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1:25 PM ET, March 15, 2010

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Jennifer Saba / Editor and Publisher:
The State of Newspapers?  Think of Sand Falling in an Hourglass, Pew Report Says  —  NEW YORK Newspaper advertising revenue plunged an astounding 45% over the last three years forcing publishers to make drastic reductions to the actual size of the print edition, to the space devoted to news to the ranks of employees.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Pew: Online News Users Don't Want To Pay—Or Look At Ads  —  The latest report on online news economics from Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism is one of those studies that will bolster just about any view people have about paying for news online.  Want to show that news consumers are unwilling to pay?
Alexandra Fenwick / CJR:
State of the Media, By the Numbers  —  Seven notable stats from the Pew State of the Media report  —  The annual State of the Media report by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism was released this morning.  The report looks back on how every part of the media fared in 2009 …
New York Times:
Papers Like Variety Fight to Survive  —  LOS ANGELES — Variety, the show business bible, was born nearly 105 years ago when young Sime Silverman, by his own account, was fired by The Morning Telegraph for a review in which he declared a new theatrical sketch by a performer who happened to be one of the paper's advertisers “N. G.
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Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Joshua Newton: Tim Gray is ‘Lying Through His Nose’  —  Joshua Newton, the producer and director of “Iron Cross,” has sued Variety for fraud and breach of contract over a negative review of his film that he claims undermined a $400,000 advertising campaign orchestrated by the trade.
Nat Ives / AdAge:
New York Times' Exclusive Run at Starbucks Ends  —  USA Today Returns After 10 Years as Coffee Chain Cites Customer Taste for Media Choice  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — After nearly 10 years as the only national newspaper for sale in many Starbucks around the country, The New York Times …
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Mike Taylor / FishBowlNY:
Starbucks Now Carries USA Today
Discussion: PR Newswire and bizjournals
The New York Times Company:
The New York Times Launches New Trade Campaign, ‘Numbers’  —  Campaign Emphasizes an Engaged Audience  —  The New York Times announced today a new trade campaign, “Numbers,” to launch on March 15.  The campaign is designed to emphasize The Times's loyal and engaged audience in print …
Crikey:
Over half your news is spin  —  Today Crikey launches an investigation six months in the making.  Spinning the Media is an investigation in conjunction with the University of Technology (UTS) Sydney into the role PR plays in making the media.  —  Under UTS' Australian Centre for Independent Journalism …
Discussion: acij.uts.edu.au
David Carr / New York Times:
The Media Equation: Talking Back to Your TV Set, Endlessly  —  Back in 1988, Joel Hodgson, a funny guy in Minneapolis, came up with a local television show called “Mystery Science Theater 3000.”  In the goofy plot, a janitor was launched into space by a couple of evil scientists and marooned there …
Robert Feder / blogs.vocalo.org:
Behind closed doors, angry Tribune CEO confronts staff  —  Robservations on the media beat:  —  Some who were there said it was an attempt to intimidate employees and identify a scapegoat.  Others described it as an effort to assert authority and move beyond an embarrassing episode.
Discussion: Romenesko
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
The Beck Factor at Fox: Staffers say comments taint their work  —  In just over a year, Glenn Beck's blinding burst of stardom has often seemed to overshadow the rest of Fox News.  —  And that may not be a good thing for the top-rated cable news channel, as many of its staffers are acutely aware.
Gillian Reagan / The Wire:
Arthur Sulzberger Jr.'s Nephew David Perpich Joins New York Times To Prepare For Paywall (NYT)  —  We heard whisperings back in early February that David Perpich, the nephew of New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., was leaving his post at consulting firm Booz & Co. and joining the Times to help build its paywall.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
SXSW: Shirky's New Opportunities in Public Sharing  —  Today social technology theorist Clay Shirky delivered a fitting counterpoint to Danah Boyd's keynote on privacy at SXSW the day before.  Where Boyd spoke of the danger of making information more public than users intended it …
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Chris Tomlinson / The Texas Observer:
Big Ideas at SXSW Interactive
Discussion: Bits
 
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Mark Briggs / Lost Remote:
SXSW: The iPad is better than print
Discussion: Beyond The Beyond
Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:
‘Earth Days’ Documentary to Be Seen on Facebook First
Jinzhi Dong / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Google/China hacking case: How did the story flow through …
Discussion: Guardian
Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
TubeMogul Expands Into Ad Sales
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Bill Densmore / RJI:
AP promises news app will be “on the iPad” when Apple delivers tablet next month
Discussion: Romenesko and Online
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Big Media's Epitaph for Webisodes
Mark Fitzgerald / Editor and Publisher:
Monday, Daily Named Best Texas Small Paper Converts to Online-Only
 Earlier Picks: 
Magda Abu-Fadil / The Huffington Post:
Murdoch Targets Abu Dhabi as International Media Hub
Discussion: paidContent
Steve McClellan / Adweek:
Upfront Posturing Has Early Start
Mark Briggs / Lost Remote:
SXSW: Highlights from online news of tomorrow
Discussion: CyberJournalist.net
Steve Myers / Online:
SXSW Panel Discusses Impact of iPad on Media Consumption, Production
Discussion: Brave New World
Nick Clark / The Independent:
Guardian owner to write down Emap investment ‘by up to £200m’
Discussion: Times of London
Ravi Somaiya / Gawker:
NYT's David Carr Tells SXSW Panel He Gets Scooped by Gawker ‘All the Time’
Discussion: bookforum.com and ITworld.com