Mediagazer: The Relationship Between Promotion and Performance: Pageviews Above Replacement (brian abelson)

9:20 AM ET, November 15, 2013

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The Relationship Between Promotion and Performance: Pageviews Above Replacement — This is the second in a series of two posts about pageviews. This post details some research I've conducted on the promotional correlates of the metric, while the previous post discussed the sometimes apocalyptic tone …

Discussion: Talking Biz News, @stkonrath, @jordancrusoe, @mtigas, @tcarmody, @opennews, @brianabelson and @alvinschang

Felix Salmon:

How the NYT neglects business journalism — Brian Abelson has a fantastic post about the performance of NYT articles. The main gist is that it's possible to predict with surprising accuracy how many pageviews any given NYT article is going to receive, given just a few variables like the amount …

Discussion: @patrickgower, @seythal and @ivorytowerjourn

New York Times:

British Press Freedom Under Threat — Britain has a long tradition of a free, inquisitive press. That freedom, so essential to democratic accountability, is being challenged by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government of Prime Minister David Cameron.

Discussion: Guardian and @lukeharding1968

Roy Greenslade / Guardian: New press regulator just like the old, says Media Standards Trust

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Kevin Delaney Tinkers With Media at Quartz — This is the second installment in a series that will profile four young executives rethinking the publishing business. This series is sponsored by Sonobi, the first and only digital advertising platform created by digital publishers for publishers.

Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
A look inside the Wall Street Journal's video app toolbox

Discussion: @taos

The Authors Guild:

Round One to Google: Judge Chin Finds Mass Book Digitization a Fair Use. Guild Plans Appeal. — Judge Denny Chin today ruled that Google's mass book digitization project to be a fair use, granting the company summary judgment in the copyright infringement lawsuit brought by the Authors Guild in 2005.

Discussion: Memex 1.1, Wired, ZDNet, Forbes, Gigaom, The Week, Businessweek, Search Engine Land, Bookseller news, Online NewsHour, CNET, Talking New Media and Reuters

Corynne McSherry / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Court Upholds Legality of Google Books: Tremendous Victory for Fair Use and the Public Interest

Discussion: New York Times, The Switch and Motherboard

Natasha Vargas-Cooper / BuzzFeed:

David Miranda Is Nobody's Errand Boy — When Glenn Greenwald's 28-year-old Brazilian partner was detained in London this summer while transporting documents related to the bombshell Edward Snowden story, many assumed he was unfairly roped into a situation he didn't understand.

Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:

Lunch with the FT: Henry Blodget — A decade after being banned from Wall Street, the former internet analyst now runs a business website. He talks about redemption, regrets and market madness — ©James Ferguson — According to family legend, Henry Blodget's great-grandfather …

Discussion: @hblodget

Olivier Laurent / British Journal of Photography:

French newspaper removes all images in support of photographers — To coincide with Paris Photo's opening, French newspaper Libération has chosen to remove all images from its 14 November issue in a bid to show the power and importance of photography at a time when the industry …

Discussion: Guardian, @grafikmag and The Verge

Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:

Comcast Plans to Start Selling Movies Digitally Through Cable Service — Comcast Corp. is planning to start selling movies directly through its cable boxes, according to people with knowledge of its plans, a move that could boost the still nascent market considered critical in Hollywood.

Discussion: Reuters, Bloomberg, The Wrap, Variety, Gigaom, The Verge, Engadget, The Next Web and VentureBeat

UPI:

Scholastic to stop selling book that excludes Israel from map — Scholastic, the world's biggest children's book publisher, said it mistakenly omitted the state of Israel from a map in one of its books. — “Thea Stilton and the Blue Scarab Hunt” ends with a map of modern Egypt and its neighboring countries, The Times of Israel said.

Discussion: International Business Times, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NewsMax.com and Fact-Based, In-Depth News

Clifford Coonan / Hollywood Reporter:

China's Youku Tudou Trims Losses In Third Quarter — The Chinese Internet TV company says it is on track to become profitable in the fourth quarter based on a surge in mobile traffic past 300 million daily views. — Youku Tudou expects to become profitable in the fourth quarter of this year …

Discussion: PR Newswire and Variety

Press Association:

Sun journalist denies dishonestly receiving MP's phone — Nick Parker pleads not guilty to receiving Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh's stolen mobile phone and looking at its contents — A Sun journalist, Nick Parker, has pleaded not guilty to charges in connection with the alleged theft of an MP's mobile phone in 2010.

Alexander Howard / Tow Center for Digital Journalism:

On the Ethics of Data-Driven Journalism: of fact, friction and public records in a more transparent age — While ethics in journalism have been defined and upheld for decades, the context they're practiced within has shifted with changes in technology and society.

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's … and @dbarthjones

Alastair Campbell / Guardian:

How journalism can rebuild its reputation — Journalism and democracy: grounds for optimism in the face of the future? is the second of two lectures by Tony Blair's former director of communications as Cambridge University Humanitas visiting professor of media

Julie Bosman / New York Times:

Jeter Prepares to Turn a Page and Publish Many Others — Derek Jeter, the Yankees' shortstop and captain, who is nearing the final act of a golden athletic career, is ready to talk about his life after baseball. He wants to be a book publisher. — On Thursday, he is expected to announce …

Discussion: @katzish, WebProNews, @smalera, USA Today, NY Daily News and FishbowlNY

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

This is not your father's ‘Wall Street Journal’ — “It's among the more glamorous events that The Wall Street Journal hosts every year,” said Gerard Baker, the paper's managing editor, last Wednesday evening. — He had the attention of several hundred well-dressed guests who were between bites …

Discussion: @zseward

Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:

John Oliver Leaving Daily Show to Launch ‘Topical Comedy Series’ on HBO — It was only a matter of time. John Oliver's widely-respected gig as fill-in host for Jon Stewart on The Daily Show this past summer has landed him his own show, to be shown on HBO starting next year.

Discussion: Deadline.com, FishbowlNY, The Huffington Post, TVbytheNumbers, @dorseyshaw, The Verge, Capital New York, Variety, Speakeasy, HitFix and Broadcasting & Cable

Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

Amazon's Lovefilm finally launches iPhone app in the UK — Whereas Netflix has expanded quickly onto numerous mobile platforms in the UK, Amazon can't claim the same for its own streaming service, Lovefilm. Aside from the obvious Kindle support, Lovefilm's iOS app has been iPad-only for two years …

Discussion: TechRadar.com, T3, Crave, Televisual, Digital TV Europe, tech.uk.msn.com, Broadband TV News and Pocket-lint

Sara Deseran / San Francisco magazine:

What's Really Happening to the Chronicle's Food Section? — The paper's managing editor Audrey Cooper clears things up. — Audrey Cooper, the managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, came to the defense of the paper yesterday when the New York Times reported that the Chronicle's lauded …

Discussion: @jonsteinberg31, @sanfranmag, The New York Observer, Poynter, FishbowlNY and NetNewsCheck Latest