Mediagazer: Cable vs. broadcast: TV's different mindsets (Neal Gabler/Los Angeles Times)

9:30 PM ET, April 2, 2010

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Ryan Tate / Gawker:

Turn Your iPad Into a Futuristic News Portal — Magazines that spring to life with video. Gorgeous, instantly-updated newspapers. Custom-tailored broadcasts. The iPad could revolutionize news along these lines, which helps explain why it makes people so giddy. The new era begins with these nine news apps.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, louisgray.com, DailyFinance, Newsweek Blogs, GigaOM, 901am, PC Magazine, Mashable!, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Gizmodo and PC World

Brad Stone / Bits:

NPR Moves Into a More Visual Medium: the iPad — Among the wave of news organizations migrating to the iPad to exploit its spacious, visually rich screen is one news brand that is more focused on sound: National Public Radio. — An NPR app for the iPad debuts Saturday, when the device goes on sale …

Discussion: Ars Technica and NPR Topics

Steve Smith / MinOnline:

iPad App Store: Epi, GQ, Time, Nat Geo and Outside Ready at Launch — Now we know which print publications actually made the iPad App launch cut for this weekend's hotly anticipated rollout of the tablet device. The iTunes App Store added scores of iPad apps to its catalog yesterday.

Discussion: FishBowlNY, Multichannel, TVNewser, The Live Feed | THR, CNN, Silicon Alley Insider and Broadcasting & Cable

Thomas Ricker / Engadget:

WSJ iPad subscription officially $17.29 per month — is Murdoch insane? — So we now have the official price for the WSJ iPad app subscription: $3.99 per week with a monthly credit card charge of $17.29. For that you get subscriber-only content areas such as Business and Markets with access …

Discussion: MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal, The Toybox, Talking Biz News, 901am, SlashGear, Gadgetell and TUAW

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Time Inc.'s Tablet Push Starts With Time Mag App At $4.99 An Issue

Discussion: MediaPost, Time, The Wire, Publishers Weekly, Online and Nieman Journalism Lab

David Kaplan / paidContent:
Disney Aims Premium iPhone Apps At Kids, Sports Fans

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, eMedia Vitals and Wall Street Journal

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Shuster's CNN Dalliance May Bring MSNBC Response — David Shuster, an anchor on MSNBC, recently participated in a test of a new show. But not for his own network. — MSNBC executives were highly displeased when they learned about his test for the competing news channel CNN through …

Discussion: Inside Cable News

Felix Gillette / New York Observer:
Inside the CNN Stockroom: Network Recently Shot Pilot Staring …

Discussion: TVWeek.com, Mediaite, mediabistro.com, The Huffington Post, Michael Calderone's Blog, TVNewser and Inside Cable News

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Google Acquires Online Video Hosting Platform Episodic — Google has acquired Episodic an online video hosting platform, according to a blog post on the startup's site. Google has confirmed the acquisition. We are told that Episodic's technology will be folded into YouTube …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Episodic, MediaMemo, MediaPost, VentureBeat and paidContent

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Updated: NYT Raises E-Edition Rates By 33 Percent But, Hey, First iPad App Free — Subscribers to the New York Times E-Edition, an exact digital replica of the print version, got word today that rates are being hiked to $19.99 a month— a 33.4 percent increase from $14.99.

Discussion: TechCrunch

Dan Trombetto / Folio:

The 2010 FOLIO: 40 — Our annual list of magazine industry influencers and innovators. — Welcome to the 2010 FOLIO: 40, our list of some of the most distinguished magazine and media professionals from every corner of our industry. — Every FOLIO: 40 has its unique themes …

Discussion: FishBowlNY, Romenesko and bookforum.com

Matea Gold / Company Town:

ABC News business correspondent Betsy Stark laid off as network begins cutting correspondent ranks — ABC News laid off business correspondent Betsy Stark on Thursday as part of a wrenching series of cuts in the news division that will ultimately see the departure of a quarter of the staff.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and Chickaboomer

Annalee Newitz / io9:

5 Ways The Google Book Settlement Will Change The Future of Reading — If you care about the future of books, you need to understand the Google Book Settlement. It's a complicated legal document, but we've talked to some of its architects, detractors, and defenders - and break it all down for you.

Discussion: Gizmodo

Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:

WSJ Exec Named Publisher of the Year — for Losing $80 Million — In most industries, losing $80 million in a single year will get you fired and, maybe, sued by your shareholders. In the newspaper industry circa 2010, it will get you awards for managerial brilliance.

Discussion: FishBowlNY, Romenesko, Editor and Publisher and BusinessJournalism.org …

Bloomberg:

Murdoch Faces New Claims From Ex-Supermarket Promotion Rival — News Corp.'s $500 million settlement of Valassis Communications Inc.'s unfair competition complaints has stirred a former rival in the business of supermarket promotions to try to reopen a closed case to take another crack at the company built by Rupert Murdoch.

Eric Spitznagel / Vanity Fair:

CNBC's Erin Burnett Doesn't Think All Rich People Are Evil — Courtesy NBC. Erin Burnett has a face that's made for high-definition. The first time I saw her, she was filling in as a guest anchor on NBC's Today, and the sight of her in HD nearly gave me an aneurysm.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, TVNewser, Jezebel, Clusterstock, Talking Biz News, Inside Cable News and Opinionator

Wall Street Journal:

For Amazon, Arrival of the iPad Opens Door to More e-Book Sales — Electronic books are expected to be a major selling point for Apple Inc.'s iPad, which goes on sale Saturday. But competitors, particularly Amazon.com Inc., could end up as major e-book providers for the new device.

Discussion: Digits, TeleRead, TechFlash, Free Press, Tech Trader Daily and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Ads Venturing Further Into Magazines' Editorial Pages — You've Got to See These Magazine Ads — No Really, You've Got No Choice — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Magazines are getting more comfortable with ads that run right through their editorial pages, a onetime taboo that's under pressure …

Discussion: Romenesko

Eric Deggans / blogs.tampabay.com:

CNN's Scientology reporting should look familiar to St. Petersburg Times readers — One of the more interesting results from the St. Petersburg Times' groundbreaking reporting on the Church of Scientology has been all the other journalism it has inspired. — Everyone from the New York Times …

Discussion: Romenesko

Thomas Morgan / AdAge:

TV Works on the Web, but TV Advertising Won't — Will TV Everywhere Simply Become an Extension of TV Advertising? Let's Hope Not — As the vision of TV Everywhere comes to market, there are significant pressures on both broadcast and cable networks to close the “parity gap” …

CNA Daily News:

Satan behind media attacks on the Pope, asserts Italian exorcist — Rome, Italy, Mar 31, 2010 / 11:47 am (CNA).- Noted Italian exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth, commented this week that the recent defamatory reporting on Pope Benedict XVI, especially by the New York Times, was “prompted by the devil.”

Discussion: NPR, New York Times, Yahoo! News, Gawker, Newsweek Blogs, Michael Calderone's Blog and The Awl

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

NBC Blocks Free TV Episodes on iPad — The NBC broadcast network has, for now, ditched its plans to stream full television episodes onto the Apple iPad. — Last week NBC executives showed a reporter a mock-up for an iPad-optimized version of its mobile Web site and indicated …

Discussion: TVWeek.com, Gizmodo and New York Times

Neal Gabler / Los Angeles Times:

Cable vs. broadcast: TV's different mindsets — Broadcast offers comfort and closure, while cable speaks to our doubts and anxieties. — Back in May 2001, then- NBC President Robert Wright was fuming. He fired off a bristling letter to producers and executives throughout broadcast television …