Mediagazer: Washington Post Co. Stock Soars on Report It Could Double to $900 a Share (Mark Fitzgerald/Editor and Publisher)

6:15 PM ET, April 5, 2010

Top News:

Some Publishers Wary of Sales on iTunes — Newspaper and magazine companies rushed to prep their titles for the debut of Apple Inc.'s iPad last weekend. But while publishers hail how the tablet computer lets them showcase their wares, some are working to develop ways to sell their publications separately from Apple's iTunes.

Discussion: Reflections of a Newsosaur, Online, ContentBlogger, Digits, MarketingVOX and Voices on All Things Digital

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Apple Sold More Than 300,000 iPads On Day 1; Users Downloaded 1 Million Apps, 250,000 E-Books — Forget the speculation about how the iPad performed out of the gate. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) just released its own numbers: 300,000-plus sold as of midnight Saturday, including pre-order deliveries and Apple retail sales.

Discussion: MediaPost, CrunchGear, Digital Daily, Silicon Alley Insider, Screenwerk, DailyFinance, TechCrunch, MediaPost and Brainstorm Tech

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Three iPad design choices that will influence how we read news online

Discussion: ScribeMedia.org and Financial Times

Rafat Ali / paidContent:
iPad Day One: Charts Show Big Media Mostly Playing In Free Apps, Not Paid

Discussion: MediaPost, GigaOM, Fast Company, Note of the Day, Techdirt, Strange Attractor, Multichannel, TUAW and Gizmodo

Ross Douthat / New York Times:

Can CNN Be Saved? — Listening to Jon Stewart helped destroy CNN. Now imitating him might be the network's only hope of salvation. — It was October of 2004, the heat of the presidential campaign, when Stewart showed up on “Crossfire,” long CNN's flagship political program, and delivered a now-legendary tirade.

Discussion: Vanity Fair, Salon, The Monkey Cage, Chickaboomer, The Atlantic Wire and The Rachel Maddow Show

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: Romenesko

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: The Awl, Romenesko, GalleyCat, Gawker and Michael Calderone's Blog

Mike Taylor / mediabistro.com:
How That David Remnick Profile in The New York Times Came About

Discussion: New York Observer

Publishers Weekly:

Former ‘PW’ Publisher George Slowik Buys Magazine — Publishers Weekly has been acquired by PWxyz, LLC, a newly formed company headed by one-time PW publisher George Slowik. The acquisition includes the Web site publishersweekly.com and Publishers Weekly Show Daily.

Discussion: Crain's New York Business, Folio, FishBowlNY, Media Decoder, GalleyCat, The Wrap, paidContent, btobonline.com, DailyFinance and ResourceShelf

Editor and Publisher:

AP Creates Regional Investigative Teams — CHICAGO The Associated Press is creating four regional investigative teams that will provide reporting and presentation resources for the cooperative's reporters around the nation, AP Senior Managing Editor Mike Oreskes announced in a memo to staffers Monday.

Discussion: BusinessJournalism.org …, Common Sense Journalism and FishBowlNY

David Carr / New York Times:

The Media Equation: Sarah Palin's Lucrative Career in Mainstream Media — When Sarah Palin made her debut as the host of “Real American Stories” on Fox News on Thursday night, she described several triumphs of regular people over insurmountable odds, but she missed an obvious one: her own.

Discussion: Matthew Yglesias, Mediaite, Most Recent Home Page Posts …, The Huffington Post, Media Research Center, Paul Krugman and Washington Monthly

Martin Langeveld / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Is print still king? Has online made a move? Updating a controversial post — A year ago, in a Nieman Journalism Lab post that garnered 88 comments and still has viral life out there, I maintained that just three percent of newspaper content consumption happens online …

Discussion: Romenesko and NetNewsCheck Latest

Bob Garfield / AdAge:

Garfield Says Adieu, AdReview — After 25 Years, Ad Age's Iconic Critic Is Hanging up His Stars, but Not Before Recalling His Hits and Misses — and Yes, Having the Last Word — Twenty-five years, baby. Twenty-five. That's 50 Spanish-American Wars, 25 MBA programs, 10 stints in the Syrian army …

Discussion: AdScam/The Horror! and Adrants

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

NBC Renews Seinfeld's ‘Marriage Ref’ — NBC got Jerry Seinfeld back onto television again this season—and the network definitely wants to keep him around. — Yes, it is more as a producer than a performer; but Mr. Seinfeld's new show “The Marriage Ref” has helped save NBC from a precarious situation …

Discussion: rbr.com, Broadcasting & Cable, Company Town, Variety, TV Squad, Show Tracker and New York Magazine

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: Gawker and Media Decoder

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: Romenesko, Mediaite, Chickaboomer and FishBowlDC

Mark Fitzgerald / Editor and Publisher:

Washington Post Co. Stock Soars on Report It Could Double to $900 a Share — CHICAGO Just before noon Monday, shares of The Washington Post Co. were trading up 8.9% after Barron's this weekend said the stock was way undervalued and could double to $900. — “Washington Post …

Discussion: Fitz & Jen, Barron's Online and FishBowlNY

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 …

Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:

The Economist Puts Another Brick in the Wall — A few months after raising the paywall on its Web site, The Economist has added more bricks to it. — Last fall, the British newsweekly—whose high consumer prices make it the envy of the industry—made its print content available to all for 90 days instead of a year as before.

Discussion: paidContent, FishBowlNY and Media Buyer Planner

MICHAEL WOLFF / Newser:

The New News: I Can Say Anything You Can Say Shorter — Follow him on Twitter @MichaelWolffNYC — Let me say it again: News used to be a scarce commodity; but then the Internet turned it into a vast surplus, too great for anybody to consume in what still remains only 24 hours.

Discussion: The Awl, Mediaite, Gawker, Runnin' Scared and Felix Salmon

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

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

NYT biz reporter who plagiarized now working for Dealbreaker.com — Zachery Kouwe, the New York Times business reporter who resigned under pressure earlier this year after it was revealed he had plagiarized the Wall Street Journal and other media, is now writing for the business gossip site Dealbreaker.com.

Discussion: 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: Mediaite, The Huffington Post, GalleyCat, Michael Calderone's Blog, PopEater, Collective Talent and Inside Cable News

rbr.com:

Oxygen scores Ikea integration for “Tori & Dean” — Oxygen Media has secured a fully integrated sponsorship deal with IKEA for the fifth season of “Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood.” The deal, the first ever with the home furnishing retailer, targets Oxygen's social and influential Generation O audience …

Discussion: MediaPost, Multichannel, TVbytheNumbers and Broadcasting & Cable