Mediagazer: The Most Interesting Online Video Trend (Mark Suster/Both Sides of the Table)

9:10 AM ET, February 19, 2013

Top News:

The Most Interesting Online Video Trend — This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. — By now many of you know the Harlem Shake but what you may not appreciate is the broader trend behind the video and it has mirrored my general views on how TV will work in the future

Discussion: The Verge, @infoarbitrage, @royrubin05, Forbes, BuzzFeed and TechCrunch

Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:

Google looks to cut funds to illegal sites — Google is in discussions with payment companies including Visa, Mastercard and PayPal to put illegal download websites out of existence by cutting off their funding. — If Google goes ahead with the radical move, it would not mark …

Discussion: BBC, Search Engine Land, TweakTown News, CMU, SEO Book.com, Macleans.ca, WebProNews and Music Week

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Problems With Precision and Judgment, but Not Integrity, in Tesla Test — As promised, I've spent the past several days looking into the reporter John M. Broder's test drive of the celebrated electric car known as the Tesla Model S. The article, which focused on two new “superchargers” …

Discussion: Forbes, SlashGear, Engadget, Rehak/Stuebing Mostly Media, @sulliview, @dirkliedtke, @moorehn and @jeffjarvis

Hollywood Reporter:

British Prime Minister Dismissive of BBC Strike — David Cameron said there were no grounds for Monday's strike by BBC journalists because the corporation remains well-funded after a license feel deal in 2010. — LONDON - David Cameron the British prime minister, who contrasted …

Discussion: Guardian, Mirror.co.uk, Guardian and Telegraph

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
As BBC strikes, Brits trust journalists less than Americans do

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Guardian and The Independent

C. Custer / Tech in Asia:

A Shocking Expose of China's Black PR Industry Implicates Government Officials, is Quickly Deleted from the Web — Almost everyone knows about the public relations industry, but fewer people know about what in China is referred to as Black PR, the underground internet industry that has evolved with the spread of web 2.0 through China.

Discussion: @herecomesnow, @mcfeelyp and The Next Web

Columbia Journalism Review:

Where the jobs are — How WYNC's data journalism efforts show new opportunities for journalists — There are probably few things that intimidate journalists like reams of data. Unemployment might be high on that intimidation list, but you could argue that that's a numbers issue, too.

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Vivian Schiller: NBC News is Readying “Rich Journalism Destination” — NBC News is in the midst of the “reinvention” of its Web site which will launch this spring as a “rich journalism destination,” with enterprise, investigative reporting and a significant increase of “Web native video” …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Thanks:@beet_tv

David Carr / New York Times:

Logging Off to Trace a Web Photo to Its Source — When photographs of spontaneous events miraculously appear on the Web, it generally prompts two responses: wonder and skepticism. — So it was with an image of exploding manhole covers in Omaha that took over the Web last month.

Discussion: The Buttry Diary, Media Decoder and Capital New York

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

The New York Times Launches Real-Time Ad Serving with Twitter Data — The New York Times has launched “Spark,” a product created by the Times' R&D lab that serves display advertising into stories as they are trending on Twitter, matched with the demographics of the users who “touch” …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:

Google asks journalists to tone down story of “massive” Google Play security flaw — After reporting that Google Play now distributes Android app buyers' location and contact information to developers, a journalist was contacted by the search giant with a request to tone down the story, its headline and its SEO information.

Discussion: SEO Book.com and App Advice

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

The Need for a Digital “New Journalism” — The survival of quality news calls for a new approach to writing and reporting. Inspiration could come from blogging and magazine storytelling and also bring back memories of the 70′s New Journalism movement. — News reporting is aging badly.

Discussion: @bobbiejohnson, Kirk LaPointe's …, @rafat, @_arianna, @rajunarisetti, @konradweber, @zimbalist, @noruweijin, @kcorrick, @wblau and @moorehn

Brent Lang / The Wrap:

Amazon Shake-Up: Anthony Bay Out as Head of Video Division (Exclusive) — Amazon is shaking up its video services, as two top executives are leaving the e-commerce powerhouse, TheWrap has learned. — Anthony Bay, global head of the company's digital video division, will leave Amazon …

Discussion: Home Media Magazine, NetNewsCheck Latest and The Next Web