Mediagazer: CSM Posts Pay Model for ‘Breakfast’ (Lucia Moses/Mediaweek)

Tweet Tweet Boom Boom — A new generation of tech entrepreneurs in the city is trying to overthrow old media and build a better New York—with the help of their iPhones. Are they dreaming? Definitely. But in a good way. — On any given day in New York City, there are usually close to a dozen …

Discussion: The Awl

Joe Coscarelli / Runnin' Scared:

Talking Points Preview: Early Notes on New York Magazine's “Life is Tweet” Start-Up Guide — Every week, as the clock strikes midnight and Monday begins, New York magazine releases its new issue online. Because the April 26 issue is about the internet, I went to the corner magazine store …

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

ProPublica's nonprofit's news gathering pays off for partners — Sheri Fink had a medical degree, a doctorate and a nose for news, along with a tendency to rush off to disaster zones from Kosovo to Iraq. What she didn't have was a steady paycheck to support her journalism.

Discussion: Romenesko

Discussion: Poynter Online and Crikey

Noam Cohen / New York Times:

Link by Link: What Would Ellsberg Do With Pentagon Papers Today? — BEFORE Wikileaks, or even the Internet, there were just plain leaks. — Two weeks ago, Wikileaks.org released a classified video showing a United States Apache helicopter killing 12 civilians in Baghdad.

Discussion: Media Decoder

Dominic Jones / IR Web Report:

Reuters' conflicted reporting on Google's earnings release practices — REUTERS, the news division of information services giant Thomson Reuters, has published an ill-informed, inaccurate and one-sided article about Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) announcement that it will use its website rather …

Discussion: Talking Biz News and Search Engine Land

Miguel Helft / New York Times:

Facebook Seeps Onto Other Web Sites — SAN FRANCISCO — With about half of Facebook's 400 million users checking in daily, the social networking company has established itself as one of the Web's most popular destinations. — Now Facebook is intensifying its efforts to expand its empire beyond …

Discussion: Guardian, eMedia Vitals, VentureBeat, State of the Fourth Estate, Mashable! and GigaOM

Richard Wray / Guardian:

Media consumption on the increase — Survey finds increase in number of hours public spends watching TV, playing video games and using the internet — People are watching more television, reading more news, playing more video games, spending more time updating their social networking profiles …

The Independent:

Stephen Glover: The future of the free press will rest on Murdoch making us pay — In a way, one can't blame Gordon Brown for saying that paywalls won't work. — In fact, to be precise, he seemed to be saying that they shouldn't work. In an interview last week with the Radio Times …

Discussion: Editors Weblog, FleetStreetBlues and Guardian

Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:

New Jersey Paper Allows Hockey Team to Cover Itself — Sharp-eyed readers might have noticed something truly unusual in Gannett's New Jersey newspapers. A new byline started appearing this month on articles about the New Jersey Devils hockey team, with a note under each piece stating that the author …

David Gelles / Financial Times:

Facebook to target ads based on users' trail — Facebook has laid the ground for a new system that would track its users' behaviour as they visit other sites around the internet, using the information to deliver highly targeted advertisements to them on the social networking site.

Discussion: The Next Web, Mashable!, Telegraph and HubSpot's Inbound …

Bill Carter / New York Times:

For TBS and O'Brien, a Match Driven by Demographics — How did a channel like TBS — a cable channel without the prestige or marketing power of a broadcast outlet — manage to land Conan O'Brien's show? — Money and promises? No doubt. In the deal he made to move his late-night show to TBS …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, The Wire and Media Decoder

Anthony Crupi / Hollywood Reporter:

VH1 revamps programming — Network to debut 44 new series, bring back ‘Behind the Music’ — As it begins its annual courtship ritual with the advertising community, VH1's deportment is decidedly more understated than it has been in years past. Gone are the tawdry trappings of …

Discussion: PopWatch and Gawker

Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:

CSM Posts Pay Model for ‘Breakfast’ — In the latest “freemium” experiment, Christian Science Monitor in May will start charging for Web videos of its longstanding “political breakfast” series. The cost will be $14.95 per month or $99 per year to see videos of the events …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals