Mediagazer: Mail Online revenues expected to hit £45m (John Plunkett/Guardian)

8:35 AM ET, March 25, 2013

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Michael Wolff / USA Today:

Columbia flunks relevancy test — Steve Coll, whose books include Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, and who has just been appointed dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism — aka the …

Discussion: @samgustin, @jackshafer, @dangillmor, @jayrosen_nyu, @rafat, @michaelwolffnyc, @stevebuttry and @robinjp

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Washington Post Defends Killing Critical Iraq Media Article — NEW YORK — Greg Mitchell, author of a recently updated book on media mistakes during the run-up to the Iraq War, So Wrong For So Long, revealed Saturday night on his blog that the Washington Post's Outlook section had killed …

Discussion: @gregmitch and Pressing Issues

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, Gawker, @jayrosen_nyu, @gregmitch and The Huffington Post

Greg Mitchell / Pressing Issues:
That Piece Killed by the ‘Post’

Discussion: Chickaboomer and The Nation

Joe Hagan / New York Magazine:

Long Night at Today — And for this he wakes up at 4 a.m.? — T — he knife springs open with a satisfying snap. — Matt Lauer, the co-host of the Today show, turns it over in his hand, marveling at the blade. — “Come to papa!” he says. — Sitting at his glass-topped desk …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Hollywood Reporter, @mlcalderone and Inside Cable News, Thanks:@jaredbkeller

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Murdoch's Appetite for Los Angeles Times May Depend on F.C.C. Changes — In weighing a bid for The Los Angeles Times, Rupert Murdoch finds himself in a familiar role: waiting for rule changes from the government. With the resignation last week of Julius Genachowski, the chairman …

David Carr / New York Times:

In WikiLeaks Trial, a Theater of State Secrecy — Reporters covering the government's prosecution of Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is being court-martialed for conveying secret information to WikiLeaks, have spent a year trying to pierce the veil of secrecy in what is supposed to be a public proceeding.

Matt Sokoloff / Street Fight:

Can Newspapers Evolve Into ‘Local Membership’ Organizations? — In the days before MapQuest and Google Maps, the first stop you'd make when planning a long road trip was often your local AAA office. There — if you were a member — you could get directions, maps, listings of hotels and attractions …

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

As SpinMedia, Web Firm Aims to Lift Smaller Sites — In the race for Internet advertising, could a few dozen runner-up blogs win in the end? — That is the goal of Buzzmedia, a Los Angeles-based company that owns or sells advertising for more than 40 Web sites that cater to young pop-culture obsessives …

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

BuzzFeed officially lands in the UK with a new localized homepage — Almost three months after BuzzFeed landed $19.3m to help grows its social/viral news site, a new UK-centric edition of the Web publication has officially opened for business. — While we already knew it was coming …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, Fast Company, Metro.co.uk and The Independent

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Rusbridger against ‘messy compromise’ on press regulation put forward by politicians — Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has revealed that he is “unenthusiastic about endorsing a messy compromise” on press reform. — Rusbridger had previously offered cautious support to the use of statute to underpin a new system of press regulation.

Discussion: Guardian, Guardian and Guy Fawkes' blog

John Plunkett / Guardian:

Mail Online revenues expected to hit £45m — Publisher DMGT reports strong digital growth, especially on mobile, but says print ad income is suffering in ‘weak’ market — Mail Online is expected to report full-year revenues of £45m this year with growth in digital advertising …

Discussion: Media Week, Reuters, NetNewsCheck Latest, The Independent, Stock Investing Advice and The Drum

Desiree Everts DeNunzio / CNET:

SF Chronicle erects paywall for ‘premium’ content — The move to offer readers “unrivaled content” separate from the free SFGate.com appears to be an attempt to woo readers back to good old-fashioned print. — Less than a week after The Washington Post announced its paywall plans …

Discussion: San Francisco Chronicle, Media Week, SFBay, SF Appeal, San Francisco Peninsula … and JIMROMENESKO.COM