Metro pioneered free commuter newspapers the world over, but now it’s falling behind more diversified imitators such as Schibsted’s 20 Minutes

"In a nod to the morphing world of media and technology, The Wall Street Journal is combining its New York tech bureau with the Media & Marketing group."

"Laurel Touby turned her popular cocktail parties into a high-traffic Web site for job-seeking media and creative professionals. Yesterday, she sold Mediabistro.com, the company that sprang from those mixers, for $23 million."

American football has joined the long list of sports leagues with rules restricting sports reporting in order to protect exclusive broadcast rights. Rafat Ali has some funny video showing the effects.

Andrew Grant-Adamson: "[B]logging on the media is somewhat constrained and narrow - rather like discussing the future of politics with members of one party only. On the whole those who believe that revolutionary change is taking place and and enjoy it are

For all age cohorts, readership trends in the United States have changed very little for the past 20 years. "The point is that media consumption patterns are set early in life, and tend to persist."

"Maybe mass media was just a temporary phenomenon," mused Rich Skrenta, co-founder and CEO of news aggregator Topix, noting that mass media arose as a consequence of controlled distribution and captive consumer attention.

James Cridland tracks how a story about something Virgin Radio did became news. Conclusion: "news on the internet appears to run through a chinese whispers system." Only two news sites credited the orgininal Guardian report.

The London School of Economics’s great new media policy and regulation blog looks at the implications of the Kate Middleton privacy debate for small web-only publishers. Would tighter regulation just move gossip online?