Mediagazer: Even if News Corp. Divides, the Murdochs' Control Is Undiluted (Amy Chozick/Media Decoder)

10:35 PM ET, June 29, 2012

Top News:

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Were CNN & Fox News' mistakes on Supreme Court ruling part of ‘process journalism’? — We all know that CNN and Fox News mistakenly reported Thursday that the Supreme Court struck down the “individual mandate” part of the health care law. How did this happen? Who's responsible? — I blame Jeff Jarvis.

Discussion: Washington Post, Techdirt, Online NewsHour, The Daily Beast, mediabistro.com, ABCNEWS, The Huffington Post, Mediaite, Forbes, SCOTUSblog and Media Decoder

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

The scoop is dead and deserves to be — I was just asked about CNN's, Fox's, and others' screw-ups with the announcement of the Supreme Court health decision in the context of process journalism. I disagreed with the characterization. My response: — I could not disagree more strongly …

Discussion: Poynter, GigaOM, TVNewser, Mediaite, NetNewsCheck Latest, NPR, New York Times and Forbes

Carl Sessions Stepp / American Journalism Review:
Time to Open Up the Supreme Court

Discussion: rcfp.org, The Huffington Post and Politico

Frances Martel / Mediaite:
Jon Stewart Ridicules CNN, Fox News For Getting Supreme Court Decision Wrong

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Forbes, The New Yorker Blog, Multichannel, Media & Entertainment, B&C, Hillicon Valley, The Raw Story and Erik Wemple

Dylan Byers / Politico:
CNN ‘looking into’ Supreme Court ‘mistake’

Discussion: Erik Wemple, The Daily Beast, Poynter, Chickaboomer and ABCNEWS

Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:

Even if News Corp. Divides, the Murdochs' Control Is Undiluted — Wall Street has cheered Rupert Murdoch's decision to separate News Corporation's underperforming newspapers from its lucrative entertainment assets. — But not all investors are happy. — When the company confirmed …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, The Daily Beast and Gawker

Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Murdoch Praises News Corporation's Newspapers

Discussion: The Content Strategist, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, Los Angeles Times, Media Decoder, The Huffington Post and Bloomberg

Felix Salmon:
News Corp's digital divergence

Discussion: James Vicini, NPR, Crikey and The Week

Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:

Twitter's Mobile Ads Begin to Click — Majority of Revenue on Social Network Comes from Phones; One Advertiser Calls Results Staggering — Twitter Inc. is showing early signs of success selling advertising on mobile devices, an area that is bedeviling Internet companies including Facebook Inc. and Google Inc.

Discussion: AllThingsD, The Realtime Report, TPM IdeaLab, GigaOM, AdPulp, Business Insider, blogs.ft.com, WebProNews, The Verge, Street Fight, The Wall Blog and eMedia Vitals

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

SCOTUSblog: After a decade, an overnight sensation — Amy Howe used to think 3,000 live blog participants was a lot. Thursday, more than a half-million users tuned into SCOTUSblog to find out how the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on health care and what it meant.

Discussion: SCOTUSblog, CNN, Poynter and BuzzFeed

Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Anatomy of a spike: How SCOTUS Blog dealt with its biggest traffic day ever

Discussion: FishbowlDC, SCOTUSblog and Poynter

Shareen Pathak / AdAge:

YouTube Launches ‘Marketplace’ to Connect YouTube Stars and Brands — Pairing YouTube Partners With Advertisers and Agencies That Want to Create Viral Buzz — Agencies and marketers looking for the perfect YouTube star to appear in a viral video, your job just got easier.

Discussion: Marketing Pilgrim, AdPulp, mediabistro.com and ClickZ

allDAY / msnbc.com:

Savannah Guthrie named co-anchor of TODAY — Savannah Guthrie has been named co-anchor of TODAY, it was announced Friday. Guthrie joined TODAY as co-host of the third hour in June 2011 and also serves as TODAY's chief legal analyst. — “As soon as Savannah joined NBC News she was a standout …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, Associated Press, Seattle Times, Mediaite, Reuters, The Huffington Post, TVLine, New York Post, TVNewser, Media Decoder, Poynter, New York Times and The Wrap

Poynter:
Alessandra Stanley described old online tribute to Ann Curry as if it aired during ‘Today’ farewell

Discussion: Tampa Bay Times, Gawker and Mediaite

Aaron Gell / The New York Observer:

Ex-Nazi Twins Prussian Blue Confirm: Daily Mirror Ripped Off Murdoch's The Daily — No wonder they call it The Mirror! — On June 27, the Daily Mirror, a London-based tabloid, published a fascinating story about Lamb and Lynx Gaede, who several years ago fronted their own teen pop band …

Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:

Tumblr Introduces New Ad Product: Pinned Posts — Tumblr introduced a new ad product Thursday — one that enables users to pin their posts to the top of their followers' dashboards for 24 hours, thereby giving their content more exposure. — This is the fourth ad product Tumblr has rolled out since the beginning of the year.

Discussion: Adweek and The Inquisitr

Nick Wingfield / Bits:

The Well, a Pioneering Online Community, Is for Sale Again — Before Facebook, Twitter, Google — heck, even before the Web — there was The Well, an online discussion community founded in Northern California in 1985 that became home to the early denizens of what used to be called cyberspace.

Discussion: @stevesilberman

The Local:

CUNY Journalism School Reacts to Times ‘Local’ Pullout — There has been a lot of chatter on the blog since media reporter Joe Pompeo of Capital NY revealed that The New York Times would end its partnership with The Local over the next six months to one year.

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

News has been changed forever by the iPhone — The arrival of the iPhone five years ago today has disrupted many things, including photography, the music business and the mobile software business; in fact, the entire technology industry. But from my point of view, one of the most interesting things …

Discussion: Reuters, Forbes, VentureBeat and The FJP

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Nickel-and-Diming? More Magazines to Charge for Hotlinks in Tablet Edition Ads — $1,500 Fee Reflects the Production Process, Meredith Says — Another magazine company has decided to charge advertisers for something as small as a working hotlink in a tablet edition.

Discussion: WebProNews and eMedia Vitals

Jim Romenesko:

[UPDATED] Sportswriter reveals the most unethical things he's ever done — UPDATE: I'm told that Monroe Evening News editor Deb Saul asked sportswriter Jeff Meade to “add context to the column.” It's been reposted here. — In the end, the 57-year-old journalist decided to go with an idea …

Discussion: Monroe News and Poynter