Mediagazer: YouTube Crashes Portal Party (Mark Walsh/MediaPost)

Clark Hoyt / The Public Editor's Journal:

Dueling Columnists — A surprising disagreement has broken out between two Times columnists, with Paul Krugman demanding an apology from Andrew Ross Sorkin and Sorkin so far refusing to back down. — The argument is over what approach Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who writes …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, CJR, The Huffington Post, Gawker, New York Magazine, Salon, Talking Biz News, Dealbreaker, FT Alphaville and The Atlantic Wire

Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Mark Fiore can win a Pulitzer Prize, but he can't get his iPhone cartoon app past Apple's satire police — This week cartoonist Mark Fiore made Internet and journalism history as the first online-only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize. Fiore took home the editorial cartooning prize …

Discussion: TUAW, Epicenter, Danwin, Gizmodo, Comic Riffs, eMedia Vitals, Mother Jones and PC Magazine

It's Time for the Press to Push Back Against Apple — Yank iPad apps unless Apple cedes complete control over the right to publish — The Nieman Journalism Lab's Laura McGann has a disturbing report that ought to perk up every news organization that sees Apple's iPad as part of its future.

RTDNA:

RTDNA/Hofstra Survey Finds TV Doing More With Less, Optimism On Staffing — Contact: Ryan Murphy, 202.495.8730, ryanm@rtdna.org — WASHINGTON - The RTDNA/Hofstra University Annual Survey found that 2009 meant another year of TV news doing more with less and news leaders typically feeling optimistic …

Discussion: Mashable!, CyberJournalist.net, Al's Morning Meeting, The Wire and NewsLab

Gillian Reagan / Silicon Alley Insider:

Forbes Hires Back Fired Reporters, Tells Them To Write More Stories And Get More Clicks — We hear from a Forbes source that a half dozen reporters who were laid off during their October 2009 round of layoffs were brought back to their desks. — Congrats, guys!

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Apple's New Guidelines Won't Stop Wired Magazine iPad App, Conde Nast Says — Navigating New Restrictions En Route to the App Store — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Conde Nast 's Wired magazine app will indeed work on the iPad despite the restrictive new guidelines Apple issued this month, Conde Nast said Thursday evening.

Kenneth Li / Financial Times:

Demand Media enlists Goldman for IPO — Demand Media, a closely watched startup that mines online search engine data to generate thousands of videos and web stories a day, has hired Goldman Sachs to explore an initial public offering. — People familiar with the plans say the company could file for an IPO as early as August.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, paidContent and Beet.TV

Kerry Lauerman / Salon:

Our new partnership with McSweeney's — Great new stories from a publisher we greatly admire — Today, Salon is proud to launch a new content partnership with McSweeney's, the little San Francisco publishing outfit with a very big cultural footprint. We'll be frequently running pieces …

Discussion: eBookNewser

Hollywood Reporter:

Weinsteins to take back Miramax — THR EXCLUSIVE — It looks like the Weinsteins have managed to fashion a winning bid in the Miramax auction and will take back control of the company they founded in 1979 and sold to Disney in 1993 for $80 million. — Running the process internally …

Discussion: Gawker, The Wrap, Movieline and New York Magazine

Mark Walsh / MediaPost:

YouTube Crashes Portal Party — The Web portals may be losing ad market share to social networks and other emerging media, but they still represent the bulk of online display ad spending. A new report from investment firm Broadpoint AmTech looks at how the traditional portals Yahoo …

David / Signal vs. Noise:

Eyeballs still don't pay the bills — Ning is laying off 40% of its staff and dumping free versions of its service. That's a s**tty day for the people who lost their job and the folks left behind without their coworkers. I went through a few rounds back in the dotcom days and fun it was not.

Discussion: TechCrunch, GigaOM, paidContent and The Wrap

Jeanne Marie Laskas / GQ Magazine: GQ:

¿Qué Pasa, Lou? — According to Lou Dobbs, we've been completely wrong about him. Wrong about his stance on illegal immigrants. Wrong about his reasons for quitting CNN after twenty-seven years. And wrong about his newfound political aspirations. Well, we might actually be right about that last thing.

