Mediagazer: Cracked Tears Down Editorial, Advertising Wall (Josh Sternberg/Digiday)

10:05 AM ET, March 6, 2013

Top News:

Exclusive: Apple's Cook, music mogul Iovine discuss new music service — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has held talks with Beats Electronics LLC, the audio technology firm co-founded by influential hip-hop producer Dr Dre and music mogul Jimmy Iovine, on a potential partnership involving Beats …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Business Insider, BGR, hypebot, Music Week, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, SlashGear, MacRumors, CNET, App Advice, bizjournals and Gizmodo

Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Beats spins off Daisy with $60m funding led by Access Industries

Discussion: The Verge, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Financial Times, Hollywood Reporter, Digital Spy, Bloomberg, CNET, VentureBeat and Music Week

Felix Salmon:

The problem with online freelance journalism — Nate Thayer caused quite a stir in the Twittersphere this morning when he published the email correspondence between himself and Olga Khazan, an editor at the Atlantic. Khazan had seen Thayer's 4,300-word piece for North Korea News about …

Discussion: paidContent, Jane Friedman, Guardian, GlobalPost, NK News, @adrianchen, FishbowlNY, natethayer, @nytfridge, @hannahhaniya, @jayrosen_nyu and @mattwordsworth

James Bennet / The Atlantic:
From James Bennet, editor in chief of The Atlantic

Discussion: New York Magazine, Poynter, The Loop, JIMROMENESKO.COM, @edgecliffe and @edmundlee

Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
People Writing For Free On The Internet Is An Enormous Boon To Society

Discussion: @tomgara

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

News Corp. Has a Tablet for Schools — For nearly two years, Joel I. Klein helped Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation weather a phone-hacking scandal at the company's British tabloids with the promise that he would eventually be able to return to the role the company hired him for …

Discussion: Fast Company, Media Decoder, Deadline.com, TechCrunch, Reuters, Hollywood Reporter, Tech Digest, Mashable!, @palafo, Electronista, Digital Spy, The Verge and Gizmodo

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Meet the first class: Six media startups get accelerated into Silicon Valley by Matter — Matter, the startup accelerator focused on media entrepreneurs, just launched its first class, which includes startups focused on interactive publishing, video analytics, and audio storytelling.

Discussion: GigaOM, TechCrunch, AllThingsD and The Next Web

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

Ev Williams: Medium Wants To Help Build A Sustainable Economic Model For Journalism — At the Launch Conference in San Francisco today, Twitter co-founder Ev Williams took the stage to talk to conference founder Jason Calacanis about everything from his experience at Twitter and the rise …

Discussion: MediaShift and NetNewsCheck Latest

Zev Chafets / Vanity Fair:

Exclusive Excerpt: Roger Ailes Off Camera — Roger Ailes is one of the most powerful—and controversial—characters in television media, pilloried by critics and many in the mainstream media and lionized by conservative viewers who can't get enough of his posse of charismatic hosts.

Discussion: Mediaite, Politico, Washington Examiner, Chickaboomer, The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast and New York Magazine

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Condé Nast's Answer to Programmatic Buying — Condé Nast has introduced a new digital marketing product, one of its first since the company overhauled its corporate sales group last summer to tap into potential growth in online advertising. — The new product …

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Next Issue Media, AKA Netflix For Magazines, Hits Windows 8, Targets 1 Million User Mark — The next few months will be big for Next Issue Media. On Wednesday, the digital magazine service goes live on Windows 8 devices, adding the third leg to a stool that already contains the iPad and Android tablets.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and paidContent

Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:

New Dish, New Media Update — We're on the verge of our first 30 days with the meter installed and this is the result: — Your subscriptions totaled $100,000 in 30 days. We're psyched, even though we remain $270,000 below our 12-month goal to keep the Dish as it is.

Discussion: @hartpandrew and @jeffisraely

Lindsey Kratochwill / Fast Company:

Roku 3 Gets Faster, Makes It Easier To Find Shows, And Plugs Headphones Into The Remote — While Apple TV remains a hobby, Roku streams ahead with updated hardware and a user interface primed for discovery. — Apple TV might own the rumor-mill in the world of smart TVs, and other major brands are starting to introduce Internet TVs.

Discussion: The Official Roku Blog, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Consumer Reports News, AllThingsD, Streaming Media, Los Angeles Times, multichannel.com/rss and Home Media Magazine

Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Why retail apps should worry publishers — From Best Buy to CVS and from Kroger to Macy's, the biggest buyers of newspaper advertising have launched sophisticated smartphone apps to establish increasingly direct and profitable relationships with individual customers.

Gordon MacMillan / The Wall Blog:

How Twitter won the social media battle for journalism — Polis, the journalism think-tank at the LSE, has published an in-depth report looking at the value of social media to journalism, specifically public service broadcasting, and it highlights how Twitter has come to dominate news.

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Growing Forces in Mobile — As seen last week in Barcelona, the mobile industry is red hot. The media sector will have to work harder to capture its share of that growth. — The 2013 edition of the Mobile World Congress held last week in Barcelona was as large as the biggest auto-show in the world …

Bobbie Whiteman / Variety:

Hugo Chavez Dead: Media See No End to Tough Control … Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez died Tuesday but with his anointed successors, Vice President Nicolas Maduro or National Assembly prexy Diosdado Cabello, likely to take over, Venezuelan media can expect the same strong-arm tactics …

Discussion: Fast Company, New Yorker, Forbes and TVNewser

Mike Allen / @mikeallen:

Playbook preview! TIME's Rick Stengel: “Zeke Miller joining TIME's Washington Bureau as a political reporter..Zeke tweets at @ZekeJMiller”

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Cracked Tears Down Editorial, Advertising Wall — Most publishers wring their hands over how to run sponsored content that works for their audience and how to keep church and state apart. — Not such a problem for humor site Demand Media-owned Cracked, which skips the go-between of a …