Mediagazer: Why Henry Blodget Has a ‘Buy’ on Media (and Slideshows) (Haniya Rae/Digiday)

11:30 PM ET, December 20, 2012

Top News:

CNN:

Jake Tapper Joins CNN As Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent — Tapper to Anchor New Weekday Program Beginning in 2013 — Accomplished Washington journalist Jake Tapper, who has served the last four years as ABC's senior White House correspondent and is a best-selling author …

Discussion: ABCNEWS, MediaPost, Politico, Poynter, The Huffington Post, @brianstelter, Inside Cable News, BuzzFeed, Chickaboomer, @macfarlanenews, NetNewsCheck Latest, @tvmojoe, The New York Observer, Mediaite and ABCNEWS

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

CNN, Planning New Programming, Hires Jake Tapper From ABC — 8:57 p.m. | Updated CNN said on Thursday that it had hired Jake Tapper, the senior White House correspondent for ABC News, as new programming for the cable news channel was announced. — Mr. Tapper, widely seen …

Discussion: TVNewser and The Wrap

Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

Brian McGrory Rises From Boston Globe Paperboy to Become the Paper's Next Editor — The Boston Globe announced on Thursday that Brian McGrory, a columnist and former metro editor at the newspaper and a Boston native with deep roots in the area, would be its next editor. The appointment is effective immediately.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, NetNewsCheck Latest and Media Nation

Nieman Journalism Lab:

Brian McGrory named editor of The Boston Globe — Not a totally unexpected development — McGrory was viewed as a strong internal contender from the start of the race to replace Marty Baron, despite having moved from more of a management to being a metro columnist a few years back.

Discussion: The Boston Globe, The Wrap, Poynter, Media Nation •, Adweek and FishbowlNY

Carl Bernstein / Guardian:

Why the US media ignored Murdoch's brazen bid to hijack the presidency — Did the Washington Post and others underplay the story through fear of the News Corp chairman, or simply tin-eared judgement? — So now we have it: what appears to be hard, irrefutable evidence of Rupert Murdoch's ultimate …

Discussion: @jackshafer, Politico and Pressing Issues

Emma Gardner / Lean Back 2.0:

The New York Times pushes the limits of online storytelling — A few weeks ago, I wrote a post for Lean Back 2.0 on how publishers might rethink long-form reading on the desktop computer. I had been blown away by an ESPN.com feature called “The Long Strange Trip of Dock Ellis” …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Poynter, New York Times and Gawker

Alexander C. Kaufman / The Wrap:
Stunning First Title in NY Times' New E-Book Series Launches Online

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab

Steven Greenhouse / Media Decoder:

‘Charlie Rose’ Show Agrees to Pay Up to $250,000 to Settle Interns' Lawsuit — 9:09 p.m. | Updated Charlie Rose and his production company have agreed to pay as much as $250,000 to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by a former unpaid intern who claimed minimum-wage violations.

Discussion: Deadline.com, TVNewser and Mediaite

Jim Romenesko:

‘Fox Mole’ Joe Muto wants people to read his book ‘and laugh their asses off’ — On April 10, Gawker introduced a new columnist: The Fox Mole. The plan was for him to provide Gawker with “regular dispatches from inside the organization,” but then Roger Ailes & Co. “nailed” him.

Discussion: Reliable Sources and TVNewser

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Gerard Baker lines up his new masthead at ‘The Wall Street Journal,’ names Murray, Blumenstein deputies — Gerard Baker, the recently-named top editor at The Wall Street Journal and editor-in-chief of Dow Jones is lining up his senior editorial team. — Baker, who was installed …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, Forbes and FishbowlNY

Wall Street Journal:

Hulu's Fork in the Road — As Amazon.com Inc. and Netflix Inc. battle it out for dominance in online video, owners of the much smaller Hulu LLC, Hollywood's own online video service, are under pressure to decide which direction to go. — Jason Kilar, chief executive of Hulu …

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

BBC director of news returns with rallying memo to crisis-hit staff — Helen Boaden tells journalists that after ‘several bruising weeks’, she will take Pollard review into Jimmy Savile affair seriously — The BBC's director of news, Helen Boaden, has issued a rallying cry …

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Guardian

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: Pollard report: BBC News deputy Stephen Mitchell retires without payout

Juli Weiner / Vanity Fair:

Journalists Struggle to Locate People Who Think the World Will End; Are Not Deterred from Writing “People Think World Will End” Pieces — Oh right: the world is going to end tomorrow. This is the second time the world was scheduled to end in the past year and a half.

Discussion: New York Post and CNN

The Lede:

Syrian Television Journalist Announces Defection — In a telephone interview shown on Thursday by the Saudi news channel Al Arabiya, a man who identified himself as Ahmad Fakhouri, a prominent Syrian state television anchor, announced his defection. — In the interview …

Haniya Rae / Digiday:

Why Henry Blodget Has a ‘Buy’ on Media (and Slideshows) — Publishing models are undergoing challenging reformations as digital technologies continue to aggressively compete against traditional print formats. — Business Insider's CEO and editor-in-chief Henry Blodget sat down with Digiday's editor …

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Amy Walter Leaving ABC News, Returns to Cook Report — ABC News political director Amy Walter is leaving the network and joining the Cook Political Report as National Editor. Walter had previously served as the senior editor of the Cook report from 1997 to 2007.

Discussion: Politico, Broadcasting & Cable, FishbowlDC and TVWeek.com