Mediagazer: Why Steve Jobs' Coffee Date with Eric Schmidt Was Probably Staged (Ryan Tate/Gawker)

Ryan Tate / Gawker:

Why Steve Jobs' Coffee Date with Eric Schmidt Was Probably Staged — Steve Jobs is paranoid about security. The Apple CEO doesn't just happen to allow strangers to approach him, as during Jobs' coffee with his Google counterpart last week. Just ask anyone familiar with Jobs' high-security New York Times visit.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Tech Trader Daily and Gizmodo

Maggie Shiels / dot.Maggie:
iCon, the Valley soap ‘starring’ Steve Jobs

Discussion: TechCrunch

Richard Wray / Guardian:
Apple's iPad may give media executives a chance to make money

Discussion: Lost Remote

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: L.A. Times Tech Blog, Brightcove, Between the Lines, Epicenter, GMSV, Online, Media on HuffingtonPost.com, CNET News, eMedia Vitals, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, TUAW and Daring Fireball

Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Brightcove Targets iPad With HTML5 Support

Discussion: MediaPost, AppleInsider, TechCrunch and Online Video News

Christopher Conklin / The Awl:

How Web Writers Get Held Responsible for the Lawyers, the Sales Guys and Even the Coffeemaker — After Henry Blodget fired editor John Carney from his role as the editor of Clusterstock last week, some clearly felt that Blodget, the Business Insider cofounder and CEO, owed an explanation.

Discussion: ParisLemon, Wall St. Cheat Sheet, The Atlantic Wire, FishBowlNY, 24/7 Wall St., New York Observer, Silicon Alley Insider and Journalism.co.uk

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.

Discussion: Romenesko, George Dearing and Kirk LaPointe's …

Margaret Atwood / NYRblog:

Atwood in the Twittersphere — A long time ago—less than a year ago in fact, but time goes all stretchy in the Twittersphere, just as it does in those folksongs in which the hero spends a night with the Queen of Faerie and then returns to find that a hundred years have passed and all his friends are dead.... Where was I?

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.

Discussion: Romenesko, New York Magazine, New York Observer and FishBowlDC

Bill Carter / New York Times:

CNN Fails to Stop Fall in Ratings — CNN continued what has become a precipitous decline in ratings for its prime-time programs in the first quarter of 2010, with its main hosts losing almost half their viewers in a year. — The trend in news ratings for the first three months of this year …

Discussion: Gawker, Inside Cable News, Clusterstock, New York Magazine and TVbytheNumbers

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, mediabistro.com, Silicon Alley Insider, magCulture.com/blog and New York Observer

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: Romenesko, Media Buyer Planner, BusinessJournalism.org …, Talking Biz News, New York Magazine and Fitz & Jen

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 …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab and The Wire

Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:

For Photographers, the Image of a Shrinking Path — By the time Matt Eich entered photojournalism school in 2004, the magazine and newspaper business was already declining. — But Mr. Eich had been shooting photographs since he was a child, and when he married and had a baby during college, he stuck with photography as a career.

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” …

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.

Discussion: Runnin' Scared

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 …

Discussion: Citizen Media Law Project and Romenesko

Editor and Publisher:

Raleigh-Durham Airport Appealing Ruling Terminal Newsracks are 1st Amendment Issue — CHICAGO Two weeks after a three-judge federal appeals court panel declared that The News & Observer and other newspapers had a First Amendment right to sell papers through racks in Raleigh-Durham Airport terminals …

Discussion: FishBowlNY

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.

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.

Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:

The Hollywood Reporter's TV Editor Nellie Andreeva To Join Deadline.com — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S TV EDITOR NELLIE ANDREEVA JOINS DEADLINE.COM LOS ANGELES - March 29, 2010 - Deadline.com is now covering the television industry full-time.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider

Heather Brooke / Daily Mail:

The great razzle dazzle rip-off — In the musical Chicago, slick lawyer Billy Flynn explains to his client Roxie Hart how he will get her off the murder charge she faces. By bamboozling the court with razzle-dazzle, he will disguise the flaws in her case: 'Give ‘em an act with lots of flash in it and the reaction will be passionate.’

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

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, Hydrapinion and Times of London

Discussion: Guardian and TeleRead