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2:30 PM ET, April 16, 2010

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Mark Fitzgerald / Editor and Publisher:
More Evidence of Newspaper Turnaround: Gannett Doubles Q1 Profit as Revenue Decline Moderates  —  CHICAGO Gannett Co. reported a first-quarter profit Friday that was double its year-ago earnings and said that U.S. newspaper advertising, down 8.5% compared to a year ago, showed improvement in every category.
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
USA Today iPad App Will Go Subscription Model This Summer  —  USA Today's free, solely ad-supported iPad app will switch to subscription in July when the app's exclusive sponsorship deal with Courtyard by Marriott concludes, Gannett (NYSE: GCI) CEO Craig Dubow said during the company's Q1 earnings call.
Gillian Reagan / The Wire:
Newspapers Rejoice!  Gannett Smashes The Street With Profits Up 51% (GCI)  —  Gannett Co., Inc. (GCI), America's largest newspaper publisher, beat expectations for their first quarter results, pulling in adjusted earnings at $0.50 per share, compared to $0.41 expected by analysts.
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Cartoonist: Apple Backs Down After Denying iPhone App  —  The cartoonist who won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning this week says Apple has asked him to resubmit an iPhone app that it earlier rejected because it “ridicules public figures.” … Mark Fiore, who won the prize …
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Ryan Chittum / CJR:
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.
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, Movieline and New York Magazine
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Lew Harris / The Wrap:
Exclusive: The Weinsteins Negotiate Window to Buy Miramax (updated)
Discussion: Media Decoder
Jacob Harris / Open:
How Often Is The Times Tweeted?  —  I recently had the honor of speaking at the Chirp conference, where I got to stammer nervously about @anywhere and share a fun statistic I figured out a few days earlier: Someone tweets a link to a New York Times story once every 4 seconds.
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 …
Newsdesk / Tower Ticker:
Chicago News Cooperative to name Madison Dearborn's Canning chairman  —  John Canning, founder and chairman of the Chicago private-equity group Madison Dearborn Partners, is set to be announced Friday as the new board chairman of the nonprofit Chicago News Cooperative.
Discussion: Romenesko
Steve Myers / Poynter Online:
Brady: New D.C. Site to Rely on 3 Things for Delivering News on Every Block  —  People who visit Allbritton Communications' still-unnamed metro D.C. news site when it launches in June will see elements that have been employed elsewhere — aggregation, geocoding, community engagement — but not quite in this formula.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
White House complains about CBS News blog post saying that possible Supreme Court nominee is gay  —  The White House ripped CBS News on Thursday for publishing an online column by a blogger who made assertions about the sexual orientation of Solicitor General Elena Kagan, widely viewed as a leading candidate for the Supreme Court.
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: Mediaite and Poynter Online
Kristen Schweizer / Bloomberg:
Financial Times Online Chief Sees Drawbacks From Google News  —  The Financial Times's online chief said users are seven times less likely to subscribe to the Web edition when they arrive via Google News pages, compared with Google's regular search page.  —  Rob Grimshaw, managing director …
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.
Mark Ftizgerald / Editor and Publisher:
Gannett Won't Pay Golden Parachute Taxes for Future Top Executives  —  CHICAGO Facing a shareholder proposal on so-called “excise tax gross-ups” — in which a company pays part of the tax on a top executive's golden parachute — Gannett Co. board of directors Thursday eliminated the perk for future executives.
Discussion: Gannett Blog and Fitz & Jen
Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Boxee's TV app venturing out of the living room and onto iPhone and iPad  —  NEW YORK — In the next few months, you'll be able to take Boxee, the software designed to marry television with online video, to the bathroom, the bedroom and the park.  Boxee is working on versions of its application …
Phil Bronstein / San Francisco Chronicle:
Journalism Deathmatches, Then and Now  —  A little bloodshed is good for the news business, particularly if journalism professionals are back to shooting at each other instead of collectively gathering around their own grave, hand-wringing and waiting to be pushed in by a dismissive and disinterested public.
Erica Naone / Technology Review:
Will Twitter's Ad Strategy Work?  —  Twitter will have to overcome several challenges for the scheme to be successful.  —  This week Twitter launched Promoted Tweets, an advertising platform that sheds light on its much-discussed business model.  The platform takes a page …
Andrew Vanacore / Associated Press:
Rolling Stone's archive going online - for a price  —  NEW YORK - For the first time Rolling Stone is inviting its readers on the long, strange trip though the magazine's 43-year archive, putting complete digital replicas online along with the latest edition.  But you'll have to pay to see it all.
Timothy James Duffy / Techi.com:
CAPTCHA Advertising Coming Soon To A Website Near You  —  Sick of internet advertisements?  Like it or not, banner, contextual, and even pop-up ads have become an integral part of nearly all modern websites.  While it's understandable that all of our favorite websites need a way to subsidize server costs …
Editor and Publisher:
Atlanta Gay Paper ‘Southern Voice’ to Return Next Week  —  ATLANTA The new owner of a longtime weekly newspaper covering the gay and lesbian community in Atlanta said April 9 that the shuttered publication would reopen within the next week.  —  Southern Voice shut down in November …
Ben Goldacre / Bad Science:
Libel claimants get what they deserve.  So do you.  —  [Full text at guardian.co.uk, abbreviated in the paper]  —  After 2 years of pursuing one man through the courts, at a cost to him of £200,000 and 2 years work, the British Chiropractic Association yesterday dropped their libel case against science writer Simon Singh.
Discussion: Guardian
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.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
PubMatic Raises $7.5 Million For Ad Optimization Platform  —  PubMatic, an online ad optimization service and TechCrunch 40 company, has raised $7.5 million in Series C funding from Helion Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Nexus Venture Partners.  This round of investment brings PubMatic's total funding to $18 million.
 
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Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
A Newspaper Leaves Behind Its City Roots
rbr.com:
BET Networks holds 2010 upfront presentation
Discussion: Mediaweek and Media Buyer Planner
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Daily Telegraph website hacked
Fred / A VC:
Software Is Media  —  I've made this point in several talks …
Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
Media Moves: Gawker's New Full-Timer, the NY Observer's New Media Mob …
Discussion: FishBowlNY
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Unleash Your Inner Gleek on the iPad
Rajesh Kamat / Forbes:
The Plot Thickens  —  A new TV channel in India outranks Murdoch's Star TV.
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Joe Grimm / Ask the Recruiter:
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Mark Walsh / MediaPost:
YouTube Crashes Portal Party
Washington Post:
Former NSA executive charged with leaking information to newspaper
Discussion: Cheat Sheet, Romenesko and Gawker
Lisa Haberzettl / The Maine Campus:
Pulitzer Prize-winner: Journalism isn't dead yet