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6:15 PM ET, April 9, 2010

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Kenneth Li / Financial Times:
Murdoch in ad price attack  —  News Corp is offering steep discounts to advertise in its Wall Street Journal and New York Post newspapers as its chairman Rupert Murdoch prepares an aggressive attack on the New York Times, people familiar with the plan said  — In depth: Media
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Elinor Comlay / Reuters:   News Corp's WSJ, NY Post to offer ad discounts-report
Dan Gillmor / Mediactive:
Complicating Relationships in Media: Apple, NY Times Dealings Raise Questions  —  Recent days have reminded me of the many traits Apple and the New York Times share.  Both are the best at what they do in certain domains.  Each is emphatically elitist, and, in varying ways, self-confident to the point of arrogance.
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Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:
What does Apple's new mobile iAd format mean for news publishers?
Discussion: Gizmodo
Ezra Klein:
What makes NPR (and the Economist) so special?  —  I've been thinking a bit about this NPR graph that's been floating around.  I wish it included another data point: The Economist magazine.  Their explosive growth over the last decade is well known, but consider that the publication had a record year in 2009.
Discussion: Snarkmarket and Romenesko
Craig Silverman / CJR:
Inside the World's Largest Fact Checking Operation  —  A conversation with two staffers at Der Spiegel  —  Late last month, I had an experience unlike any other in my professional life.  For two days, I was surrounded by people who work in, or have a specific interest in, fact checking.
Jeff Eckhoff / Des Moines Register:
Meredith cuts 20 positions in realignment  —  Meredith Corp. shed roughly 20 jobs this morning in what the company said is a management realignment to better organize some of its online and offline components and better prepare for an increasingly digital world.
Adam Westbrook:
Online ad revenue: what journalists are getting wrong  —  Image credit: DavidDMuir (cc)  —  How much money has your website made you recently?  —  For all but the lucky ones, the figure is rarely enough to buy a latte, let alone support a family.  And for all but the smart ones, the figure is usually from Google Adwords revenue.
Gillian Reagan / The Wire:
Magazine Ad Revenue Plummets Again, Down 9% In First Quarter  —  Although some magazine editors were crowing about a grand return of advertisers, ad pages and revenue are still down during this first quarter, according to the Publishers Information Bureau's latest report.
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
New pundits: Prodigies or pipsqueaks?  —  When Washingtonian magazine recently profiled the Washington Post's Ezra Klein, the story contained a tidbit that ricocheted around the Post newsroom: Klein has his own assistant.  —  An assistant?  For that new guy with the blog?  —  Turns out to be true.
Ryan Flinn / Bloomberg:
Silicon Valley Plots TV Takeover as Web Connections Become Norm  —  After 15 years of trying, Silicon Valley is getting ready to take over your television.  —  Most TV sets for sale by 2013 will be able to connect to the Internet right out of the box, setting the stage for companies such as Google Inc. …
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Editor and Publisher:
$1 Million ‘N.Y. Times’ iPad Ad?  Not Even Close, Chase Says  —  CHICAGO Chase Card Services said Friday that it paid less than half the reported $1 million to have its Chase Sapphire card as the exclusive sponsor of The New York Times iPad app for the first 60 days of its launch.
Discussion: MediaPost
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Anderson Cooper, with a Live Studio Audience  —  For the next two Thursdays, Anderson Cooper will host AC360 in front of a live studio audience.  The site Starflow Entertainment, which publicizes live studio audience tapings of programs, has the listing below:
Discussion: The Live Feed | THR
Michael Oneal / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Co. has creditor deal to bring to court  —  Media firm says it brokered settlement with warring creditors so it can file reorganization plan with bankruptcy court  —  In what could be a major step toward emerging from bankruptcy court, Chicago-based Tribune Co. announced Thursday …
Discussion: Romenesko and FishBowlNY
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
The triple threat to citizen journalists  —  The protections customarily afforded the press typically don't exist for the citizen journalists supposed to fill the gap created by the contraction of the mainstream media.  —  This big and gnarly problem - which suggests no easy solution …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Citizen Journalism Platform AllVoices Sets Up News Desks In 30 Cities Around The World  —  AllVoices, a fast-growing citizen journalism platform, is announcing significant expansion today.  The startup is launching global news desks in 30 different cities around the world …
Discussion: Romenesko and mediaelites
Simon Houpt / Globe and Mail:
'Yes, I have a sugar daddy.  " Tina Brown, DailyBeast.com  —  'Yes, I have a sugar daddy.  At a lunchtime gathering yesterday during the Canadian Media Directors Council conference, Ken Whyte of Maclean's enjoyed a softball chat with Tina Brown, the former editor of Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and Talk magazines.
Arifa Akbar / The Independent:
William H Macy to star in ‘Shameless’ remake  —  They are a down and out family who speak in broad regional vernacular and live in the fictional Manchester sink estate of Chatsworth.  —  Now the wild and wonderful antics of the Gallagher brood, from Paul Abbott's Bafta award-winning television …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Reader's Digest UK bought by Moulton  —  Better Capital private equity firm reported to have bought 72-year-old UK edition of Reader's Digest out of administration  —  Reader's Digest UK has been bought by Better Capital, the private equity company backed by Jon Moulton, the Financial Times reported today.
Gillian Reagan / Silicon Alley Insider:
Financial Times Goes After Younguns With New Foursquare Deal  —  The Financial Times is aiming straight for consumers with this one: The FT working with Foursquare on a new partnership that would give free subscriptions to FT.com to users who “check-in” to select spots.
Discussion: paidContent
Damon Kiesow / Poynter Online:
Time to offer iPad subscriptions by June  —  Time Inc. plans to offer subscription options for its iPad magazine editions within the next three months, according to Greg Bensinger at Bloomberg.  —  " 'It'll probably be June before we're able to get it up and running for subscriptions …
 
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The Independent:
Editor of The Independent stands down
Discussion: Media Week, Guardian and Jon Slattery
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Guardian News & Media to outsource commercially funded supplements
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Genachwoski: Court Decision Does Not Change Broadband Policy Goals
Discussion: Multichannel and The Wrap
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Eliot Spitzer Filling in as MSNBC Host
Discussion: New York Post, Chickaboomer and Gawker
Jon Friedman / MarketWatch:
Steve Kroft's goal: To interview Madoff
Kevin Abourezk / Lincoln Journal Star:
UNL journalism team debating travel to troubled Kyrgyzstan
Peter Scheer / Media on HuffingtonPost.com:
Citizens United Ruling Will Liberate Dot-Org News Sites From IRS …
Discussion: Multichannel
 Earlier Picks: 
David Cohen / WebNewser:
Think Mobile: AP's Michael Boord on the Pros and Cons of the iPhone
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The future is...fliers? …
Discussion: Editors Weblog
Prescott Shibles / eMedia Vitals:
Paywalls: a salesperson's FAQ
C21Media.net:
Tuning into tweevee  —  On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey sent …
Dennis Yang / Techdirt:
Newser May Be Obnoxious, But That Doesn't Mean It's Illegal
Discussion: DailyFinance and Mediaite
Jason Fell / Folio:
Lawsuit Alleges Darker Side of Regional Lifestyle Publisher
Discussion: Riptide 2.0