Nice to see Andrew Bolt’s one-time fiancée Sue Walshe coming out in Saturday’s Age following Crikey’s revelations last Tuesday that she actually existed and that the duo were definitely engaged. Plus other media news.
The New York Times
Crikey Says: Admiring the view
Consider these snippets from a fresh New Yorker profile on Jill Abramson, who’s been in the job as head honcho at The New York Times since early September …
Meet the new boss of the Gray Lady
Jill Abramson, the new managing editor of the New York Times and the first female to hold the role, has had a fascinating career. Read about the inner workings of the paper and her recovery after a truck ran over her in 2007.
Media briefs: Another NotW inquiry … NY Times historic edition …
In today’s Media Briefs: James Murdoch faces second grilling by MPs … Evidence ‘unclear and contradictory’, says News International and more …
Curtain up, wall down at News Limited websites
June 2011 is going to be an interesting and historically significant month in media. The Mumbrella 360 conference tomorrow will serve as the venue for an announcement of News Limited’s plans to erect paywalls around online content.
Media briefs: NYT‘s first female ed … beefed up correction …
The Department of Corrections. I’d be disappointed too if I was promised a steak dinner but all I got was “beef on a bun”. Plus, Julian Assange wins Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism and other media news.
The NYT’s Twitter experiment: half human, half auto
This week the social media editors at The New York Times are engaging in a Twitter experiment whereby half the NYT tweets are written by humans, the other half from an auto feed. Jessica Roy discusses the results so far.
Guy Rundle: Rundle: Assange accepts peace medal, attacks former partners
Assange slammed what he implied was a series of snobbish class judgments in The Guardian’s treatment of the phone-hacking scandal, which has centred on “red top” tabloid the News of the World.
Media briefs: The cost of ABC 24 … why NYT didn’t win Pulitzer … phone hack latest …
Front page of the day … Why didn’t WikiLeaks reporting earn a Pulitzer? The NY Times didn’t submit it … Phone hacking: Ed Miliband calls for inquiry into press abuses …
The best letter to the editor ever
In October an articleran in the New York Times about the death of picture books for children. The children at Birch Lane Elementary School, California were so outraged they created an entire month to celebrate picture books.
Media briefs: 7PM Project uncut … NY Times pay wall fail …
Behind the scenes at The 7PM Project, US cinemas threaten not to show films in video-on-demand dispute, how Al-Qaeda is using online game theory to recruit the masses. Plus NY Times page views fall after paywall and what does Sidney Harman’s death mean for Newsweek?
Media briefs: Gawenda quits uni … Ten’s One chases men … Vale NZ wire service …
Michael Gawenda, the former Age editor and director of the Melbourne University Centre for Advanced Journalism, has quit his post. Plus, the odd relauch of ONE sports and other media news.
Media briefs: Oakeshott’s Twitter fail … bananas & Libya … NYT journos free …
We’re all for pollies getting on the Twitter, it provides them a chance to show a more human side to that tough Canberran exterior. Except when the 140 characters are typed in caps lock. Plus, other media news…
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Fukushima, Chernobyl, damned lies and statistics
Crikey readers have their say.
Media briefs: AFR’s Marty McFly moment … op-ed gender divide
Back to the future at The AFR, with a return to a resources focus like there was in the 1980s. Plus, Libya regime’s treatment of journalists, the gender divide on op-ed pages and other media news.
Media briefs: Countdown to terror … Nine on Ten …
Scared by cyclone Yasi? Australia’s news websites provided good reason to be by 3:30pm AEST yesterday afternoon. Plus, the first look at News Corp’s The Daily and other media news from around the globe.
Wikileaks 
The US embassy cables: to publish or not to publish?
In the latest WikiLeaks US embassy cables dump, a variety of news organisations — think Le Monde, the NY Times, The Guardian etc — all got first dibs on the documents. The Wall Street Journal declined the offer. Here’s why.
Crikey Says: The lie that travelled halfway around the world…
How far ahead of his time Mark Twain was when he said a century before the internet: “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
What did Murdoch (senior and junior) know, and when did they know it?
Murdoch can control the powers that be in London — and walk free. But if he’s going to take the New York Times down, its message is that he and his son are going down, too, writes Michael Wolff of Newser.com.
The story behind the Afghan War Diary story
For the first time, WikiLeaks actually leaked its Afghan War Diary to major news sources — The Guardian, NY Times etc — in advance, so as to maximise media coverage. CJR explains how the deal was done.
The latest trend: lying at the NY Times
NY Times may be a quality publication, but its also known for producing completely bogus “trend” articles based on anecdotal information and weasel words, writes Jack Shafer.
The most influential online publishers
OMMA magazine put together its picks for the 100 most important online publishers right now. And while NY Times nabs the number one spot, the list is a nice mixture of old and new media, social media sites and independent publishers.
leaked 
“Tweets” banned at the NY Times
It’s official: the word “tweet” has been banned by the standards editor at the NY Times. Instead, journalists are to say “writes on Twitter” or “a Twitter message”.
New Times for US election blog darling
US political wonk website FiveThirtyEight is now being hosted by the NY Times. Its founder, statistician Nate Silver, will also lend his political calculations to NY Times stories.
