At least for now, Twitter has pretty much locked up the microblogging market in the U.S., but a couple of big players seem to think they can still get traction in some foreign countries. Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is launching a Twitter-like [...] ]]> http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/the-fed-is-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:30:18 -0500 http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/the-fed-is-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/ [...] ]]> http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/WPAtSOPxx-I/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:29:42 -0500 http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/WPAtSOPxx-I/

Greenspun Media is merging the print and digital sides of its Las Vegas-based media properties, the Las Vegas Sun reported. The company’s half-dozen Las Vegas news holdings will continue to be sold as independent entities. However, [...] ]]> http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/CQx5lsJt42k/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:08:47 -0500 http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/CQx5lsJt42k/

Facebook’s growth shows no signs of abating—something that CEO Mark Zuckerberg says has meant that in many cases an increasing number of people can view a member’s profile. Therefore, Zuckerberg confirms in an open letter this evening, the social network [...] ]]> http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/another-view-of-vivendige-5-8b-deal/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:02:19 -0500 http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/another-view-of-vivendige-5-8b-deal/ [...] ]]> http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2009/12/fourquartets-plus-one.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:54:00 -0500 http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2009/12/fourquartets-plus-one.html [...] ]]> http://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/xml/rss/3_7020/~3/aQJRiY6oP90/SB10001424052748704107104574569661532881656.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:32:44 -0500 http://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/xml/rss/3_7020/~3/aQJRiY6oP90/SB10001424052748704107104574569661532881656.html

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It’s hard not to see the symmetry: two deals announced within 24 hours of each other, closed on the same day. McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) claims a pre-tax gain of $9 million from selling 80-year-old BusinessWeek to [...] ]]> http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=c2fb40888991ffed123289bc32946224 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:35:35 -0500 http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=c2fb40888991ffed123289bc32946224
[...] ]]> http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/oQZkcKVjTsE/googles-first-click-free_n_376292.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:29:42 -0500 http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/oQZkcKVjTsE/googles-first-click-free_n_376292.html Newspaper publishers will now be able to set a limit on the number of free news articles people can read through Google, the company has announced.

Following President Barack Obama's Dec. 1 speech, which he announced his intentions for increasing troop levels in Afghanistan, MSNBC followed with wrap-up coverage of his speech with arguably three of their [...] ]]> http://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/xml/rss/3_7020/~3/F-iCvKrEH-g/SB10001424052748703735004574570254186929902.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:20:56 -0500 http://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/xml/rss/3_7020/~3/F-iCvKrEH-g/SB10001424052748703735004574570254186929902.html

But before [...] ]]> http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/abc-moving-ugly-betty-to-eastwick-spot/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:09:46 -0500 http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/abc-moving-ugly-betty-to-eastwick-spot/ [...] ]]> http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/12/01/breaking-australias-parliament-rejects-cap-trade Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:06:28 -0500 http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/12/01/breaking-australias-parliament-rejects-cap-trade "Australia's parliament rejected laws to set up a sweeping carbon emissions trade scheme on Wednesday, scuttling a key policy of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and setting a trigger for an early election."

So reported Reuters moments ago.

With global warming-obsessed media pushing for cap and trade legislation to pass [...] ]]> http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/MzOD-EES25c/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:44:25 -0500 http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/MzOD-EES25c/

In the six months since Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) launched Bing, the company’s share of the search market has inched up from 8 to 9.9 percent, according to comScore (NSDQ: SCOR). So, who are the converts? At the Credit Suisse Annual Technology [...] ]]> http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=73bef6c55f79076e7cc0e9f5b6d54a53 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:18:56 -0500 http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=73bef6c55f79076e7cc0e9f5b6d54a53
[...] ]]> http://weblogs.jomc.unc.edu/talkingbiznews/?p=12165 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:51:45 -0500 http://weblogs.jomc.unc.edu/talkingbiznews/?p=12165 A number of BusinessWeek staff members who were let go as part of the magazine’s acquisition by Bloomberg LP took to the blogosphere on Tuesday to say goodbye to readers.

Senior writer Steve Baker wrote, “My career at BusinessWeek, which wraps up tomorrow, was an education. I?d start [...] ]]> http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/newspapers/usa_today_cuts_26_from_newsroom_144617.asp?c=rss Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:46:47 -0500 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/newspapers/usa_today_cuts_26_from_newsroom_144617.asp?c=rss Earlier today, USA Today sent a memo to staff addressing the immediate cuts of 26 editorial positions. FishbowlDC confirmed the layoffs with USA Today but representatives for the paper declined to comment or offer any additional detail on the decision.

