Mediagazer: Lindsay Lohan wants $100M over E-Trade ad (Kieran Crowley/New York Post)

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

Variety editor: 'It doesn't make economic sense to have full-time reviewers' — Subject: internal memo, for Variety editorial staff only — Change is always scary, and at Variety, we have had a lot of changes in the past few years. But change is not always bad. — We are making further changes in the newsroom.

Discussion: The Wire, Roger Ebert's Journal, Guardian, State of the Fourth Estate, The Hot Blog, MinOnline and LA Observed

Thompson on Hollywood:
Variety Cuts Its Life's Blood: Critics McCarthy and Rooney

Discussion: 24 Frames, LA Observed, paidContent and Movieline

Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
McCarthy Fired After 31 Years at Variety: 'It's the End of Something'

Discussion: New York Times

LAT Blogs / The Big Picture:
Variety lays an egg: Is firing its critics really ‘economic reality’?

Discussion: 24 Frames, Media Decoder and New York Magazine

Variety:
Wilder promoted at Variety

Discussion: Folio

Damon Kiesow / Mobile Media:

New York Times to spin off Book Review for e-readers — The New York Times is planning to offer its Book Review as a separate digital e-reader product, disaggregated from the rest of the Times content on the mobile devices, according to James Dunn, director of marketing for The New York Times.

Discussion: Romenesko, News & Tech, The Business Insider, New York Observer, Fitz & Jen, TeleRead, Editors Weblog, paidContent and Guardian

Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:

Print's advertising problem - tying one hand behind its back — Last week Karl Schneider, Reed Business Information's Editorial Director, spent an hour chatting with students in my Online Journalism class. Most of it is available on video here, but of particular interest to me was a point Karl …

Kieran Crowley / New York Post:

Lindsay Lohan wants $100M over E-Trade ad — The world revolves around Lindsay. — Lindsay Lohan is suing the financial company E-Trade, insisting that a boyfriend-stealing, “milkaholic” baby in its latest commercial — who happens to be named Lindsay — was modeled after her.

Discussion: AdFreak, The Wire, Gothamist, AgencySpy, Perez Hilton, PopEater and Gawker

Jim O'Neill / Online Video News:

Hulu scores deal with the NFL Network for online video — Think Hulu's going to suffer because it lost The Daily Show and The Colbert Report? Maybe, but it gained a whole new audience by adding more than 600 clips of NFL content—more than 400 hours worth—to its site this week.

Discussion: Portfolio and Silicon Alley Insider

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

GateHouse fires subpoenaed Kansas reporter for comments about legal representation — Claire O'Brien told other reporters that GateHouse refused to pay for her legal representation and scuttled her efforts to find legal help after being ordered to testify about a jailhouse interview with a murder suspect.

Discussion: Associated Press

Robert Eisenhart / Editors Weblog:

Facebook: A place to share articles on the weekend — A recent survey of Facebook user habits by DanZarrella found that users are more likely to share articles with friends over the weekend than the week, even though less news is typically published during this time.

Discussion: Dan Zarrella

Associated Press:

AP hires NY Times exec to boost digital revenue — AP puts New York Times Web vice president in charge of digital sales expansion — The Associated Press has named Nick Ascheim as general manager of AP Digital with responsibility for its new strategic business unit, AP Gateway.

Discussion: Romenesko and Editor and Publisher

Jane Martinson / Guardian:

Murdoch: Gulf states should open up to foreign media — News Corporation chief says region should cut regulation and end censorship, and promotes idea of paying for content — Read the full text of Rupert Murdoch's speech (pdf) — Rupert Murdoch has called on Gulf states to open …

Discussion: The Wire and paidContent

Phil Rosenthal / Chicago Tribune:

Chicago Tribune to produce pages for sister paper in Virginia — Tribune Co.'s Virginia newspaper plans to outsource the editing and designing of much of its content to the newsroom of its corporate flagship, the Chicago Tribune, in a bid to reduce costs and focus resources on local coverage.

Discussion: Charles Apple

Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:

‘Sopranos’ Creator To Film Rock Drama — EXCLUSIVE: Two years after baffling audiences with his abrupt cut-to-black ending for HBO's The Sopranos, David Chase is back — this time, with a feature film. Unfortunately, it's not about the Mafia. But the subject matter could be just as compelling.

Discussion: MTV Movies Blog, Movieline and Perez Hilton

hrc.utexas.edu:

David Foster Wallace Archive Acquired by Harry Ransom Center — AUSTIN, Texas—The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the archive of writer David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), author of “Infinite Jest” (1996) …

Discussion: GalleyCat, Publishing Perspectives, Cultural Compass, kottke.org and New York Observer

Knight Foundation News Releases:

New Contest Aims to Create Easier Online Access to Government and Community Services — Knight Foundation partners with FCC; — Contest offers cash prizes to software developers nationwide — A contest to develop online applications that would tap the power of broadband to help communities …

Discussion: KnightBlog

Eric Deggans / blogs.tampabay.com:

Jimmy Fallon hosts live performance of Lazy Sunday — It seems almost quaint to think about it now. But there was a time when TV networks were so freaked out about people circulating their best moments on YouTube, they actually tried to stop it from happening.

Discussion: Mediaite

Richard Huff / NY Daily News:

Andy Richter slams NBC, Jay Leno over Conan O'Brien ‘Tonight’ show mess on ‘Regis & Kelly’ — Conan O'Brien's sidekick Andy Richter is frustrated with NBC and Jay Leno over the way the network handled O'Brien on “The Tonight Show.” — “Everybody said they were going to do something and then they didn't …

Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:

How Ars Technica's “experiment” with ad-blocking readers built on its community's affection for the site — Even on the web, sometimes actions really do speak louder than words. — The technology site Ars Technica has a tech-savvy group of readers, of which about 40 percent have installed ad-blocking software in their web browsers.

Discussion: Techdirt and Adblock Plus and …

Kelly Riddell / Bloomberg:

Disney May Pull ABC From Bigger Cable Rivals Next — Walt Disney Co., which blocked some viewers from the first 13 minutes of the Oscars last night amid a dispute with Cablevision Systems Corp., may be about to do it again with bigger cable operators, analysts said.

Discussion: Company Town and Post Tech

Terry McDermott / CJR:

Dumb Like a Fox — Fox News isn't part of the GOP; it has simply (and shamelessly) mastered the confines of cable — Last December 10 was a big news day. U.S. Senate negotiators announced they had agreed to a compromise on health care reform, final preparations were being made for a global conference …