Mediagazer: NBC.com enlists the Filter to figure out what visitors to its site want to watch (Alex Pham/Los Angeles Times)

Gillian Reagan / The Wire:

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.

David Kaplan / paidContent:

FT Deal With Foursquare Lets Users ‘Unlock’ Paywall — The Financial Times' metered online paywall system is considered one of the more successful models, but a new partnership with location-based social net Foursquare is aimed at younger readers who are most resistant to paywalls.

Holly Yeager / CJR:

“And now, more than 4,000 posts later...” — More tales from the journalism hamster wheel — A funny thing is happening right now on Michael Calderone's Politico blog: nothing. — That's because Calderone, prolific chronicler of the “political media,” signed off this week …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Wire, Richard Prince's Journal-isms and Romenesko

Discussion: Mother Jones, The New Republic and Politics Daily

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 over the fence to the free side. Now, the paywall brigade is rising again—albeit slowly.

Discussion: 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.

Discussion: Romenesko, The Huffington Post and Regret the Error

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.

Alex Pham / Los Angeles Times:

NBC.com enlists the Filter to figure out what visitors to its site want to watch — The recommendation service, partly funded by rocker Peter Gabriel, tries to figure out the tastes of each person based on digital clues. — Call it tele-psychic. — NBC.com is deploying a technology …

Editor and Publisher:

‘Philadelphia Inquirer’ Web Site Launches ‘Fantasy’ Sports Betting that Pays Real Money — CHICAGO The Philadelphia Inquirer's Web site, Philly.com, has become the first newspaper to offer online sports betting in the United States. — In a partnership with FanDuel, a British online betting company …

Bill Mitchell / Poynter Online NewsPay:

Gene Roberts: Newsrooms Must Tell Their Own Cutback Stories for Democracy's Sake — Gene Roberts said Thursday that American news organizations have an obligation tell a story they've been sitting on for too long: the consequences to democracy of the budget-driven cutbacks in their news coverage.

Discussion: Romenesko

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, StarkSilverCreek and mediaelites

NY Daily News:

Suspect's mother faults Fox News for son's threats against Pelosi — SAN FRANCISCO - Gregory Giusti, charged with making threatening calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, cried Thursday during his first court appearance. — The suspect's mom, Eleanor Giusti, said her son may have gotten worked …

Discussion: New York Magazine and Chickaboomer

Financial Times:

Google accused of YouTube ‘free ride’ — By Andrew Parker in London and Richard Waters in San Francisco — Some of Europe's leading telecoms groups are squaring up for a fight with Google over what they claim is the free ride enjoyed by the technology company's YouTube video-sharing service.

Discussion: Mashable!

David Kaplan / paidContent:

It's Official: quandrantONE's Ellenthal Jumps To Peer39 — As we reported the other day, Andy Ellenthal is leaving his post as CEO of national newspaper online ad alliance quadrantONE to take on the chief executive job at mantic ad specialist Peer39. He will take the place …

Discussion: Yahoo! Finance

Hunter walker:

10 Ways To Earn More Than You Can Working At The Columbia Journalism Review — Columbia j-school students received emails last week inviting us to apply for an assistant editor “fellowship” with the Columbia Journalism Review, a full-time position that pays only $27,000 a year.

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 and The Huffington Post

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

Claire Cain Miller / Bits:

Twitter Acquires Atebits, Maker of Tweetie — Twitter, which has flourished thanks to tools built by outside developers, is taking more of those tools under its own wing. In a move that is sure to rattle its developers, Twitter has agreed to acquire Atebits, the start-up that makes …

Discussion: Mashable!, paidContent, Twitter Mobile Blog and Gizmodo

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 …

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, Media Decoder, AdAge, MediaPost, New York Times, paidContent, Crain's New York Business, Talking Biz News and FishBowlNY

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 …

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