Mediagazer: The disruptive potential of native advertising (Felix Salmon)

2:30 PM ET, April 9, 2013

Top News:

The disruptive potential of native advertising — Andrew Rice delivers 6,000 words on BuzzFeed in the latest NY Mag, which means he has the space to tell a number of different stories. The one I'm interested in is the way that BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti wants native advertising to disrupt banner advertising.

Discussion: paidContent, @jeffjarvis, Kirk LaPointe's …, Gawker, bookforum.com, The Atlantic Wire and New York Magazine

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

Doubling its U.S. member base in 2 years, Pandora hits 200M registered users — Streaming radio service Pandora has crossed the 200-million-registered-user mark, a major milestone for the company coming just a month after CEO Joe Kennedy resigned. — Pandora's impressive reach stems …

Discussion: PR Newswire, Radio & Television …, TechCrunch, MarketWatch, AllAccess.com, The Next Web, WebProNews and RouteNote Blog

Margalit Fox / New York Times:

McCandlish Phillips, Longtime Times Reporter With Flair, Dies at 85 — McCandlish Phillips, a reporter considered one of the finest stylists on The New York Times, who wrote one of the most famous articles in the newspaper's history — exposing the Orthodox Jewish background …

Discussion: The Wrap and Christianity Today

Alastair Reid / @AlastairReid3:

AOP census predicts 15% rise in digital revenue this year — Research by the Association of Online Publishers reveals optimism in sector but diversification in revenue streams — Copyright: Image by Images_of_Money on Flickr. Some rights reserved — Digital revenue growth among online publishers …

Discussion: Association …, NetNewsCheck Latest, Media Week, The Drum and Warc News

Dylan Byers / Politico:

McConnell campaign taps FBI to investigate Mother Jones tape — Mitch McConnell's reelection campaign is working with the FBI to investigate how the liberal magazine Mother Jones obtained a recording of the Senate minority leader and his aides discussing opposition research on Ashley Judd.

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

What next for The Week? The content curator's plans for the digital domain — The Week surprised the publishing industry by carving out a profitable place in the competitive world of magazine news. Now, it is building up its operations for the digital long term.

Lauren Indvik / Mashable:

With Google's Help, ‘Glamour’ Monetizes Hangouts — In the two years since its launch, publishers large and small have experimented with Google Hangout to host group video chats with well-known guests, readers and staff, hoping to engage readers and attract new followers.

Discussion: Folio and AdPulp

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Tim O'Brien new Bloomberg View publisher — Bloomberg View will name former Huffington Post executive editor Timothy L. O'Brien publisher of the site and a member of the editorial board, according to a forthcoming press release obtained by POLITICO's Mike Allen.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Talking Biz News and @moorehn

Shia Kapos / Crain's Chicago Business:

Robert Feder leaving Time Out Chicago — Robert Feder is wrapping up his media column, at least for a while. — “With the sale of Time Out Chicago, I have agreed to accept a buyout of my contract,” he said in an email and on his Facebook page. “I am eager to continue my work and I expect to make an announcement soon.

Discussion: Chicagoist and AllAccess.com

Joshua Gillin / Poynter:
Time Out Chicago bought by parent company, staff report layoffs

Discussion: PR Newswire, Financial News, New York Post, Media Week and Chicago Tribune

Fox News:

Colorado judge defers ruling on whether Fox News reporter must testify on sources — The Colorado judge who will decide whether a Fox News reporter must reveal news sources or face possible jail time has deferred that decision to a later date. — District Court Judge Carlos Samour Jr. ruled …

Discussion: Denver Post, Mediaite, Columbia Journalism Review, FishbowlNY, Gawker, Politico, New York Magazine, Hollywood Reporter, The Huffington Post, CNN, The Week and The BLT

Ted Greenwald / Adweek:

How Wired Magazine Changed the Way We Talk About Technology — Imagine a time before smartphones. Before laptops. Before Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and even the mighty Google. A world without Web browsers, when the Internet belonged to universities and going online meant logging onto a local electronic bulletin board.

Thanks:@max8378

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Confirmed: Elsevier Has Bought Mendeley For $69M-$100M To Expand Its Open, Social Education Data Efforts — Educational publisher Elsevier is diving deeper into the world of open and social educational data: it has bought Mendeley, the London/New York-based provider of a platform for academics …

Discussion: Financial Times, paidContent, Elsevier Connect, Joho the Blog, paidContent, Guardian, ZDNet, Businesses for sale, EdSurge, VentureVillage, The Drum and Bloomberg

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Now Showing on YouTube: Spotify — Spotify's digital music service has 24 million users and six million subscribers. But it wants a lot more. — So it's advertising on the Web's most popular music service: Starting tonight, Spotify is running a one-day “takeover” ad on YouTube's homepage, which you should be able to see now.

Discussion: CNET and memeburn

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.