Mediagazer: The iPad App Derby Gets Under Way (New York Times)

4:25 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: CJR, Editors Weblog, The Wire, Media Decoder, Gothamist, Romenesko, New York Times, New York Observer, Crain's New York Business, Michael Calderone's Blog, City Room, New York Magazine and Fitz & Jen

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

Discussion: Media News International, The Wire and New York Observer

Rafat Ali / paidContent:

Local Blog Network Gothamist Being Bought by Cablevision's Rainbow Media — Gothamist, the local city blog network that is best known for its New York City edition, is being acquired by Cablevision-owned Rainbow Media, paidContent has learned. The price is between $5 million to $6 million …

Discussion: New York Observer

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: New Yorker, paidContent, Online, Engadget, GMSV, Silicon Alley Insider, MediaMemo, TeleRead, Gizmodo, TUAW, VentureBeat and TechFlash

Media Decoder:
Perseus Signs an EBooks Deal for the iPad

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider

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 …

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, BusinessJournalism.org … and Agence France Presse

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.

The Official Google Blog:

A new approach to China: an update — On January 12, we announced on this blog that Google and more than twenty other U.S. companies had been the victims of a sophisticated cyber attack originating from China, and that during our investigation into these attacks we had uncovered evidence …

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: The Wrap, Gawker, 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, blogs.tampabay.com, Media Matters for America, The New Yorker Blog and New York Times

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: Editors Weblog, Inquirer, FishBowlNY and eMedia Vitals

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, E! Online, The Wire, TVWeek.com, 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

Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:

My chat with Google News founder, Krishna Bharat, with video — Krishna Bharat, the creator of Google News, has never been a journalist. Though he's often asked what is more important for the search giant's news site: editorial judgment or Google's famous attention to its algorithms.

Discussion: The Business Insider

Nielsen Wire:

Americans Using TV and Internet Together 35% More Than A Year Ago — Americans increased their overall media usage and media multitasking according to The Nielsen Company's latest Three Screen Report, which tracks consumption across TV, Internet and mobile phones.

Discussion: The Business Insider, NewTeeVee, The Live Feed | THR and Mashable!

Patricia Sheridan / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

Patricia Sheridan's Breakfast With ... Bill Hemmer — Co-host of “America's Newsroom” on Fox News Channel, Bill Hemmer started his broadcast career as a sportscaster before being plucked from local markets to work as an anchor on various CNN programs, including “American Morning.”

Discussion: Romenesko and Inside Cable News

Richard Prince's Journal-isms:

Viewers Peek at Politico's Diversity — or Not — Editor says camera shots, reputation mislead — Editor Says Camera Shots, Reputation Mislead — CNN took viewers Sunday to an editorial meeting at Politico, the buzz-creating Web-and-print operation that launched in Washington three years ago.

Discussion: Mediaite, CNN, Romenesko and Editors Weblog

Leah Betancourt / E-Media Tidbits:

TweetDeck Newsroom Rollout Continues at Sky News — Sky News is taking significant steps to require that its newsroom is literate in social media. In January, the media company began installing the Twitter desktop application TweetDeck on newsroom computers.