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6:05 PM ET, April 12, 2010

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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

Conan O'Brien Will Do a Late-Night Show on TBS — In a move that qualifies as a shocker, Conan O'Brien has made a deal to return to television in a new late-night show on cable—not network—television. — The former “Tonight Show” host has agreed to start up a new show on TBS …

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

How the Conan O'Brien-TBS Deal Happened — Conan O'Brien's manager, Gavin Polone, said that a whirlwind negotiation of only about 10 days led the late-night star to leave network television and jump to the cable network, TBS. — “They called us about a week and a half ago,” Mr. Polone said, in outlining how the negotiations began.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, The Wire, TVWeek.com, Deadline.com, Geekosystem, National Review, New York Magazine and TVbytheNumbers

Josef Adalian / The Wrap:

Shocker: Conan Headed Back to TV— On TBS, Not Fox — You snooze, you lose: Conan O'Brien is bringing his late-night act to Time Warner-owned cable network TBS, breaking off talks with Fox and making plans to move to cable in November. — O'Brien and Fox had been enaged in serious discussions …

Discussion: The Wire, New York Magazine, TVbytheNumbers, Media Decoder, NY Daily News, Thompson on Hollywood, Speakeasy, Newsbroke, Vanity Fair, MarketWatch, TMZ.com, Rolling Stone and NPR Blogs

John Koblin / New York Observer:

Washington Post Edges Times in Pulitzers; Journal Shut Out Once Again — The Washington Post edged out the Times today and took home four Pulitzers to lead all newspapers in the 2010 Pulitzer Prizes. — It's a big win for Post editor Marcus Brauchli who has gone through a year marred …

Discussion: The Wire, The Huffington Post, Reuters, Mediaite, The New Yorker Blog and Talking Biz News

Fitz & Jen:

2010 Pulitzer Prize winners: — Journalism — Public Service - Bristol (Va.) Herald Courier — Breaking News Reporting - The Seattle Times Staff — Investigative Reporting - Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman of the Philadelphia Daily News and Sheri Fink of ProPublica, in collaboration with The New York Times Magazine

Mark S. Luckie / 10,000 Words:

Online and multimedia storytelling from the 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners — In today's digital media environment, it's not enough to produce a lengthy print piece — you've got to have some sort of web element that adds to and enhances it. The following Pulitzer Prize-winning stories show …

Rick Anderson / The Daily Weekly:
Seattle Times Wins Another Pulitzer Prize; National Enquirer Shut Out

Discussion: CNN, Newsbroke, Comic Riffs and TechFlash

Roy J. Harris Jr / Washington Post:
The Pulitzers and the future of journalism

Discussion: Poynter Online, Romenesko, MediaPost and Strupp

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The future is mobile, and other thoughts from Google CEO Eric Schmidt's speech at ASNE — Yes, he got the inevitable “shouldn't you pay content providers?” question from an audience member. And, yes, he gave the inevitable “most news organizations actually want the traffic we provide” answer.

Discussion: Romenesko, Gawker, Podcasting News, CNET News and Editors Weblog

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

@ ASNE: Google's Schmidt: ‘We Have A Business Model Problem, Not A News Problem’ — Eric Schmidt came to DC Sunday night to praise, not to bury newspapers, deftly massaging egos about the value of journalism while sliding in all the reasons they should still be concerned about the future …

Discussion: FishBowlNY, Lost Remote, Free Lance-Star, Newspaper Death Watch, Bloomberg and Kirk LaPointe's …

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Twitter Launches A New Guide For Media Organizations — Twitter has just launched a new site called Twitter Media, where it's offering media organizations and journalists some case studies and guidelines to better connect with their Twitter fans. Alongside the new portal, Twitter has also launched an official Twitter Media account.

Discussion: FishBowlNY, Lost Remote, Twitter Media, New York Observer and SocialTimes.com

Stuart Dredge / Mobile Entertainment: Twitter: ‘We almost make the EPG irrelevant’

Journalism.org:

NEWS LEADERS AND THE FUTURE — NEWS EXECUTIVES, SKEPTICAL OF GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES, — SEE OPPORTUNITY IN TECHNOLOGY BUT ARE UNSURE — ABOUT REVENUE AND THE FUTURE — America's news executives are hesitant about many of the alternative funding ideas being discussed for journalism today …

Discussion: Romenesko, ASNE, Broadcasting & Cable, BusinessJournalism.org …, blogs.tampabay.com, News for Digital Journalists and Journalism.co.uk

Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:

Pew Poll Finds Pessimism Among Journalists — Most newspaper and broadcast news editors think American journalism is in decline, and about half believe that their employers will go out of business if they do not find new sources of revenue, according to a survey to be released on Monday.

