Mediagazer: Lessons Learned from YouTube's $300M Hole (Hank Green)

Columbia's New Journalism Dean Looks Ahead in a Digital Era — Entering Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism on the Upper West Side of New York, there is academic majesty wherever you look. — Past the lamps with the iron claws and the statue of Jefferson ("Our liberty depends …

Discussion: @markcoddington and @fredamoon

Kim Christensen / Los Angeles Times:

O.C. Register's university ad deals pose credibility questions — UC Irvine, Cal State Fullerton and Chapman University each agreed to pay $275,000 for ads in weekly sections packed with positive news about their schools. — Some Register staffers have expressed concerns …

Discussion: Orange County Register, @jeffjarvis, @dannysullivan and FishbowlLA

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Henry Blodget Is Quietly Planning a Stunning Return to Wall Street — Kind of! — Business Insider's co-founder and editor is the subject of a Ken Auletta profile in this week's New Yorker, which means Henry Blodget is now in some rarefied media mogul air (see: Rupert Murdoch, Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, etc.)

Discussion: @emilybell, New Yorker and Talking Biz News

Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:

TV Service Providers Held Talks With Aereo — Aereo Inc., the Web television startup backed by media mogul Barry Diller, has discussed partnerships with major pay-TV distributors and Internet service providers, including AT&T Inc. and Dish Network Corp., as it looks to roll out its fledgling service …

Discussion: SlashGear, World Internet TV on PC, CNET and The Verge

Cary Spivak / American Journalism Review:

Solving the Hyperlocal Puzzle — Joe Ricketts doesn't think small. Ricketts helped revolutionize online stock market trading by creating TD Ameritrade. More recently, he has been using his money to torment President Barack Obama and — with family members — buy the Chicago Cubs.

Discussion: Street Fight

Hank Green:

Lessons Learned from YouTube's $300M Hole — For those of you who don't know, John and I were recipients of part of YouTube's “Original Channel” funding initiative. We used that money to start Crash Course and SciShow. We were extremely excited to get the chance to have some real capital …

Discussion: Beyond Search and Felix

Tom Perry / Reuters:

Egyptian satirist questioned for insulting Mursi, freed on bail — (Reuters) - Egyptian prosecutors questioned Egypt's most prominent television satirist on Sunday over allegations that he insulted President Mohamed Mursi, a case regarded by his critics as new proof of a crackdown on dissent.

Discussion: New York Times, @drbassemyoussef, BBC, Bloomberg, Bangkok Post and NPR

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

HuffPost Live Thrives on Tape — Late last summer, Huffington Post launched a streaming video news service, backed by 100 employees, lots of cash and a heap of hype. — So how's it going? — Pretty good, says HuffPost Live boss Roy Sekoff. Especially if you choose to look at HuffPost Live …

Ernie Smith / Medium:

The Future of Local News — Why We Shouldn't Settle For Ad-Covered Wire Copy — Yesterday, I ran into a story that stopped me dead in my tracks. — It wasn't the words that threw me off — it is a serviceable wire story that about a million other news outlets were running — really, it was the advertising that irked me.

Ted Johnson / Variety:

It's Big TV vs. Big Telecom Over Broadcast Spectrum … The government's plan to auction off broadcast spectrum to expand wireless services has pitted Big TV against Big Telecom at the FCC and in the halls of Congress. Some say the nation is facing an apocalyptic capacity crunch due …

Richard Horgan / FishbowlLA:

EXCLUSIVE: Richard Rushfield Out at BuzzFeed — If you look at the masthead for BuzzFeed Entertainment, there's a rather conspicuous name missing. That's because LA bureau chief Richard Rushfield is no longer part of the operation. — “Indeed, I have parted ways from BuzzFeed,” …

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

The Big Roundtable Rethinks The Editorial Model For Long-Form Journalism, Hits Its Kickstarter Goal — Michael Shapiro isn't the sort of person I'd expect to circumvent the gatekeepers of traditional journalism. He's a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, and he said he's …

Discussion: Bwog

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.

Discussion: The Verge