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1:20 PM ET, March 23, 2010

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Stephanie Clifford / Media Decoder:
Stefano Tonchi to Edit W Magazine  —  11:50 P.M. Updated with comment from The New York Times and Condé Nast.  —  Stefano Tonchi, the editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine, has been appointed editor of W, the fashion magazine published by Condé Nast.
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 …
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Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
BlogBeat: Gothamist Sells Out to Cablevision, James Dolan Presumably …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Advertising: The ‘Jersey Shore’ Is Going Global  —  THE Jersey Shore is about to be exported.  —  MTV is taking its wintertime hit series, “Jersey Shore,” about a boozy, spray-tanned summer in Seaside Heights, N.J., and showing it in more than 30 countries starting this week.
Discussion: The Wire, TVWeek.com and Gawker
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
News site visitors look like early tech adopters  —  Far from being fuddy-duddy Luddites, newspaper website visitors actually appear to be early and passionate technology adopters.  —  The surprisingly high interest in high tech among online news consumers is revealed in a ground-breaking poll …
Discussion: Fitz & Jen, New Media Hub and Online
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Digits:
Let the E-Reader Price War Begin?  Sony Drops to $169 … Sony says it is cutting the price on its entry-level e-book reader, dubbed the Pocket Reader, to $169 — perhaps the first in a coming price war for the devices.  —  Sony's $30 discount only lasts through April 4 …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Show by Rosie Is Envisioned as Replacement for Oprah  —  LOS ANGELES — Rosie O'Donnell's forthcoming talk show will be squarely positioned as a suitable replacement for Oprah Winfrey, her producers said on Monday, adding a new twist in an effort by local stations to revamp their lineups in a post-Winfrey era.
Mercedes Bunz / Guardian:
How investigative reporting makes use of the internet  —  With the help of reporting readers the political blog Talking Points Memo revealed the political pattern behind the sudden departures of United States attorneys in the Bush era, as readers accumulated evidence from around the country on who the axed prosecutors were.
Steven Levy / Wired:
How the Tablet Will Change the World  —  Everyone who jammed into the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on January 27, 2010, knew what they were there for: Apple CEO Steve Jobs' introduction of a thin, always-on tablet device that would let people browse the Web, read books, send email, watch movies, and play games.
Discussion: Brainstorm Tech
Michael Schneider / On The Air:
Discovery expected to land “Sarah Palin's Alaska”  —  Sarah Palin to Discovery?  You betcha.  —  Discovery Communications is expected to announce that it has won the Sarah Palin tourney.  The cabler had been a front-runner to land the untitled Alaska-themed series, to be produced by Mark Burnett Prods., along with A&E.
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 …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:   TechCrunch Poaches Forbes Anchor To Launch Video Product
Tom Shales / Washington Post:
ABC's choice of Amanpour for ‘This Week’ has critics inside the network and beyond  —  If being the moderator of “This Week,” ABC's Sunday morning news-talk show, required Senate approval, then journalist Christiane Amanpour — recently named by ABC News President David Westin to take over the job — would already be in big trouble.
Dirk Smillie / Forbes:
Hearst's Big Bounce  —  Ad sales for May are up 17%—and climbing.  —  It's only March, but Hearst Magazines' chief marketing officer, Michael Clinton, expects ad sales for his titles will be burning up this summer.  —  Sales for April rose 12% compared to the same period last year.
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
Jason Fry / Reinventing the Newsroom:
Facebook and the Future of Refrigerator Journalism  —  Last month I wrote about how finding information and choosing what to read makes the Web a more personal medium, an idea that came to me after reading a Q&A with Batavian publisher Howard Owens.  In the comments, Roy Peter Clark raised a good point that's nagged at me ever since:
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
The Official Google Blog:
European Court of Justice rules in Google's favour  —  Google aims to provide as much information as possible to users so that they can make informed decisions.  For this reason, we have been awaiting a series of decisions by the European Court of Justice that explore the extent …
Mark McLaughlin / Media on HuffingtonPost.com:
Audiences Don't Pay for Content  —  The media industry needs to get healthy but we won't get there if we think about the Internet as the reason that consumers have stopped paying for content.  Instead, we need to take a dispassionate view of mass media content and ask ourselves why the Internet …
Marisa Guthrie / Broadcasting & Cable:
Cable Ratings: Breaking Bad Does Good For AMC  —  Third season premiere delivers series best ratings  —  . The third season premiere of AMC's Breaking Bad March 21 was the show's highest rated episode ever.  —  The premiere pulled in 2 million viewers (posting a 1.4 household rating) for it's 10 p.m. bow, according to Nielsen.
Joe Wilcox / Oddly Together:
The Difference Between Blogging and Journalism  —  For the most part, blogging is not journalism.  That's my response to the longstanding debate about whether bloggers are journalists.  Bloggers who don't apply good standards of journalism shouldn't be offered the same privileges as journalists.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
NBC's Meet The Press Gets An iPhone App Courtesy Of Zumobi  —  Just in time for the passing of the U.S. government's massive health care legislation, NBC is launching a branded iPhone app for one of its key political news shows.  NBC's popular political and public affairs show …
Discussion: TechFlash
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Another Ad Exchange Player: Microsoft Vet Jeff Green Launches The Trade Desk  —  Last fall Jeff Green left his job running AdECN, Microsoft's (MSFT) entry into the real-time ad-exchange business.  He didn't go far.  Green is building The Trade Desk, a start-up designed to help marketers buy advertising …
Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Lauren Victoria Burke's WDCPIX: A photojournalist builds business by aiming at sites that can't afford wires  —  Lauren Victoria Burke's strategy for success in the world of political photography is simple: undercut the Associated Press.  —  Burke runs a one-woman photography wire service in Washington …
Owen Bowcott / Guardian:
New bill to tackle ‘libel tourism’  —  The government plans to prevent claims stemming from online publication and protect investigative journalism  —  Foreign claimants will find it more difficult to initiate libel cases in UK courts and a “public interest” defence should be introduced …
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:
Fake Area Newspaper Gets Real Television Show  —  The Onion, the satirical news organization that broke the fake story that the smoke monster from “Lost” would receive its own spin-off series and cheekily reported that television critics who praised “The Wire” had never seen the show, is itself headed to the small screen.
Jason Boog / GalleyCat:
Adult Hardcover Sales Down 8.1 Percent in January  —  In a release today, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) reported that overall book sales for January 2010 had dropped 0.7 percent to $814.9 million.  Adult hardcover sales dropped 8.1 percent over that same period …
Discussion: Gawker
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
TV Sports: Woods's Interviewers Had Limited Time but Missed Chances  —  In five minutes on ESPN and six on the Golf Channel, Tiger Woods did not say much that was new Sunday night.  —  But that does not matter.  Whatever Woods does now is more interesting than it was before his glorious golf career turned …
 
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