Mediagazer: TV critics pan Sorkin's ‘The Newsroom’ (Andrew Beaujon/Poynter)

4:25 AM ET, June 23, 2012

Top News:

‘Today’ Is Just Part of Slip In the Stature of NBC News — When news broke that NBC was in talks to replace Ann Curry on the “Today” show, much was made of the fact that the morning program had briefly slipped out of its No. 1 spot in the morning-show ratings recently for the first time in 16 years.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Business Insider, New York Magazine and TVNewser

New York Times:

NBC News Faces Shift in Television Dominance — NBC News has long been a dominant presence on network television, regularly winning the ratings competition against its evening news and Sunday morning political show competitors, and reveling in the “Today” show's 16-year winning streak in morning television …

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, Media Decoder, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, lhj.com, Chickaboomer, Media Decoder and Politico

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

TV critics pan Sorkin's ‘The Newsroom’ — No need to stay up late Sunday for the debut of Aaron Sorkin's new show “The Newsroom,” say most TV critics. Here's an understated trailer for the show, which is set at a fictional television network and features a Keith Olbermann-like anchor.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, NOLA River, TVNewser, Multichannel News, New York Times and Los Angeles Times

Steve Myers / Poynter:

‘Fox Mole’ Joe Muto leaves Gawker, reviews ‘The Newsroom’ for Slate as two media narratives converge — Congratulations to the person who thought of this: Joe Muto, whose short run as the “Fox Mole” gripped New York media for a workweek, has reviewed “The Newsroom” for Slate.

Discussion: New York Magazine, The Week and Slate

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

YouTube's Gigantic Year Is Already Here, Citi Says — Is Google making money off of YouTube? You betcha, Google execs told shareholders today, without offering the slightest bit of detail. Par for the course. — So, in lieu of real numbers from Google, here's a Wall Street estimate: Google is making a ton of money from YouTube.

Discussion: Media Money … and Fortune

Erik Wemple:

Joe Williams blasts ‘small group’ in statement — Joe Williams has spoken. — After staying mostly silent in the day after his suspension from Politico for certain remarks and tweets, Williams has issued a lively statement on his status and the circumstances that have landed him in his current bind.

Discussion: The Caucus, The Wrap, Washington Free Beacon, BREITBART.COM and Politico

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

New York Times Said To Seek Tech-Savvy CEO For Comeback — New York Times Co. (NYT), seeking a chief executive officer who can reverse a six-year sales slump, is looking for a tech-savvy executive to help wring more revenue from the Internet, according to people familiar with the matter.

Discussion: CJR

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

How Edward Champion catalogued Jonah Lehrer's sins — Lots of media outlets have written about Jonah Lehrer's ill-defined journalistic no-no's. Poynter, for instance, has published eight posts (make it nine) since learning Tuesday that Lehrer has recycled old columns.

Clay Shirky / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Pay attention to what Nick Denton is doing with comments — As comment bait goes, I'm a Gay Mormon Who's Been Happily Married for 10 Years is a corker. That's Gawker's headline for a piece by Joshua Weed (excerpted from a longer version posted on Weed's own site) about how he balances his homosexuality …

Discussion: @nicknotned

Jim Romenesko:

Jim Schachter leaves New York Times for WNYC Radio — New York Times associate managing editor Jim Schachter has been named WNYC radio vice president for news — a newly created position. “He will oversee its strategic vision and planning, as well as editorial decisions related to production and operations,” says a release.

Discussion: Poynter, www.wnyc.org, LA Observed and FishbowlNY

Jeremy A. Kaplan / Fox News:

Journalist live-Tweets Taliban attack from inside firefight — War journalist Mustafa Kazemi hunkers down as bullets whiz overhead, scrambling to find a tourniquet.AHMAD MUKHTAR — Kazemi found the birthday cake of a someone who was supposed to turn 21. It was never cut into.MUSTAFA KAZEMI

D.C. Denison / The Boston Globe:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt emerges from bankruptcy — Boston-based publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt emerged from bankruptcy protection Friday, as a judge in New York approved a deal with the company's creditors to eliminate $3.1 billion in debt. — Under the terms of the Chapter 11 restructuring …

Discussion: Fox Business, Bankruptcy Beat, Reuters, Publishers Weekly and Business Wire