Mediagazer: The scandal attention cycle (Brendan Nyhan/Columbia Journalism Review)

1:15 AM ET, August 2, 2013

Top News:

Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

Big Boss, Not Big Brother, Spotted Long Island Family's ‘Suspicious’ Google Searches — On Wednesday morning, six law enforcement officers visited a house in Long Island. They were there to ask whether the residents — a married couple and their son — were involved in terrorism.

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Employer Tipped Off Police To Pressure Cooker And Backpack Searches, Not Google — In what might be Medium's first widespread Twitter moment, music writer Michele Catalano used the platform to blog details of an unexpected visit to her home yesterday, from six men she identifies as members of the “joint terrorism task force.”

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

IT'S OFFICIAL: We Never Need To Worry About The Future Of Journalism Again! — The New York Times Company did the world of journalism a big favor today. — The company finally disclosed the exact revenues of its digital business. — The numbers were impressive.

Discussion: @davidkenner, @jbennet, @evanbush and @yancyfaith, Thanks:@mattlynley

Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

The NYT's $150 million-a-year paywall — Growth slows sharply, but digital-subscriber revenue is propping up the paper — The New York Times's once-torrid paywall growth continued to slow in the second quarter, adding 23,000 digital-only subscribers. — That's the second quarter in a row …

Discussion: Forbes, The Dish and @cjr

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Digital subscriptions up 35% at New York Times & IHT, 70% at Boston Globe

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, WWD Media Headlines, Boston Herald, Mashable, FishbowlNY, AdAge, ZDNet, NetNewsCheck Latest, @learmonth, @vkw, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, @mathewi, New York Times, Media & Entertainment, NetNewsCheck Latest and Reuters

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
New York Times Profit Tops Estimates on Digital Subscribers

Discussion: @paulxharris

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Times C.E.O. Mark Thompson stays the course in second-quarter earnings call

Discussion: The New York Times Company

Eric Deggans / Tampa Bay Times:

Eric Deggans to leave Tampa Bay Times for job as NPR's first TV critic — Eric Deggans, TV and media critic for the Tampa Bay Times, will become NPR's TV critic. — After nearly 18 years critiquing television, media, music and pop culture at the Tampa Bay Times, I will be leaving the newspaper …

Discussion: @timkarr, @brianstelter, @npraudie, @davidfolkenflik, @nabjdigital, @tb_times, @nextgenradio, @deggans, @charlie_mccollu, @craigtimes, @moryan, Poynter and The Wrap

Brendan Nyhan / Columbia Journalism Review:

The scandal attention cycle — How the media lost interest in IRS targeting, even as new facts emerged — At this point, the evidence on the Internal Revenue Service scandal is clear. Contrary to the initial hype, there is no credible evidence of White House involvement …

Discussion: Wonkblog, Mother Jones, @aseitzwald, @sulliview, @wfrick, @alecmacgillis, @jaymills and @jayrosen_nyu

Brad Stone / Businessweek:

Can Marissa Mayer Save Yahoo? — Marissa Mayer is sitting in URLs, the Yahoo! (YHOO) cafeteria, making the case for the future of a company that almost everyone in Silicon Valley views as doomed. Employees swarm around her, assembling rows of chairs for the afternoon's FYI …

Discussion: The Verge, CNET, Business Insider and @clairecm

BuzzFeed:

Is Tumblr Shrinking? — Yahoo bought Tumblr because Tumblr has millions of young users. But are they sticking around? — Last November, David Karp posted on Tumblr's staff blog. “I have an exciting and slightly overwhelming milestone to share with you,” the site's founder and CEO said.

Discussion: @ryanpbroderick, The Verge, @michaelnoer and @jwherrman

Max Blumenthal / Mondoweiss:

Exclusive: Al Jazeera English's online US broadcast to end with the launch of Al Jazeera America — Staff members of Al Jazeera have informed me that as soon as Al Jazeera America (AJAM) launches on August 20, American viewers will be unable to access the online livestream of Al Jazeera English (AJE).

Discussion: @rafat, @weeddude, @maxblumenthal and @thehoopoe

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Fusion Launching October 28 With Nightly Jorge Ramos Program, Satire Block — Fusion, the upcoming cable channel from ABC News and Univision, will launch Monday October 28, the companies say. The channel will launch on a number of pay-TV operators, including Cablevision, Charter and Cox.

Discussion: New York Times, Broadcasting & Cable and The Huffington Post

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Fusion Hires Former ‘Daily Show’ EP To Develop News/Satire Programming

Discussion: Variety, ABC News, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Politico and Deadline.com

Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

YouTube to Open Production Studio in New York Next Year — That complements a 41,000-square foot studio in Los Angeles — YouTube will open a production studio in New York next year, the company announced at VidCon on Thursday. The company complements similar facilities in London …

Discussion: CNET

Cotton Delo / AdAge:

U.S. Adults Now Spending More Time on Digital Devices Than Watching TV — Digital Devices Now Get More Than Five Hours Per Day, According to eMarketer — American adults this year will for the first time spend more time each day using digital media than watching TV, according to a new report by eMarketer.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Financial Times, Gawker, brafton.com, MediaPost, Marketing Pilgrim, Kirk LaPointe's … and eMedia Vitals

Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:

CBS Alternative Programming Head Jennifer Bresnan to Step Down — Jennifer Bresnan, executive vice president of alternative programming for CBS, will step at the end of the summer, the network said Thursday. — Bresnan, who's led the network's alternative programming since 2008 …

Discussion: Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, Hollywood Reporter and Variety

Allie Jones / The Atlantic Wire:

What Women Want: Bylines — If you looked at the homepage of The New York Times' website right this second, you could count up and find that 24 men and 8 women have bylines. Or you could go to WhoWritesFor, which culls data every five minutes to show the gender disparity on the front web page …

Discussion: Poynter, Jezebel and Salon, Thanks:@steverubel

Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

Despite Controversy, Rolling Stone ‘Boston Bomber’ Issue Is a Hit on Newsstands — Rolling Stone's “Boston Bomber” issue got a rash of bad publicity and retailers like CVS and Stop & Stop pulled it from shelves after a “Boycott Rolling Stone” campaign gained steam on Facebook.

Discussion: Mediaite, BuzzFeed, Yahoo! News, Erik Wemple, WebProNews, TheBlaze.com, The Big Lead, The Huffington Post, Daily Mail, @simonhoupt, The Drum, Softpedia News, Gawker, New York Magazine and FTVLive

Neal Ungerleider / Co.Labs:

How Vice Hacked Google Glass To Tell Crisis Stories — When I spoke with Tim Pool on the phone, the Vice reporter and media innovator (first to pioneer the use of drones for reporting on demonstrations, for instance) was having a typically busy week. Just after coming back from working …

Discussion: HighTalk and Fast Company

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Plain Dealer plans special print section to explain shift to digital — The Plain Dealer, which laid off about 50 employees Wednesday, “plans a six-page special section in Sunday's paper to further explain the changes ahead,” Jay Miller reports. — The laid-off employees …

Discussion: Cleveland Magazine, Connie Schultz …, Cleveland Leader, FishbowlNY and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Dish Hit With 53-Station Blackout in Fight With Raycom — Local stations go dark for satcaster in 36 markets in latest clash over retransmission payments — In the latest blowup over broadcast TV retransmission fees, Dish Network customers in 36 markets lost access to 53 television stations owned …

Discussion: EON, TVSpy and Broadcasting & Cable