Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
9:40 AM ET, February 4, 2013

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
The Verge Hires Writer Who Quit CNET in Protest  —  Greg Sandoval, the CNET senior writer who resigned in protest when the site's parent company, CBS, interfered with its editorial coverage last month, has been hired by The Verge, the Web site that first revealed the full extent of CBS's involvement.
RELATED:
Greg Sandoval:
My new home  —  I'm saved.  Two weeks ago, I resigned from CNET after seven years at the technology news site.  Today, I can report that I have accepted an offer from The Verge to become a senior reporter.  I start in a couple of weeks.  Greg Sandoval When I say “saved,” …
Discussion: @sandonet and Talking Biz News
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Circulation revenue up at Gannett, which credits paywalls  —  Gannett's fourth quarter earning report contains a sentence that will thrill paywall apostles: … That's attributed to CEO Gracia Martore, who also notes circulation revenue increased for the third quarter in a row.
Discussion: Gannett Blog
RELATED:
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Gannett Profit Tops Analysts' Estimates on Election Advertising  —  Gannett Co. (GCI), which publishes 82 U.S. daily newspapers and owns 23 television stations, reported fourth-quarter earnings that topped analysts' estimates, fueled by U.S. presidential election advertising.
Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
Look, you're right, okay?  But you're also wrong.  —  A post that arises from a certain image I have of disaffected newsroom “traditionalists,” who look upon changes in journalism since the rise of the web with fear and loathing.  It is not addressed to particular people but to a climate …
Discussion: @palafo and @mattderienzo
Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:
Andrew Sullivan's grand experiment in reader-supported online journalism is now live  —  Prominent political blogger Andrew Sullivan's site The Dish is now up and running at its new user-funded home.  So far, the ad-free experiment appears to be a success, with Sullivan pulling in $511,000 …
Discussion: The Dish and New York Magazine
RELATED:
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:
Andrew Sullivan and the new wisdom of the leaky meter  —  On the surface, Andrew Sullivan's bold move to sell subscriptions to a new, independent version of his blog, The Dish, seems to have paid off.  In the four weeks since putting out a call for subscriptions to the site at a cost of $19.99 a year …
Ian Burrell / The Independent:
London gets first dedicated digital terrestrial TV channel as ESTV launches London Live  —  London is to have its first dedicated digital terrestrial television channel, offering a service to 4 million homes, the broadcasting watchdog Ofcom announced today.  —  The new London Live channel …
RELATED:
Kristen Schweizer / Bloomberg:   Billionaire Lebedev Wins License to Start New London TV Station
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Twitter Got Hacked.  Expect More Companies to Follow.  —  The last week of tech headlines reads like some sort of cybersecurity end of days scenario.  The New York Times hacked.  The Wall Street Journal hacked.  The Washington Post hacked.  —  And finally on Friday, Twitter …
RELATED:
Washington Post:
Chinese hackers suspected in attack on The Post's computers
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Decades of Leadership, Making an Exit  —  IT is considered a given, among many in management, that every employee is replaceable.  When even the most valuable staff member walks out the door, someone else takes over and does the job.  Life goes on and change is good.  —  I'm not so sure.
Herbert J. Gans / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Journalism for democracy  —  Editor's note: Herbert Gans is one of America's preeminent sociologists, and some of his most notable work has come in examining the American news industry.  His seminal 1979 book Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News …
Bloomberg:
News Corp. Sells IGN Websites to J2 Global's Ziff Davis  —  News Corp. (NWSA) sold its IGN Entertainment websites to J2 Global Inc. (JCOM)'s Ziff Davis for an undisclosed amount.  —  The transaction will add to J2 Global's 2013 earnings, excluding transition costs, the company said today in a statement.
Discussion: Ziff Davis, The Next Web and PandoDaily
RELATED:
Jill Goldsmith / Variety:
News Corp. names two more execs to publishing biz
Discussion: mnilive.com, Reuters and Yahoo! Movies
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
The Google Fund for the French Press  —  At the last minute, ending three months of tense negotiations, Google and the French Press hammered a deal.  More than yet another form of subsidy, this could mark the beginning of a genuine cooperation.  —  Thursday night, at 11:00pm Paris time …
Discussion: Guardian, Media News and TechCrunch
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 9:40 AM ET, February 4, 2013.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Who's Hiring in Media? 
 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Charlie Warzel / Adweek:
Ars Technica Ads Get Ahead of the Story
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
News International to close phone-hacking compensation scheme
Faris Couri / BBC:
BBC Arabic and the complexities of the Arab world
Danny Shea / The Huffington Post:
Jon Klein: I Don't Regret Piers Morgan Hire, Keith Olbermann Could Have Helped CNN (VIDEO)
Discussion: TVNewser and Mediaite
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Ramps Up News Discovery Battle Against Apps Like Flipboard With “Articles Related To”
 Earlier Picks: 
David Gelernter / Wired:
The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of Aaron Kushner's virtuous circles
David Lieberman / Deadline.com:
YOU On Demand Offers Films On VOD In China Weeks After They Debut In Theaters