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Mediatwits #17: Ch-ch-changes: Steve Jobs Out; Romenesko Semi-Retires; Shafer Laid Off

Staci Kramer

Welcome to the 17th episode of “The Mediatwits,” the weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift’s Mark Glaser and Staci Kramer, editor of PaidContent, who’s filling in for Rafat Ali. This show looks at the week’s big changes in the media landscape. First, Steve Jobs announced he was stepping down as CEO of Apple, moving into a new position of chairman, while Tim Cook would become CEO. Next, Jim Romenesko said he was going into semi-retirement and would be leaving the column that has his name on Poynter.

Third, Slate announced layoffs, including Tim Noah and Press Box columnist Jack Shafer, a longtime media critic. Shafer was a guest on this episode of the Mediatwits, talking about the situation at Slate and calling Romenesko a “great American.” But where there is change and the ending of eras, there’s always a beginning, too, so second guest Owen Thomas talked about his new venture, The Daily Dot, where he is executive editor. As a bonus, the discussion even went back to Shafer’s early profile of Suck.com back when Shafer worked at the SF Weekly (yes, he really did).

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Intro and outro music by 3 Feet Up; mid-podcast music by Autumn Eyes via Mevio’s Music Alley.

Here are some highlighted topics from the show:

Staci Kramer as co-host

1:30: Staci working in the field 80% of the time

2:10: Rundown of stories for the podcast

Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple

4:20: Jobs is ill, but not dead

6:00: Jobs made such a large impact in the media world

9:00: Simplicity of 99 cents for a song on iTunes

10:45: Staci won’t forgive him for not having removable batteries

Jack Shafer

Special guest Jack Shafer

12:45: Shafer calls it “noise in the system” and not a trend

15:10: Staci mentions that layoffs are happening all over in media

17:45: Mark wonders if there’s a change in media criticism

20:00: Romenesko as master curator

23:00: Shafer says Romenesko suffered from rise of Twitter

Owen Thomas

Special guest Owen Thomas

26:00: How Suck.com relates to the Daily Dot

28:30: Daily Dot wants to write about people on the web

32:10: How do reach people in online communities?

36:10: Using a newspaper metaphor on an online news site

More Reading

Steve Jobs Reshaped Industries at NY Times

Steve Jobs and the sound of silence at GigaOm

It Is Amazing How Many Ways Steve Jobs Changed Media at Business Insider

Why Tim Cook Is the Best Choice to Run Apple at Wired

Steve Jobs – 2007 iPhone Presentation on YouTube

2 Legendary Media Writers Depart at the Daily Beast

Jack Shafer: A Fearless Media Critic at AJR

Slate Lays Off Jack Shafer, 3 Others at Adweek

An Interview with Jack Shafer at Adweek

Suck Amok at SF Weekly

Jim Romenesko

An Original Journalism Blogger Logs Out at NY Times

How the Romenesko years have changed journalism and Poynter at Poynter

The Daily Dot

5 Lessons Learned Building the Daily Dot, a Media Startup at MediaShift

The Daily Dot: Interesting idea, but not a great metaphor at GigaOm

Dead Squirrel Girl’s Parents Defend Video at Daily Dot

Weekly Poll

Don’t forget to vote in our weekly poll, this time about what you’ll miss most about Steve Jobs:

Mark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and Idea Lab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Association. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter @mediatwit.

Mark Glaser :Mark Glaser is founder and executive director of MediaShift. He contributes regularly to Digital Content Next’s InContext site and newsletter. Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. From 2001 to 2005, he wrote a weekly column for USC Annenberg School of Communication's Online Journalism Review. Glaser has written essays for Harvard's Nieman Reports and the website for the Yale Center for Globalization. Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter during the dot-com heyday, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column. Glaser won the Innovation Journalism Award in 2010 from the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication. Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife Renee and his two sons, Julian and Everett. Glaser has been a guest on PBS' "Newshour," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the College Media Assocation's national convention. He has been part of the lecture/concert series at Yale Law School and Arkansas State University, and has moderated many industry panels. He spoke in May 2013 to the Maui Business Brainstormers about the "Digital Media Revolution." To inquire about speaking opportunities, please use the site's Contact Form.

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