Mediagazer: If Content Is King, Multiscreen Is The Queen, Says New Google Study (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

6:30 PM ET, August 30, 2012

Top News:

Is This Thing On? Yahoo Firing Proves the Perils of Feeding Many Platforms — David Chalian, the Washington bureau chief of Yahoo News, was fired in record time on Wednesday after he was overheard on a hot mic making a remark about Mitt Romney and his wife not caring about the African-American victims of Hurricane Isaac.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Breaking News …, USA Today, Hillicon Valley, NewsBusters.org blogs, The Daily Beast, Politico and Mediaite

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Twitter Tries Cranking Up the Money Machine: More Precise Targeting = More Ad Dollars — Someone smart who doesn't work at Twitter tells me that the company expects to do $350 million in revenue this year. — Here's one of the ways they could get there: A new slug of ad dollars, generated by an overhaul of its ad platform.

Discussion: Twitter Advertising, Forbes, The Next Web, Inside Facebook, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Mashable! and CNBC

Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

Behind the Latest Palin-Fox Fight — Last night's kerfuffle between Sarah Palin and Fox News was a classic display of Sarah Palin being, well, Sarah Palin. But her Facebook outburst complaining about Fox canceling her appearance at the Republic National Convention reveals something deeper …

Discussion: Politicker

Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Fox News Responds To Sarah Palin's Facebook Post On Cancelled Fox Appearances

Discussion: New York Magazine and The Huffington Post

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:

Media Calls Out Paul Ryan Falsehoods — Paul Ryan's vice presidential acceptance speech ran into a lot of trouble with fact-checkers and journalists. — It seemed like some reporters' heads were going to explode on Twitter as Ryan spoke. For instance, he blasted President Obama for not doing …

James Bennet / The Atlantic Online:
'We're Not Going to Let Our Campaign Be Dictated by Fact-Checkers'

Discussion: CJR, New York Times, Washington Post, EdCone.com, New York Magazine, Xark and The Atlantic Online

Bonnie Kavoussi / The Huffington Post:
Fox News' Sally Kohn: Paul Ryan's RNC Speech ‘Was Attempt To Set World Record For Blatant Lies’

Discussion: Fox News, @moorehn and @antderosa

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Three billion flips later, Flipboard turns to video — Tablet content aggregators like Flipboard and Zite have found favor by re-imagining modern web text as linear pages of ye olde magazines. But can the same paradigm work for other online content? — Flipboard on Wednesday launched …

Discussion: Lost Remote, eMedia Vitals, Folio, MediaPost, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Engadget and Journalism.co.uk

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

If Content Is King, Multiscreen Is The Queen, Says New Google Study — New research out from Google, working with market analysts Ipsos and Sterling Brands, puts some hard numbers behind the often-noticed trend of how people in the U.S. are using a combination of phones, tablets, computer and TVs to consume digital content.

Discussion: Beyond Search, Trends in the Living Networks, Google Mobile Ads Blog, Forbes, GigaOM and CNET

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Simon Fox named Trinity Mirror chief executive — Former HMV boss to take over from Sly Bailey, who stepped down in June — Trinity Mirror has appointed outgoing HMV chief Simon Fox as its new chief executive. — The company's seven-strong board met on Thursday afternoon to make a final decision …

Discussion: Telegraph, Sky News, paidContent and Media Week

Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter:

Guggenheim Partners Nearing Deal to Buy Dick Clark Productions (Exclusive) — The private-equity firm has entered exclusive negotiations to acquire the storied producer of the Golden Globe Awards. — Guggenheim Partners has entered final negotiations to acquire Dick Clark Productions …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and TVWeek.com

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

As Hurricane Isaac hits New Orleans, Times-Picayune prints in Alabama — Any day a hurricane hits the Gulf Coast, the Times-Picayune's front page is a must-peek. But Thursday's front page is missing from the Newseum's “Today's Front Pages” feature. — Did the presses stop early?

Discussion: mediabistro.com, The Huffington Post and Yahoo! News

Kevin Kelleher / Fortune:

News Corp doesn't have much to show for its boldness — Relative to its peers in old media, News Corp. made some aggressive moves in technology. Few have paid off. — FORTUNE — Top executives working in the turbulent arena of digital media are nomadic — or they quickly learn to be.

Discussion: Guardian

Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:

CBS News Uses Makeup To Hide Identity Of Navy SEAL Who Wrote Bin Laden Book (VIDEO) — CBS News took an unconventional approach to protect the identity of the Navy SEAL who penned the book about the killing of Osama bin Laden. The Navy SEAL sat down with “CBS Evening News” anchor Scott Pelley for an exclusive “60 Minutes” interview.

Discussion: TVNewser

Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Twin threats peril preprint newspaper ads — Preprint advertising, a long-reliable source of business that represents a quarter of the remaining revenue for the struggling newspaper industry, is at greater risk than ever before, owing to a perfect storm of challenges.

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

With Reddit chat, Obama goes around press directly to voters — How do you get President Obama to do a live Q&A with Reddit users? Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian told Peter Kafka, “There are quite a few redditors at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and at the campaign HQ.”

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

Reporting Live, From Tumblr — Of the estimated thousands of journalists at the Republican National Convention, these people stand out. For one, they're not political reporters in the traditional sense of the term. And, though this is less of a novelty than it may seem, they're posting exclusively to Tumblr.