Mediagazer: First Look: FT's iPad App Is Just Around The Corner (Robert Andrews/paidContent)

7:00 PM ET, April 16, 2010

Top News:

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.

Discussion: Poynter Online, Recovering Journalist, WebNewser and FishBowlNY

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.

Discussion: Fitz & Jen and Jon Slattery

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.

Discussion: MediaPost, Media Decoder, MediaPost, Guardian, paidContent, Broadcasting & Cable and Romenesko

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Steve Jobs Says Apple Made a Mistake in Rejecting Pulitzer Winner's App — Apple's chief executive apparently believes that his company made a mistake when it rejected an iPhone app from a cartoonist who is now a Pulitzer prize winner. — An Apple spokeswoman did not comment Friday afternoon …

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 …

Discussion: Media Analysis RSS, Media Decoder, Epicenter, Tom's MAD Blog!, The Huffington Post, Fast Company, Gizmodo, Slate, Fortune, Daring Fireball, TVWeek.com, TUAW, Comic Riffs, Mother Jones, Nieman Journalism Lab and PC Magazine

Ryan Chittum / CJR:
It's Time for the Press to Push Back Against Apple

Discussion: Faster Forward, Mediactive, Epicenter, Nieman Journalism Lab, Romenesko, Techdirt, NetNewsCheck Latest, The Consumerist, Daring Fireball and Gizmodo

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

Some Cheer, Jeer AP Change from ‘Web site’ to ‘website’ — When the AP Stylebook announced via Twitter that it was changing the style for “Web site” to “website,” some users let out shouts of praise: “Finally!” “Yes!!!” “Yeeha!” — The reactions aren't surprising …

Discussion: Common Sense Journalism and Faster Forward

Doug Fisher / Common Sense Journalism:
AP Style - it will be “website” and spell out state names

Discussion: Romenesko, Mashable! and nickjungman's posterous

Ben Domenech / Media on HuffingtonPost.com:

The White House, Elena Kagan, and Me — It's an odd thing to get attacked by the White House for a blog post, and odder still when the attack is for something mentioned in passing, and intended to highlight a political positive about a potential Supreme Court nominee.

Discussion: Romenesko, Mediaite and Right Now

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.

Discussion: New York Magazine, The Huffington Post, Gawker, Romenesko, Ben Smith's Blog, Grasping Reality …, The Atlantic Wire, Mediaite, Vanity Fair, Media Matters for America, Washington Monthly, New York Observer and The Huffington Post

Gillian Reagan / The Wire:

Here's What Fox Business Network Was Airing As The Goldman News Took Over The World — When the huge Goldman Sachs story broke this morning, Fox Business Network was airing an interview with reality star Tila Tequila on how she turned her fame into a business.

Discussion: Mediaite, Talking Biz News, Reuters, mediaelites, Globe and Mail, Inside Cable News and Gawker

Ryan Chittum / CJR:
Goldman Sachs Fraud Charges Are a Business-Press Win

Discussion: New York Times, U.S. Securities …, ProPublica: Blog and BusinessJournalism.org …

Kenneth Li / Financial Times:
Demand Media enlists Goldman for IPO

Discussion: Romenesko, paidContent, Mashable!, Silicon Alley Insider, VentureBeat, FishBowlNY and Beet.TV

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: Movieline, Gawker and New York Magazine

Lew Harris / The Wrap:
Exclusive: The Weinsteins Negotiate Window to Buy Miramax (updated)

Discussion: Media Decoder and DealBook

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.

Discussion: Pursuing the Complete … and FishBowlDC

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.

Discussion: GigaOM, THINK / Musings, HubSpot's Inbound …, VentureBeat, Journalism.co.uk, Webmonkey, Editors Weblog and The Huffington Post

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

First Look: FT's iPad App Is Just Around The Corner — We got a sneak peak at the Financial Times' forthcoming iPad app during a digital briefing by parent Pearson (NYSE: PSO). It looks, well, a lot like you'd expect... I spent 10 minutes playing with the app, some content …

Discussion: The Wire

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

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

Phoebe Connelly / American Prospect:

The Library of Congress Is Now Following You on Twitter — TAP talks with the Library about why they're archiving tweets, if you can opt out, and who gets to be the Twitter Librarian. … That's a very impressive-sounding title. — Well, the name is horrible. It's shortened to NDIIPP.

David Kaplan / paidContent:

NBC Profits Declined 49 Percent, Mostly Due To Olympics — Things were supposed to be getting better for TV broadcasters this quarter.... NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), essentially a footnote in parent General Electric's quarterly earnings until its merger with cable giant Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Rupal Parekh / AdAge:

McCann Sues MDC Partners, Kirshenbaum Bond For Allegedly Poaching Talent — Strongly Worded Lawsuit Centers on Lori Senecal, Says Agency Plotted to Steal Weight Watchers Account — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — A bitter legal battle is brewing in adland, after Interpublic Group …

Discussion: Media Decoder

Christopher Heine / ClickZ:

Comcast and Starbucks Testing Home Page Takeover Plays at Major Newspapers — Home page takeover ads on newspaper sites are becoming increasingly commonplace. In recent months, The New York Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Houston Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and The Seattle Times are among names …