Mediagazer: Northwestern's Journalism Program Offers Students Internships with Prestige, But No Paycheck (Kara Brandeisky/ProPublica)

4:55 PM ET, October 1, 2013

Top News:

Reporting on government shutdown has failed democracy … American news reports are largely blaming the government shutdown on the inability of both political parties to come to terms. It is supposedly the result of a “bitterly divided” Congress that “failed to reach agreement” (Washington Post) …

Discussion: New York Times, @dangillmor, GigaOM, Washington Post, Vanity Fair and msnbc.com, Thanks:@jaredbkeller

Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:
Ranking the Best Newspaper Front Pages on the Government Shutdown

Discussion: Poynter, TVNewser, Capital New York, @bob_ortega, @ohnorosco and The Huffington Post

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Is the government shut down? Quartz will tell you (and drive a little traffic in the process)

Discussion: @zseward

Bill Carter / New York Times:

George Will to Leave ABC News for Fox News — George Will, who has been a conservative presence on ABC News for more than three decades, is leaving for the Fox News Channel, the cable news network announced on Tuesday. — The news of Mr. Will's hiring was first reported by the conservative news site The Daily Caller.

Discussion: Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Fox News, TVNewser, The Wrap, The Huffington Post, Hollywood Reporter and Variety

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

How a Fox News Lawsuit Might Impact the Future of News — When Fox News sued a media monitoring company called TVEyes at the end of July, did it realize it was suing a defense contractor? The lawsuit alleges that TVEyes is running a service making “verbatim reproduction” …

Discussion: @timkarr, @flohmann, TVNewser and Plagiarism Today, Thanks:@erik_hayden

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

Scribd, HarperCollins Launch $8.99 Subscription Book Service — Spotify and Netflix have brought subscription services to the music and movie space. Could Scribd apply that model to the world of books? — For a small monthly fee, consumers are used to getting unlimited access to all types of content …

Discussion: AllThingsD, TechCrunch, Globe and Mail, ZDNet, The Verge, Los Angeles Times, @laurahazardowen, New York Times, PublishersWeekly.com, App Advice, PR Newswire, @harperteen, CNET, @electriclit, GigaOM, Wired, The Bookseller and Publishers Lunch

Greg Mitchell / The Nation:

‘NYT’ Fingers McClatchy for ‘Terror’ Leak—and Now McClatchy Hits Back — Yesterday morning the top story at the New York Times site reported on US analysts feeling that the early-August leak to the media on how Al Qaeda communicates had done more to harm our anti-terrorism effort than anything revealed by Edward Snowden.

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Politico

McClatchy Washington Bureau:

Did leaks alert al Qaida leaders they were being monitored? — WASHINGTON — The U.S. government-ordered closure of 19 U.S. diplomatic facilities in August has prompted a new controversy, this one about whether news reports at the time alerted al Qaida leaders that their communications were being monitored.

Discussion: @jonathanlanday, @markseibel, The Huffington Post, New York Times and Pressing Issues

Kara Brandeisky / ProPublica:

Northwestern's Journalism Program Offers Students Internships with Prestige, But No Paycheck — Northwestern University's journalism school boasts of its prowess in preparing students for prestigious careers — but it also serves as a pipeline for unpaid internships.

Discussion: Gawker, @karabrandeisky, @farai, @mtdukes, @robertfeder, @yayitsrob and @byrontau

Michael Rondon / Folio:

Publishers, AOL Partner on Subscription Service — Seven magazines, other services, offered at the new storefront. — Publishers have partnered with AOL on a new bundled-subscription offering the company rolled out Monday. — The service, Gathr, packages subscriptions to a variety of products and services at a discount.

Discussion: Valleywag, AOL Blog, VentureBeat, Digital Media Wire, AllThingsD, TechCrunch and Mashable

Molly Young / New York Magazine:

A profile of Tumblr and David Karp after Yahoo — “It Was the Biggest Game of Chicken I've Ever Seen.” — David Karp built a massive, culturally totemic company that was losing millions of dollars a month. After a huge infusion of Yahoo cash, he's breathing easier. — Tumblr — Founded: 2007

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu, SocialTimes, @abrahamjoseph, @buzz, @carlhancock, @abumuqawama, @iwantmedia, Betabeat and Business Insider

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Music video site VEVO launches in Germany — Music and entertainment-focused video site VEVO has arrived in Germany, ending its two-year long effort to meet local licensing demands in the European country. — VEVO has opened an office in Berlin, out of which its operations in Germany — its 13th market worldwide — will be run.

Discussion: VEVO.com, Rapid TV News, CMU, Softpedia News and GigaOM

Karthika Muthukumaraswamy / The Huffington Post:

A La Carte Journalism: Where People (and Reporters) Set the Agenda — So you want to do investigative journalism? Or produce a TV series? Or create a biopic? But you don't have the money to fund it? No problem. Ask your future consumers for money.

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Another Key Hulu Executive Leaves — Hulu sales head JP Colaco, one of the video company's key remaining early hires, is leaving the company. — Andy Forssell, the website's acting CEO, announced the departure via a blog post yesterday, and said Colaco was leaving later this month to …

Discussion: Hulu Blog and Variety

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

National Journal Goes Responsive, Shuns App — Atlantic Media Co.'s National Journal is adopting a responsive design while moving away from apps, counter to the thinking of other publishers who believe there's a role for both to play in reaching mobile users.

Discussion: FishbowlDC and NationalJournal.com

Jim Romenesko:

Gawker Media hits 97.5M uniques in September — A memo to Gawker Media staffers: … For Gawker.com alone, “we booked 15,293,984 U.S. uniques in September, making it the best month in the history of Gawker, beating our No. 2 month of July '13, when we did 12.2 million,” editor John Cook tells his colleagues.

Discussion: Gawker and @nicknotned

Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:

Dan Nosowitz Leaving Popular Science For Ken Lerer's Animal-Themed Website — Popular Science associate editor Dan Nosowitz is going to The Dodo, the animal-themed startup website backed by BuzzFeed chairman and Huffington Post co-founder Ken Lerer. — The Dodo, which will be run along …

Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:

Netflix stock hits all-time high on forecast of strong global growth — Netflix Inc. stock soared to record levels Tuesday, apparently propelled by a new analyst report predicting surprising growth in the streaming video service's international subscribers.

Discussion: TheStreet.com and NASDAQ.com