In addition, Gannett Co., the paper's parent company announced a [...] ]]> http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/old_school/marilyn_monroe_on_marijuana_144616.asp?c=rss Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:41:32 -0500 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/old_school/marilyn_monroe_on_marijuana_144616.asp?c=rss

Turns out the rebellious icon was also a pot smoker. A home movie of actress Marilyn Monroe smoking a joint has recently surfaced, approximately 50 years after it was shot. New-York based collector Keya Morgan bought the footage for $275K, and plans to offer it [...] ]]> http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/-jcRl5i9s34/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:36:21 -0500 http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/-jcRl5i9s34/

Genieo, a startup which automatically generates personalized home pages for its users, has raised $3 million in funding, we have confirmed. Founder Sol Tzvi tells us that the funds comes from unnamed angel investors. Genieo builds customized home pages, which feature news headlines [...] ]]> http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2009/12/01/obama-speaks-afghanistan-open-thread Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:32:46 -0500 http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2009/12/01/obama-speaks-afghanistan-open-thread President Obama is scheduled to address the nation in less than an hour.

The primary topic of discussion: Afghanistan.

Please express your thoughts either here, or in the chatroom here.

And for those that would rather watch "A Charlie Brown Christmas" -- which has been shamefully bumped to next Tuesday! -- [...] ]]> http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/news_notes/todays_most_popular_stories_120109_144615.asp?c=rss Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:17:18 -0500 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/news_notes/todays_most_popular_stories_120109_144615.asp?c=rss Each day, Ashley Estill surfs your sites for the most popular stories of the day. Here are the top headlines for December 1, 2009:

Washington Post: Florida Highway Patrol to issue Tiger Woods a careless driving citation

Washington Times: Health bills fail to block illegals from coverage

Washington Examiner: [...] ]]> http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2009/12/01/jim-tyree-visits-the-southtownstar Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:16:36 -0500 http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2009/12/01/jim-tyree-visits-the-southtownstar Jim Tyree, the boss of Sun-Times Media, took a quick tour of the Southtown/Star Monday, drawing the sort of jubilant newsroom reception you'd expect from a roomful of journalists whose jobs he'd just saved. Someone whose sense of gratitude is probably standard-issue called me to share the details.

“Social” continues to be the game industry’s buzzword. Big companies like EA have bought their way into social gaming, Microsoft just added a slew of new social features to Xbox LIVE, and of course, [...] ]]> http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/VmxPYbgliWI/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:03:10 -0500 http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/VmxPYbgliWI/

ESPN (NYSE: DIS) is getting ready to launch two new local sites for a total of five across the country that could serve as the starting point for a 20-city network, ABC Sports President George Bodenheimer told Reuters [...] ]]> http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/Ew6OxYYlnjA/twilight-fact-fiction-fan_b_376118.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:52:45 -0500 http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/Ew6OxYYlnjA/twilight-fact-fiction-fan_b_376118.html Okay. Unless you've been living under a rock for the past year, you've heard all about the Twilight phenomenon. The throngs of screaming girls subsided briefly, only to be thriving once again with the release of New Moon. What I find the most fascinating is that the media is [...] ]]> http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/union-target-nbcs-rockefeller-center-xmas/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:44:44 -0500 http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/union-target-nbcs-rockefeller-center-xmas/ Nearly 3,000 of the network?s producers, writers and technicians are accusing NBC of failing to bargain fairly with the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET-CWA) Local 11 in New York. So now the union has targeted NBC's 12th annual ?Christmas in Rockefeller Center? special scheduled to air Wednesday. [...] ]]> http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/tuesday_links_goldies_guns.php Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:39:05 -0500 http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/tuesday_links_goldies_guns.php [...] ]]> http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/xZvMXL7ImuM/biden-going-on-all-three_n_376087.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:35:20 -0500 http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/xZvMXL7ImuM/biden-going-on-all-three_n_376087.html Vice President Joseph Biden will be appearing on all three network morning shows Wednesday to discuss the Obama administration's new Afghanistan policy, confirms a source who helps handle television bookings.

