Top News:
MICHAEL WOLFF / Newser:
Rupert Murdoch: If You Want to Read a Paper, Read the Damn Paper — Follow him on Twitter @MichaelWolffNYC — Rupert Murdoch's paywall goes up around his papers, the Times and Sunday Times in London, this June. His plan is much more straightforward and draconian than almost anyone suspected.
Discussion:
The Daily Dish
RELATED:
Graydon Carter / Mediaweek:
Opinion: Print Is Dying ... Really? — At a time when magazines are everyone's whipping boy, Graydon Carter offers evidence to the contrary. … It's become fashionable to proclaim that print is dying, as if a medium that has been around for more than five centuries might …
Discussion:
Romenesko, Silicon Alley Insider, mediabistro.com, New York Observer and magCulture.com/blog
Jeff Whatcott / Brightcove Blog:
The Present and Future of HTML5 Video Experiences — As commercial availability of the Apple iPad draws near, we have been getting a lot of inquiries from customers looking for guidance on what they need to do to deliver great video experiences on these devices that exclusively support the HTML5 approach to video.
Discussion:
Media on HuffingtonPost.com, Brightcove, NewTeeVee, TechCrunch, Online, GMSV, eMedia Vitals, Epicenter, Gizmodo, TUAW, VentureBeat and Daring Fireball
RELATED:
Nat Ives / AdAge:
The Wall Street Journal Joins Newspaper Battle at Starbucks — Paper Enters New York Area Stores Weeks Before Introducing Its New York Edition — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The newspaper battle that recently began inside Starbucks has welcomed another contestant: The Wall Street Journal …
Discussion:
Media Buyer Planner, Romenesko, BusinessJournalism.org …, Talking Biz News, New York Magazine and Fitz & Jen
Danny Shea / The Huffington Post:
Michael Calderone Leaving Politico, Latest In Mini-Exodus — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Politico media blogger Michael Calderone is leaving the site for Yahoo. — According to sources, he is expected to leave Politico within a matter of weeks to join Yahoo News' original content project, overseen by blogging editor Andrew Golis.
Joseph Plambeck / New York Times:
What if No One Went to the Office? Inc. Magazine Finds Out — Max Chafkin, a senior writer for Inc. magazine, couched the idea as a sort of joke: for his article on virtual offices, perhaps the entire magazine staff should work remotely while making the issue?
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Forget Paywalls - How About More Serendipity? — If ChatRoulette does nothing else, at least it seems to be getting some traditional media outlets to think about their content differently. For Chris Thorpe of The Guardian, the lightbulb went on during a lunchtime presentation …
Felix Salmon:
Blogonomics: Monetizing readers — At this point, even I'm bored of the Salmon vs Blodget wars. But Henry has decided to grossly misrepresent my views, so it's worth explaining in a bit more detail what I actually think about blog content and how it can and should be turned into money.
John Yemma / paidContent:
Memo To News Sites: There Is No Future In ‘Digital Razzle Dazzle’ — John Yemma is Editor of The Christian Science Monitor. — Let's agree that Rupert Murdoch is right: Content is king. You'll get nothing but applause from a journalist of four decades like me.
MediaShift:
Better Coordination Needed to Map Local Media Ecologies — Back in 2008, I co-organized a conference called Beyond Broadcast. That year's theme was “mapping public media,” and was designed to both call out the rising importance of maps as a platform for sharing digital media, and to “map” …
Claire Atkinson / Broadcasting & Cable:
Hallmark, Martha Stewart Exploring New Lifestyle Cable Channel — Hallmark parent Crown Media in talks with Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia on wide-ranging mutlimedia joint venture — Two of the most recognized American brands, Hallmark and Martha Stewart, may be joining forces behind a new lifestyle cable channel.
Connie Schultz / Plain Dealer:
Web site posters' anonymity an invitation to mischief: Connie Schultz — I look forward to the day when news organizations start to ban anonymous comments on their Web sites. — Maybe that's the foolish optimist in me, but I want to believe that we will finally admit …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Howard Kurtz reflects on Gerald Boyd's ‘My Times in Black & White’ — Faced with what would become the greatest fraud in the history of the New York Times, Gerald Boyd did not want his own reporters to investigate. — “A handoff is a dereliction of duty,” he told his boss, Howell Raines …
Gillian Reagan / Silicon Alley Insider:
Financial Times' iPad App Will Be Free For Two Months — And Then $190 A Year — Apple's iPads are en route to their first round of consumers and media companies are prepping for them. — At its launch in late April, The Financial Times will offer their iPad app for free for two months.
Discussion:
eMedia Vitals, Nieman Journalism Lab, CJR, Guardian, Online, Financial Times and paidContent
The Independent:
Stephen Glover: This paper now has a chance to break even — The Guardian's coverage of last week's sale of the two Independent titles to Alexander Lebedev was characteristically charitable. By that I mean characteristically uncharitable. The paper highlighted Mr Lebedev's past as a former KGB agent …
RELATED:
Richard Wray / Guardian:
Apple's iPad may give media executives a chance to make money — New tablet device goes on sale this week — When it was announced, to much fanfare and the sort of near- hysterical hype that has come to characterise the Mac fan club, the iPad was seen by many technology watchers as an answer in search of a question.
Discussion:
Lost Remote
Joe Ciarallo / FishBowlNY:
Media Beat: Lockhart Steele on Nick Denton: ‘I Loved Working For Him’ — Gawker by day, blog network by...day. That was Curbed Network founder and president Lockhart Steele's schedule for at least a few years. — While spending his days as managing editor at Gawker, Steele got his own network up and running.
Jim / Gannett Blog:
Study: In donations, ‘citizen journalists’ hit a wall — A new study of online start-up financing offers only a glimmer of hope for self-employed reporters like me, trying to make a living as “citizen journalists” through voluntary contributions from readers.
Mark Fitzgerald / Editor and Publisher:
Is This the Year the Pulitzer Prizes Finally Send a Message on Digital Journalism? — CHICAGO Roy J. Harris Jr., the veteran Wall Street Journal and Economist Group journalist, studied the Pulitzer Prizes in depth for his book “Pulitzer Gold: Behind the Prize for Public Journalism,” which has just come out in paperback.
John Drinnan / New Zealand Herald:
Net news likely to stay free in NZ — Media magnate Rupert Murdoch has upped the ante over free news content on the web. — Murdoch's News Corp is to charge £1 ($2.11) a day and £2 a week for people to read the Times and Sunday Times websites.
Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:
CBS Offered Tony Hosting Gig To Conan (...Starting NBC vs Coco War Of Words) — 4TH UPDATE: Late tonight, “Team Coco” sources added this about “Team NBC”: “I am of the understanding that he can't do that kind of thing until September. And you should ask what they are afraid of his saying that they have to gag him anyway?
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
BBC bows to newspaper concerns, delays mobile apps — (Reuters) - British state broadcaster BBC has delayed launching mobile applications delivering its news and sport free to devices like Apple's iPhone after newspapers expressed concern about direct competition.
Senior Data Journalist, NY — 
Manager - Publishing Editorial, Manila — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Senior California Politics Reporter, CA — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Team Editor - Opinion, ON — 
Assistant Correspondent, DC — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
Lead Business Reporter, TN — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
City Correspondent, London — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
Senior Political Reporter, DC — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Editor, Remote US — 
Business Reporter, WA — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