Discussion: FishBowlNY, Gawker, The Now/ledge, Strupp and Kirk LaPointe's …

Lauren Collins / New Yorker:

Kitty Kelley takes on Oprah Winfrey. — In February of 1988, Oprah Winfrey, the host of a year-and-a-half-old, already extremely popular talk show, landed her first big celebrity guest and flew to Los Angeles for what she has called “the worst interview of my life.”

Discussion: USA Today, New York Times, Multichannel, Media Life Magazine, Speakeasy, Mediaite and Washington Post

Guy Adams / The Independent:

The power of Oprah — Virtually no television network has shown interest in Kitty Kelley's new biography of the chat-show host — She has built her fame and considerable fortune by baring her soul to a nation of telly addicts on an almost daily basis. But despite her carefully cultivated …

Discussion: CNN, Inside Cable News and NY Daily News

Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:

News Sites Rethink Anonymous Online Comments — From the start, Internet users have taken for granted that the territory was both a free-for-all and a digital disguise, allowing them to revel in their power to address the world while keeping their identities concealed.

Discussion: MarketingVOX, Media Decoder, Gretawire, The Copy Box, RJI, Journalism.co.uk, Paul McNamara's blog and ResourceShelf

Paul Carr / TechCrunch:

NSFW: I Admit It, The iPad Is A Kindle Killer. I Just Wish It Weren't Going To Kill Reading Too — For one reason or another, I've spent the past few weeks down at the TechCrunch offices. As a result, it's proved almost impossible to avoid iPad fanboy hysteria.

Discussion: Screenwerk, broadstuff, Kindle Review, Soup and Crikey

Cody Brown / TechCrunch: Dear Authors, Your Next Book Should be an App, Not an iBook

Nat Ives / AdAge:

New York Times Revamps Business Section Online — Move Is Latest, but Not First, Play for Wall Street Journal's Readers and Advertisers — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Even as The Wall Street Journal prepares a New York edition aimed squarely at New York Times readers and advertisers …

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Media Notes: Are newspaper critics old hat amid the flood of online critics? — In the broad sweep of media history, the cancellation of “At the Movies” may simply mark the end of a program that had passed its sell-by date. — Or the demise of the old Siskel & Ebert vehicle may …

Discussion: TVNewser, Washington Monthly, The Huffington Post, Romenesko and Inside Cable News

Bill Carter / New York Times:

Leno at Top of Late Night TV, With Older Viewers — EUGENE, Ore. — As Conan O'Brien starts his post-NBC career on a stage here Monday night with the kickoff of his Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour, his former employer, NBC, finds itself reliving the good old days …

Discussion: The Wire, industry.bnet.com, Company Town, Tuned In, Chickaboomer, Movieline, TVWeek.com, PopWatch and New York Magazine

Mark Walsh / MediaPost:

Yahoo Strikes Content Deal With Reveille, Debuts Toyota-Backed Show — Yahoo Monday announced a new content production deal with Reveille—the studio behind TV hits including “The Office” and Showtime's “The Tudors”—and the launch of its first original daily news show, “Who Knew?” with Reveille and sponsor Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, paidContent and MarketWatch

Nielsen Wire:

Nielsen's Inaugural ‘Fourth Screen Report’ for Location-Based Video Ad Networks — An estimated 237 million place-based video ads were displayed to adult audiences each month in the last four months of 2009, according to a new report released today by Nielsen.

Discussion: rbr.com and NewTeeVee

Joe Strupp / Strupp:

NBC News Partners With The Advocate — NBC News has cut a deal with The Advocate for its NBC News Channel affiliate service that will allow the two sides to trade stories and reporting, according to Sharon Houston, an NBC executive producer overseeing the partnership.

Sara Libby / Salon:

What about the next great female pundit? — Respected Op-Ed pages may be getting young new blood, but they're still mostly made up of white men — Late last week, Politico's Michael Calderone fretted over the fact that so many young, wonder-boy pundits were climbing to the top …

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire and CJR

Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Digital ad share at newspapers hits new low — The newspaper industry is falling farther and farther behind in the life-or-or-death mission of shifting its revenue base from print to the interactive media. — New data released last week show that online advertising revenues at newspapers …

David Kaplan / paidContent:

HuffPo Launching New Verticals, Expanding Into Food And Art — The Huffington Post is continuing to broaden its horizons beyond news and political opinion with two new verticals this month. The first, launching today, is HuffPost Food. Later this month, HuffPost Arts will go up on the site.

Discussion: The Huffington Post