BBC signals an end to era of expansion (Times)

The BBC plans to axe two radio ­stations – 6 Music and Asian Network – cut spending on imported programs and halve the size of its website, it is claimed today.

Washington Post tries to reverse New York Times brain drain (Politico)

The Washington Post, in trying to fill a couple top jobs on the politics desk, has turned its attention to a competitor that’s raided its newsroom in the past few years: The New York Times.

Washington Post kills Sally Quinn’s print column (Politico)

The Washington Post has decided to no longer run Sally Quinn’s “The Party” column in the print edition of the paper following an uproar after she used it to weigh in on a family spat last Friday.

Nice Kills: The Favor Economy and the Constant Death of the Media (Gawker)

In any form of journalism—even the quasi-critical commentary form we practice around here—honesty is the currency of quality. It is honesty that ultimately makes things worth reading. Literary deftness and style and graphics and speed and broad distribution are all well and good, but without honesty, they are nothing but a styrofoam sandwich in your media diet. But even the most outspoken has a constant mental calculus of just how far he can go with certain people and institutions.

Vogue app turns ads into shopping links (Wall Street Journal)

Vogue readers with iPhones are getting another toy to play with this month. The magazine is launching an application that looks like a fun shopping and styling tool but is actually a savvy way to connect the magazine and its advertisers directly with readers’ wallets.

Ratings surge for Olympics, thanks to live events, Web (USA Today)

The Vancouver Olympics are winning back viewers, helping NBC and hurting programming on rival networks.

Wenner Media Rejoins MPA After Two Decades Out of Group (AdAge)

In an about-face that will attract notice across the magazine industry, Wenner Media is rejoining the Magazine Publishers of America after staying away for two decades.

Active Interest Media Buys Nine Equine Magazines, Seven Web Sites

Enthusiast publisher Active Interest Media has acquired several equine-related magazines and Web sites from Source Interlink Media and from Louisville, Colorado-based Horse Media Group. Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed.

ASBPE Study: B2B Editors Lack New-Media Training (WebNewser)

New media, Web publishing, social media, blogs, Webinars and the like didn’t suddenly emerge out of nowhere, but many business-to-business editors are still woefully unprepared for it, according to a recent survey of 273 of them.

What WikiLeaks Means for Journalism and Whistle-Blowers (Poynter)

So they won’t take money from Govs, or Businesses; but they leap into bed with the Government of Iceland? BTW, does this mean that the NYT, WaPo, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC news divisions are dirty?

Demand Studios Announces Premium Plan For Highest-Rated Writers (MediaBistro)

Small group of writers to get better rates for EHow input.

Journalism’s first saint (Guardian)

For the first time in history, a professional journalist is to be made a saint. So what kind of man was Manuel Lozano Garrido?

Yellow journalism thriving on Internet (Kansas State Collegian)

Thanks to the Internet, a fad from the past has re-emerged to haunt the journalism world: yellow journalism. Yellow journalism occurs when news and media become sensationalized and focus more on attention-grabbing headlines than legitimate reporting. Unfortunately, some of the media being published today by amateur journalists and bloggers leans towards this tendency.

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