Mediagazer: The Unknown Blogger Who Changed WikiLeaks Coverage (The Atlantic Online)

5:15 AM ET, December 14, 2010

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The Unknown Blogger Who Changed WikiLeaks Coverage — When historians look back at WikiLeaks and how the world's pundits tried to make sense of what was happening, they'll see a familiar list of sources: Foreign Policy's Evgeny Morozov, The Guardian's John Noughton, The New York Times' David Carr …

David Carr / New York Times:
WikiLeaks Taps Power of the Press

Discussion: BuzzMachine, Yahoo! News, The Independent, Reuters, Threat Level, Antiwar.com Original, The Wire and Hillicon Valley

YouTube Blog:

Double rainbows, annoying oranges and bed intruders: the year on YouTube … Email This — BlogThis! — Share to Twitter — Share to Facebook — Share to Google Buzz

Discussion: Lost Remote, ResourceShelf, WebNewser, YouTube Trends and The Wire

Kevin Allocca / YouTube Trends:

Welcome to YouTube Trends — Sometimes waiting for popular new videos to hit your inbox / chat window / wall / feed / mobile / pager / two-way radio can be frustrating. Sometimes keeping up with the latest YouTube fad can be hard to do. Sometimes you want to know more about what's happening from where it's happening.

Discussion: Lost Remote and mediabistro.com, more at Techmeme »

Steven Brill / Nieman Journalism Lab:

2011 will bring ebook battles, paywall successes, and a new model for long-form articles — Editor's Note: We're wrapping up 2010 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. — Here, Journalism Online cofounder and long-time journalism entrepreneur Steven Brill lays …

Lois Beckett / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The great paywall debate: Will The New York Times' new model work? — Editor's Note: We're wrapping up 2010 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. — Many of their predictions centered on what may be the most anticipated business-model shift of 2011 …

Discussion: Poynter

Robert Hernandez / Online Journalism Review:

Journalism of the Web, not just on it: Jim Brady discusses how he got to TBD, and where he's going next — By Robert Hernandez: In the Web journalism world, it is hard to find someone who has been more of a pioneer than Jim Brady. From being a print sports reporter to becoming the executive editor …

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:

Internet Now as Popular as TV, Survey Shows — The average U.S. consumer now spends as much time online as watching television, according to research being released today by Forrester. — To technophiles, it might seem strange to think of people ever watching TV more than they surfed the Web.

Discussion: Forrester Blogs, Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb, Fast Company, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Podcasting News, SiliconANGLE, Computerworld, GigaOM and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »

Tim Arango / New York Times:

Time Warner Views Netflix as a Fading Star — For the past year, executives at big media companies have watched Netflix with growing resentment — for its success in delivering movies and television shows via the Internet, for its stock price nearly quadrupling, for its chief executive …

Discussion: The Wrap, DNAINFO.com, TVWeek.com, msnbc.com, Company Town, Susan Crawford blog, SAI, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Electronista, New York Observer, MediaPost, The Consumerist, Fast Company, GMSV and Engadget, more at Techmeme »

Edmund Lee / AdAge:

Time Inc. Opening Up On Digital Initiatives — Q+A with CEO Jack Griffin and New Digital Officer Randall Rothenberg on Apps, Acquisitions and Pay Walls — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Time Inc. CEO Jack Griffin and new chief digital officer Randall Rothenberg, formerly CEO …

Discussion: paidContent, FishbowlNY and digiday:DAILY, Thanks:edmundlee

David Kaplan / paidContent:
IAB Head Rothenberg Named Time Inc.'s Digital Chief

Discussion: Media Decoder, MediaMemo, IAB, Mixed Media, Folio, AdAge, Bloomberg, ClickZ, mediabistro.com, Post Tech and MediaPost Raw

Clay Shirky / Nieman Journalism Lab:

What will 2011 bring for journalism? Clay Shirky predicts widespread disruptions for syndication — Editor's Note: To mark the end of the year, we at the Lab decided to ask some of the smartest people we know what they thought 2011 would bring for journalism.

Discussion: GigaOM and The Atlantic Online

Warren Watson / SABEW:

SABEW survey: Freelancers make $25,000 to $30,000 — Freelance business journalists in North America make an average of $25,000 to $30,000 a year, and two out of every five were laid off, according to an informal survey conducted by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

Discussion: Poynter and BusinessJournalism.org …

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Examiner.com is World's Largest ‘News’ Organization...37,000 Writers Under Contract in the U.S. — While not a conventional news organization, Denver-based Examiner.com may be the world's largest by the sheer size of its writing stable and the amount of content being produced.

John Eggerton / Multichannel:

Ivi Blows Into Windy City — Streaming Services Launches 12 Stations In Chicago — Ivi TV, the TV station streaming site that has been sued by broadcasters for copyright infringement, has launched stations from a fourth market: Chicago. — According to the company …

Discussion: Company Town and Broadcasting & Cable

Jason Salzman / The Big Media Blog:

Bloggers and legacy media deserve fair credit for stories — In a public discussion Wed. of media coverage of the 2010 election, The Denver Post's political editor Curtis Hubbard said if The Post reports on a news story that's appeared previously in another outlet, the newspaper is committed …