Mediagazer: Gawker Media hits 97.5M uniques in September (Jim Romenesko)

3:40 PM ET, October 1, 2013

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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, ZDNet, Los Angeles Times, CNET, New York Times, PublishersWeekly.com, App Advice, PR Newswire, @harperteen, @electriclit, GigaOM, Wired, The Bookseller and Publishers Lunch

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, @farai, @mtdukes, @robertfeder, @yayitsrob and @byrontau

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, GigaOM and Softpedia News

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

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 …

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

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

Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:

Ranking the Best Newspaper Front Pages on the Government Shutdown — On this, the first day of October, the United States's elected officials refused to act like adults and shut down the government instead. The good news is that in doing so, they gave every newspaper editor in the country …

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

Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:

Sarah Bartlett Named New Dean of CUNY Graduate School of Journalism — Sarah Bartlett has been named the new dean of CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, departing dean Stephen Shepard announced this evening. — “Sarah is a wonderful person to lead the CUNY J-School to new heights of excellence.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, CUNY Graduate School … and Talking Biz News

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Florida university disciplines student journalist who tried to report on suicide — Florida Atlantic University's Office of Student Conduct is punishing Dylan Bouscher, the editor-in-chief of the student paper University Press, for reporting from the scene of a suicide on campus.

Discussion: The Daily Pulp and @poynter

Mick Hume / Columbia Journalism Review:

Free speech threats in the US and UK — It's time to make a stand for freedom of expression and the freedom of the press with no ifs or buts — Everybody in public life in the US and UK claims to believe in freedom of expression and a free press. Strange, then, that a growing number …

Joel Connelly / seattlepi.com:

Kathy Best is new editor of Seattle Times — Kathy Best has been named the new editor of The Seattle Times, taking the place of David Boardman, who resigned to become dean of the communications school at Temple University. — Best's 33-year journalism career began in 1980 with the Quad City Times …

Discussion: The Seattle Times and Poynter