Morning Reading List, 09.25.07

Good morning Washington. You think Jon Stewart could totally take Tucker Carlson in a fist fight. CBSNews.com's Matthew Felling -- fresh back from his stint on "Morning Joe" -- is hosting today's "Kojo Nnamdi Show" on WAMU 88.5FM from noon to two. "Printing poll on Iraqi deaths would be irresponsible" Keith St. Clair, an AME at the Examiner since March 2006, is joining the Associated Press as a Night Supervisor based in Los Angeles. Webpro News reports, "This hot little rumor has been bouncing around through the weekend: Google could be willing to purchase satellite radio provider Sirius." "Brokaw Honored for 'Taking a Stand for Press Freedom'" "CNN Election Bus Rolls Through NYC" "FCC proposes 'fake news' fine" Market Watch reports, "Shares of Google Inc. hit an all-time high Friday, amid a flurry of upbeat news including new share rankings for the Internet-search market and an analyst's report on ways the company may one day reach $100 billion in annual revenue." On "tomorrow's newsrooms." Scotsman.com reports, "Peter Chernin, the president of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, promised the media giant will 'crush' the Financial Times after acquiring its big rival in America." "Sage advice for aspiring journalists" "Clinton campaign kills negative story" FT.com reports, "Online advertising spending is widely predicted to continue its strong growth even if a US economic downturn squeezes the advertising sector as a whole." Mediabistro.com "will mark its 10th anniversary with a gala celebration on Thursday, October 4th at The Plumm, 246 West 14th Street in New York City. To celebrate mediabistro.com's remarkable growth over the past decade, mediabistro will honor ten individuals whose media careers have skyrocketed during the same period with Golden Boa Awards in the 10 verticals that mediabistro.com serves. Festivities will begin at 7:00 pm." For more info, click here. Test your news IQ with Pew! A ICFJ release announced, "Anton Kazarin, editor-in-chief of the business magazine group Delovoy Kvartal, has been named winner of the 2007 Paul Klebnikov Fund Prize for Excellence in Journalism. Kazarin will be honored at ICFJ's Annual Awards Dinner at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., on November 13." AFF "announced a contest for the best college blog with a grand prize of $10,000. The purpose of the contest is to encourage original liberty-minded blogger journalism on college campuses and to identify young conservative and libertarian talent who wish to pursue careers as journalists and writers. The contest is open to all graduate and undergraduate bloggers age 25 and younger." For more info, click here. Poynter Online reports, "This week, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will take up the Free Flow of Information Act of 2007, sponsored by senators Arlen Specter R-Pa. and Charles E. Schumer D-N.Y. There are 10 co-sponsors from the Senate and 71 from the identical House version." A tipster tells us, "BBC World News America is building a new set in Washington at the moment. They are also preparing for World News Today on Oct. 1." A Sierra Club release announced, "A former vice president, a New York Times reporter, and a California Assemblyman who have helped raise awareness of global warming are among those receiving awards from the Sierra Club this year." They include former Vice President Al Gore, Tom Friedman and Congressman Mike Thompson." Media Matters is calling on readers to contact their local papers and "help end the conservative advantage" of syndicated columnists. The 2007 MacArthur Fellows, awarded by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, will be announced on this morning. For more information, click here. Center for American Progress says, "Know Your Sources: The Mainstream Press Keeps Finding Wacky Immigration 'Experts'" "The Moving Picture Institute will host the world premiere of Indoctrinate U at the American Film Renaissance Film Festival in Washington, D.C. on Friday, September 28, 2007, at 7:30 pm ET at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Auditorium." Tickets are available for $10 and can be purchased by calling 877-933-4730 or clicking here. The AP reports, "An experimental online 'mashup' -- a build-your-own Democratic presidential debate -- attracted more than 1 million viewers in the past 10 days, many of them young people drawn to the interactivity of the Internet. ... Yahoo, HuffingtonPost.com and Slate.com conceived the format as a way to give online viewers the ability to build a debate with video blocks of each candidate answering different questions on education, health care and the war from PBS host Charlie Rose." Amy Doolittle is covering transportation issues for DCist. Hollywood Reporter reports, "With only one new non-heterosexual regular character this coming season -- Bonnie Somerville's bisexual Caitlin Dowd on ABC's drama 'Cashmere Mafia' -- the number of portrayals of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people on scripted network series declined for a third straight year, according to the annual 'Where We Are on TV' study by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation." Guardian reports, "BBC News is to join the media stampede for integration by merging its TV, radio and online newsrooms, although the new set-up will immediately face an annual budget cut of 5% over the next five years." Ad Age's Simon Dumenco writes, "Internet Company's Headed to Big Apple, and This Columnist Is Rooting for the Suddenly Agile Giant" Media 3.0 reports, "MySpace recently announced a deal with Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the team behind Thirtysomething and My So-Called Life to create Quarterlife, an online show about post-college twenty-somethings. Unless it was a very slow news day, this would not be on most people's radar -- at least not until the show was a hit. However, what makes this particular press release interesting is that the producers have announced that the hour long show (which will be broken up in to segments for online viewing) will have 'TV-level production values' and 'TV-level production costs.'" New York Times reports, "Media consumers have said, loudly and repeatedly, that they want to watch what they want, when and where they want it. Last week NBC called that bluff, saying that its prime-time broadcast schedule would be there for free downloading for a week after being shown on television. In doing so, the network is leaving behind a business model that is as old as "I Love Lucy": audiences who make appointments with their favorite shows and who then show up in numbers that open up advertisers' wallets." "'What would students do,' one journalism researcher wondered, 'if they got to create a media by them, for them -- to create whatever they want, and not have to worry about what's always been?'" Curious? Insider Higher Ed has the answer. Market Watch's John Dvorak writes, "With the recent discussions of various news organizations eliminating subscription or paid services, whether it's Dow Jones & Co. or the New York Times Co., it might be time for shareholders to evaluate the future prospects of all the newspaper-publishing companies." Boston Globe reports, "Among the investments that Jim Savage, a Waltham venture capitalist, is considering is a North Carolina company introduced to him in an unorthodox way: The entrepreneur posted a comment on Savage's blog." AP reports, "The social networking Web site MySpace is launching a free, advertising-supported cell phone version Monday as part of a wider bid by parent News Corp. to attract advertising for mobile Web sites." Media Week reports, "The Week, Felix Dennis' tightly edited news digest, has launched a new Web site that will attempt to do every day what the magazine does on a weekly basis." B&C reports, "PBS is looking to avoid airing profanities 'in the teeth' of the Federal Communications Commission's enforcement regime. While the commission's crackdown on cussing has been called into question by a federal court, PBS is taking no chances, or at least fewer than it could, with Ken Burns' documentary, The War." Yesterday was "National Punctuation Day" "ABC Digital Chief: The Network Still Matters" The AP reports, "Starbucks Corp. plans to give away 50 million free digital songs to customers in all of its domestic coffee houses to promote a new wireless iTunes music service that's about to debut in select markets." Hat Tips: DCRTV, TVNewser, IWantMedia, Romenesko, MediaBistro, JournalismJobs, JournalismNext

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