Mediagazer: Mayer Will Extend Free Food to NYC Too, While “What Is Yahoo?” Question Is Hereby Banish'd (Kara Swisher/AllThingsD)

10:35 AM ET, August 8, 2012

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

The New York Times Is About to Say Goodbye to About.com — The New York Times' time with About.com may be coming to an end. The paper has been looking to get rid of the struggling Web site, which produces high-volume, low-cost content, and has a deal in place to sell it to Answers.com.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM and AdExchanger

Linda Holmes / NPR:

Good Business, Bad Quality: How NBC Is Both Right And Wrong On The Olympics — The following exchange has played out over and over in the last ten days: — Point: “NBC's coverage of the Olympics stinks, because everything is tape-delayed and cut to shreds, and also the announcers are awful …

Discussion: business.time.com, Poynter and Associated Press

Eric Pfanner / New York Times:

BBC's Olympics Broadcasts Focus on Live Coverage — While some American television viewers are grumbling about the retro feel to NBC's London Olympics coverage, with tape-delayed broadcasts of the opening ceremony and other events, audiences in Britain are getting a more contemporary — even futuristic — TV Games.

Discussion: Search Engine Land and Bleacher Report

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Obama Is an Avid Reader, and Critic, of the News — WASHINGTON — A few months after President Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus package passed, he began to notice news reports, but not about the jobs the bill might create or how much of the country's infrastructure it would repair.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Washington Wire, Prof Chris Daly's Blog and The Caucus

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Mayer Will Extend Free Food to NYC Too, While “What Is Yahoo?” Question Is Hereby Banish'd — New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer descended on two of its New York offices today, declaring that she would summarily be granting free food to all there as she had recently done to much acclaim at its Silicon Valley HQ.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and Business Insider

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Judge orders Oracle, Google to disclose paid journalists and bloggers — In a surprise order, U.S. District Judge William Alsup said “the court is concerned” that Oracle and Google may have hired authors to comment about their ongoing court case. Now, Judge Alsup wants the parties to submit a list of their paid propagandists.

Discussion: The Verge, CNET, Media News, NetNewsCheck Latest, BuzzFeed, GeekWire, PC Magazine, AllThingsD, TechCrunch and Betabeat

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

On a hiring jag, ‘Businessweek’ brings in a new tech editor, Doug Cantor — Bloomberg Businessweek appears to be on a hiring tear. — The latest addition to its masthead is Doug Cantor, who began a new job as Businessweek's technology editor on Monday. He replaces Barrett Sheridan …

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Romney's VP Selection Process Prompts Memories Of Veepstakes Past — NEW YORK — In July 1988, CNN's John King was camped outside the home of Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis when he got a sign the Democratic presidential nominee had just picked a running mate.

Discussion: ABCNEWS

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Two years after the tipping point, papers' web readership is booming — As newspapers' print circulation continues to decline, publishers now get the majority of their readers online. But what does that look like in practise? — I crunched ABC and ABCe (UK) data for the last 12 years to discover the long view.

Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

Women's Magazines Lead Overall Decline in Newsstand Sales — Consumers are shying away from impulse buys and the magazine industry is feeling the pinch. — According to data released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations Tuesday morning, overall paid and verified circulation of magazines declined slightly …

Discussion: Audit Bureau of Circulations and FishbowlNY

Peter Preston / Guardian:

Digital-only Financial Times would still be a difficult trick to perform — As digital FT subscriptions outstrip its newspaper circulation, the printed version seems doomed, but the numbers don't add up — There's a predictable buzz of futurology as the FT announces that its digital …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Douglas Martin / New York Times:

Judith Crist, Zinging and Influential Film Critic, Dies at 90 — Judith Crist, one of America's most widely read film critics for more than three decades and a provocative presence in millions of homes as a regular reviewer on the “Today” show, died Tuesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 90.

Discussion: Movieline, Capital New York, CJR, LA Observed and Columbia University …