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11:50 AM ET, March 30, 2010

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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 …
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: bookforum.com and Felix Salmon
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Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
Blodget and Salmon on Blodget vs. Salmon: The Last Word  —  ​Last week, a war of words broke out between two fairly notable New York media presences.  It was started after an editor was fired last week, the news of which we broke here.  And we thought we'd try to end it here, too, by speaking with both about the spat.
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.
Discussion: Media Decoder, Free Press and Romenesko
J. David Goodman / City Room:
Ads for Community Papers, but Are They Local?  —  An ad campaign promoting community papers displays images of failure with the tag line “Your Community Paper.  Told Ya.”  —  The story of newspapers' woes is well known, and the news is almost continually dire.
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.
Mike Taylor / FishBowlNY:
A Conversation With Mark Coatney, the Man Behind Newsweek's Tumblr  —  One of the first major publications to make its presence felt on Tumblr, Newsweek has been one of the pioneers of the social-media/blogging site.  Thanks in part to its highly personalized voice, Newsweek.tumblr.com has collected 6,000 followers.
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
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?
Discussion: Gawker
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Hulu's a Towering Success — Just Not Financially  —  Web-Video Future Hinges on It Working Out Pay Model  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Hulu is everyone's favorite provider of TV on the web, but it's facing an ideological battle over its future.  On one side are its network backers, which would like Hulu to become a paid service.
Ken Doctor / paidContent:
Book Excerpt: How The Web Has Changed Business News  —  Ken Doctor is a news-industry analyst for Outsell, a global research and advisory firm, and through his own site Newsonomics.com.  Below is an excerpt from his new book Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get.
Discussion: Talking Biz News
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.
Matt Kinsman / Folio:
One CEO's Take on E-Readers  —  F+W may have even more riding on e-readers than most.  —  As we anticipate the launch of Apple's iPad next week, it's worth taking a look at the current ereader - or as we like to call it Digital Book Reader - landscape from one publisher's perspective.
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Richard Wray / Guardian:
Apple's iPad may give media executives a chance to make money
Judith Townend / Journalism.co.uk:
PCC upholds complaint over Rod Liddle's Spectator post; first ever blog censure  —  Just in from the Press Complaints Commission: its first ever magazine/newspaper blog censure - for Rod Liddle's 92 word Spectator post on 5 December 2009, that claimed an “overwhelming majority of street crime …
New York Times:
CKX Inc., Owner of ‘American Idol,’ Planning a Sale  —  By BRIAN STELTER and MICHAEL J. de la MERCED  —  The “American Idol” television brand may soon be in the hands of private equity.  —  CKX Inc., which owns a majority stake in “Idol,” confirmed on Monday that it was discussing a sale of the company.
Discussion: Company Town, The Wire and DealBook
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Reuters teams up with legendary investigative journalist Bergman  —  Reuters latest investigative story got some help from one of the most famous investigative journalists of all time.  —  Award-winning investigative journalist Lowell Bergman, whose investigation of the tobacco industry for …
Discussion: Reuters
Markus Goebel / TechCrunch Europe:
Europe's biggest publisher embraces the WePad  —  [Germany] Billed as an iPad competitor, the WePad is not vaporware, but is in fact, The Chosen One.  At least, that's the view of some, who are hailing the WePad as the saviour of the German print publishing industry.
Discussion: eMedia Vitals and Editors Weblog
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.
Peter Kirwan / Media Money:
What will the Guardian do if Murdoch's paywall succeeds?  —  Conventional wisdom suggests that the Guardian will emerge as one of the champions of free-to-air digital content when the Times and Sunday Times erect their paywalls in June.  —  This, after all, is a newspaper that employs Jeff Jarvis as a columnist.
Discussion: Editors Weblog
Vanessa Grigoriadis / New York Magazine:
Growing Up Gaga  —  The self-invented, manufactured, accidental, totally on-purpose New York creation of the world's biggest pop star.  —  O ne year ago this month, Lady Gaga arrived for an interview in the dark, oak-paneled lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel, a massive Spanish-style place …
Discussion: Vanity Fair, Speakeasy and Mediaite
Christian Caryl / Foreign Policy:
Google Isn't China's Problem.  Press Freedom Is.  —  Sure, Google's retreat from China is a big story.  But we may be missing the bigger one.  —  Last week, Google finally made good on its vow to pull its search business out of China.  The company announced that, henceforth …
Discussion: Guardian
Media Buyer Planner:
‘Hot List’ Measures Magazines' Success beyond Print, ‘People’ Moves into First  —  In addition to the usual considerations such as ad-page gains, Adweek's magazine Hot List 2010 was compiled by analyzing what each magazine has done to expand beyond its core print business in 2009, a vital consideration in today's publishing marketplace.
Discussion: Mediaweek and MediaPost
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
MPs attack BBC over pay and BBC3 cost  —  Committee accuses corporation of highlighting ‘favourable over unfavourable information’ in relation to spending  —  A cross-party committee of MPs has criticised the BBC's financial accountability, calling for greater transparency regarding …
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.
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 …
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.’
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
 
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John Drinnan / New Zealand Herald:
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