The choice of the VP as the morning defender of the president's 34,000-troop surge proposal is a calculated one. Biden [...] ]]> http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/icm-hires-nick-storch-to-expand-music/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:35:04 -0500 http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/icm-hires-nick-storch-to-expand-music/ [...] ]]> http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/media_minutiae/gibson_set_to_leave_world_news_dec_18readers_digest_looks_to_exit_ch_11huffington_takes_on_murdoch_before_ftcnatgeo_puts_adventurer_on_the_block_144604.asp?c=rss Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:30:00 -0500 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/media_minutiae/gibson_set_to_leave_world_news_dec_18readers_digest_looks_to_exit_ch_11huffington_takes_on_murdoch_before_ftcnatgeo_puts_adventurer_on_the_block_144604.asp?c=rss The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cMaziar Bahariwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show
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TVNewser: Charlie Gibson will sign off from "World News" on December 18.

Politico: Layoffs hit USA TODAY as the national paper looks to cut [...] ]]> http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/mediamatters/latest/~3/Npo_gmQMHJQ/200912010040 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:28:50 -0500 http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/mediamatters/latest/~3/Npo_gmQMHJQ/200912010040 On his radio show, Sean Hannity baselessly asserted that 2009 is "the 9th coldest year on record" to claim that "global warming is a crock," "it's been proven a lie," and "it's a huge cover-up." In fact, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies [...] ]]> http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/4opsdsH_0bQ/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:27:41 -0500 http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/4opsdsH_0bQ/

Shanda (NSDQ: SNDA) Online, the ad and content-serving arm of Shanda Interactive, has reeled in Yahoo alum Dr. Jing Zhu as its new CTO. Zhu spent eight years with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), most recently serving as a senior director [...] ]]> http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2009/12/01/ap-writer-obama-too-spock Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:18:36 -0500 http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2009/12/01/ap-writer-obama-too-spock Have Associated Press's Seth Borenstein and Chris Matthews had a Vulcan mind-meld? Two weeks ago, you may recall, the MSNBC "Hardball" hosts wondered if the president was just "too darned intellectual."

Today, AP's Borenstein wondered, "Is Obama another Mr. Spock?":

WASHINGTON -- He shows a fascination with science, an [...] ]]> http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=174221 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:07:59 -0500 http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=174221 Since last October, the Chronicle has shed more than 250 union jobs, freeing up space throughout its building. Subtracting the latest agreements, there's about 70,000 square feet of empty space remaining. || March 2008: Hearst signs firm to explore possibilities for the Chronicle Building.


[...] ]]> http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/kA-Eqd-Oc4o/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:03:31 -0500 http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/kA-Eqd-Oc4o/ Interesting news from Seeking Alpha: the financial commentary and info site has raised $7 million in a second round led by new investor DAG Ventures with “full participation” from existing investors Benchmark & Accel. In an e-mail, Founder and CEO David Jackson said the funds would provide “a strong capital [...] ]]> http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/xoFOWkKvnzQ/obama-and-afghanistan-but_b_375986.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:41:20 -0500 http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/xoFOWkKvnzQ/obama-and-afghanistan-but_b_375986.html So President Obama's new plan is we're stuck in Afghanistan forever. What did Schumpeter call imperialism? Oh yeah, "expansion for the sake of expanding, war for the sake of fighting, victory for the sake of winning, dominion for the sake of ruling." Sounds about right. The good news is [...] ]]> http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/crouching_tiger.php Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:39:54 -0500 http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/crouching_tiger.php [...] ]]> http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/gtlyahnA5yI/nbc-labor-dispute-threate_n_375981.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:36:05 -0500 http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/gtlyahnA5yI/nbc-labor-dispute-threate_n_375981.html A labor dispute is threatening NBC's "Christmas in Rockefeller Center" telecast.

