Mediagazer: 5 reasons news organisations prefer in-house web publishing tools (Martin Belam/currybetdotnet)

1:10 PM ET, June 1, 2011

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Henry Blodget / The Wire:

THE ATLANTIC: Andrew Sullivan Who? We're Crushing It! — A few months ago, when The Atlantic's biggest star, Andrew Sullivan, ran off with The Daily Beast, some folks worried that he would take The Atlantic's online business with him. — Nope! — Like a lot of other news sites …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, @jayrosen_nyu and @mathewi

Jenn Webb / O'Reilly Radar:

News organizations still party like it's 1899 — Ben Huh (@benhuh), CEO of the Cheezburger, Inc., loves his Cheezburger project, but he's also ready to have a fling with news. In a recent blog post, Huh addressed the stagnant state of news presentation and consumption, which he's hoping to address with his new project Moby Dick.

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Web Hackings Rattle Media Companies — It might just be the most worrisome letter to the editor any news organization can receive. — PBS fought on Monday and Tuesday to restore the Web sites for two news programs on public television, “Frontline” and “PBS NewsHour,” …

Discussion: Company Town and eMedia Vitals

Ben Parr / Mashable!:

Fox News Launches Its iPad App [EXCLUSIVE] — Fox News is announcing Wednesday the release of its official iPad application, a visually-focused news experience with a big-name sponsor. — The app, which is now available [iTunes Link] in the App Store , was built from the ground up.

Discussion: rbr.com, Lost Remote, Editors Weblog and eMedia Vitals

Felix Salmon:

Did the NYT hack Fabrice Tourre's email? — Louise Story and Gretchen Morgenson have a long and rambling story about the court case against Goldman's Fabrice Tourre, which is mainly interesting for how it was sourced: … I'm sure this was extremely carefully formulated, but it does raise a lot of questions without answering them.

Discussion: New York Times, The Awl, The Wire and DealBook

Steve Rubel / The Next Web:

Why I adopted a scorched earth policy, dismantled two blogs and jumped to Tumblr — In military circles, a ‘scorched earth policy’ - according to Wikipedia - is “A strategy which involves destroying anything that might be useful to the enemy while advancing through, or withdrawing from, a given theater of operations.”

Discussion: @macloo, Thanks:martinsfp

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

How to publish news and reach your audience when your website goes down — When the PBS website came under attack by hackers this weekend, the Newshour staff took to publishing its news transcripts and videos to Tumblr instead. A month earlier, a TV station in Tallahassee, Fla. …

Discussion: PBS NewsHour, Lost Remote and Future of Journalism

Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:

Glenn Beck's Mercury Radio Arts Extends Book Publishing Deal With Simon & Schuster — Glenn Beck's Mercury Radio Arts production company is extending its publishing partnership with Simon & Schuster. The companies, which have worked together since the 2003 publication of Beck's The Real America …

Discussion: GalleyCat, Publishers Weekly, The Wrap, paidContent, TVNewser, mediabistro.com, On Media's Blog, The Atlantic Online and Slate

Martin Belam / currybetdotnet:

5 reasons news organisations prefer in-house web publishing tools — At the end of the live blogging panel session at news:rewired, my colleague Matt Wells wanted to answer a question that had been posed on Twitter - if the PA can use ScribbleLive for their live blogging tools, why do the BBC feel the need to build their own?

Discussion: news:rewired

Richard Blackden / Telegraph:

Time Out to fund ticket expansion with Oakley capital injection — Time Out, the cultural listings guide that began in London in 1968, plans to accelerate its expansion online thanks to a fresh cash injection from a private equity firm. — Oakley Capital, a UK private equity firm …

Discussion: MediaPost and magCulture.com/blog

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Blip.tv Signs Distribution Deal With Fred, iJustine, And Other Collective Video Producers — Online video is growing up, and so are the young video stars who first found an audience on YouTube like Fred (Lucas Cruikshank) and iJustine. Both are part of the Collective Digital Studio …

Discussion: Betabeat, PR Newswire, Hollywood Reporter, Tubefilter, Tubefilter, TechCrunch and gigaom.com

Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:

Les Filles du Blog — Although many intellectual and literary magazines have come under scrutiny lately for a lack of female bylines (yes, again; it's an annual event), two of those publication's blogs have become visible launch pads for female writers: The New Yorker Book Bench and the Paris Review Daily.

Richard M Kavuma / Guardian:

Mozambique's free newspaper becomes a tool for social transformation | Richard M Kavuma — @Verdade's goal is to ‘feed the brain’ of people who barely manage to ‘feed the stomach’, proving information as a tool for development — When Jornal@Verdade hit the streets of the Mozambican capital …

Greg Sandoval / CNET News:

Apple still wants films, TV shows for iCloud — Feature films could be part of Apple's iCloud launch next week. — In the past several weeks, Apple executives have stepped up their attempts to convince some of the major Hollywood film studios to issue licenses that would enable Apple …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Online Video News, PhoneArena, Wall Street Journal, BGR, NetNewsCheck Latest, Apple, PC Magazine, Electronista, SAI, AppleInsider, MacStories, MacRumors, Financial Times, The Next Web and parislemon, more at Techmeme »

Lindsay Rubino / Broadcasting & Cable:

NBCU Promotes Schiller to EVP, Digital Media Sales — Newly created role oversees ad sales for Fandango, iVillage, DailyCandy, Swirl, Television Without Pity — Scott Schiller has been named executive vice president, digital media sales for NBCUniversal's entertainment & digital networks …

Discussion: MediaPost and paidContent