Discussion: Mediaite, TVNewser, Media Life Magazine and Gawker

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: Romenesko and The Wire

Jenna Wortham / Bits:

Unleash Your Inner Gleek on the iPad — Fans of Glee, Fox's campy comedy about the misadventures of a high school show choir, now have one more way to “gleek” out: Using their iPhones and iPads. — On Thursday, an application called “Glee” will be released into iTunes that will allow people …

Discussion: Mashable!, VentureBeat, New York Times and TUAW

Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:

Media Moves: Gawker's New Full-Timer, the NY Observer's New Media Mob(ster), Our New Weekend Guy — "Time to get paid, blow up like the World Trade," noted a young Notorious B.I.G. on his way to the top of the rap game, before he was brutally murdered in the climax of a rap war that left …

Discussion: FishBowlNY

Gawker:

Ex-Employee Dishes on Life Inside Oprah's Empire — This week we brought you excerpts from the gossipy new Oprah biography by Kitty Kelley. Today we heard from an ex-Harpo staffer who shared with us all sorts of juicy details about what life's like working for the daytime diva.

Joe Grimm / Ask the Recruiter:

Robot Reporters Could Help Alleviate Workload in Some Newsrooms — You go to a job interview intent on being better than the other candidate. The problem is, the other candidate doesn't get tired, doesn't have personality conflicts (or a personality), never gets sick or talks back and doesn't put in for overtime.

Discussion: Trends in the Living Networks

Ilya Vedrashko / Hill Holliday:

Apple iAd Team Visits Hill Holliday, Shares Details — Back in January, we greeted the announcement of Apple's upcoming ad network with cautious optimism and a lot of questions. Today, Apple's iAd team headed by the now former CEO of Quattro Wireless Andy Miller visited Hill Holliday to fuel the former and answer the latter.

Discussion: Gawker and Techi.com

Matea Gold / Show Tracker:

Fox News yanks Sean Hannity from Cincinnati Tea Party rally he was set to star in — Angry Fox News executives ordered host Sean Hannity to abandon plans to broadcast his nightly show as part of a Tea Party rally in Cincinnati on Thursday after top executives learned that he was set to headline the event …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Media on HuffingtonPost.com and Inside Cable News

Charlotte McEleny / New Media Age:

Economist adds tools to highlight most-debated content — The Economist has launched a Conversation Cloud tool throughout its site to let readers discover the most commented and debated content. — The tool, which aggregates comments on articles, blogs and debates on The Economist site …

Discussion: WebNewser and MediaPost

Rajesh Kamat / Forbes:

The Plot Thickens — A new TV channel in India outranks Murdoch's Star TV. … Forbes: How did you manage to unseat Star TV? That has been the most watched channel in India for the past nine years. — Rajesh Kamat: When we were developing our content, we took a calculated risk and moved …

rbr.com:

BET Networks holds 2010 upfront presentation — During its annual upfront presentation in NYC 4/14 at the Nokia Theatre, BET Networks revealed new consumer research, new programming strategy including scripted programs and original movies, and a new direction.

Discussion: Media Buyer Planner

Charles Arthur / Guardian:

Daily Telegraph website hacked — Site defaced apparently in anger at remarks over ‘gypsies’ — Part of the Daily Telegraph's website has been hacked, apparently by people in Romania who were aggrieved at its identification of “gypsies” and “Romanians”. — Its “Short Breaks” …

Discussion: themediablog.typepad.com

Fred / A VC:

Software Is Media — I've made this point in several talks I've given recently so for those of you who attended or watched the talks on video aren't new to this meme. But I thought I'd share it with the AVC community. — As software has moved from running on local machines to running …

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Newsonomics of content arbitrage — [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] — We're into a new age of digital news content.

Discussion: Lost Remote

Julie Moos / Poynter Online:

Stephen Colbert tells Jake Tapper: ‘I Gut Check My Show’ — ABC news interim host of “This Week,” Jake Tapper, appeared on “The Colbert Report” Wednesday night to explain why he's invited PolitiFact to fact-check claims made on his show, an idea proposed by NYU professor Jay Rosen.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, blogs.tampabay.com, The Atlantic Wire and Indecision Forever

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Clicker's Jim Lanzone Talks About TV on the Web (And Shows Off L.A. Digs) — During my recent sojourn in Los Angeles, BoomTown dropped in on the Melrose Avenue HQ of Clicker, the Web site trying to make search sense of premium video on the Web. — I had a chat with Jim Lanzone …