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1:40 PM ET, March 22, 2010

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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:

Effort at Wall Street Journal to Attract More New Yorkers — Maybe newspapers really are dying, as some media analysts have been predicting for decades, but apparently that does not apply to newspaper wars. A doozy is shaping up at the moment between The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

Discussion: Media Decoder, The Wire, New York Times, New York Observer, Crain's New York Business, Romenesko, Editors Weblog, Michael Calderone's Blog, Fitz & Jen, New York Magazine, City Room and Silicon Alley Insider

Media Buyer Planner:
WSJ's Attempt to ‘Kill’ New York Times Debuts April 12

Discussion: New York Observer, Media News International and Media Decoder

Jxpaton / John Paton's Blog:

The Change So Far. And Still So Far To Change — Today marks my 49th day on the job as Chief Executive Officer of Journal Register Company. — I promised you, with your help, to craft a plan to transform our Company from a newspaper company to a multi-platform news and information company serving …

Discussion: Editor and Publisher and Romenesko

Mike Taylor / FishBowlNY: Journal-Register CEO John Paton: We Want Fewer Suits, More Gumshoes

Richard Perez-Pena / Media Decoder:

The Times Introduces a Daily Video Report — The New York Times on Monday began producing a daily video on its Web site, summarizing the big news stories of the day. — The program, called TimesCast, lasting a few minutes, will appear on the nytimes.com home page at 1 p.m. each day …

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:

TechCrunch Poaches Forbes Anchor To Launch Video Product — TechCrunch has hired former Forbes video anchor Evelyn Rusli to launch a Web video product, we've learned. — Beyond whatever video she makes for the site, we imagine she'll also represent TechCrunch on TV as well.

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Paywall On-Ramps Get A Workaround — Remember BugMeNot.com? The site was started in 2003 to let users, peeved by a growing crop of news site registration walls, borrow someone else's login. — Seven years on - for registration wall workaround, read pay wall hack.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and FishBowlNY

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Media Notes: Journalism's slide into health-debate weariness — It was the story that refused to die. — Sunday's last-gasp passage of President Obama's health care bill will finally liberate the journalists who have been chained to this complicated, arcane, often tedious story for 14 long months.

Discussion: Romenesko, New York Times and FishBowlNY

Ravi Somaiya / Gawker:
Fox News Says Healthcare Reform is the Beginning of Armageddon

Discussion: FrumForum, The Daily Dish, TVNewser, The Awl, CJR, Media Matters for America, blogs.tampabay.com, New York Times and The New Yorker Blog

Hollywood Reporter:

Conan-Fox talks resume amid ‘Idol’ offer — THR EXCLUSIVE — After a two-week stall, Fox and Conan O'Brien have resumed talks about a potential late-night talk show fronted by the former “Tonight Show” host. — But a wrinkle in the courtship has emerged that involves the biggest show on television …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Broadcasting & Cable, The Wire, TVWeek.com, E! Online, New York Magazine and EW.com

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Managing the magazine component of newspapers — This is the second part of a series about the evolution of print media. Part I here. — A few years ago, the founder of the French daily Liberation was asked what he would do if he had unlimited resources to run his paper: “I would do a magazine everyday”, he said.

Discussion: Editors Weblog

New York Times:

The iPad App Derby Gets Under Way — It can be difficult to write software for a gadget without being able to touch it. But that has not stopped developers from rushing to create applications for the Apple iPad. — For small start-ups and big Internet and media companies alike, the iPad …

Discussion: paidContent, GMSV, Engadget, Mobile Media, Silicon Alley Insider, Gizmodo, MediaMemo, TeleRead, VentureBeat and TechFlash

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Doctor on ‘Nurse Jackie’ Will Post to Twitter in Real Time — Shows on every major network have tapped Twitter for plotlines and punch lines. This month even Homer Simpson got in on the act, punishing Bart by telling him to tweet his every action “even though I don't know what Twitter is, and have no desire to find out.”

Discussion: WebNewser, PopWatch and New York Magazine