Mediagazer: Malcolm Gladwell: The quiet Canadian (Patrick Brethour/Globe and Mail)

Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:

David Remnick Makes It Look Easy at The New Yorker — David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, is not one to waste an opportunity. After attending John Updike's funeral in Massachusetts in February of last year, he stopped by Harvard Law School to interview some of President Obama's old professors.

Discussion: Romenesko, Gawker and Michael Calderone's Blog

Kevin / Strange Attractor:

iPad app pricing: A last act of insanity by delusional content companies — Looking at the iPad app rollout, you can easily separate the digital wheat from the chaff in the content industries, and you can see those who are developing digital businesses and those who are trying to protect print margins …

Discussion: Fast Company, Online, eMedia Vitals and broadstuff

Discussion: Reflections of a Newsosaur and Fitz & Jen

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

At Snopes, a Quest to Debunk Misinformation Online — It is one of the paradoxes of the Internet. — Along with the freest access to knowledge the world has ever seen comes a staggering amount of untruth, from imagined threats on health care to too-easy-to-be-true ways to earn money by forwarding an e-mail message to 10 friends.

Discussion: Media Decoder and Gawker

Gail Shister / TVNewser:

MSNBC Could Keep David Shuster Off the Air Indefinately — MSNBC bad boy David Shuster may be on his third strike. — Shuster won't be on the air today for his 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. shows, according to MSNBC insiders. Whether he returns before his contract expires in December is up for debate.

Discussion: GalleyCat, The Huffington Post, Michael Calderone's Blog, TVWeek.com, National Review, Inside Cable News and Collective Talent

Rafat Ali / paidContent:

iPad Day One: Charts Show Big Media Mostly Playing In Free Apps, Not Paid — So day one of iPad launch almost over—though West Coast's still in full swing—no estimates on how many iPads have sold, but it is instructive to see how the charts for iPad apps are doing.

Discussion: Multichannel, TUAW, TechCrunch and Gizmodo

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Apple tried to prevent hiring of tech writer by Newsweek — Newsweek tech writer Dan Lyons was on “Reliable Sources” on Sunday morning talking about the coverage of Apple's new iPad and revealed that the company has not been happy with him for quite some time. — Here is an excerpt from the transcript:

Discussion: CrunchGear, Gawker and CNN

Michael Hirschorn / New York Magazine:

Don't Cry for CNN — Thirty years ago, CNN, now in decline, was as revolutionary as Google. It had a pretty good run. — In the end, it's usually our principles that betray us. Former CNN chief Rick Kaplan told Ken Auletta in his 2004 biography of founder Ted Turner, “Basically, the Fox prime-time schedule is just talk radio.

Discussion: New York Times, The Atlantic Wire, Romenesko and Chickaboomer

Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:

Death of the White House Press Corps — Hungry Beast Giving Beast Women in the World — Blogs and Stories — With a Twitter-savvy president and their own ailing media companies, Lloyd Grove finds the boys in the briefing room more depressed than ever.

Discussion: Mediaite, The Daily Beast, Romenesko and Chickaboomer

Mike Shields / Mediaweek:

Web Publishers, Ad Nets at Odds — Publishers accuse ad nets of pitching what's not theirs — Recently, an advertiser received details on an online ad campaign delivered by the ad network interCLICK. The site list seemed ideal for the client's financial professionals target: Bloomberg.com …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, paidContent, NetNewsCheck Latest and AdExchanger.com

Peter Kirwan / Guardian:

Is the FT the perfect digital model? — As ft.com turns 15, we examine the FT's mix of paywalls, increased subscriptions and newspaper cover price rises — Last year, amid the greatest recession in the history of the financial system, the Financial Times turned a profit.

Discussion: George Dearing

Clint Hendler / CJR:

WikiLeaks Releases Video Showing Death of Reuters Staff — This morning at an event at the National Press Club, WikiLeaks screened a video depicting a missile strike on a van in Baghdad that killed a Reuters driver and photographer in 2007. — Wikileaks is a non-profit supported entity …

Discussion: mediaelites

Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:

Branding Deals Come Early in the Filmmaking Process — LOS ANGELES — Jordan Yospe had some notes on the script for “The 28th Amendment,” a thriller about a president and a rogue Special Forces agent on the run. Some of the White House scenes were not detailed enough, Mr. Yospe thought.

Discussion: New York Magazine

Patrick Brethour / Globe and Mail:

Malcolm Gladwell: The quiet Canadian — Celebrated writer Malcolm Gladwell seems to have penned the script for the first part of the 21st century, with his provocative bestsellers on ideas such as contagion (The Tipping Point), the power of instant conclusions (Blink) and the genesis of genius (Outliers).

Discussion: The Awl