Media

Paris court convicts Google of copyright infringement. Twitter hacked by pro-Iranian group. Does the HuffPo strategy work? Journalist deaths hit record in 2009. Why is TV viewership still rising?

Editor & Publisher will publish January issue — hope remains? Magazines get ready for the tablet. Over 15,000 people have lost their jobs in the newspaper industry this year. France…

Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Review are going out of business. Read the internal memo. More info here. Variety erects beta online pay wall. Three top women newspaper editors plan…

Google, Washington Post and NY Times team up to create new news tool. “Media Companies See Slower Ad Declines.” Random House restructures the Crown Publishing Group. Dan Abrams, founder of…

Google helps newspapers erect online pay walls. The Federal Trade Commission examines possible support for news organizations. Rupert Murdoch plans $15 million New York edition of The Wall Street Journal.…

Layoffs begin at The AP. New study points to healthy newspaper readership. Police raid New York newspaper offices in corruption probe. YouTube connects with news organizations. Are awards the new…

Just getting around to reading David Rohde’s epic, five-part series on his capture by, and escape from, the Taliban, which — along with the nifty interactive add-on feature — is…

Why turn your blog back into a printed book? “Blog Bound” “Visit 200 web pages in a day, see on average 490,000 words; War and Peace was only 460,000 words.”…

Sam Zell, Chairman and CEO of the Tribune Company (publisher of the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times), says no newspapers can survive. (via MediaBistro) “Politico owner Robert Allbritton…