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

9:35 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: Techdirt, Online NewsHour, The Daily Beast, mediabistro.com, ABCNEWS, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Forbes, SCOTUSblog, Media Decoder and NetNewsCheck Latest

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, New York Times, NetNewsCheck Latest, NPR and Forbes

Frances Martel / Mediaite:

Jon Stewart Ridicules CNN, Fox News For Getting Supreme Court Decision Wrong — Chief Justice John Roberts pulled a fast one on the media who tried to skim his decision today, as he argued that the individual mandate was unconstitutional before he declared it a tax.

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

Carl Sessions Stepp / American Journalism Review:

Time to Open Up the Supreme Court — Live audio and video coverage could help prevent debacles like the incorrect reporting on the health care decision. Fri., June 29, 2012. — Carl Sessions Stepp (cstepp@jmail.umd.edu), AJR's senior editor, teaches at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.

Discussion: rcfp.org, The Huffington Post and Politico

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: The Daily Beast and Gawker

Wall Street Journal:

Inside Murdoch's Decision — Rupert Murdoch long resisted any suggestion—be it from bankers or executives within News Corp. —that the media conglomerate spin off the company's newspaper assets, which had become a drag on the stock. — “I was hanging on, and so was the whole family,” …

Discussion: Bloomberg, Capital New York, The New York Observer, Erik Wemple, Poynter, Reuters and paidContent

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Murdoch Praises News Corporation's Newspapers — Rupert Murdoch played offense on Thursday, embarking on a rare publicity campaign to extol the economic prospects of News Corporation's newspapers after announcing earlier that they would be spun off into a separate company.

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

Felix Salmon:
News Corp's digital divergence

Discussion: James Vicini, NPR, Crikey and The Week

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 Fox News Insider

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

Discussion: FishbowlDC, SCOTUSblog and Poynter

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

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, The Huffington Post, Mediaite, Reuters, New York Post, TVLine, Media Decoder, TVNewser, 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, Mediaite and Gawker

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

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

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

AOL Reorganizes Into Membership, Brand And Ad Units [Incl Armstrong's Memo] — After yesterday's $400 million share buyback, some more news today from our owners, AOL: it's reorganizing into three operating units, plus a separate one for corporate support of all three: they will be called AOL Membership …

Discussion: WebProNews, Adweek, VentureBeat, MediaPost, Business Insider, CNET, Fortune and TechCrunch

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.