Mediagazer: New challenges for investigative journalism (Monica Almeida/Al Jazeera English)

10:00 AM ET, March 31, 2013

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Craig Mod / paidContent:

The deal Goodreads should've struck (hint: it wasn't with Amazon) — In my dream team, fantasy publishing startup league, I would have had Goodreads buy Readmill. Here are two startups with similarly overlapping problems. I understand why Amazon bought Goodreads, and why Goodreads sold itself to Amazon.

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Authors Guild warns of monopoly in Amazon's purchase of Goodreads — The literary world gasped on Thursday when Amazon announced it had acquired Goodreads, a popular social networks that lets book lovers connect and share reviews with one another. The deal gives Amazon control …

Discussion: The Authors Guild, GalleyCat, Forbes, The Huffington Post and WebProNews

Tim Carmody / The Verge:

Goodreads is no Instagram: Amazon paid about $150 million — Estimates of the company's billion-dollar purchase price were sadly misguided — Terms of Amazon's acquisition of Goodreads haven't been disclosed, but that won't stop people from speculating. Bloomberg Businessweek put forward …

Discussion: AllThingsD and Digits

Cynthia Littleton / Variety:

Warner Bros. Embraced Digital Future With Choice of Kevin Tsujihara as CEO … Editor-in-chief: TV — @Variety_Cynthia — Kevin Tsujihara is feeling the weight of his triumph. Eleven days into his tenure as CEO of Warner Bros., his inbox is still inundated with well wishers.

Associated Press:

AP opens full news bureau in Myanmar — YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The Associated Press on Saturday became the first international news agency to open a bureau in Myanmar since a reformist government took power two years ago and began relaxing restrictions on the media for the first time in decades.

Monica Almeida / Al Jazeera English:

New challenges for investigative journalism — Investigative reporting is the preferred scapegoat of the powerful when they have something to hide, writes Almeida. — Monica Almeida is the Quito editor of daily newspaper El Universo. She has worked for AFP in Paris and was a 2009 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Texas Tribune expands its niche email business with In the Flow — The Texas Tribune is getting into the niche newsletter business. The Tribune's new twice-a-month newsletter, In the Flow, takes a look at water issues and related topics like droughts and fracking.

Discussion: The Texas Tribune

Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

BusinessWeek's billion-dollar boo-boo — A poor piece spreads bogus news about Amazon's Goodreads acquisition — Bloomberg BusinessWeek makes itself look silly today, running a speculative piece on how much Amazon paid for its latest acquisition, Goodreads. — Here's the headline:

Kyle Stock / Businessweek:
Rampant Speculation: How Much Did Amazon Pay for Goodreads?

Discussion: Betabeat, Business Insider, ZDNet, PandoDaily, LA Observed, @chrisdmasters, @dkiesow, @gcompadre, @michaelwolf, @alexckaufman and @percival

Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

New York Magazine Launches Enhanced iPad App — New York magazine is finally scrapping its digital replica app and launching a new interactive version of its weekly print magazine that was created with digital design agency The Wonderfactory and uses the Mag+ platform.

Discussion: Mobile Marketer Media

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:

At The Wall Street Journal, a smartphone app has reporters on board for shooting video — The text-based web is dead, says Michael Downing. When AOL CEO Tim Armstrong announced his intention this month to transform the company into a platform for video, Downing heard a death knell — one he's been expecting for some time.

Eliza Kern / paidContent:

Generation Mooch? Why 20-somethings have a hard time paying for content — I distinctly remember learning how to read, and it wasn't from a book or in a kindergarten classroom. — It was sitting at the breakfast table with my Dad every morning, when we would read the weather section of the Washington Post.

Discussion: New York Times and TeleRead

Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

The Hollywood Reporter Apologizes to Deadline Parent Company, Settles Lawsuit — The Hollywood Reporter admitted to stealing code from Penske Media Corporation, parent company of rival publications Deadline Hollywood and Variety, as part of a recent settlement the two companies reached to end their year-and-a-half-old legal dispute.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, FishbowlLA and Variety

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Tuesday Q&A: Amanda Zamora on participation metrics, deeper engagement, and why ProPublica is heading to Reddit — When Amanda Zamora left The Washington Post for ProPublica last year, she said wanted to get back to her true love — social media. She also saw it as an opportunity to step …