Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
12:00 AM ET, July 24, 2010

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
In Big Condé Nast Shift, Sauerberg Becomes President; Townsend Remains Chief  —  Condé Nast announced on Friday that it is splitting the job of its chief executive officer and president in two, the latest in a series of high-level management reshuffling that has shaken the magazine publishing world's crown jewel.
RELATED:
Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
No Longer Business As Usual, Condé's Townsend Says  —  The management shifts at Condé Nast today, the end result of a six-month study by corporate efficiency experts McKinsey & Co., signaled a fundamental restructuring of the advertising-based business model that has long sustained the company.
Discussion: Folio
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
On the Media: Even when in error, Andrew Breitbart is on the attack  —  The conservative agitator didn't bother to vet the video that damaged Shirley Sherrod's character, yet he's unapologetic.  —  Short of announcing the discovery of a zero-calorie potato or juggling piglets at the state fair …
RELATED:
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Newspaper Chain's New Business Plan: Copyright Suits  —  Steve Gibson has a plan to save the media world's financial crisis — and it's not the iPad.  —  Borrowing a page from patent trolls, the CEO of fledgling Las Vegas-based Righthaven has begun buying out the copyrights to newspaper content …
Discussion: Techdirt and Bookninja
Zeke Turner / New York Observer:
Pitch and Pass!  Michael Hastings Took his General McChrystal Piece to ‘GQ’ First  —  Rolling Stone owned the media world for one week in June, when the magazine published Michael Hastings' profile of General Stanley McChrystal.  The piece instantly became national news when it hit the web on Tuesday …
Discussion: FishbowlNY and Mediaite
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Can Relentless LeBron James Coverage Sell a New National Sports Magazine?  —  Sports Lifestyle Title From Founders of The Source Will Include 20 Pages of Heat Coverage Every Issue  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The Miami-based founders of The Source and Hip Hop Weekly are betting that LeBron James …
Discussion: Variety
Alan Greenblatt / NPR:
Journalism Legend Daniel Schorr Dies At 93  —  This graphic requires version 9 or higher of the Adobe Flash Player.Get the latest Flash Player.  —  Gallery: Daniel Schorr  —  Daniel Schorr, a longtime senior news analyst for NPR and a veteran Washington journalist who broke major stories …
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why Do Sports Reporters Give Away Their Scoops On Twitter?  —  Major League Baseball's annual trade deadline is approaching once again, and that means sports reporters nationwide are jockeying for scoops big and small on baseball's 32 teams.  —  But here is what's weird …
MediaShift:
Writers Talk About Working the Hyper-Local Beat  —  In my first article for our special Beyond Content Farms series, I examined the opportunities available to writers at some of the biggest content farms.  Today, I look at jobs covering hyper-local news.  —  What hyper-local news organizations …
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
Leon Neyfakh / New York Observer:
Tumblr Will Pay Their Intern  —  Tumblr outreach director Meaghan O'Connell just posted to the site's staff page advertising an internship with the company.  The job sounds like a combination of PR and marketing.  Weirdly, Ms. O'Connell jokes in the post that in order to qualify you must …
Discussion: Tumblr Staff
Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
Amazon strikes sweet exclusive deal - good for them, bad for consumers  —  Amazon announced today that it had reached an agreement with Andrew Wylie, head of the successful New York agency whose clients include such authors as Oliver Sacks, Salman Rushdie, and Philip Roth …
RELATED:
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Don't fragment books (or other content)
Daisy Whitney / The Huffington Post:
Giant Convenience Store Chain Gone Viral: 7-Eleven Web Series Has 2 Million Views  —  LOS ANGELES — 7-Eleven, the world's largest store chain, is quickly making a name for itself as a marketer that's open to digital experimentation.  —  On the heels of its popular Farmville integration …
Yinka Adegoke / MediaFile:
Telcos are winning the cable TV battle but are they losing the broadband war?  —  The latest quarterly numbers from AT&T and Verizon Communications points to steady addition of TV customers which they are very likely winning from the cable companies as well as satellite players.