The National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET-CWA) Local 11, which represents nearly 3,000 of NBC's producers, writers, and technicians, vowed Tuesday to "pull the plug" on Wednesday's Christmas special -— which includes the lighting of the Rockefeller [...] ]]> http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2009/12/01/murdoch-regulators-freeloaders-obstacles-media-future Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:35:26 -0500 http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2009/12/01/murdoch-regulators-freeloaders-obstacles-media-future Rupert Murdoch sees a future in journalism. With newspaper circulation at post-war lows and major dailies shutting down in a number of cities, he may be one of the few optimists left. But first, Murdoch claims, the American government must change its obsolete and destructive regulatory policies that, [...] ]]> http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2009/12/01/abc-s-sawyer-hits-gibbs-left-last-time-you-ll-ask-troops-right Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:33:15 -0500 http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2009/12/01/abc-s-sawyer-hits-gibbs-left-last-time-you-ll-ask-troops-right Good Morning America host Diane Sawyer on Tuesday badgered Robert Gibbs from the left, quizzing the White House press secretary about Democratic resistance to a troop surge in Afghanistan. She began by fretting, "Is this the last time the President is going to ask for American troops from the American [...] ]]> http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/tv/pbs_announces_more_changes_to_its_news_lineup_144607.asp?c=rss Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:32:35 -0500 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/tv/pbs_announces_more_changes_to_its_news_lineup_144607.asp?c=rss Yesterday's news that Jim Lehrer's name will no longer be in the title for PBS' "NewsHour" wasn't the only change in the non-profit network. "Newshour" was also partnering with digital media news outlet GlobalPost for international stories, and today brings news that PBS' [...] ]]> http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/west_wing_reportage/prez_and_first_lady_angered_by_party_crasher_incident__144608.asp?c=rss Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:31:00 -0500 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/west_wing_reportage/prez_and_first_lady_angered_by_party_crasher_incident__144608.asp?c=rss The AP reports that the Secret Service will now work with a WH social office staffer to check off names at official presidential events. The change in procedure is in response to Michaele and Tareq "we were invited" Salahi's party-crashing antics at last week's state dinner.

The White House [...] ]]> http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/mGh58wSs_xw/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:20:56 -0500 http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/mGh58wSs_xw/

After a break from furloughs during the second half of the year, Gannett (NYSE: GCI) says that it will require its employees to take five days off without pay in Q1, according to a memo by Bob Dickey, president [...] ]]> http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=174218 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:19:56 -0500 http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=174218 Four out of five of the 75 former Los Angeles Times staffers responding to a survey report they now earn half or less of what they were paid at the Times. Thirteen percent of the respondents reported zero income. [...] ]]> http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/hOpLe89ISMU/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:17:43 -0500 http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/hOpLe89ISMU/

While Journalism Online claimed earlier this fall that it had collected letters of intent from more than 1,000 media outlets, it has been unclear when the startup’s paywall platform will actually launch—or how many of those news organizations [...] ]]> http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/cyAFiWDNklA/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:17:20 -0500 http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/cyAFiWDNklA/

Yes, it’s a bit over the top to compare buying a magazine with matters of war but getting the word that Bloomberg’s acquisition of BusinessWeek is official today reminded me of an interview I just heard about [...] ]]> http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/Uiq1o_oK8zo/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:17:04 -0500 http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/Uiq1o_oK8zo/

WSJ Managing Editor Robert Thomson is known for his one-line zingers. He famously told Google (NSDQ: GOOG) VP Marissa Mayer earlier this fall that her search engine was encouraging “promiscuity.” He also [...] ]]> http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/12/01/bushs-iraqi-shoe-thrower-gets-shoe-thrown-him Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:12:14 -0500 http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/12/01/bushs-iraqi-shoe-thrower-gets-shoe-thrown-him Almost a year ago, the media had a field day with the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush.

On Tuesday, Muntazer al-Zaidi was in Paris promoting his campaign for what he calls "victims of the US occupation in Iraq," and a fellow journalist [...] ]]> http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/4NJwdxY7K-M/the-internet-must-not-bec_b_375942.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:07:33 -0500 http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/4NJwdxY7K-M/the-internet-must-not-bec_b_375942.html Co-authored by Malkia Cyril, Chris Rabb and Joseph Torres

