The Media Drop

With Internet readership of publications rising at an almost unexpected rate, what will come of various plans to implement - or not - fees for access to news and information? The Washington Post’s Leslie Walker wants to know.

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Mr. Sun is always good for a laugh. But today, he’s good for an all out, true to form, LOL. He’s got the deets on the Mainstream Media-seeking “MSM-1000″ truck that looks to destroy members of the media anywhere it can find them. Okay, not really, but it sure looked that way!
More here.

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K. Paul Mallasch put together supercool runthrough (he calls it a “quick rundown,” but trust me, take your time) of “We Media,” a piece by Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis. Read the whole thing - he’s added links to each section to help you digest (or ingest, as it were) as much info as possible […]

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To the reader who sent me an email today (or late last night) mentioning something about TMD with regard to non-news-related media items, would you please re-send your email? I’m sorry, but I got a little hasty when getting rid of about 100+ spams that Gmail didn’t catch today, and accidentally threw it away, but […]

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On Wednesday, Reuters named David Wright, formerly MSNBC.com Editor-in-Chief, to a new role the organization has just implemented - Senior Vice President / Managing Editor for Consumer Services. Reuters is looking to create new opportunities for distribution of their news content directly to readers/viewers, and Wright will be on the forefront of those efforts. Previously, […]

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Poynter’s Scott Libin writes about how television weather staffers should start taking their role seriously - as beat journalists.

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The New York Times‘ Jacques Steinberg reports that NBC News boss Neil Shapiro appears to be on the way out - the only thing left to clear up, though, is whether it’s on his own or not.

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Thursday’s Wall Street Journal has an article by Carl Bialik asking if the numbers quoted in various places about how many blogs there actually are are correct - or if they based on different perceptions of what a blog is, live blogs or not, or a number of other factors.

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Billboard Radio Monitor’s Chuck Taylor reports Wednesday morning that WFAN sports talk show host Sid Rosenberg has been fired from the “Imus in the Morning” radio program, which is also run on television’s MSNBC - but not from his role as host from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on WFAN’s midday show.

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David at Vodkafish sent me a great screenshot of the front page of ESPN.com this afternoon. They were showing something about Washington Nationals slugger Jose Guillen - but accidentally replaced his image with one of Andre Agassi - actually the same image that was placed on the right side of the page, just blown up […]

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