Discussion: Reuters
Amy Gahran / Knight Digital Media Center:
Collaboration culture in news: No room for pettiness  —  In the news business, there's less and less reason to view other news venues primarily as competitors, even if they're in your backyard.  These days, all news providers are potential collaborators in the practice and business of journalism …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Google's New Video Ad Highlights How Content Farms Rule At The Search Game  —  So yesterday, I notice there's a new article up on Google's main blog, head on over there and see it's merely a post featuring the latest video in the company's Search Stories series, video ads which essentially aim …
Discussion: Dan Blank
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Clicker Adds Mobile Apps, Social Sharing, And Check-Ins To TV Guide For Online Video  —  We're big fans of Clicker, a comprehensive search engine for TV content on the web.  Clicker, which made its debut at TechCrunch50 last fall, indexes over 650,000 full length TV episodes spanning 10,000 shows …
Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
Ad bounce gives relief to U.S. newspapers, for now  —  * New York Times, others, also show rebound in ad sales  —  * Publishers shares remain depressed; recovery doubts  —  * Worries center on easy 2009 comparisons  —  Advertising sales at newspapers finally rebounded in the second quarter …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Getting the message on Journolist's controversial postings  —  To conservatives, it is a pulling back of the curtain to expose the media's mendacity.  —  To liberals, it is a selective sliming based on e-mails that were supposed to remain private.  —  But there is no getting around the fact …
Discussion: The Awl and The Atlantic Online
Chris Wheal:
Time to change?  —  On Radio4's Today programme this morning I pointed out the difference between the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) code and the much older and stronger National Union of Journalists (NUJ) code when it comes to intruding on grief.  —  I think, as a result …
Patrick Gavin / The Politico:
TAPPER'S SUNDAY SIGN OFF  —  This Sunday marks ABC News' White House correspondent Jake Tapper's last appearance as host of “This Week.”  In the wake of George Stephanopoulos' move from the Sunday show to “Good Morning America,” Tapper was named interim host; former CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour …
Discussion: FishbowlDC and mediabistro.com
Devin Leonard / Business Week:
Who's Afraid of Steve Jobs?  —  Not Consumer Reports.  Over the past year the 74-year-old magazine has carved up Apple and made Toyota roll over.  Pretty good for a lab in Yonkers  —  Floto+Warner  —  Two decades ago, when Consumer Reports started evaluating treadmills, it built a test machine it called the Johnny Walker.
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 12:00 AM ET, July 24, 2010.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Ben Fenton / Financial Times:
Lunch with the FT: Mark Thompson
Holdthefrontpage.co.uk:
Publisher to put 150 year-old newspapers online
Discussion: Guardian and paidContent:UK
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Exclusive: With Eye on IPO, Glam Buys Sportsgenic to Build Out Ad Platform
Henry Blodget / The Wire:
See?  The New York Times Has An Excellent Online Business …
Jennifer Saba / MediaFile:
Yahoo and newspapers 18 months after APT
Joel Johnson / Gizmodo:
Is Flipboard Legal?  —  Social news app Flipboard was yesterday's hot …
Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:
Kids and digital storytelling: Who will teach them?
 Earlier Picks: 
Scott Roxborough / Hollywood Reporter:
Apple tablet Europe's mobile TV launch pad?
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Why Editing Could Make a Comeback
Discussion: FishbowlNY and Mediaite
Rosie Gray / Runnin' Scared:
Dov Charney Talks About Gawker, American Apparel, and Why Larry King …
Discussion: Gothamist
Jon Friedman / MarketWatch:
Fareed Zakaria is Newsweek's MVP
Chrystia Freeland / CJR:
The Rise of Private News
Economist:
Digitisation and its discontents  —  Why some media outfits still refuse to go online
Joshua Cohen / Tubefilter News:
Hulu Tops Video Ad Views, Grosses $19 Million in June
Discussion: Media Buyer Planner and NewTeeVee
Olivia / YouTube Blog:
You Report: What's happening now in the Bay Area?