Mediagazer: PubMatic Raises $7.5 Million For Ad Optimization Platform (Leena Rao/TechCrunch)

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, Gawker, CJR, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post, Salon, 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, Gizmodo, Comic Riffs, Mother Jones, PC Magazine and eMedia Vitals

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 and New York Magazine

Discussion: Movieline

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!

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

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, Mashable! and Beet.TV

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.

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, Strupp, Mediaite, The Huffington Post and Inside Cable News

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: Techi.com and Gawker

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 …

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

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

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 …

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

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

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.

Discussion: AdExchanger.com, MediaNama and paidContent

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: Mediaweek and Media Buyer Planner

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

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.

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: Sunbelt Blog and themediablog.typepad.com

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 …

Shaila Dewan / New York Times:

A Newspaper Leaves Behind Its City Roots — ATLANTA — When The Atlanta Journal-Constitution moves into its new home next week, its employees will have access to free parking, more natural light and a wide variety of “retail, service and dining options” at Perimeter Mall …