Expletive Inserted:

Lessons from the Failure of Readability's Author Payment Plan — Yesterday Readability announced that they were shutting down their experiment to take payments on behalf of authors and then distribute them (minus a 30% cut) to those authors. The announcement talks about learning from the experiment …

Discussion: TeleRead

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Wendi Murdoch Is Creating a Career of Her Own — LAST January, Amy Chua got an unexpected e-mail just before an excerpt from her provocative child-rearing manual, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” appeared in The Wall Street Journal. It was from Wendi Murdoch, the wife of Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corporation owns The Journal.

Discussion: Gothamist and Gannett Blog

David Carr / New York Times:

Digital Media's Ever-Swifter Incursion — Last Wednesday night on the rooftop of the Gramercy Park Hotel, all the signs of the classic magazine launch party were on display: an open bar ringed by thirsty media reporters, groaning trays of shrimp, a D.J. playing music just soft enough that it didn't drown out the chatter.

Associated Press:

Ahmed Bahaddou, Associated Press Journalist, Wounded In Syria — A video journalist covering the Syrian uprising for The Associated Press was wounded while filming clashes between rebels and the Syrian army. Ahmed Bahaddou, a Belgian citizen, was struck in the shoulder by a bullet during …

Discussion: Big News Network.com

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Lawrence Journal-World gets out of the CMS business, losing out to freebies like WordPress — The future is uncertain for Ellington, the content management system designed by a news organization for news organizations. Ten people working on the project were laid off this week.

Rani Molla / The Content Strategist:

Reuters' De Rosa Wants Social Media at Center Stage — This post is part of the Social Media Editor Series, featuring interviews with social media editors from news organizations about what they do and where they see social media in journalism going. — Anthony De Rosa did not begin …

Jason Boog / GalleyCat:

eBook Revenues Top Hardcover — Net sales revenue from eBooks have surpassed hardcover books in the first quarter of 2012. — According to the March Association of American Publishers (AAP) net sales revenue report (collecting data from 1,189 publishers), adult eBook sales were $282.3 million …

Discussion: Mashable!, The Next Web, TeleRead, TechCrunch and AppNewser

Chris Zappone / Sydney Morning Herald:

Fairfax to shed 1900 staff, erect paywalls — Fairfax Media will cut 1900 staff and erect paywalls on the websites of its two main metropolitan newspapers as it adjusts to shrinking advertising revenue. — Fairfax, publisher of this website, will also shift to compact-sized versions …

Discussion: Crikey

David Taintor / TPM:

Ryan Lizza on the “crisis” Twitter is creating for political journalism — The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza: Twitter, Gaffe Obsession Creating ‘Crisis For Political Journalism’ … Where did your reporting for this piece start? — I basically started with a lot of historical research …

Associated Press:

Zamal Uddin, Journalist, Stabbed To Death In Bangladesh — DHAKA, Bangladesh — Unidentified men have hacked a journalist to death apparently for his reports on the illegal drug trade in southwestern Bangladesh, police said Saturday. The attack on Zamal Uddin took place late Friday …

Jack Shafer:

Who jumped first from the newspaper sinking ship? — When did the ripe, bulbous, and gibbous newspaper bubble pop? — It was probably in the 1990s, when the business better resembled a cruising blimp than it did the dotcoms like Pets.com, Boo.com, and TheGlobe.com, which all went kerblewy around the turn of the century.

Discussion: CARPE DIEM and TeleRead

Rex Hammock / Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com:

How many curators does it take to curate a story about lightbulbs? — The concept of media curation has been around a long time. How long? Well, I can at least date it back to August of 2007, as that's when I registered the domain CurationMedia.com, an address that re-directs to Hammock.com.

Adam Schweigert: Towards a Better Definition of Curation in Journalism