When Fox News' Glenn Beck called President Barack Obama a racist this past July, the online advocacy group ColorOfChange.org launched a campaign to convince advertisers to boycott the show. To date, some 285,000 people have joined the effort, and more [...] ]]> http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/tij6Lkkjfuk/oprah-winfrey-network-pre_n_375943.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:07:09 -0500 http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/tij6Lkkjfuk/oprah-winfrey-network-pre_n_375943.html "Her show as you know it is not coming to OWN," otherwise known as the Oprah Winfrey Network, network CEO Christina Norman says in an interview this week. "She's going to have a significant presence on this network," but not in a daily talk show. "Pieces of that show [...] ]]> http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/breaking_news/union_threatens_to_darken_rockefeller_christmas_tree_lighting_over_negotiations_with_nbc_144593.asp?c=rss Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:00:00 -0500 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/breaking_news/union_threatens_to_darken_rockefeller_christmas_tree_lighting_over_negotiations_with_nbc_144593.asp?c=rss Just as Thanksgiving has the Macy's Day Parade, so does Christmas in New York have its annual lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. The event, scheduled for tomorrow, is a time where celebrities gather and NBC grabs ratings with its "Christmas in Rockefeller Center" tree [...] ]]> http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2009/12/01/ny-times-science-writer-blasts-smug-groupthink-among-climategate-scient Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:49:05 -0500 http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2009/12/01/ny-times-science-writer-blasts-smug-groupthink-among-climategate-scient Unpredictable New York Times science columnist John Tierney has again struck a blow against conventional wisdom. His Tuesday column is a scathing piece on the treasure trove of damning emails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit at East Anglia University, a hub of climatologists who believe in the theory that [...] ]]> http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/mediamatters/latest/~3/Zk6uNyhefVc/200912010037 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:48:43 -0500 http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/mediamatters/latest/~3/Zk6uNyhefVc/200912010037 At least three times in the last two days, MSNBC anchors have hosted NBC News military analyst and retired Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, who has used his appearances to criticize possible "deadlines" to the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan and highlight the importance of training the Afghan security forces. However, [...] ]]> http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/eOXkR-Lt4qE/gannett-job-cuts-hit-usa-_n_375908.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:47:05 -0500 http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/eOXkR-Lt4qE/gannett-job-cuts-hit-usa-_n_375908.html NEW YORK — Newspaper publisher Gannett Co. imposed a new round of cutbacks Tuesday, with USA Today reducing its newsroom staff by 5 percent, as the industry continues to suffer through an extended advertising slump.

Along with 26 newsroom jobs at USA Today, 11 positions will be cut at USA [...] ]]> http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2009/12/tiger-tiger-turning-right.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:43:00 -0500 http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2009/12/tiger-tiger-turning-right.html [...] ]]> http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/nXwqqL0ZvYw/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:42:20 -0500 http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/nXwqqL0ZvYw/

Local online ad tech provider PaperG has raised $1.1 million in its second funding round, the company’s CEO Victor Wong told paidContent. Launch Capital led the round. Among the other participants in the funding were AppNexus CEO Brian O’Kelley, former Boston.com publisher Steve [...] ]]> http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2009/12/although-some-consider-her-a.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:39:16 -0500 http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2009/12/although-some-consider-her-a.html [...] ]]> http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/legal_trouble/new_york_post_hit_with_second_discrimination_suit_144582.asp?c=rss Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:30:57 -0500 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/legal_trouble/new_york_post_hit_with_second_discrimination_suit_144582.asp?c=rss

New York Post senior reporter Austin Fenner was fired from the paper on November 9, the same day that a former colleague, Sandra Guzman, filed a discrimination suit against the Rupert Murdoch-owned paper. This week, Fenner, who is black, leveled his own allegations [...] ]]> http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2009/12/two-heavyweights-debate-health-care.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:26:00 -0500 http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2009/12/two-heavyweights-debate-health-care.html
[...] ]]> http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/_HHNacN3X7I/the-future-of-content_b_375019.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:24:47 -0500 http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/_HHNacN3X7I/the-future-of-content_b_375019.html We’re seeing a media shift away from traditional outlets like print and TV towards outlets like mobile and digital devices. One of the huge implications in this is that our very stable economic model of advertising-driven content is starting to disappear right before our eyes. Newspapers can no longer afford to pay journalists [...] ]]> http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/7W8N5ylu-3Y/tribune-bankruptcy-reorga_n_375856.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:24:24 -0500 http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/7W8N5ylu-3Y/tribune-bankruptcy-reorga_n_375856.html WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday granted the Tribune Co. more time to submit a Chapter 11 reorganization plan.

Judge Kevin Carey agreed to extend the period under which Tribune has exclusive rights to file a plan to Feb. 28, with the possibility of a further extension [...] ]]> http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/just_another_cyber_monday.php Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:18:43 -0500 http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/just_another_cyber_monday.php [...] ]]> http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/media_people/tis_the_seasonfor_person_of_the_year_polls_144583.asp?c=rss Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:17:00 -0500 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/media_people/tis_the_seasonfor_person_of_the_year_polls_144583.asp?c=rss Since it's now December (eek) the year that was 2009 is coming to a close. And you know what that means: for the next few weeks, end of the year lists and "best of" retrospectives will be filling up all of the magazines [...] ]]> http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=174215 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:16:17 -0500 http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=174215 Greenspun Media Group is aligning into one team the editorial, advertising and support staffs of the Las Vegas Sun and its website, along with the staffs of Las Vegas Weekly, LasVegasWeekly.com, In Business Las Vegas, Las Vegas Magazine, Vegas Magazine and Vegas2Go. The Sun says there will [...] ]]> http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/when_tiger_updates_cry_wolf.php Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:14:50 -0500 http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/when_tiger_updates_cry_wolf.php [...] ]]> http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2009/12/01/liberal-cbs-legal-analyst-i-wasnt-political-when-i-was-it-was-bushs-fa Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:07:30 -0500 http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2009/12/01/liberal-cbs-legal-analyst-i-wasnt-political-when-i-was-it-was-bushs-fa The same CBS legal analyst who...:

