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3:20 PM ET, April 9, 2010

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Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:
What does Apple's new mobile iAd format mean for news publishers?  —  By Robert Niles: Is Apple's new iAd system a game-changer for the business of mobile application development?  —  With Steve Jobs' announcement at yesterday's press preview of the new iPhone OS 4.0, Apple's now in the ad network business.
Discussion: Gizmodo
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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.
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Three ways Apple's iAd might impact the news industry's continued advertising woes
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
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
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
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: FishBowlNY and Romenesko
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Steven Church / Bloomberg:
Tribune Officers Got ‘Incentives’ for Buyout Vote
Discussion: rbr.com, Fitz & Jen and PR Newswire
Political Punch:
THIS WEEK Joins With Politifact to Fact-Check the Newsmakers  —  As you may know, we're trying out some new things on THIS WEEK.  Two weeks ago we started live-tweeting of the show (which will next happen at 10 am ET this Sunday).  —  This week we've invited Pulitzer Prize winning website PolitiFact …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Guardian News & Media to outsource commercially funded supplements  —  Job losses expected after deal with Seven Squared Publishing, but promotional supplements stay in-house  —  Guardian News & Media has struck a deal to outsource all its commercially funded supplements and website work to Seven Squared Publishing.
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.
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.
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.
Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
MSNBC President Tells Fan That Shuster “Was Not Moral, Ethical Or Professional”  —  The only public statement about David Shuster's suspension from MSNBC was five words from a spokesperson.  —  But Mediaite has obtained an email from MSNBC President Phil Griffin to an angry fan …
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Genachwoski: Court Decision Does Not Change Broadband Policy Goals  —  Says commission still has authority to act on broadband policy goals  —  In a public statement Thursday about the recent Federal court reversal of the FCC's BitTorrent decision, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski …
Discussion: Multichannel and The Wrap
Jon Friedman / MarketWatch:
Steve Kroft's goal: To interview Madoff  —  Commentary: ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent is a master storyteller  —  NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Longtime fans of CBS' “60 Minutes” know by now that the award-winning correspondent Steve Kroft has all of the gifts of a great television journalist.
Discussion: Romenesko
The Independent:
Editor of The Independent stands down  —  Roger Alton has decided to stand down as editor of The Independent with immediate effect.  —  He said today: 'I think it's right, following the sale of the paper to Alexander and Evgeny Lebedev, that the new owners should be free to appoint an editor of their own choosing.
Discussion: Media Week, Guardian and Jon Slattery
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Eliot Spitzer Filling in as MSNBC Host  —  TVNewser has learned that former New York governor Eliot Spitzer will be substitute hosting for Dylan Ratigan today on MSNBC at 4pmET.  —  Spitzer, who resigned from office amid a prostitution scandal, has increased his TV news appearances as he considers …
Discussion: New York Post, Chickaboomer and Gawker
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.
Kevin Abourezk / Lincoln Journal Star:
UNL journalism team debating travel to troubled Kyrgyzstan  —  A University of Nebraska-Lincoln team of faculty and student journalists is reconsidering plans to travel to the troubled central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan, where civil unrest this week has led to the removal of the country's president.
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The future is...fliers?  California Watch experiments with a hyper-hyper-hyperlocal distribution model  —  Last month, California Watch published a big story.  “Shaky Ground,” higher ed reporter Erica Perez's investigation into seismic safety in the state's public university system, found …
Discussion: Editors Weblog
Dennis Yang / Techdirt:
Newser May Be Obnoxious, But That Doesn't Mean It's Illegal  —  from the why-can't-we-all-just-get-along dept  —  There's been a bit of a kerfuffle going on between the news aggregator Newser and entertainment news site TheWrap.  Newser summarizes news that it aggregates, and apparently, TheWrap was not happy with this practice.
Discussion: DailyFinance
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Michael Wolff / Newser:
Sound and Fury: Here's What Sharon Waxman Really Wants
 
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HuffPo Launches Separate ‘Twitter Edition’; More Focus On Real-Time News