For those of you who accidentally turned off your Google alert on my name, a quick round-up of the pick-up of my announcement on Wednesday that I’m heading to Yahoo:

• Yahoo! To Come Full Circle With News Link Curation Site – ReadWriteWeb
• Yahoo Will Launch a New News Blog – GigaOm
• TPM’s Golis heads to Yahoo – Politico
• Is Yahoo Hatching a HuffPo Clone? – Media Post
• TPM ‘s Dep. Publisher to Yahoo – FishBowlDC
• Yahoo News to launch new blog with aim of entering ‘news link economy’ – Journalism.co.uk
• Yahoo To Launch Political News Blog (YHOO) – Silicon Alley Insider
• Rise Of A New Empire – Attackerman
• Talking Points Memo’s Andrew Golis To Head Up New Political Blog For Yahoo – PaidContent
• Talking Points Memo Deputy Publisher to Bring Yahoo News ‘Into the Link Economy’ – BayNewser
  

Thanks for caring folks!  Now back to your regularly scheduled programing of links about other things more interesting and less me-y.

Some big, and bittersweet, news for ya: at the end of next week I’m going to be leaving TPM, my home for the last three years.

I’ve accepted an amazing offer from Yahoo to build, staff and run a new news blog. It will be a combination of curation and original reporting, with gregarious linking and sharp, smart writing. In other words, for the folks who read this site for meta journalism news, I’m going to be building a team to bring the most popular news site in the United States into the news link economy.

Needless to say, only an opportunity this intriguing could have possibly lured me away from TPM. My love for the company, for Josh, and for the team he’s built isn’t something that will ever go away. I’ll always be thankful to Josh for the opportunities he’s given me and proud to have contributed to building the site into what it’s become (when I started there, it looked like this). I’m sure TPM will remain a cutting edge producer of engaging, important journalism for years to come.

I’ll have more to say about the Yahoo project as things develop in the weeks to come. The blog’s name and the brilliant writers who will grace its pageviews are TBD. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have ideas for either.

In the meantime, if you always thought “I could do Andrew’s job way better than he does,” I highly recommend you apply for one of the two new job opening’s on TPM’s publishing staff: Deputy Publisher/Publisher and Social Media & Publicity Associate. Details are here.

Late update: A clarification: my use of the word “site” instead of “blog” made some folks think this would be a new, independent website for Yahoo. Thankfully, it won’t be, and will live at Yahoo News and benefit from the enormous audience and resources they’ve already built up (hence the exciting “bring the most popular news site in the United States into the news link economy” part). Apologies for the confusion.

Later update: I need name ideas!

How many media organizations does it take to establish that the President thinks Kanye West is a jackass?

Well, the President made the comment while waiting to start doing an interview with CNBC (1). ABC (2) reporter Terry Moran posted the comment to Twitter (3), but immediately deleted it because he realized that it was supposed to be off the record. Two reporters from Politico (4) saw the tweet before it was deleted and published it for the world to see. So, Moran apologized to CNBC and the White House, as reported by another reporter from Politico (4.5).

But what’s a tweet? That’s not confirmation! TMZ (5) was able to get the audio and posted it for all to listen. Then Ben Smith of Politico (see 4, 4.5) was able to get the video and post that on Brightcove (6)! But Joe Weisenthal of Silicon Alley (7) noticed that Smith quickly took it down! But don’t worry! CNN (8) grabbed the video before Politico pulled it down and TPM (9) grabbed the CNN video and uploaded it onto YouTube (10) for the world to see. Why did Politico pull it down? Gawker (11) was on the case.

So the answer is eleven. Eleven media organizations and something like a dozen individual reporters.

Welcome to the future!

Went on GritTV again yesterday to discuss the day’s news with Michael Musto of the Village Voice and and Esther Armah of WBAI.  Enjoy.

Went on the wonderful GritTv yesterday to discuss the week in news:

Jason Jones has a look at “aged news”:

I’m not sure which is more depressing, the fact that things are so bleak or the fact that I know exactly what all of this jargon means.

A little after the four minute mark:

Tomorrow at 10:15 at the Watchdog Conference on Investigative Journalism:

INNOVATIONS II: Innovations on Funding Models for Investigative Reporting

10:15-11:45am on Friday, March 13

(Panel Briefing by Charles Lewis)

Amidst all of the turmoil in the media industry, new economic models for funding investigative journalism – nonprofit, for profit and hybrid – have been emerging in recent years. Josh Marshall’s political blog, Talking Points Memo, winner of the 2007 George Polk Award for its legal reporting, is a small for-profit company funded by Google Ad revenue and reader donations. Global Post is a new for-profit company attempting to cover the world with more than 70 reporters paid a modest monthly fee and an ownership share, the venture supported by advertising, syndication and paid memberships. Grant-funded, nonprofit investigative reporting centers have existed in the world since the late 1970s, and now operate from California to Tajikistan, from the Philippines to Romania. The three largest U.S. centers currently are the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Center for Public Integrity and ProPublica, which began last year. But now new state, regional, national and international-focused investigative reporting centers have begun in just the past two or three years in the U.S., some of them at universities, partnering with local NPR stations and other, commercial media outlets.

Will this nonprofit investigative journalism modus operandi, with all of its different permutations, continue to grow, and to what extent is it a solution to the current economic crisis? What are the challenges and limitations of this approach? From the innovative, new for-profit and non-profit models, is there a financially viable way to more fully employ the immensely talented investigative reporters who now have nowhere to work?

Moderator: Betsy West, associate professor, Columbia Journalism School
Alex Gibney, independent documentary film-maker: Financing and marketing investigative documentaries
Andrew Golis, deputy publisher, Talking Points Memo
Andrew Donohue, executive editor, VoiceofSanDiego.org
Bob Moser, editor, Texas Observer
Brant Houston, Knight Chair for Investigative and Enterprise Reporting at the University of Illinois

This bloggingheads.tv discussion with Robert Wright and Jon Fine is worth spending the entire hour on if you care about business models for news, but I thought I’d flag in particular this 10 minutes in which they discuss the NYTs and HuffPo, although with our little shop here at TPM.

New things I learned: back in 2007 HuffPo predicted it would hit about 4.5 million in revenue for that year, and projected 7.5 for 2008 (my guess would be they beat that considering their huge growth, but hard to know), and the NYTs apparently does about 120 million in digital revenue.