• wrote that former Vice President Cheney "is just a dick"
• labeled Chief Justice John Roberts "silly and condescending" and Justice Alito a "rigid starboard-facing ideologue"
• and blamed Karl Rove for the Valerie Plame leak despite the fact that Richard Armitage admitted that he [...] ]]> http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/12/01/disgraced-anchor-dan-rather-names-abu-ghraib-startling-scoop-decade Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:03:31 -0500 http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/12/01/disgraced-anchor-dan-rather-names-abu-ghraib-startling-scoop-decade Writing for Newsweek magazine?s feature on the top ten ?startling scoops? of the past ten years, ex-CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather identified the most shocking: ?Abu Ghraib has opened our eyes, serving as a dark icon that reminds us our fiercest enemies [...] ]]> http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/wuONIKlSG0s/shatner-grills-limbaugh-a_n_375816.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:59:22 -0500 http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/wuONIKlSG0s/shatner-grills-limbaugh-a_n_375816.html On an upcoming episode of William Shatner's "Raw Nerve" Shatner grills guest Rush Limbaugh on health care. The conversation is heated, and the setting -- the two men sit on an S shaped love-seat in front of a lit fireplace -- is downright surreal.

  "Here's my premise and you [...] ]]> http://weblogs.jomc.unc.edu/talkingbiznews/?p=12149 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:53:39 -0500 http://weblogs.jomc.unc.edu/talkingbiznews/?p=12149 Bloomberg LP announced Tuesday afternoon that it has completed its acquisition of BusinessWeek from McGraw-Hill Cos.

  Bloomberg paid $5 million in cash and Bloomberg also assumed certain liabilities, including unfulfilled subscription liabilities.

  “We share with McGraw-Hill a commitment to editorial excellence and we look forward to building on [...] ]]> http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/in_n_out/san_diego_uniontribune_editor_to_retire_144594.asp?c=rss Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:53:19 -0500 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/in_n_out/san_diego_uniontribune_editor_to_retire_144594.asp?c=rss Karin Winner announced her plans today to retire at the end of the year from her post as Union-Tribune editor. Publisher Ed Moss said he would immediately begin a search for Winner's replacement. From the SDUT:

  Winner began her career in 1976 as a reporter at The San [...] ]]> http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/Ug-vBoBoS6U/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:51:23 -0500 http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/Ug-vBoBoS6U/

  »  Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is launching a Twitter-like service in China. [PC World]

  »  An exit interview with Mike Shaw, who is leaving his post as president of ABC’s ad sales and marketing. [AdAge]

  »  Why the ROI [...] ]]> http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/capitol_hill/rtca_annual_elections_next_week_144552.asp?c=rss Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:49:51 -0500 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/capitol_hill/rtca_annual_elections_next_week_144552.asp?c=rss The Radio & Television Correspondents Association's annual general election will take place next Wednesday and Thursday.

  There are three open positions on the executive committee and seven candidates-- Federal News Radio's Max Cacas, Pacifica Radio (Free Speech Radio News)'s Leigh Ann Caldwell, CNN's Jay McMichael, Capitol News Connection's [...] ]]> http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/television/december_18th_144591.asp?c=rss Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:46:46 -0500 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/television/december_18th_144591.asp?c=rss ABC announced this afternoon that Charlie Gibson's last day as the anchor of "World News" will be December 18th.

