Mediagazer: Piecemeal existence — For today's young freelancers, what will traffic bear? (Ben Adler/CJR)

12:10 PM ET, July 8, 2012

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Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:

We're getting wildly differing assessments — The announcement of the Supreme Court's decision largely upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Thursday, June 28 precipitated a genuine media drama. Millions tuned in to get the result in real time, and were rewarded …

Discussion: Poynter, JIMROMENESKO.COM, @jayrosen_nyu and EdCone.com

Joel Schectman / The CIO Report:

NBC, Google, Stage ‘War Games’ To Prepare for Olympic Disruptions — NBC and Google are conducting “war games” in at least three countries, to prepare for the possibility of hacker attacks or hardware malfunction disrupting the online streaming of the Summer Olympics Games in London, which start this month.

Jules Stenson / The Huffington Post:

There Is Life After The News of the World — It lasted little more than two minutes and, like the best News of the World splashes, was executed with brutal finality. Without any warning, we were called from our desks to the centre of the newsroom where Rebekah Brooks was waiting for us with our editor Colin Myler alongside her.

Tim Molloy / The Wrap:

What's Wrong With CNN? (And What's Right) — You know the knocks on CNN: Its ratings are down. Its reputation for breaking news took a hit last week with an embarrassing mistake about the Supreme Court's Obamacare ruling. Its nonpartisan approach to news denies it the built-in liberal audience …

Discussion: TVNewser

David Folkenflik / NPR:

Fake Bylines Reveal Hidden Costs Of Local News … Newspapers acknowledged publishing dozens of items in print or online from outsourcing firm Journatic that appeared under fake bylines. The Chicago Tribune, for example, said the matter is under investigation.

Discussion: Poynter

Ryan Smith / Guardian:
My adventures in Journatic's new media landscape of outsourced hyperlocal news

Discussion: San Francisco Peninsula … and @mathewi

Jack Shafer: How the byline beast was born

Ben Adler / CJR:

Piecemeal existence — For today's young freelancers, what will traffic bear? — In 2009, an editor for a new website called The Faster Times, which sought to be “an edgier Huffington Post,” emailed to ask if I was interested in a part-time job. I didn't know it was possible to be edgier than HuffPo …

Craig Silverman / Poynter:

After much fanfare, Daily Mail's corrections column loses steam — Last October, Daily Mail editor-in-chief Paul Dacre made a strong stand for transparency: “I believe corrections must be given more prominence,” he told the Leveson Inquiry that's looking into the phone hacking scandal and also examining …

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Can we reimagine TV news (please)? — With his bizarro news network, Aaron Sorkin thinks he is reimagining TV news, but he is only reminiscing, wishing for the return of the mythical Uncle Walter who'll tell us all what's what. Truth is, the process we saw at work in the premier of The Newsroom …

Jonathan Peters / Slate:

The Supreme Court Leaks — The high court has a long and storied history of dishing on itself. — The Supreme Court isn't supposed to be like other institutions. It's supposed to be something more, a place above partisan squabbling, insulated from the unseemly back and forth of politics.

Mariah Blake / CJR:

Something fishy? — John Solomon had grand plans for the digital future of the Center for Public Integrity. But there was always a catch... When John Solomon took over as executive editor of The Washington Times in 2008, the conservative daily had long been propped up on subsidies …

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of the only metric that matters — Amid the big news of the News Corp. split, The New York Times announced its deal with Flipboard. Then, the next day, The Wall Street Journal reported its own deal with Pulse. It looked like Tablet Aggregator Wars, with the two big head …

Discussion: Forbes Real Time

Daniel R. Schwarz / The Huffington Post:

Why, as the Gates of Newsgathering Information Have Been Opening, the Minds of Its Audience Have Been Closing? — In examining the radical changes in the dissemination of news, we need to examine not only how newspaper and news media are evolving from providing historically accurate records …

Discussion: @mathewi

Peter Sterne / CJR:

Gawker's new comment system — Will it help or hurt the site's young writers? — Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton recently introduced a new commenting system, called Kinja, on his network of websites. Rather than showing all comments on a given article, Kinja shows only the most interesting thread of comments and replies.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM