Mediagazer: How much is too much? Getting the content balance right in digital publishing (Patrick Smith/The Media Briefing)

3:25 PM ET, October 11, 2013

Top News:

Google updates ToS allowing inclusion of users' names, photos and comments in web ads — Google Sets Plan to Sell Users' Endorsements — SAN FRANCISCO — Google, following in Facebook's footsteps, wants to sell users' endorsements to marketers to help them hawk their wares.

Pew Research Journalism Project:

How Americans Get TV News at Home — Amy Mitchell, Mark Jurkowitz, Jodi Enda, and Kenny Olmstead — Even at a time of fragmenting media use, television remains the dominant way that Americans get news at home, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of Nielsen data.

Discussion: Poynter, Deadline.com, Broadcasting & Cable, TVSpy, @pewjournalism, The Huffington Post, @enrique_acevedo, @pewresearch, @brianstelter and @grouchybagels

Guardian:

27 of the world's top editors challenge claim that the Guardian aids Britain's enemies — Editors on the NSA files: ‘What the Guardian is doing is important for democracy’ — On Thursday the Daily Mail described the Guardian as 'The paper that helps Britain's enemies'.

Guardian:
Spies and journalism: when worlds collide

Discussion: The New Yorker Blog, @declanwalsh, @kathviner, Jon Slattery, Daily Mail and @arusbridger

David Carr / New York Times:

When Our News Is Gerrymandered, Too — I read an interview this past week with someone who gets his news from a narrow band of information providers. — He reads The Wall Street Journal, a really good newspaper that tilts right on its editorial page and sometimes in its news coverage.

Discussion: @dougsaunders, @antderosa, @mathewi and bookforum.com

Dylan Byers / Politico:

White House defends transparency record after scathing CPJ report — The White House is defending its record of transparency after a scathing report found that the Obama administration's unprecedented efforts to control leaks have had a chilling effect on journalism.

Discussion: Free Press, Talking Points Memo and Electronic Frontier Foundation

Caitlin Dewey / WorldViews:

This year's Nobel Peace Prize winner was officially notified through Twitter — It appears the Nobel Peace Prize committee couldn't get in touch with its latest laureate Friday morning — and, out of sheer desperation, decided to hound the winner on Twitter.

Discussion: @nobelprize_org and Associated Press

Alan D. Mutter / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Newspaper sales dive enters 8th straight year — As digital advertising sales soared 18% to a record high in the first six months of this year, the revenues of the publicly traded newspaper companies slipped an average of 5.5% to enter an eighth year of unabated decline.

Discussion: Softpedia News

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Government publishes final version of press regulation scheme with compromises on arbitration and Editors' Code Committee — The Government today published a revised blueprint for press regulation which is set to go for approval by the Privy Council at the end of the month.

Discussion: Jon Slattery, Guardian, Tom Watson MP and ITV

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Phil Griffin: Cable News ‘In a sort of flux’ — This morning TVNewser attended a briefing to preview the new msnbc.com (more on that later), but while we were there, MSNBC president Phil Griffin decided to weigh in on the state of cable news, and of his own channel.

Jim Romenesko:

Survey: 40% of publishers would advise their kids to go into the newspaper business — Cribb, Greene & Associates, the oldest newspaper brokerage in the U.S., says its fall 2013 publisher confidence survey results “indicate that publishers are feeling better about the near term future than they did in 2012 …

Discussion: @mathewi

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Third of millennials watch mostly online video or no broadcast TV — Thirty-four percent of millennials surveyed watch mostly online video or no broadcast television, new research from The New York Times says. — Brian Brett, the Times' executive director of customer research …

Discussion: Pew Internet, Mashable, GigaOM and Broadcasting & Cable

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Amazon Is Courting YouTube Networks for Short-Video Push — E-commerce Giant Widely Considered YouTube's Biggest Threat — Not content to contend only with Netflix and Hulu for long-form video content like movies and TV shows, Amazon is exploring a push into the short-form territory dominated by YouTube.

Discussion: GeekWire, Mashable and @pkafka

David Meyer / paidContent:

Anonymous comments could suffer under European Court of Human Rights ruling — An Estonian court did not violate a local news site's right to free expression by holding it liable for offensive anonymous comments made under one of its stories, the ECHR has ruled.

Discussion: Index on Censorship, Guardian, Forbes, PC World, The Next Web and ERR NEWS 2013