The Media Drop

On Monday, AdAge’s Nat Ives wrote about the announcement that Yahoo! would be adding some content from The Week to its Yahoo! Finance pages - the first time the Internet company has made a move like this. So who wins out here? Does The Week, which prides itself on being a magazine chock full of […]

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This morning, David pinged me about Private Radio’s Google News Report. I had forgotten all about it after seeing it on Jeff’s site back in June, but I think it’s definitely worth keeping under your hat, or at least in your bookmarks. At the very least, it’s perhaps helpful in figuring out a bit of […]

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This morning, after the announcement that Harriet Miers’ nomination to the Supreme Court had been pulled back, NBC’s David Gregory was on the “Imus in the Morning” radio show doing his usual interview, but this time with a specific topic to cover. He specifically wondered if this announcement wasn’t “timed” for release today, with the […]

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Reuters reported this morning that Sean McManus, the head of CBS Sports, has been named the new CBS News boss, taking the role currently held by Andrew Heyward.

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Over at HD Beat, Matt Burns writes about the promotion being run by New York City-area public radio station WNYC as part of its fund drive. If you make a donation to the station by 7pm tonight (that’s Monday, October 24), and meet the various rules and regulations, you can enter to win a Sony […]

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Over at Lost Remote, Steve Safran mentions the term “legacy journalists” being used to describe those who wrote for what most bloggers and “new media” folk call the mainstream media. I think it’s kind of an obnoxious usage, because there is no need to defame those who are practicing journalism through “old” media outlets like […]

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The folks at Consumers Union - yep, they’re behind Consumer Reports - have put together a website called hearusnow.org to keep consumers informed about media ownership, Internet and telephone regulation, and TV & radio broadcasters. As a precursor to the petition they’re asking people to sign that asks for the FCC to hold public hearings […]

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You know those times when you see a headline and it’s funny to you, but you realize it probably isn’t to most of the population?
This is one of those times. Good job, Reuters!

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As another update to the ABC News coverage of U.S. nuclear facilities, I’d like to direct your attention to some of the great tracking and reporting that Eric McErlain is doing over at the NEI Nuclear Notes blog. On Monday, he posted about segments that were aired on various ABC programs that seem to completely […]

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The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies’ Joy Howard writes about how the Gambit Weekly, the alt-pub in New Orleans, is expected to hit print yet again on November 1. Howard details the preparations that the paper’s staffers took pre-Hurricane Katrina that has allowed them to set a fairly firm timeline of being back on track, and […]

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