Mediagazer: Greece's Economic Crisis Reveals Fault Lines In The Media (Sylvia Poggioli/Europe)

6:50 AM ET, February 21, 2013

Top News:

New York Times Co. Puts Boston Globe Up for Sale — New York Times Co. is formally exploring a sale of the Boston Globe, its only remaining business outside the core New York Times media brand. The publisher is working with Evercore Partners Inc. as an adviser for a sale, Times Co. said today in a statement.

The New York Times Company:

The New York Times Company Announces Plan to Sell the Boston Globe and Related Properties — The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) today announced that it plans to sell its New England Media Group, including The Boston Globe and its related properties, and that it has retained Evercore Partners …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Boston Globe, Slate, Politico, The Huffington Post, Guardian, The Wrap, AllThingsD, @justinnxt, Adweek, Capital New York, Mashable! and paidContent

Leslie Kaufman / Media Decoder:

Independent Booksellers Sue Amazon and Publishers Over E-Books — Three independent brick-and-mortar bookstores have filed a lawsuit against Amazon and the big six publishers, claiming that they have violated antitrust laws by collaborating to keep small sellers out of the e-book market.

Discussion: paidContent, PublishersWeekly.com, GeekWire and bookforum.com

Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:

Indie booksellers sue Amazon and big publishers over DRM (but have no idea what “DRM” and “open source” mean) — A group of independent booksellers have filed a suit against Amazon and the major publishers for their use of DRM, which, the booksellers say, freezes them out of the ebook market:

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Melville House Books

Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter:

Nielsen Agrees to Expand Definition of TV Viewing — After a meeting in New York Tuesday, the ratings company will roll out a system to measure broadband, Xbox and, in time, iPads, with more changes to come. — The Nielsen Co. is expanding its definition of television and will introduce …

Discussion: Gizmodo, The Verge and App Advice

Sylvia Poggioli / Europe:

Greece's Economic Crisis Reveals Fault Lines In The Media … Three years of spiraling economic crisis in Greece have devastated every sector of the economy. The Greek media are among the hardest hit. Many newspapers and TV outlets have closed or are on the verge, and some 4,000 journalists have lost their jobs.

Discussion: @razlan79 and @vassiouti

Christopher Mims / Quartz:

Why no one is talking about Yahoo's—or anyone else's—new homepage — Yahoo has a new homepage, but you'd be forgiven for not noticing, since fewer people than ever are visiting it. In December 2012, for example, traffic to the domain Yahoo.com was down 24% from a year ago.

Discussion: PandoDaily and Fast Company

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Yahoo's latest attempt to reinvent the portal is too little and too late

Discussion: Business Insider, BGR, ReadWrite, Audience Development, CNNMoney.com, NetNewsCheck Latest and eMedia Vitals

Amar Toor / The Verge:
Yahoo unveils new ‘personal’ homepage with news feeds and social integration

Discussion: NYT Bits, CNET, Fortune, @anildash, Bloomberg, Reuters, Associated Press, Wired and Digits

Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:

Soledad O'Brien Is Not a Part of Jeff Zucker's Vision for CNN — It looks like one of CNN's most liked stars won't fit at the burgeoning home of poop-cruise story torture and soft morning news — this is new president Jeff Zucker's CNN, and Soledad O'Brien is not it.

Cindy Adams / New York Post:
Soledad O'Brien heading out of CNN as Erin Burnett moves to her morning slot

Discussion: Radio & Television …, The Daily Caller, Los Angeles Times, Chickaboomer and mediabistro.com

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

AOL's Grand Human-Heavy Local News Experiment Is Coming To An End — AOL seems to be radically changing its plans for Patch, it's network of local news sites. — We've heard from insiders that the division is pivoting away from a human editor centric model, toward one where local sites …

Michael Schneider / TVGuide.com:

How Netflix and the Internet Might Impact This Year's Emmy Race — Broadcast network execs have long grumbled about their shows having to compete against edgy, star-driven and sometimes bigger budgeted cable fare at the Emmy Awards. But now broadcast and cable foes may find themselves united …

Discussion: Daily Dot

Ann Marie Lipinski / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Eugene Patterson and Aaron Swartz: Ghosts speaking across the page — They died the same weekend, one 26, a prodigy of the Internet age who took his own life, the other an 89-year-old whose moral battles were waged on newsprint and whose final assignment was editing the Old Testament.