Mediagazer: Exclusive: Yahoo's Mayer Aiming for Twitter's Stanton for Big Media Role (Kara Swisher/AllThingsD)

12:10 PM ET, August 10, 2012

Top News:

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Yahoo's Mayer Aiming for Twitter's Stanton for Big Media Role — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been trying to recruit Katie Jacobs Stanton, Twitter's head of international markets, to take a major job on the media side of the Silicon Valley Internet giant, according to multiple sources close to the situation.

Discussion: Forbes, VentureBeat, Business Insider, ZDNet and Wall Street Journal

AllThingsD:

With Billions Burning a Hole in Her Pocket, Here Are Some Companies Yahoo's Mayer Might Be Eyeing (and Buying) — Now that she could have $4 billion more to play with from the proceeds of Yahoo's sale of its Chinese assets, here's a fun new Silicon Valley parlor game to enjoy: “What will Marissa Mayer buy?”

Discussion: CNET, Business Insider, Telegraph and Forbes

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Guardian sees 2.1% of iPad readers pay — Last month, Guardian Media Group used its annual financial disclosure to report it has, so far, attracted 17,000 paying iPad subscribers. — Friday's full annual report adds there have been 804,000 downloads of that app.

Discussion: Media Week and CyberJournalist.net

Mark Sweney / Guardian:
GMG chief executive takes pay cut

Discussion: Press Gazette, Journalism.co.uk and The Drum

Andrew Tyndall / Hollywood Reporter:

How CNN Can Benefit From Being Bland (Analysis) — Andrew Tyndall writes for THR that its appealing online presence internationally should have it chasing YouTube, not Fox News. — When it was invented about 30 years ago, CNN solved one of the major shortcomings of television news in the broadcast era: It was on all the time.

Discussion: @davidfolkenflik and @jayrosen_nyu

David Wagner / The Atlantic Wire:

David Rakoff, Essayist and ‘This American Life’ Contributor, Has Died — David Rakoff, a writer known for his funny, cynical essays and frequent appearances on This American Life, has died at 47. He had been battling a malignant tumor since 2010. — According to an essay he wrote …

Discussion: Publishers Weekly, Gawker, Reluctant Habits, GalleyCat, Third Beat, Gothamist, ArtsBeat, Slate, Boing Boing, The Huffington Post, Towleroad News #gay and The Awl

Shalini Ramachandran / Digits:

Barrydriller.com Claims to Compete Against Barry Diller's Aereo — Lots of entertainment executives might aspire to follow in media mogul Barry Diller's footsteps. Few would go as far as Alki David. — The chief executive of FilmOn, an online video site, has started a new service …

Discussion: Radio & Television … and Deadline.com

Howard Finberg / Poynter:

Knight report on training shows journalists want technology, multimedia, data skills — A new study by the Knight Foundation released today summarizes the state of journalism training. Some findings from “Digital Training Comes of Age”: … The report was authored by Eric Newton …

Discussion: Garcia Media, Media News and Knight Foundation

Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:

Dish Chairman Says Subscribers Don't Like AMC Shows That Much, Anyway — Nor Has Anyone in Charlie Ergen's House Ever Watched WE TV — Nobody at Dish Network Chairman Charles Ergen's house has ever watched IFC, Sundance Channel or WE TV, Mr. Ergen said Wednesday as he discussed dropping AMC Networks …

Discussion: Fast Company, Deadline.com and Business Insider

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Publishers Turn to the Crowd — It's not everyday that a publisher is sold for $175 million. That's why Turner's purchase of Bleacher Report raised some eyebrows. — The lesson of Bleacher Report's success, and that of Huffington Post's as well, is it pays for publishers to take a page …

Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:

How to Make a Dead Cat Bounce on Twitter — I've been told that in the olden days, reporters would write articles on these things called “typewriters.” And get this: These machines weren't even connected to the Internet! — The tools have since changed. We have blogs, smartphones, digital cameras and Wi-Fi.

Discussion: Betabeat and NetNewsCheck Latest

Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:

How The Media Made The Priorities USA Attack Ad Matter — Cable news is giving a controversial new ad attacking Romney an unintentional bump in visibility. Priorities USA, the super PAC supporting Barack Obama, released “Understands” on Tuesday in just five battleground states: Florida, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Ohio.

Discussion: ABCNEWS, New York Times, The Page and Mediaite

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

BBC: Thompson didn't criticise GB coverage — Director general forced to issue clarification after news chief said he was ‘increasingly unhappy’ at focus on British success — BBC director general Mark Thompson has denied claims he ordered news executives to focus less on Team GB's Olympics success in bulletins.

Discussion: The Independent, Telegraph and Hollywood Reporter