Mediagazer: Dish Finally Ships Slingbox-Enabled DVR (Todd Spangler/Multichannel News)

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

Discussion: Romenesko, Journalism.co.uk, mediabistro.com, Shaping the Future …, Guardian, Fitz & Jen, The Wire and New York Magazine

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.

Discussion: Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, Strupp, Media Week, O'Reilly Radar, TeleRead, Poynter Online, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, MediaMemo, Nieman Journalism Lab and AdAge

Discussion: Gizmodo

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.

Discussion: Romenesko, The Huffington Post and Regret the Error

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

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.

Discussion: Media Decoder, MediaPost, paidContent, Crain's New York Business, Magazine Publishers of America, AdAge, Talking Biz News and FishBowlNY

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.

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.

Discussion: CJR, The New Republic, Mother Jones, The Wire, Richard Prince's Journal-isms and Politics Daily

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

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 Huffington Post and The Live Feed | THR

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

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

Paywall Brigade: The Newspapers That Now Charge For Online Access — In the mid-90s, at least 45 U.S. newspapers charged for online access, though almost all of them later hopped back over the fence to the free side again. Now, the paywall brigade is rising again—albeit slowly.

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Bebo's Awkward Email To Media Partners — AOL needs to offload Bebo fast. And tax experts say that the best financial result for AOL may be to simply abandon Bebo rather than sell it. All of that makes for a rather awkward situation with Bebo partners. — How do you handle that awkwardness?

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

Todd Spangler / Multichannel News:

Dish Finally Ships Slingbox-Enabled DVR — ViP022 Set-Top Key Piece of Satellite Operator's ‘TV Everywhere’ Strategy — Dish Network this week began taking orders for the ViP922 SlingLoaded DVR receiver — about a year after it originally expected to ship the product …

Discussion: Light Reading

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.

Discussion: Financial Times, Media Week, Press Gazette and FishBowlNY