Mediagazer: Yahoo Resurrects Its AdSense, With a Partner (Tim Peterson/Adweek)

4:55 PM ET, September 27, 2012

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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:

In Changing News Landscape, Even Television is Vulnerable — The transformation of the nation's news landscape has already taken a heavy toll on print news sources, particularly print newspapers. But there are now signs that television news - which so far has held onto its audience through …

Discussion: CNET, Poynter, The Huffington Post and Mashable!

Jim Romenesko:

Pew: Even TV news vulnerable in changing media landscape — Television news may be losing its hold on the next generation of news consumers, reports Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. … Other findings: — * The overall share of Americans saying they regularly watch local TV news …

Discussion: Poynter

Jim Brady / Digital Man:

Reply Awl — I meant to respond to Brett Sokol's piece in The Awl last week, but needed some time to address the writer's numerous errors and mischaracterizations, not to mention the overall tone, which emphasized turning a phrase over picking up a phone. Let me start by saying this …

Discussion: @davisshaver, @jeffsonderman and @jeffjarvis

Bloomberg:

Dish Said to Be in Talks With Viacom About Internet TV — Dish Network Corp. (DISH) is talking to networks such as Viacom (VIAB) Inc.'s MTV about offering their channels over the Internet, a service that could shift the economics of the pay-TV industry, five people familiar with the plan said.

Discussion: CNET, Home Media Magazine, Deadline.com, Los Angeles Times, PC Magazine, The Verge and SocialTimes

Press Association:

Julian Assange: Hague says Britain is obliged to extradite WikiLeaks founder — The British government stressed to Ecuador today that it was under an obligation to extradite the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to Sweden, where he faces questioning over sex crimes allegations.

Discussion: Guardian

Glenn Greenwald / Guardian: US investigates possible WikiLeaks leaker for ‘communicating with the enemy’

Telegraph: Julian Assange appeals to US to stop ‘persecution’ of WikiLeaks

NBC News:
US documents reportedly refer to Assange, WikiLeaks as ‘enemy’

Discussion: Sydney Morning Herald and The Huffington Post

Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

Times Selects Deborah Needleman to Run Its Style Magazines — Deborah Needleman, the editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal's style magazine, has been hired to run T: The New York Times Style Magazine, the Times announced Tuesday. Ms. Needleman is taking over a franchise …

Discussion: WWD, mediabistro.com, The Wrap, LA Observed, @amywicks01, @editorialiste, Fashionista, Capital New York, Talking Biz News and FishbowlNY

Tim Peterson / Adweek:

Yahoo Resurrects Its AdSense, With a Partner — Yahoo is back in the contextual ad business. — Two years after shutting down a fledgling text-based ad product that Yahoo called the Publisher Network—essentially Yahoo's answer to AdSense, the company is giving it another go with the launch …

Discussion: The Next Web, Computerworld, STATESMAN SENTINEL, The Domains, Adotas, MediaPost, WebProNews, Forbes and New York Times

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

NY Times Digital Chief Martin Nisenholtz Resurfaces With Sulia — There's retirement and then there's retirement. When Martin Nisenholtz stepped down from his post as chief of digital operations at The New York Times Co. last year, he clearly wasn't ready for a life of long naps in an easy chair.

Discussion: Capital New York

Adam Martin / The Atlantic Wire:

Margaret Sullivan: What I Read — How do people deal with the torrent of information pouring down on us all? What sources can't they live without? We regularly reach out to prominent figures in media, entertainment, politics, the arts, and the literary world to hear their answers.

Discussion: The Public Editor's Journal and The Huffington Post

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Evelyn Rusli leaves ‘Times’ for ‘WSJ’ — One of the rising stars of The New York Times' business desk is defecting to the competition. Evelyn Rusli, who joined the Times in 2010 as part of the big expansion of its Wall Street vertical, DealBook, is leaving the paper for a job …

Discussion: The Wrap

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Tipping Point? We're Watching More Web Video on TVs Than on PCs. — Getting Web video off your PC and onto your plasma screen used to be a niche activity. No more: Consumer-tracking service NPD says TV sets are now the most popular way to watch streaming video.

Discussion: NYT Bits, Noted, The Verge and PC Magazine

Jim Romenesko:

Gawker books $2 million in revenue in a single day — “This week has been too exceptional to go without mention,” Gawker Media boss Nick Denton tells his staff. “On Tuesday, on a single day, we booked $2m in revenue. I remember when that figure — even for a full year of sales — seemed unattainable.”

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

NBC Unpacks Trove of Data From Olympics — ONE afternoon in early August, a 41-year-old working mother in Los Angeles didn't get much work done. — Instead, she watched the London Olympics on television. She went to NBC's Web sites to stream the competitions, which that day included badminton …

Discussion: Deadline.com, @jaepaik and @kt_anna