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6:40 PM ET, March 31, 2010

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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
What Voice of San Diego wants in an “engagement editor”  —  One thing you should know about Voice of San Diego's new engagement editor gig: it's not (just) about social media.  Yes, being active on Facebook and Twitter will be part of the job, but that's a means rather than an end.
Oliver Luft / Press Gazette:
Johnston Press halts paywall experiment  —  Johnston Press is to drop the paywalls it implemented on a number of its local newspapers from next week, Press Gazette understands  —  The regional publisher erected barriers on two of its Scottish and four of its English weekly newspaper websites …
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Johnston's Local Pay Site Trial Has Been ‘A Disaster’
Discussion: Jon Slattery and eMedia Vitals
E.B. Boyd / WebNewser:
Ex-BizWeek.com EIC Byrne Gives Sneak Preview of Upcoming C-Change Venture  —  Former BusinessWeek.com editor-in-chief John Byrne provided a sneak preview of his new C-Change Media venture at a panel discussion hosted at the Horn Group in San Francisco Tuesday night.
Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
LL Cool J Distances Himself From Fox News, Sarah Palin (Update: Fox Responds)  —  Well this is an interesting twist - actor/musician LL Cool J, who is one of the celebrities who will be part of Sarah Palin's Thursday show (and is in the promo), isn't happy about the ‘misrepresentation.’
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Fox News to Cut Old LL Cool J Interview from New Sarah Palin Show  —  Actor, rapper LL Cool J was listed as one of the guests on the premiere of Sarah Palin's Fox News series “Real American Stories.”  But late last night, LL, aka James Todd Smith, Tweeted that Fox News is “misrepresenting” his appearance.
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
In E-Book Era, You Can't Even Judge a Cover  —  Bindu Wiles was on a Q train in Brooklyn this month when she spotted a woman reading a book whose cover had an arresting black silhouette of a girl's head set against a bright orange background.  —  Ms. Wiles noticed that the woman looked about her age …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Publisher Network To Be Axed, Customers Referred To Chitika Instead  —  We just received an anonymous tip from someone who claims to have received an email from Yahoo which says that the company's Google AdSense counterpart, Publisher Network, will be shut down by the company in the next 30 days.
TBI Research:
Here Is Why The iPad Won't Save The Magazine Industry  —  Get The Internet Analyst in your inbox every day.  To sign up, please submit your name and email address here.  —  Magazine industry advertising revenue declined an average of 12% the past 2 years (18% in 2009) …
Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:
Journal's New York Section to Feature Reporting on Crime, Society  —  We hear the staffing at the Journal's upcoming New York section, set to launch April 26, is almost complete.  Though it's still in flux and likely will be for a while, we hear there are at least fifteen beat reporters …
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John Koblin / New York Observer:
Just Asking... Which Financial Daily Is Jumping Into the Gossip Biz?
Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
Digital content grows, but will news?  —  Redundancy, job cuts, advertising decline, falling readership... perhaps it is inevitable that it's crisis rather than opportunity that gets the news industry most of its coverage.  —  In the wider digital content landscape, things are not so bleak.
Discussion: GigaOM and GigaOM Pro
John Thornton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Nonprofit news outlets will be a bigger part of our future than Alan Mutter thinks  —  [Yesterday, Alan Mutter wrote a post detailing why he thinks nonprofit news outlets “can't possibly save news.”  An interesting discussion ensued in the comments (including contributions from Jay Rosen, our C.W. Anderson, Dick Tofel, and others).
Discussion: Editors Weblog
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John Koblin / New York Observer:
Exiled Condé Editors: The Lost Years  —  So what happens to an editrix after Si Newhouse shuts down her magazine?  —  Dominique Browning wrote in The Times Magazine last weekend that her life went into a free fall after House & Garden was shuttered in 2007.
Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
Nine Questions on the Tablet and the News Industry Future  —  The countdown clocks are winding down.  The iPad is almost here.  THE big question: Can news companies rise to this occasion, taking advantage of the new platform that will plainly be popular with audiences trained by the iPhone, their appetites whetted.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Kleiner Perkins' Doubles Down The iFund To $200 Million For the iPad  —  Today at the Rosewood Sandhill Hotel in Menlo Park, CA, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers hosted an event surrounding a “mobile content revolution.”  The famous venture capital firm was tight-lipped about what this event …
Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Jay Leno Tells Joy Behar “I Got Screwed” (And So Did Conan)  —  In a green room chat after her appearance on The Tonight Show last night, Joy Behar and her HLN got some content as well.  —  And Leno didn't hold back on admitting Conan O'Brien “got screwed” by NBC.  But, according to Leno, so did he.
Discussion: The Wire and The Live Feed | THR
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
White House swamped with authors looking for the inside story  —  The White House has practically been overrun by journalists pumping top officials for behind-the-scenes details for a growing roster of behind-the-scenes books.  —  The blitz has created complications for presidential aides …
Marisa Guthrie / Broadcasting & Cable:
‘Modern Family,’ ‘Glee,’ ‘Late Late Show’ Among Peabody Winners  —  Ferguson recognized for Tutu interview, HBO for ‘In Treatment’ and Ali-Frazier doc  —  ABC's Modern Family, Fox's Glee, CBS' The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and HBO's In Treatment and The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency …
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
YouTube To Push Out Big Redesign With ‘Streamlined’ Video Pages—And More  —  Updated: The mantra for the major redesign YouTube is setting loose this afternoon: People just want to watch videos.  Google (NSDQ: GOOG) representatives said during a press call this morning that when the company surveyed users …
Discussion: TechCrunch and NewTeeVee
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Are Publishers Ready to Embrace the iPad — Without Ads or Analytics?  —  With the launch of the Apple iPad just a few days away, many web video publishers are already getting ready for the device by rolling out new video pages that will support HTML5 web video delivery.
Discussion: Online Video News
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
BBC Online Video News Views Up 25 Percent in Four Months...Beet Visits the “Beeb”  —  LONDON — The BBC has found a growing audience for online news in the U.K., with some 5 million unique visitors watching 28 million videos in January, up 25 percent over the previous four months, according to the latest numbers from comScore.
Discussion: BBC and NewTeeVee
Evan Smith / The Texas Tribune:
T-Squared: Thanks a Million-Plus  —  When we launched the Trib twenty-two weeks ago, we had goals — somewhat arbitrary and aspirational but definitely sincere — for the site's traffic in the first year.  We'd like to be at 150,000 unique monthly visitors by the end of 2010, we told everyone who'd listen.
Discussion: Editors Weblog
Tyler Durden / zero hedge:
Are Viewers Getting Tired Of Jim Cramer?  (And Of CNBC)  —  Forget April - for Jim “Mad Money” Cramer March may well have become the cruelest month.  First, we broke the news that Cramer's TheStreet just became the object of an investigation by the SEC. What should be more troubling …
Discussion: Inside Cable News
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Hey Look, A Guardian Columnist Stole Our Justin Bieber Jokes (updated)  —  On Friday, a Guardian columnist wrote a blog post called “Justin Bieber: an Old Person's Guide.”  Sounds familiar.  We wrote the same post nine days earlier: “The Justin Bieber Guide for Old People.”  Updated with Hyde comment.
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
 
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