Mediagazer: News Corp's WSJ, NY Post to offer ad discounts-report (Elinor Comlay/Reuters)

1:55 PM ET, April 9, 2010

Top News:

Three ways Apple's iAd might impact the news industry's continued advertising woes — Apple's Steve Jobs just unveiled iAd, the company's new advertising platform for the iPhone and iPad. It's an ad platform designed for apps, like the news apps that many news organizations make …

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: Poynter Online, Media Week, O'Reilly Radar, blogs.telegraph.co.uk and The Huffington Post

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Did Apple Just Kick Adobe (And Wired Magazine) in the Teeth?

Discussion: Poynter Online, BoomTown, Daring Fireball, Digits, TechCrunch, Boing Boing, Silicon Alley Insider and Bits

Kunur Patel / AdAge:
Apple's iAd Not Game-Changing, but Will Move Market

Discussion: DailyFinance, Kirk LaPointe's …, Engadget and GigaOM

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

PR Newswire:
Tribune Announces Settlement Among Major Creditors

Discussion: Collective Talent

Steven Church / Bloomberg:
Tribune Officers Got ‘Incentives’ for Buyout Vote

Discussion: rbr.com and Fitz & Jen

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, Guardian, Shaping the Future …, The Wire, eMedia Vitals, mediabistro.com, Fitz & Jen, blogs.journalism.co.uk and New York Magazine

Elinor Comlay / Reuters:

News Corp's WSJ, NY Post to offer ad discounts-report — News Corp (NWSA.O)'s New York Post and Wall Street Journal are offering discounted advertisement prices, the Financial Times wrote, citing people familiar with the plan. — The ad price cuts come as the Wall Street Journal prepares …

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 …

Discussion: Media Decoder, PolitiFact, TVNewser, The Huffington Post, CyberJournalist.net, Romenesko and New York Observer

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 …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, TVWeek.com, Inside Cable News and Big Journalism

Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:

Nikkei Restricts Links to Its New Web Site — TOKYO — As news sites the world over scramble for revenue online, the largest Japanese business newspaper, The Nikkei, unveiled a new pay-to-view Web site last week. But it shocked readers with its hard-line policy banning links — even to its home page.

Discussion: Ars Technica, FishBowlNY and CrunchGear

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: Magazine Publishers of America and Media Decoder

David Kaplan / paidContent:

HuffPo Launches Separate ‘Twitter Edition’; More Focus On Real-Time News — The Huffington Post is launching a “Twitter edition” that is intended to serve as an extension and a distinct entity from the main news and opinion site, the company told paidContent.

Discussion: Media on HuffingtonPost.com, Media Analysis RSS, Media News, Romenesko, NYConvergence, MediaPost, Journalism.co.uk, Reinventing the Newsroom, Editors Weblog, Gawker, Strupp and The Wire

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: Romenesko

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

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: Media Week, Financial Times, Press Gazette and FishBowlNY

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.

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

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.

Michael Wolff / Newser:

Sound and Fury: Here's What Sharon Waxman Really Wants — Follow him on Twitter @MichaelWolffNYC — Sharon Waxman, who runs a website called the Wrap, which covers show business, continues to accuse Newser of various ethical sleights of hand with regard to the way we present the news …

Discussion: Mediaite, paidContent, The Atlantic Wire and Newser

Dennis Yang / Techdirt:
Newser May Be Obnoxious, But That Doesn't Mean It's Illegal

Discussion: DailyFinance and Mediaite

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.