Mediagazer: Reader's Digest Is Alive And Growing In The Digital World (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

9:00 AM ET, October 9, 2012

Top News:

At today's ‘New York Times’ staff walkout — Unionized New York Times staffers have been locked in a nasty contract battle with company management for the past 18 months now. — How much longer before the two sides reach an agreement? — “There's no reason it can't be settled by Friday …

Discussion: The New York Observer and WWD Media Headlines

Matt Wells / Guardian:

New York Times staff walk out in protest - and return 10 minutes later — About 375 workers walk out in dispute over pay - but only those staff whose schedule ‘permits 10- or 15-minute break’ — It was a very New York Times protest. Meticulously planned, well staffed, if somewhat meandering in the execution.

Discussion: Poynter, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Top Digital Journal News, Mediaite, Gawker and The Raw Story

Jim Romenesko:
New York Times union memo: 'It's time to raise our voices'

Discussion: @nowthisnews, The Huffington Post, The Wrap, @rpogrebin, FishbowlNY, The New York Observer, Capital New York, Gothamist and New York Magazine

Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:

Stop attacking ‘web-first’ as if the world is going to stand still — This week feels very much like 2009. That year I published a post titled ‘How the web changed the economics of news’, a brief overview of some of the economic factors impacting on publishing which has recently experienced …

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu, @johncthompson and NetNewsCheck Latest

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

CNN's creation of film unit is step in right direction — CNN has acquired the documentary “Girl Rising.” (10x10) — At first glance, word that CNN plans to create a film unit to acquire and finance documentaries seems like more proof that the once-dominant cable news channel is struggling …

Tim Molloy / The Wrap:

CNN Announces CNN Films; First Documentary Features Streep, Hathaway (Video) — CNN announced the creation of CNN Films, which will develop documentaries with top filmmakers and secure films to release theatrically and air on CNN and CNN International. — Creating and airing feature-length films …

Discussion: Examiner, Politico, bizjournals, TVNewser, The Huffington Post, Broadcasting & Cable, CNN and New York Times

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Jimmy Savile: Lord Patten says behaviour can not be excused — The chairman of the BBC Trust said allegations of sexual abuse by Sir Jimmy Savile could not be excused as behaviour from a time when “attitudes were different”, and gave his backing to inquiries by police and the corporation.

Maria Golovnina / Reuters: Britain's BBC apologizes over sex abuse scandal

Jennifer O'Mahony / Telegraph:
Jimmy Savile: BBC Director General says ‘I will hold an inquiry’

Discussion: PressGazette and Guardian

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

One year in, ABC/Yahoo news partnership holds largest Web audience — The partnership between ABC News and Yahoo News is reaching the largest digital audience in America as it celebrates its first anniversary. — In October 2011, Yahoo and ABC announced they would share stories and Web video …

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Reader's Digest Is Alive And Growing In The Digital World — Hey, remember Reader's Digest? It's a magazine that I remember seeing on lots of shelves when I was growing up. Now Editor in Chief Liz Vaccariello tells me that the magazine has undergone a “digital transformation” …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Esther Addley / Guardian:

Julian Assange to publish book about freedom and the future of the internet — Julian Assange's last foray into the publishing world ended in an acrimonious and highly costly dispute, after he withdrew from his million-pound contract and his publishers released a draft autobiography manuscript against his wishes.

Discussion: New York Times, Melville House Books and The Next Web

Robert Booth / Guardian: Julian Assange supporters ordered to forfeit £93,500 bail money

John Hudson / The Atlantic Wire:

ICE Says It Has Better Things to Do Than Go After Jose Antonio Vargas — In one of the clearest signs yet that Jose Antonio Vargas won't be deported from the U.S., Immigration and Customs Enforcement has issued a statement on why it didn't take action against the journalist …

Discussion: Poynter and The Raw Story

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

Borrell predicts digital revenue will rise 30% next year at small, mid-size newspapers — Gordon Borrell, newspaper reporter turned digital advertising analyst, has been tough on his old profession through the years. After holding their own in the first wave of digital growth from 2002 to 2006 …

Mark Oppenheimer:

Why a NYT journalist wrote a self-published e-book — This has been a big week. For the first time, I self-published. — Not just e-published, but self-published. The 12,000-word book I put up for sale on the web Wednesday — the first major profile of Dan Savage …

Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:

Fear of compulsory job losses at struggling Guardian group — The publisher of the Guardian and Observer newspapers looks set to make compulsory job cuts after too few staff came forward for its voluntary redundancy package. Guardian News & Media (GNM) has said it needs to cut up to 100 …

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

New Times-Picayune competitor, Baton Rouge Advocate says it now has 10,000 subscribers in New Orleans — New subscribers to the Baton Rouge Advocate's New Orleans edition are reporting problems with receiving their papers. “I really think they weren't prepared for the amount of subscribers that they got …

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab: The newsonomics of Advance's New Orleans strategy