  Executive producer Jon Banner posted this message on the "World Newser" blog:

  From Our Newsroom: Charlie to Sign Off From "World News" on December 18

  It's that time of year [...] ]]> http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/xrdCVMTwffQ/obama-adviser-calls-out-c_n_375828.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:42:32 -0500 http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/xrdCVMTwffQ/obama-adviser-calls-out-c_n_375828.html Former Vice President Dick Cheney said he "basically" didn't think he or his old boss held any responsibility for the current state of affairs in Afghanistan. On MSNBC today, National Security Council Chief of Staff Denis McDonough pointed out that not only does Cheney bear some responsibility for [...] ]]> http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/X_Cd6jRJfBU/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:39:24 -0500 http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/X_Cd6jRJfBU/

  After a few months of testing, Nielsen is ready to officially roll out a combined measurement for internet and TV viewing though its People Meters. The ?TVandPC? initiative, as it’s called, will eventually measure the total 7,500 National People Meter households by next [...] ]]> http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/X3nen2_WloQ/regis-philbins-hip-replac_n_375780.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:36:27 -0500 http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/X3nen2_WloQ/regis-philbins-hip-replac_n_375780.html NEW YORK — Regis Philbin had successful hip replacement surgery Tuesday, and plans to return to his syndicated daytime talk show early next month.

  An e-mail from "Live! With Regis and Kelly" says: "Word from the hospital is that everything went perfectly this morning during Regis' hip replacement surgery, and [...] ]]> http://openrecords.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/1274/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:34:46 -0500 http://openrecords.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/1274/ [...] ]]> http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/OVNpeHru4zc/rupert-murdoch-comes-out_n_375781.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:33:10 -0500 http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/OVNpeHru4zc/rupert-murdoch-comes-out_n_375781.html News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch was in Washington, DC this morning, appearing at the Federal Trade Commission's "How Will Journalism Survive The Internet Age" conference, where he brought a strong message for members of Congress: Don't even think about bailing out journalism with taxpayer money! And then, Murdoch delivered [...] ]]> http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=174209 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:31:10 -0500 http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=174209

  December 1, 2009
  To: All US Community Publishing employees
  From: Bob Dickey

  We are just completing the preliminary budgets for 2010. Thanks to all of your hard work and efforts to keep our costs down this year and create greater efficiencies across the division, we are [...] ]]> http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/mediamatters/latest/~3/uk5Y6XQWpM4/200912010033 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:25:56 -0500 http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/mediamatters/latest/~3/uk5Y6XQWpM4/200912010033 On Fox News' America's Newsroom, Stuart Varney misrepresented an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to falsely claim that under the Senate health care bill, the cost of "your employer-provided health care would not go up, only because of the subsidy from the government." In fact, the CBO found [...] ]]> http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2009/12/grinch-returns.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:22:00 -0500 http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2009/12/grinch-returns.html Union workers at NBC, unhappy about lack of talks, now threaten to "pull the plug" on the network's big annual special on the Christmas tree lighting in Rockefeller Center. Protesting flyer at left.  "NBC Stole Christmas," they say.  Kenneth?  [...] ]]> http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/mediamatters/latest/~3/-Nou_5IzAcY/200912010032 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:20:07 -0500 http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/mediamatters/latest/~3/-Nou_5IzAcY/200912010032 On Fox News, Martha MacCallum claimed that "U.S. corporations overall face an average combined tax of about 39%," adding that this was "the second highest rate among all industrialized countries." Fox News Washington correspondent Jim Angle later added that U.S. taxes "punish savings and investment more than the Europeans do [...] ]]> http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/wyV16OWtkW0/charlie-gibsons-final-wor_n_375771.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:18:38 -0500 http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/wyV16OWtkW0/charlie-gibsons-final-wor_n_375771.html Charlie Gibson will sign-off as anchor of ABC's "World News" on December 18, the network announced Tuesday.

  Diane Sawyer will assume the anchor's chair on December 21. Her "Good Morning America" replacement is yet to be named, but the New York Times reports that she is expected to [...] ]]> http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2009/12/sluggin.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:11:00 -0500 http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2009/12/sluggin.html [...] ]]> http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/HWgbydRvlFY/would-mike-huckabee-find_b_375717.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:06:01 -0500 http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/media/~3/HWgbydRvlFY/would-mike-huckabee-find_b_375717.html There ought to be sympathy for Mike Huckabee.

