Mediagazer: Does online video need to be local? This startup thinks so. (Janko Roettgers/GigaOM)

8:20 AM ET, October 25, 2012

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Jim Kelly / Vanity Fair:

The “Shock” of the News Magazine Death: Tina Brown, Robert Hughes, and the Dwindling Cult of Authority — On the day that Barry Diller and Tina Brown announced the death of Newsweek the print magazine, a memorial service for Bob Hughes took place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Ryan Chittum / CJR:

Newsweek and the (relative) health of print mags — News that Newsweek is exiting print was hardly surprising coming two years after the Washington Post Company unloaded it for a dollar. — But these numbers struck me while reading this Financial Times story on the news:

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Barry Diller: ‘Newsweek’ cuts to be as ‘spare’ as possible

Discussion: Folio, The Wrap and NetNewsCheck Latest

Brent Lang / The Wrap:
IAC Quarterly Earnings Reveals Why Newsweek is Ending Print Run

Discussion: The Awl and Forbes

Charlie Warzel / Adweek:

Vox Media Goes After Crowded Gamer Market — Gaming is serious business. The $67 billion global industry is projected to grow above $80 billion by 2017 and it's safe to say that across consoles, computers, and mobile, this isn't some frivolous market. — Vox Media, home to sites …

Brian Solomon / Forbes:

The Inside Story Of Polygon, The Verge's New Gaming Sister-Site — Nearly one year ago, the world of online media scratched its collective head as the sports blogging network SB Nation launched a new, decidedly non-sports site called The Verge. While it may have seemed like an odd leap at the time …

Discussion: Poynter, Polygon, The Verge, The Wrap, SBNation.com, AllThingsD and paidContent

AllThingsD:

Jack Dorsey Still Has Pull at Twitter. Just Ask the Vine Guys. — Earlier this month Twitter bought Vine, a three-man video-sharing startup that has yet to launch. Twitter may build its own video hosting system, so it's possible Vine may play a role in that effort one day.

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Savile fallout: former BBC chief ‘expects to be grilled’ for New York Times post — Mark Thompson says that, amid Jimmy Savile inquiries, paper's consideration of whether he is right for CEO role ‘is correct’ — Mark Thompson, the incoming chief executive of the New York Times, said it was …

Discussion: New York Times, Bloomberg, NewsBusters.org blogs and Deadline.com

Kate Holton / Reuters: Thompson says he has NYT's support after BBC scandal

Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire:

CNN Retracts Story About Hormonal Women Voters — In a matter of hours, CNN published and removed a story about how hormones influence women voters, one that made claims about how women tend to lean liberal when ovulating because they “feel sexier.” The story was based on an unpublished …

Discussion: Washington Post, The Huffington Post and Mother Jones

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

News.me shuts down iOS apps to focus on Digg, blames new Twitter requirements — News.me, the social news service built on top of Twitter (and Facebook), today announced it is killing its curation apps for iPhone and iPad. The company is blaming Twitter for the move and says it wants to focus on its Digg efforts instead.

Discussion: News.me, CNET, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Fast Company, ReadWrite and SocialTimes

Tyler Gold / The Verge:

Pocket launches new Mac app for cross-platform sharing and offline reading — After introducing a comprehensive redesign and expanding to include video and images, read it later service Pocket is moving into another new frontier: desktops. With its latest client, Pocket is bringing the visual …

Amanda Hess / Poynter:

Binders full of Big Bird: The risk & benefits of reporting on memes — On the evening of Oct. 16, in the second presidential debate of 2012, Mitt Romney mentioned that as governor of Massachusetts, he had requested “binders full of women” to help recruit top female candidates to his cabinet.

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Does online video need to be local? This startup thinks so. — Detroit-based Glocal came out of beta Wednesday with big ambitions: The website wants to be to local video what Hulu is to TV shows. “Online local video really doesn't have a space besides YouTube,” Glocal President Lincoln Cavalieri told …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, eMedia Vitals, Mashable! and SocialTimes

Keiko Tanaka / Global Voices:

After Japan Earthquake, a New Local Newspaper by Citizens — The devastating effects of the ‘Great East Japan Earthquake’ (known internationally as the Japan 2011 earthquake) on Otsuchi, a small town in Iwate prefecture, are little known. This is partly because their local newspaper closed …

Charlie Warzel / Adweek:

MIT Technology Review Relaunches ‘Digital-First’ — Some 20 weeks before Newsweek set the media into a frenzy with its announcement of a digital-first publishing strategy, Jason Pontin was already grappling with how to move his 113-year-old publication toward a digital future.

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

Obama campaign and Des Moines Register: A form of quote approval — The media news burst of the morning springs from the Web site of the Des Moines Register. The Obama campaign, without comment, released a transcript of an extensive discussion that it held yesterday with Laura Hollingsworth …

Discussion: ABCNEWS and blog.sfgate.com

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
After editor blogs complaint, Obama releases transcript of off-the-record call with Des Moines Register

Discussion: Wonkblog, Des Moines Register, USA Today and @davidfolkenflik

Jim Romenesko:

New York Times union members use Twitter to ‘engage the public’ in contract battle — The Newspaper Guild of New York is encouraging members at the New York Times to use Twitter today “to get our message out to the world.” — The union, which is in contract talks with Times management, tells members:

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘Times’ union stages ‘informational’ picket as incoming C.E.O. comes under scrutiny

Discussion: New York Magazine, Guardian and The Huffington Post

Cahal Milmo / The Independent:

CNN increasingly twitchy over Piers Morgan's tabloid past as phone hacking scandal spreads to Daily Mirror — Ever since he left The Daily Mirror under a cloud in 2004, Piers Morgan has gone to some lengths to put his newspaper days behind him. As if to emphasise his credentials …

Discussion: Press Gazette and Business Insider