Mediagazer: The Problem With Digital Ad Studies (Jack Marshall/Digiday)

9:45 AM ET, May 11, 2013

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Tough times at ‘Columbia Journalism Review’ as an editor departs, others are laid off, and funding looks shaky — In media, there are big fish and little fish. Which is why the appointment of Cyndi Stivers as editor-in-chief of AOL.com didn't create a lot of noise about what would happen …

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Rick Gladstone / New York Times:

Pakistan Orders New York Times Reporter Declan Walsh to Leave — Pakistan's Interior Ministry has ordered the expulsion of The New York Times bureau chief in Islamabad on the eve of national elections, the newspaper said Friday. The Times has strongly protested the move and is seeking his reinstatement.

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Om Malik / GigaOM:

How the New York Times can fight BuzzFeed & reinvent its future — If I ever run into New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson (unlikely as it might be) I will sure as hell let her know that she is absolutely right to be excited about what her paper did with Snow Fall …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Bill Carter / New York Times:

In Blow to NBC News, ‘Rock Center’ Is Canceled — Among the cancellations announced this week in anticipation of Monday's unveiling of a new prime time schedule, surely the hardest to take for NBC News is the closing notice for “Rock Center,” the ambitious newsmagazine program that hoped …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter, The Huffington Post, Indiewire Blogs …, The Daily Beast, Baltimore Sun, New York Magazine and Mediaite

Ashlee Vance / Businessweek:

Netflix, Reed Hastings Survive Missteps to Join Silicon Valley's Elite — On a normal weeknight, Netflix (NFLX) accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes. That's more than YouTube, Hulu, Amazon.com (AMZN), HBO Go, iTunes, and BitTorrent combined.

Douglas Martin / New York Times:

Alan Abelson, Who at Barron's Was a Thorn in Wall Street's Side, Dies at 87 — Alan Abelson, a former top editor of Barron's magazine who made waves — sometimes tsunamis — by writing a pugnacious, sagacious stock market column that denounced Wall Street hucksterism and routinely rocked share prices, died on Thursday in Manhattan.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Barron's Online and Wall Street Journal

Jack Marshall / Digiday:

The Problem With Digital Ad Studies — Digital media always needs to prove itself. It's new. It doesn't have the track record and established methodologies of traditional media. That's why research is so important. But when it's done in digital, it's often paid for by the vendors selling these services.

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Financial Times joins Flipboard, says it's a better deal than Apple — The Financial Times is the latest publisher to strike a partnership with Flipboard. The deal is interesting because the FT recently left another third-party platform, iTunes. — The Financial Times is now making …

Discussion: Folio, BetaNews and Media Week

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

YouTube's New Subscription Service: Stars Not Included — YouTube finally rolled out its paid subscription service yesterday, which generated a lot coverage. — But the YouTube folks went out of their way to downplay the launch, describing it is as the first stage of an experiment.

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Julia La Roche / Business Insider:

BLOOMBERG SPYING SCANDAL ESCALATES: Reporters Used Terminals To Spy On JPMorgan During ‘London Whale’ Disaster — Earlier today, Mark Decambre of the New York Post broke a bombshell story: — Reporters at Bloomberg News used private information from Bloomberg terminals to spy on employees at Goldman Sachs.

Discussion: New York Times, Beyond Search, Quartz, The Week, Salon and Talking Biz News

William Launder / Wall Street Journal:
Bloomberg Curbs Its Journalists' Access to Customer Data

Chris Welch / The Verge:

John McCain proposes ‘a la carte’ cable bill, encourages death of sports blackout rule — Senator John McCain today introduced the Television Consumer Freedom Act of 2013, legislation that would encourage cable operators and entertainment conglomerates to unbundle channels and offer programming “a la carte.”

Discussion: Yahoo! TV and ABCNEWS

Mark Glaser / Mediashift:

Mark Luckie: Twitter Not Getting Into News Business — Recently, Twitter posted a job for a “head of news and journalism partnerships.” Oh my gosh! Was Twitter going to get into the news business and start its own newsroom with reporters and editors ferreting out what's happening as news breaks?

Discussion: paidContent and eMedia Vitals