Morning Reading List, 09.19.07

Good morning Washington. An ABC release announced, "ABC's 'World News with Charles Gibson' extended its run as the #1 evening newscast last week, winning among Total Viewers, Households, and Adults 25-54 for the nineteenth time in twenty-one weeks. The ABC broadcast averaged 7.70 million Total Viewers and a 1.9/8 among Adults 25-54, outperforming NBC's 'Nightly News' by 380,000 Total Viewers and 20,000 key demo viewers." The Washington Blogger Meetup has a Meetup tonight! To RSVP and see who else is going, click here. Congrats to Washington Examiner columnist La Shawn Barber for her "Daily Show" appearance last night. "Broadcasters Urge FCC to Reject Digital Transition Mandates" AP reports, "If you're not plugged into the Internet, you still have to buy the whole newspaper even if you only want to do the crossword puzzle. But online, that and other stand-alone features are increasingly popping up all over the Web." Matthew Felling will finish out the rest of the week on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "Blitzer, Matthews try to woo Ellen" "Murdoch's Choice: Paid or Free for WSJ.com?" "Roger and Me: Some CNBC Staffers Are Pining for Ailes" "FCC Draws Fire for Emmys Bleeping" Bloomberg reports, "News Corp., the media company controlled by Rupert Murdoch, expects to save $100 million after its acquisition of Dow Jones & Co. and might scrap the fee for reading the Wall Street Journal's Web site." "For Time Warner, a time to break up?" AOL takes on The Big Apple. CNet News.com reports, "770 Broadway is in a notably ambiguous location, to the point where AOL could really stake a claim to one of a handful of Manhattan locations depending on how it wants its new "advertising, not access" incarnation to be branded." Bloomberg reports, "The Emmy telecast on Fox attracted 13.1 million viewers, the fewest since 1990, as the television industry's annual awards show faced competition from football, baseball and reality programs." Portfolio's Mixed Media reports, "You heard it here first, folks: The New York Times is indeed putting paid to its paid-content program, TimesSelect." Content Bridges reports, "So the New York Times' decision to eliminate Times Select tonight at midnight leaves its emerging online business in a more precarious state -- in that one-legged balancing position that any yoga newbie knows is a tough position to maintain." "CBS White House correspondent Jim Axelrod -- you might remember him as the fellow labeled 'defeatist' by then-White House press secretary Tony Snow -- was involved in another tense exchange last week, this time with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi." Public Eye has the details. Indiana Daily Student reports, "When Bob Woodward uncovered the first details of the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein in 1972, he worked against a government that clouded itself in secrecy and became infamous for hiding important information from the American people. Woodward believes the current administration is much the same." "Pictures of the Year International is beginning its 65th year as the world's oldest and one of the most prestigious photojournalism competitions and collections. POYi has just scheduled dates for our 2007-08 program. An advance look at the categories and guidelines will be posted on this Web site at www.poyi.org in early December" AScribe Newswire reports, "TechPresident.com, a data-rich, nonpartisan group blog that covers real-time, online activity of the 2008 presidential candidates -- and chronicles online content from voters who will elect them, is this year's $10,000 Grand Prize winner in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism." New York Business reports, "The New York Times Book Review said Monday that it will redefine and expand its best seller lists starting with the Sept. 23rd issue." Bill Steigerwald writes, "Is Morton Kondracke a conservative op-ed columnist? Are David Broder, Cokie Roberts and Thomas Friedman centrists? That's what Media Matters for America, the left-wing media watchdog outfit in Washington, would have you believe." Bloomberg reports, "New York Times Co., Lee Enterprises Inc. and McClatchy Co. fell to decade-long lows in New York Stock Exchange composite trading after Merrill Lynch & Co. cut its ratings on the three newspaper publishers to 'sell.'" Business 2.0 reports, "Newspaper ad sales are expected to decline 5 percent in 2007, so it's no surprise that print publications are eager to squeeze more cash out of their Web sites. One obvious source: local advertising, which accounts for more than 80 percent of ad spending but less than 20 percent of Internet ad sales." "News Corp. said its $5.2 billion acquisition of Dow Jones & Co., a deal that will give Rupert Murdoch control of the Wall Street Journal, probably will close in about two months," Bloomberg reports. From CJR: "Our Score: Murdoch 2 -- Journalism 0. No Ingrassia book, Varadarajan quits as readers learn to play Austrialian rules" "Nielsen's Adweek Media is launching a business networking site, At the Roundtable, for professionals in advertising, marketing and media." Check it out here. Portfolio reports, "Once in a while, Maureen Dowd is terrific. More often, she's lazy, smug and shallow, trafficking in little but caricature and innuendo. Her most recent column, on Hillary Clinton's perceived weakness on military issues, contains a prime example of Dowd at her worst." Howard Kurtz writes, "O.J. was back. O.J. was proclaiming his innocence. O.J. was doing the perp walk. The Juice was under arrest, and television was magically transported back to the mid-1990s, when all of America argued about every facet of the double-murder case. ... 'It's the story that just doesn't go away,'Fox News host Greta Van Susteren, who has interviewed Simpson several times, said by phone from Las Vegas." "Peter Barnes, Jenna Lee, Nicole Petallides and Cody Willard are joining the FBN anchor team." TVNewser has the details. Also from TVNewser, "Weatherman Tony Perkins, a former GMAer, is now part of Washington, DC's WTTG-TV/Fox 5 morning team." Jobs National Association of Manufacturers is looking for a Web Designer. NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation has an opening for Washington Producer position. Fox News Channel is looking for an Associate Producer. Hat Tips: DCRTV, TVNewser, IWantMedia, Romenesko, MediaBistro, JournalismJobs, JournalismNext

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