Mediagazer: Google adds translation, highlighting to Android books app (Laura Hazard Owen/paidContent)

1:25 AM ET, September 28, 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: The Huffington Post, JIMROMENESKO.COM, CNN, Chickaboomer, Cable Television News, CNET, Mashable! and Poynter

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
It's official: News consumption is all about social and mobile

Discussion: Pew Research Center … and 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

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

A tale of two Skys: ‘second screen’ split for News Corp in Europe — They may have the same name and the same largest shareholder - but the Sky pay-TV firms in the UK and Germany don't appear to share a common view on the “second screen” TV opportunity. — In the UK, BSkyB is excitedly injecting …

Discussion: Sky News

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

NBCU, Comcast buy in to Zeebox to take ‘second screen’ to prime time — Second-screen TV viewing companion app Zeebox is going live in the U.S. with big production and commercial support from NBC Universal and parent Comcast that the trio say will elevate the new-wave multitasking practice to the mainstream.

Discussion: AllThingsD, Fast Company, PC Magazine, Lost Remote, Cable Television News and Beet.TV

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, PC Magazine, GigaOM, Mashable!, AllThingsD, The Verge, Los Angeles Times, Deadline.com, Home Media Magazine and SocialTimes

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, The Huffington Post and JIMROMENESKO.COM

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, The Domains, STATESMAN SENTINEL, Adotas, MediaPost, Forbes and WebProNews

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

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

Discussion: NBC News

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 and Capital New York

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

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Google adds translation, highlighting to Android books app — Google is rolling out new features for its Google Play Books Android app (formerly known as Google eBooks). The new features aren't mindblowing, but may just be a starting point for how Google plans to integrate various web functions into ebooks.

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Future's digital sales via Apple Newsstand pass £5m — In its latest trading update, the publisher reports digital sales on Apple devices since the launch of Newsstand of more than £5 million Magazine publisher Future Publishing has recorded sales of more than £5 million …

Discussion: paidContent, The Journalism Foundation, Guardian and TechCrunch