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8:00 PM ET, March 25, 2010

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Wall Street Journal:
Magazines' New Barker: iPad  —  Advertisers Gather Around as Publishers Tout Tablet Device's Bells and Whistles  —  A laundry list of open questions about Apple's iPad isn't keeping magazine publishers and advertisers from lining up for the launch of the tablet computer next week.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
WSJ on iPad for $17.99 a month, magazines to be at or near newsstand prices?  —  The Wall Street Journal is running a piece that focuses on ad sales for the iPad.  Pretty boring stuff except for a few nuggets related to the actual content we crave.  Rupert Murdoch already confirmed …
Discussion: Digits and Canadian Magazines
Daniel Farey-Jones / Media Week:
From £665m to £1: The changing shape of Britain's modern newspaper business  —  LONDON - It's been more than 300 years since The Daily Courant became the first recognisable regular British daily newspaper during the reign of Queen Anne in 1702.  —  Mastheads in ownership moves in recent years
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Daniel Finkelstein / Times of London:
Former KGB spy Alexander Lebedev buys Independent for £1
The Independent:
Independent titles sold to Lebedev family company
Discussion: Guardian, Media Week and The Lede
Peter Kirwan / Wired.co.uk:
Why Lebedev's Indy should go digital
Roger Ebert / Roger Ebert's Journal:
See you at the movies  —  Yes, Chaz and I are still going ahead with our plans for a new movie review program on television.  No, Wednesday's cancellation of “At the Movies” hasn't discouraged us.  We believe a market still exists for a weekly show where a couple of critics review new movies.
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Michael Schneider / On The Air:
Ex-ABC correspondent Rooney: Massive cuts “will have unintended consequences”  —  Longtime ABC News correspondent Brian Rooney found out late Monday that he was being let go as part of the news division's massive downsizing.  —  Since joining ABC News in 1988, Rooney has covered big events …
Discussion: LA Observed
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Roc / Media is a Plural:   Union Busting, Bloomberg Sale Looming at ABC News?
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Newsonomics of online ad spending, and its costs  —  [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.]  —  It's a complaint we've long heard in the newspaper industry …
Doree Shafrir / Gawker:
How the Michelle ‘Bombshell’ McGee Story Got Made  —  Everyone was shocked when, last week, In Touch published a cover story about Jesse James' mistress Michelle “Bombshell” McGee.  The surprise wasn't that James was having affairs, but that In Touch had gotten the story—and gotten it right.
PATRICK GOLDSTEIN / The Big Picture:
Variety to studios: Stop giving scoops to the competition!  —  Variety has been making a lot of news lately.  Unfortunately, the news has been pretty much all bad.  —  In case you've just tuned in, the venerable trade paper has suffered one black eye after another in recent weeks.
Xiao Qiang / chinadigitaltimes.net:
The Ministry of Truth Limits Reporting on Google in China 03/23/10 (Updated)  —  In China, several political bodies are in charge of Internet content control.  At the highest level, there is the Central Propaganda Department, which ensures that media and cultural content follows the official line as mandated by the CCP.
Elizabeth Jensen / Media Decoder:
C.P.B. Will Fund Local Reporting Projects  —  The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, looking to counter what it sees as a decline in local journalism and original reporting nationwide, said it is making funding available to set up seven regional reporting projects that will be collaborative …
Arn / MacRumors:
CBS.com Prepping HTML5 Video Playback for iPad  —  With the imminent arrival of the Apple iPad, it seems at least one major television network is updating their website to provide video playback support for new tablet device — without Flash.  CBS.com's website began displaying a couple of strange …
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
TLC Acquires 'Sarah Palin's Alaska'  —  Discovery Communications' TLC cable channel has acquired “Sarah Palin's Alaska,” a documentary series about the former Alaska governor and her state.  —  Discovery is expected to announce the acquisition Thursday morning.
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
The Photo Tool That Could Shake Up Online Publishing  —  Here's an amazing demo of the “content-aware fill” tool that's apparently forthcoming in Photoshop CS5.  The tool makes it easy to delete objects from a complex photo, without any trace they ever existed.  The ramifications for internet publishing are frightening.
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
GlobalPost embraces challenge of covering world news as U.S. papers trim bureaus  —  The morning after a powerful earthquake struck Chile, “Face the Nation” was frantically trying to find a journalist in the suddenly ravaged country.  —  With phone lines jammed and major news outlets caught flat-footed …
Discussion: Romenesko
Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:
TMZ Insider Sues Over Drugs, Alcohol in Newsroom  —  A former TMZ producer has filed a lawsuit against the site, claiming he was fired for complaining about alcohol and drug use by other staffers on the job after he returned from a medical leave for depression.
Discussion: Romenesko, Gawker and The Wire
Trevor Butterworth / Forbes:
The Race Between Technology And Journalism  —  Why the agile will inherit the media.  —  In their 2008 book, The Race Between Education and Technology, Harvard economists Claudia Goldin and Laurence Katz argue that technological advancement was a major spur to educational attainment for the U.S. …
NPR Blogs:
NPR Changes Abortion Language  —  Last week, I wrote a post about how NPR identifies people who support or oppose abortion.  It engendered a lively debate inside and outside NPR.  Today, some top editors got together to review the 2005 policy and decided to no longer use “pro-choice” or “pro-life.”
Will Richmond / VideoNuze.com:
Here's How Google TV Will Work - And What It Might Mean  —  Last week, the NY Times shared some details of “Google TV,” the new set-top box Google is developing in partnership with Intel and Sony.  The article provided a good outline, and now, based on additional information I've gathered …
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Caught in Net Neutrality Flap in India  —  Google has long been a proponent of net neutrality, but it appears the company may have unknowingly allowed an advertising partner in India to promote preferential treatment for certain video streams on YouTube.
 
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Is Nikki Finke for Sale Again?
Discussion: Gawker and Deadline.com
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
NYT runs apology, pays $114,000 to settle Singapore government complaint
Discussion: New York Times and Asia Sentinel
Maxine Goldenson / Media on HuffingtonPost.com:
The Continuing Evolution of Television and the Internet
Bill Mitchell / Newspay:
‘Frontline’ Producer Says Public TV Needs More Partners, Money
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Dan / Xark!:
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
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Scott Greczkowski / Multichannel News:
Is DISH Network Buying TiVo?
Discussion: Tech Trader Daily
Brooks Barnes / Media Decoder:
‘Fred: The Movie’ Lands on Nickelodeon
Discussion: Variety, Movieline and Mashable!
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
How big is a nugget-of-news?  —  I finally did a little project I've …
Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
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