Techmeme Launches Mediagazer

Techmeme announced the launch of Mediagazer, its first new news vertical in nearly four years, saying the site will focus on content production and distribution, with topics including journalism, blogging, video production, e-books, and digital distribution technologies.

Megan McCarthy will be the editor of Mediagazer, bringing her experience from both Techmeme and Gawker. And the new site’s sponsors are WordPress, Tynt Insight, Zemanta, Smash Summit, and Seesmic.

McCarthy said in a post titled Introducing Mediagazer:

The media business is in tumult: From the production side to the distribution side, new technologies are upending the industry. What do news organizations need to do to survive? Will books become extinct? When will an audience pay for content? Can video bring television and the Internet together? Will the iPad save us all? Keeping up with these changes is time-consuming, as essential media coverage is scattered across numerous Websites at any given moment.

Mediagazer simplifies this task by organizing the key coverage in one place. We’ve combined sophisticated automated aggregation technologies with direct editorial input from knowledgeable human editors to present the one indispensible narrative of an industry in transition. We collect relevant takes on an issue and package them together in a comprehensive group of links. That way, you not only get the lead opinion on an issue, but you can easily find the supporting, opposing, smart, controversial, notable, and previously unseen viewpoints. You get the big picture.

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