Mediagazer: Report shows pay TV not keeping pace with broader economy (Claire Atkinson/New York Post)

Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

The Times's Work in Progress — SINCE I started as The Times's fifth public editor last September, I've taken up topics from “false balance” in news articles to negative arts criticism to government secrecy. After six months, 16 Sunday columns and close to 100 blog posts to the Public Editor's Journal …

Discussion: @blqueen

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Report shows pay TV not keeping pace with broader economy — Pay TV lags recovery in the economy — The cable-TV business is not keeping pace with the broader economic recovery, a newly released report shows. — While the housing market added half a million new units in the fourth quarter …

Maria Balinska / Nieman Reports:

No Such Thing as “Foreign” Anymore — My journalism manifesto comes down to three words: local global mashup. — Here's the back story. I've spent my entire career—18 years of it at the BBC—in international journalism, reporting and editing stories “abroad” for audiences “back home.”

Ed Bott / ZDNet:

Embrace, extend, extinguish: How Google crushed and abandoned the RSS industry — Summary: Most of the commentary I've read so far about the loss of Google Reader has been about its use as an RSS client. But that's a red herring. The real victims were companies that had planned in 2005 and 2006 to build RSS sync engines.

Discussion: Paul Krugman, The Atlantic Online, TechCrunch, Beyond Search, Jack Shafer and O'Reilly Radar

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

‘Let Me Tweet That For You’ site raises concerns for journalists — This tweet looks pretty real, doesn't it? — It's not, though. I faked that tweet using a Web service named “Let Me Tweet That For You.” It's pretty simple — you type in a Twitter username and a message …

Discussion: @jwherrman, Softpedia News, Brian Solis, The Huffington Post, The Verge and AllThingsD

Greg Mitchell / Pressing Issues:

Double Failure — Wash Post killed my assigned piece this weekend which was mainly on media failures re: Iraq—and ran this misleading (cherry-picking) piece claiming media did NOT fail. So let's revisit my recent posts here on when probe in Wash Post itself showed that it failed big time.

Discussion: Washington Post, The Huffington Post, @gregmitch and The Nation

Guardian:

Blogs likely to be excluded from press reforms by House of Lords — Prominent web writers warn punitive measures would force many of them to close down, thereby stifling transparency — Fears that bloggers and small-scale news websites will be dragged into the new proposed system of press regulation …

Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:

CBS Poised To Buy Half Of TV Guide, Partner With Lionsgate — EXCLUSIVE: CBS Corp, which already owns/co-owns broadcast networks CBS and the CW, pay cable network Showtime, and international TV channels, is adding a domestic basic cable network to its portfolio.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable

Jeremy Greenfield / Forbes:

Giving Away the Nook: Barnes & Noble Getting Desperate? — Well, we finally have a free e-reader on the market, but it's not the Beagle from txtr or a Kindle, like we expected: It's the Nook Simple Touch from Barnes & Noble. — The $79 e-reader is being given away with purchase of a Nook HD+ tablet …

Discussion: Barnes & Noble, Inc., GeekWire, paidContent, TechCrunch and Softpedia News

Ritchie King / Quartz:

Skinny and white: the fashionable new look for news sites — Call it fashion week for the news industry. This month, three major American journalism shops have said they will be redesigning their websites: Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.

Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:

Media, UN Battle One Man Blogger Rebellion — The U.N.'s maverick blogger finds himself at odds with his fellow reporters. “I'm not an insane person.” — An independent journalist whose muckraking coverage of the U.N. earned him profiles in the New Yorker and the New York Times has become …

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

The New Republic Fires Timothy Noah — On Thursday, New Republic columnist Timothy Noah received an email from editor Frank Foer asking him to meet at 2:30 pm on Friday. That's when Foer told Noah that he was out of a job. — When Noah got to the New Republic's lobby, on the way out the door …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Politico and New York Magazine