  He was vested with the power to free convicted criminals, and one of them appears to have committed a crime so despicable it's almost surreal: gunning down four uniformed police officers simultaneously. What an awful thing to happen -- and surely Mike [...] ]]> http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/mediamatters/latest/~3/N-LPSIyusF4/200912010031 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:00:26 -0500 http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/mediamatters/latest/~3/N-LPSIyusF4/200912010031 Fox Business' Stuart Varney baselessly claimed that the Obama administration was using inflated cost estimates of $1 million per year per soldier to deploy additional troops to Afghanistan in order to "introduce the pressure to leave" and that the Pentagon's estimate for cost per additional soldier deployed to Afghanistan is [...] ]]> http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/the_revolving_door/cond_naster_jumps_to_fitness_144572.asp?c=rss Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:00:00 -0500 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/the_revolving_door/cond_naster_jumps_to_fitness_144572.asp?c=rss If you had a choice between working for two similar titles, one which was owned by a publishing company that was publicly cutting staffers down to bare bones, or one that was winning awards and actually gaining ad pages in 2009, which would you choose?

  Yeah, we [...] ]]> http://mrmedia.com/2009/12/donald-faison-dave-franco-scrubs-stars.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:00:00 -0500 http://mrmedia.com/2009/12/donald-faison-dave-franco-scrubs-stars.html Image via Wikipedia
  By BOB ANDELMAN
  
  Picture this:
  
  I?m looking up to my left in a thoughtful pose, my right index finger gently tapping against my lower lip. Outwardly, I?m introducing my guests, ?Scrubs? TV stars [...] ]]> http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2009/12/01/captionfest-unfortunate-twitter-gaffe-edition Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:59:34 -0500 http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2009/12/01/captionfest-unfortunate-twitter-gaffe-edition A special captionfest thanks to a photo from the Mobile [Ala.] Press-Register, via al.com (h/t NB intern Mike Sargent):

  

  Original caption: "A passing motorist's photo shows the unfortunate juxtaposition of three of WPMI-TV's on-air personalities with a Twitter headline stating that three people have been arrested in [...] ]]> http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/12/01/breaking-climategates-jones-steps-down-pending-investigation Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:57:11 -0500 http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/12/01/breaking-climategates-jones-steps-down-pending-investigation The British scientist in the middle of the growing ClimateGate scandal is temporarily stepping down from his position as head of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit pending an investigation.

  As NewsBusters reported on November 20, Phil Jones was one of the scientists on the [...] ]]> http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/mediamatters/latest/~3/OGLSDRN6juE/200912010030 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:50:41 -0500 http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/mediamatters/latest/~3/OGLSDRN6juE/200912010030 Conservative media have recently suggested that scientists at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia intentionally "threw out" or "destroyed" the raw temperature data "underpinning the man-made-warming theory," in the words of the New York Post, echoing a recent London Times article that said it is [...] ]]> http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/newspaper_deathwatch/the_journalism_shop_surveys_former_lat_staffers_144581.asp?c=rss Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:43:24 -0500 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/newspaper_deathwatch/the_journalism_shop_surveys_former_lat_staffers_144581.asp?c=rss
  Brett Levy at The Journalism Shop polled 75 former LAT staffers and has a grim assessment of how they're doing now. It seems our dark vision of a bunch of seasoned reporters a decade from retirement age suddenly out of work and feeling obsolete in [...] ]]> http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/02uWylhuv_8/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:34:27 -0500 http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/02uWylhuv_8/

  Jeremy Liew is a Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he focuses on investments in the internet and mobile sectors, with a particular interest in social media, commerce, gaming, financial and methods for increasing monetization. He blogs on these [...] ]]> http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/Mu9xpHiONTk/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:31:26 -0500 http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/Mu9xpHiONTk/

  Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which has a little-known program for subscription sites indexed through Google News, called “first-click free”, is finally announcing an upgrade that is bound to make Mr. Murdoch happy. What the program was: a way for subscription sites [...] ]]> http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/tv/ge_vivendi_reach_deal_on_nbcu_paving_way_for_comcast_to_buy_net_144576.asp?c=rss Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:30:00 -0500 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/tv/ge_vivendi_reach_deal_on_nbcu_paving_way_for_comcast_to_buy_net_144576.asp?c=rss Several news outlets reported last night that General Electric had reached an agreement with Vivendi to buy the remaining stake in NBC Universal that it did not yet own. This long-expected agreement now paves the way for Comcast to step in and pick up a controlling [...] ]]> http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/z2pPLAHVGxY/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:29:04 -0500 http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/z2pPLAHVGxY/

  Trade mag publisher NewBay Media has acquired Reed Business Information’s U.S. b2b mags Multichannel News, Broadcasting & Cable and This Week In Consumer Electronics (TWICE). The terms of the sale were not disclosed. The titles will remain independent, at least for now, and become siblings [...] ]]>