Mediagazer: Online media: AOL's second life (Economist)

4:00 PM ET, April 21, 2013

Top News:

With Boston Manhunt, Media Is Part of a Story It Is Covering — Reporters, camera crews and ordinary citizens with camera phones were squarely in the middle of the manhunt in Boston that gripped the nation on Friday, and the result was some of the most startling — and at times unnerving — news coverage in years.

Discussion: Noah Brier dot Com and Inside TV

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

How a Webcam Pointed at a Police Radio Won the Internet Friday — The events in Boston — starting Monday with a pair of explosions that killed three and injured 176 near the finish line of the Boston Marathon — came to a dramatic close Friday night with the capture of 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev …

Discussion: The Ustream Blog, The Huffington Post and Wall Street Journal

Jim Roberts / @nycjim:

Officials say decision to release photos of suspects was motivated in part to limit damage done by Reddit. http://wapo.st/XNTfky

Discussion: AllThingsD and Washington Post

Farhad Manjoo / Slate:

Breaking News Is Broken — CNN's coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing has been flawed at times. — Screen Grab Courtesy of CNN/YouTube — Inspired by the events of the past week, here's a handy guide for anyone looking to figure out what exactly is going during a breaking news event.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, TechCrunch and paidContent

Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

It Wasn't Sunil Tripathi: The Anatomy of a Misinformation Disaster — How a terrible misidentification of two people with no connection to the Boston bombing spread so far, so fast — In the middle of the last night's nearly unbelievable turn of events, for a few hours …

Discussion: Washington Post, Quartz, Techdirt, Reuters, BBC, The Verge, Business Insider, NDTV News, Gawker, The Atlantic Wire, New Yorker, CNET, GigaOM, The Huffington Post, Mother Jones, Forbes, New York Magazine, The Technology Chronicles, WPRI-TV and New Statesman

Dylan Byers / Politico:
Murdoch defends the New York Post

Discussion: @rupertmurdoch, FishbowlNY, Gothamist, Mediaite and The Huffington Post

Choire Sicha / The Awl:
Is Your Social Media Editor Destroying Your News Organization Today?

Discussion: New Yorker, Charlie Beckett, Forbes, Mediaite, TVNewser, Gawker, Columbia Journalism Review, TechCrunch, Speakeasy, Guardian, Variety, FishbowlNY and Broadcasting & Cable

Dylan Byers / Politico:
Pete Williams and the threat to CNN

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Fix, New York Times, The Atlantic Wire, mediabistro.com, BuzzFeed, Quartz, Capital New York, Washington Post, Charles Apple, The Boston Globe and TVNewser

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Conservative Koch Brothers Turning Focus to Newspapers — Three years ago, Charles and David Koch, the billionaire industrialists and supporters of libertarian causes, held a seminar of like-minded, wealthy political donors at the St. Regis Resort in Aspen, Colo. They laid out a three-pronged …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Gawker, Forbes, LA Biz Observed, Yahoo! News, Big News Network.com, New York Magazine, Via Meadia, Business Insider, Deadline.com, ThinkProgress, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times and New York Times

USA Today:

USA TODAY founder Al Neuharth dies at 89 — Allen H. Neuharth, the newspaper visionary and former Gannett chairman who founded USA TODAY, helped create a museum dedicated to news and became one of the industry's most influential and sometimes controversial figures, died Friday at his home in Cocoa Beach, Fla. He was 89.

Discussion: New York Times, The Huffington Post, JIMROMENESKO.COM, USA Today, New York Magazine, Pressing Issues, Poynter and FishbowlNY

Pekka Pekkala / Online Journalism Review:

Networked journalism will move value from “brand” to “contribution” — Journalism is not in crisis. The media industry — and journalists — might be, but the journalism itself is actually improving. — Such is the argument made by international documentary filmmaker Bregtje van der Haak …

Matt Waite / Poynter:

How sensor journalism can help us create data, improve our storytelling — Data journalism, meet sensor journalism. You two should talk. — What's sensor journalism? I'll get to that. But first, let me tell you a story about bugs — and a pair of gadgets that sat for months in a box under John Keefe's bed.

T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

Several CBS Twitter accounts hijacked by Syrian conflict propagandists (update) — CBS has confirmed on Twitter that several of its accounts were compromised earlier today, including those for 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, and a local Denver affiliate. While the perpetrator of the hijack is unknown …

Discussion: VentureBeat, AllThingsD, Hollywood Reporter, @cbsmatt, Gizmodo, @cbsmatt, CNET, TechCrunch and AllThingsD

Ben Kuchera / Penny Arcade Report:

Ad-blockers, the games press, and why sexy cosplay galleries lead to better reporting — We're going to talk about ad-blocking software, online publishing, and why much of the game media is the way it is. If you block ads, I'm not going to shame you or browbeat you, and there's nothing …

Discussion: John Walker

Economist:

Online media: AOL's second life — MOST Thursday afternoons at AOL's New York headquarters a bell rings to announce “happy hour”, and staff flock to a keg in a meeting room. They hope they at last have cause to celebrate. “If you look at the analyst models, they had AOL never getting back to growth …