Mediagazer: A future for news at high-brow restaurants? (Erik Wemple)

4:40 PM ET, January 10, 2013

Top News:

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon “AutoRip” Service Goes Live — Giving Customers Free MP3s For CDs Purchased On Amazon As Far Back As 1998 (Hands-On) - Amazon is today introducing a new service called Amazon AutoRip, which automatically gives customers free MP3 versions of any CDs they've purchased from Amazon since the launch of its Music Store back in 1998.

Discussion: Amazon.com, Fast Company, AllThingsD, Pocket-lint, Lifehacker and parislemon

Megan Rose Dickey / Business Insider: Amazon Should AutoRip All The Books You've Bought To Your Kindle

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Report: Newseum cuts about 30 jobs — The Newseum eliminated some jobs Wednesday: About 30 of 150, the Gannett Blog reports: … In a statement, the Washington, D.C., museum says the cuts were part of a “restructuring,” and that new hires will get the museum back to its pre-layoff staffing level.

Discussion: Gannett Blog

Jim Hopkins / Gannett Blog:

Freedom Forum paid new CEO Duff $1.6M in 2011, documents show, amid signs of more fiscal distress — The financially troubled non-profit foundation paid CEO James Duff $1.6 million during his first four months on the job in 2011, a year when the Newseum's operator ran a $47 million deficit, newly released public documents show.

Discussion: The Newspaper Guild

Guardian:

Police officer found guilty of trying to sell information to News of the World — Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn offered details of phone-hacking investigation to tabloid in return for payment — A senior counter-terrorism detective has been found guilty of trying to sell information to the News of the World newspaper.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Sky News, Daily Mail, Telegraph, London Evening Standard, ITV News and @tom_watson

Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

Homicide Tracking Site Expanding to Chicago — Homicide Watch, the Washington, D.C., Web site that tracks murders, has found another crime-ridden city to cover. — The Chicago Sun-Times is partnering with Homicide Watch's co-founders, Laura and Chris Amico, to launch a Chicago edition.

Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

Why are Bob Woodward's WH sources - or Woodward himself - not on trial next to Bradley Manning? — The extremist prosecution of Manning, accused of “aiding and abetting al-Qaida”, poses a real threat to US press freedom — There are numerous travesties defining the ongoing prosecution …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, New York Times, Boing Boing, Capital New York, The New Yorker Blog, Daily Kos, Business Insider and Pressing Issues

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Time Inc. Prepares for Layoffs — Time Inc. staff are on eggshells as they await news of layoffs and smaller bonuses than in years past as the company faces declining revenue. — CEO Laura Lang, in a memo yesterday, has already told employees she would eliminate the usual 3 percent merit increase …

Discussion: New York Post

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Beats' New Music Subscription Service Gets a New Boss: Topspin's Ian Rogers — There are a ton of digital music services out there, with more on the way. — So how will Beats Electronics, the headphone maker, stand out when it rolls out its own version this year? — The company won't spell that out quite yet.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Fast Company, App Advice, FISTFULAYEN and The Next Web

Jim Romenesko:

New York Times received 1,644 applications for 13 summer intern positions — After posting the Oregonian's summer internship rejection letter, which noted that the paper received nearly 200 applications, I wondered about the numbers from other newspapers and fired off some emails. Here's what came back:

Janet Stilson / Adweek:

Why do community news sites, once hailed as the future of journalism, so often flop? — Spelunking equipment, climbing gear and snowshoes are Steve Sutorius' life. That's clear watching him as he peddles outdoor-sports merchandise in his shop, Wildernest, on this 10-mile-long jewel in Puget Sound just off the coast from Seattle.

Chicago Business Journal:

Warrant issued for former Tribune executive … Stephanie Pater missed a second scheduled court appearance in as many weeks, and so a warrant has been issued for her arrest, according to a report by the Chicago Tribune. — The Tribune said Pater sent an email to an official at the court saying …

Erik Wemple:

A future for news at high-brow restaurants? — Leland Schwartz is trying to feed news to a tough crowd. He knows that they're on top of the goings-on in Washington. That's because they're the ones who are influencing the goings-on in Washington. — They're diners at the Old Ebbitt Grill …

Discussion: Washington Post, All and Poynter

Matt Yoder / Awful Announcing:

CNN moves forward with Bleacher Report replacing Sports Illustrated — One of the most widely discussed recent events in the online realm has been Turner's acquisition of Bleacher Report. The marriage of a mainstream company with a decidedly new school (and yes, certainly polarizing) …