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7:00 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 …
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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.
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 …
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 …
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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
Rick Anderson / The Daily Weekly:
Seattle Times Wins Another Pulitzer Prize; National Enquirer Shut Out
Discussion: CNN, Newsbroke, TechFlash and Comic Riffs
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.
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Angela Natividad / mipblog:   MIPTV Liveblog: Twitter as Friend, Not Foe, to Media Players
Stuart Dredge / Mobile Entertainment:   Twitter: ‘We almost make the EPG irrelevant’
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.
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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 …
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 …
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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.
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.”
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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 …
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.
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Cody Brown / TechCrunch:   Dear Authors, Your Next Book Should be an App, Not an iBook
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Is Apple Closing Off the iPhone to Rival Ad Networks?  —  Is Apple, which just launched its own ad network, crippling competitors who want to sell ads on its iPhones and iPads?  —  That's how some competitors are interpreting a clause in the developer agreement that Apple released last week …
Discussion: AdAge
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 …
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: CJR and The Atlantic Wire
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
YC's NewsTilt Aims To Help Journalists Create A Business Model For Content  —  The business and content models behind news have been changing dramatically over the past few years; with the mechanisms by which journalists interact with their audiences constantly transforming along the way.
Discussion: Romenesko
 
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