Mediagazer: Sponsors Now Pay for Online Articles, Not Just Ads (Tanzina Vega/New York Times)

4:30 PM ET, April 8, 2013

Top News:

Newspaper revenue fell 2 pct to $38.6B in 2012 — ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — The newspaper industry's revenue declined at its slowest pace in six years, as publishers turned to new businesses and raised more money from online subscriptions. The industry's total revenue in 2012 fell 2 percent …

Discussion: @rajunarisetti, Newsonomics and Washington Post

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

Deeper data dive finds $5.5 billion in uncounted newspaper industry revenue — Years of negative reports on ad revenue losses could leave the newspaper industry muttering, “I demand a recount.” The Newspaper Association of America has just completed such an exercise and found some solid gains …

Discussion: Reflections of a Newsosaur, Newspaper Association …, Guardian, Erik Wemple, PandoDaily and European Journalism Centre

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Holy Cow: Two of the Big Four TV Networks Are Considering Going Off the Air — How worried are the owners of the major broadcast television networks about Aereo, the Barry Diller-backed digital television service they've been trying unsuccessfully to sue out of existence?

David S. Cohen / Variety:
Chase Carey Threatens to Yank Fox From Broadcast TV Over Aereo

Discussion: AllThingsD, AllThingsD, AdAge, Betabeat, TwitLonger, Business Insider, @edmundlee and Mashable

David Carr / New York Times:

Roger Ebert's Legacy as a Relentless Empire-Builder — At journalism conferences and online, media strivers talk over and over about becoming their own brand, hoping that some magical combination of tweets, video spots, appearances and, yes, even actual written articles, will help their name come to mean something.

Discussion: Prof Chris Daly's Blog and ReadWrite

Chicago Tribune:

Roger Ebert's funeral: ‘He had a heart big enough to love all’ — As a standing ovation finally quieted inside Holy Name Cathedral, Chaz Ebert paid the last words of tribute to her husband, famed movie critic Roger Ebert. “He had a heart big enough to accept and love all,” Chaz Ebert said …

Discussion: Chicago Sun Times, Toronto Star, Detroit Free Press, Associated Press, CBC News, USA Today, Daily Mail, CBS Chicago and TODAY

Frank Rich / New York Magazine:

Frank Rich on the State of Journalism — Time is on the block. The New York Times is teetering. It can get an alumnus down, but the last thing the news business needs is a case of nostalgia. — This spring marks the tenth anniversary of a journalistic scandal that everyone would like to forget, and that many have.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, @marklittlenews, @jeffjarvis and The Atlantic Online

Andrew Rice / New York Magazine:

Does BuzzFeed Know the Secret? — Jonah Peretti's viral-content machine purports to have solved the problems of both journalism and advertising at once, all with the help of a simple algorithm. — Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the website BuzzFeed—though this is increasingly unlikely, as it's currently enjoying a viral moment.

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, paidContent, Gawker, @jayrosen_nyu, @jeffjohnroberts and The Corsair

Scott Turow / New York Times:

The Slow Death of the American Author — LAST month, the Supreme Court decided to allow the importation and resale of foreign editions of American works, which are often cheaper than domestic editions. Until now, courts have forbidden such activity as a violation of copyright.

Discussion: Techdirt, Page-Turner and GalleyCat

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: No, Scott Turow, copyright is not killing American authors

Tanzina Vega / New York Times:

Sponsors Now Pay for Online Articles, Not Just Ads — Articles in a series on Mashable.com called “What's Inside” looked for all the world like the hundreds of other articles on the digital media site. But journalistically, they were something very different.

Discussion: AdPulp, Beyond Search, Kirk LaPointe's … and eMedia Vitals, Thanks:@steverubel

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Why Google Should Rethink Its Approach to Sponsored Content

Discussion: FOLIO

Hunter Schwarz / BuzzFeed:

A Fox News Reporter Could Be Jailed For Protecting Her Sources, And Nobody Seems To Care — Jana Winter refuses to reveal who leaked information about the Aurora, Colorado shooter. Judith Miller is “surprised and disappointed” at how little attention the case is getting. — Source: foxnews.com

Discussion: Fox News, TVNewser, Poynter, Columbia Journalism Review, Politico, FishbowlNY, Gawker, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, New York Magazine, The Week and Daily Download

Guardian:

WikiLeaks publishes 1.7m US diplomatic records — Julian Assange says 1973-76 reports, including many by Henry Kissinger, show vast range and scope of US activity — WikiLeaks has published more than 1.7m US records covering diplomatic or intelligence reports on every country in the world.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Fast Company, Journalism.co.uk, TechCrunch, Forbes, CNET, Gawker, The Atlantic Wire, Gizmodo UK, TheAustralian, Telegraph, Wired.co.uk, The Independent, Salon, Sky News, International Business Times, Canadian Press and Vanity Fair

William Turvill / Press Gazette:

Guido Fawkes closes blog for day following death of Margaret Thatcher — The Guido Fawkes blog has closed for the day as a mark of respect to former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. — The blog, www.order-order.com, announced the decision on Twitter shortly after Baroness Thatcher's death was declared.

Discussion: Mediaite, Guardian, New Yorker, Speakeasy, Forbes, The New Yorker Blog, FishbowlDC, CNET, The Stream, TVNewser, Spectator and Gawker

Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:

How Twitter Took Over Death — Twitter used to talk about the media's coverage of death. Now the media talks about Twitter's. — Among the changes social media has made in the way we find and consume information, perhaps the most peculiar is Twitter's role in how we deal with death.