Mediagazer: After the Storm — Not long before his appearance on a panel … (Rem Rieder /American Journalism Review)

Editor and Publisher:

Preview: Will Gannett Q1 Earnings Signal Newspaper Revenue Rebound? — McCLEAN, Va. Gannett Co., the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, is scheduled to report its first-quarter earnings before the stock market opens Friday. — WHAT TO WATCH FOR: Just how much longer will the newspaper …

Discussion: The Wire

Oliver Moore / Globe and Mail:

Google and weekly paper ordered to identify online posters — Rarely known for their civility, online exchanges can degenerate into vicious slanging matches among people hiding behind pseudonyms. But a judge in Halifax has lobbed in a reminder that Internet anonymity has its limits.

Rem Rieder / American Journalism Review:

After the Storm — Not long before his appearance on a panel at the American Society of News Editors convention today, Christoph Pleitgen, the managing director of Reuters, got some words of reassurance from a friend. Since the subject was the future of journalism, the friend said, “As no one has a clue, you should be OK.”

Discussion: Romenesko

Mindy McAdams / Teaching Online Journalism:

What you should know about HTML5 today — If you teach online journalism, you've probably been hearing questions from students about the validity of what they are learning today. If you're teaching Web design for current standards and current browsers, they are asking, “What about HTML5 and CSS3?”

Wendy Davis / MediaPost:

Financial Site: ‘Hot News’ Ruling Drives Away Customers — The financial newsletter TheFlyonthewall.com says that it's losing subscribers due to a court order banning it from posting early morning summaries of banks' stock recommendations. — “Defendant is presented with the day-to-day challenge …

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Twitter has 105,779,710 Registered Users, Adding 300K A Day — Twitter's Biz Stone just reeled off some key, and very long awaited stats at Chirp. The stats: — Twitter has 105,779,710 registered users. — It gets 300,000 new users a day. — It receives 180 Million Unique visitors a month.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, blogs.ft.com and paidContent

Discussion: New York Times, Vanity Fair, Twitter Blog, Library of Congress Blog, The Official Google Blog, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Media Money …, Guardian, Runnin' Scared, The News About The News, Epicenter, Globe and Mail and Perez Hilton

Clint Hendler / CJR:

The Chicago Tribune Walks — Newly unsealed evidence says the paper was never extorted — High above the summit of Chicago's Tribune Tower, the clouds are clearing and the light is shining through. — A just-revealed document, laying out the federal government's evidence …

Discussion: FishBowlNY

Jorge Casuso / miaminewtimes.com:

FIU's Journalism Program Is a Mess — Trouble's brewing at Florida International University's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Faculty members charge Dean Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver rarely shows up for work, retaliates against dissenters, allows classes of as many as 200 students …

Discussion: Romenesko

Joe Flint / Company Town:

‘Glee’ hits high note for Fox — The “gleeks” were out in force Tuesday night. — The return of Fox's “Glee” drew it biggest audience yet with 13.7-million viewers singing along even if some of us AC/DC fans cringed when one of the characters started belting out “Highway to Hell.”

Discussion: Variety, The Huffington Post, rbr.com and The Wrap

John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:

Boucher: Broadband Plan Should Not Force Broadcasters Off Spectrum — Rep. doesn't want FCC proceeding with reclamation until available spectrum is identified — House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher (D-Va.) took the opportunity of a public sidebar discussion on the House floor …

Discussion: paidContent, rbr.com and Multichannel

David / Information Is Beautiful:

How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online? — Recently, the UK government passed The Digital Economy Act which included many, perhaps draconian, measures to combat online music piracy (including withdrawing broadband access for persistent pirates). — Much was proclaimed about how these new laws …

Discussion: Mashable!, Techdirt, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Telegraph and Gizmodo

Yeas & Nays:

Arianna huffs about overbooked celebs at WHCD — Like a Real Housewife of New Jersey, Arianna Huffington was flipping tables, well, at least metaphorically. — Because like most media organizations that placed a bid for White House Correspondents dinner tables, the Huffington Post founder didn't get her way.

Discussion: Bloggasm, Gawker and FishBowlDC

Discussion: WorldNetDaily, Globe and Mail, Strupp, Gawker and FishBowlDC

David Kaplan / paidContent:

IAB Hopes To Head Off Regs With ‘Transparency Seal’ — With the online ad industry's self-policing regime constantly under attack from privacy advocates and lawmakers, the Interactive Advertising Bureau is working with the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) on doing more outreach to consumers …

Discussion: MediaPost

Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:

How Did The Wall Street Journal Escape Its $80 Million Hole? — Maybe Les Hinton did deserve that publisher of the year award after all. Anyone who can take a newspaper from an $80 million loss in one year to a profit in the next year — and in this economy, no less — deserves some kind of prize.

Discussion: The Wire

Dallas Morning News:

Some news outlets owe Jerry Jones an apology — For those waiting for an NFL suspension of Jerry Jones or an apology from the Cowboys owner ... don't hold your breath. — If anything, I think the “mainstream” news outlets, including The Dallas Morning News, that ran the video of Jones caught …

Frances Dinkelspiel / Berkeleyside:

Journalist Josh Wolf faces suspension from UC Berkeley for Wheeler Hall protests — Josh Wolf, the citizen-journalist who served 226 days in federal prison in 2006 for refusing to turn over videotapes he took at a protest in San Francisco, is facing a seven-month suspension from UC Berkeley …

Guardian:

“Journalism in the digital age: trends, tools and technologies” — At the recent Edinburgh International Science Festival, The Guardian hosted a panel event which featured Scotland correspondent Severin Carrell, Guardian Local launch editor Sarah Hartley and Iain Hepburn of the Daily Record.

Discussion: currybetdotnet and Garcia Media

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

Does True/ Slant Want Matt Taibbi to Think of Better Insults? — This memo went out recently from Coates Bateman, editorial director of True/ Slant, to all the bloggers there. The subject: “Name calling within posts.” … Now! The most prominent name-caller on True/ Slant is, of course …

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Jennifer Saba / Editor and Publisher:

J.P. Morgan Forecasts a ‘Strong’ Q1 for Newspapers — NEW YORK Newspaper advertising revenue is expected to make a modest comeback this year with overall percentage declines estimated to be in the low single-digit range, according to a Q1 preview from J.P. Morgan.

Discussion: FishBowlNY

Editor and Publisher:

Russian Billionaire/Former Soviet Spy to Speak at World Editors Forum — NEW YORK Russian billionaire banker and former Soviet spy Alexander Lebedev, who now owns the London-based Evening Standard and the Independent, has joined the program of the World Editors Forum, June 7-10 in Beirut, Lebanon.