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6:25 PM ET, April 19, 2010

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Gizmodo paid $10,000 for “lost” iPhone 4G — The Internet is abuzz today with Gizmodo's hands on preview of what appears to be Apple's next-gen iPhone. In case you missed the build-up to the story, someone found a cased iPhone on the floor of a bar in Redwood City.

Discussion: Daring Fireball, Gizmodo, Guardian, PC World, Runnin' Scared, Newsweek Blogs, The Next Web, Silicon Alley Insider, VentureBeat, Bits, Fast Company, Vanity Fair, Faster Forward, TeleRead, Recombu, ChicagoNow, Morning Glass and TechFlash

Choire / The Awl:

How Much Gizmodo Paid for the Next iPhone: $5K Plus Bonus — Engadget said that the “finder” (who some are referring to as a “stealer") was charging to see the “lost” new iPhone—pictures of which were published on Gizmodo this morning. Tech blogger John Gruber said the phone was a …

Discussion: Soup, CNET News, PC World, Silicon Alley Insider, Geekosystem and Workman says things

Ken Auletta / New Yorker:

Will the iPad topple the Kindle? — On the morning of January 27th—an aeon ago, in tech time—Steve Jobs was to appear at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, in downtown San Francisco, to unveil Apple's new device, the iPad. Although speculation about the device had been intense …

Discussion: Boing Boing, CrunchGear, TeleRead, New York Observer and kottke.org

Steven Levy / Wired: Steven Levy on Typos in the Kindle Age

Nat Ives / AdAge:

WSJ Plans to Pull No Punches in Turf War With New York Times — But Readership Numbers, Ad Dollars Suggest Fight for Crown Will Be Uphill Battle — Sources and notes: Circulation figures are according to Audit Bureau of Circulations audit reports covering 12 months ended Sept. 27, 2009.

Discussion: Romenesko, Nieman Journalism Lab, Gawker and New York Magazine

Wall Street Journal:

Is Internet Civility an Oxymoron? — Unmoderated, anonymous comments on Web sites create more noise than wisdom. — For those of us tempted to hope that new technology might improve human nature, the Web has proved a disappointment. The latest online reality: comment sections so uncivilized …

Discussion: Romenesko

John Temple / TEMPLE TALK:
Wall Street Journal column incorrect about Peer News in column …

Discussion: Romenesko and Fitz & Jen

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: Journalism.co.uk

New York Times:
The F.C.C. and the Internet — With the Internet fast becoming …

Discussion: Technology Liberation Front and Post Tech

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

Finalists in media reporting competition announced — Finalists announced in fourth annual Mirror Awards competition — Twenty-six finalists in seven categories have been named in the fourth annual Mirror Awards competition for excellence in media industry reporting.

Discussion: CJR, mirrorawards.syr.edu and The News About The News

David Kaplan / paidContent:

AOL's Self-Serve ‘Ad Desk’ To Be Focal Point For Display Efforts — Two months after dropping hints about a new ad platform, AOL (NYSE: AOL) is now opening up beta testing for Advertising.com's “Ad Desk,” a self-serve display sales option aimed at agencies and marketers.

Discussion: AdAge

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 …

Discussion: Editors Weblog

Doree Shafrir / New York Magazine:

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: Gawker, Mediaite, Spiersblr, Silicon Alley Insider, Charitini, The Awl, Runnin' Scared and Fortune Favors The Bold

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: Company Town, Broadcasting & Cable, The Wire, MediaWire Daily and Signal vs. Noise

Alexandra Fenwick / CJR:

Robot Journalism and the Future of Digital Media — More on Columbia's new dual degree in journalism and computer science — Starting in 2011, Columbia University will be offering a new combined degree between the journalism school and engineering school, which will aim to blaze a trail …

Discussion: Lost Remote

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, Guardian and George Dearing

Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:

Did ‘Wall Street Journal’ Editor Fudge His Role in Sulzberger Photo Prank? — Rupert Murdoch's minions may have thought they were engaging in a bit of harmless fun when they used the face of Arthur Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The New York Times, in a photo illustration for a story …

Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:

People StyleWatch Gains as It Blurs Ad Lines — It may be a dreary time in the magazine business, but you wouldn't know it inside the offices of People StyleWatch, a bright spot in the industry. Here, on the 29th floor of the Time & Life building, it is girlie heaven …

Discussion: Romenesko, Jezebel and Gawker

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, Noted and Editors Weblog

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: MediaFile, John Battelle's Searchblog, Guardian, MediaPost, Between the Lines, State of the Fourth Estate, VentureBeat, GigaOM, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Mashable!

Jay Yarow / The Wire:

Bloomberg Redesigns Website As It Tries To Kill The Journal — Say good-bye to the black and amber look of Bloomberg.com. — The financial news and data company completely redesigned the site, scrapping its black background for a traditional black text on a white screen look.

Discussion: WebNewser, TechCrunch, paidContent and MinOnline

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: Online Journalism Blog and Search Engine Land

Steve Myers / Poynter Online:

4 Questions for Nicholas Kristof about Technology and the Developing World — New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has feet in both the First and Third worlds. He's observed and written about poverty, crises and humans rights abuses around the world.