Mediagazer: MTV Not Involved With 2 ‘Jersey Shore’ Imitations (Brian Stelter/New York Times)

6:05 AM ET, April 19, 2010

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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 …

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 …

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: Search Engine Land

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.

Mike Allen / The Politico:

Press airs grievances to Gibbs — White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs met with a delegation from the White House press corps for 75 minutes on Thursday in an effort to improve frayed relations between the two sides. — Ed Chen, a White House correspondent for Bloomberg News …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Big Journalism and Chickaboomer

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.

Jay Rosen / Public Notebook:

David Gregory: “No, I won't fact check my guests and you guys can't make me...” A time line. — David Gregory, the host of NBC's Meet the Press, has painted himself into a strange corner with his assertion that there's no need to fact check what his guests say on the air because viewers can do that “on their own terms.”

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Balloon Juice

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 …

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: VentureBeat, Mashable! and GigaOM

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

MTV Not Involved With 2 ‘Jersey Shore’ Imitations — Success always breeds imitation. On television, there are three varieties of “CSI,” three of “Law & Order,” and at least four of “Real Housewives.” But in the case of MTV's “Jersey Shore,” the original network is not the one doing the imitating.

Discussion: New York Magazine

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: Mashable! and The Next Web

Ian Shapira / Washington Post:

After Pulitzer win, saga for reporter and story continues — BRISTOL, VA. — The scrappy reporter just a few years out of college got a tip from a reader: Thousands of property owners who controlled the rights to the natural gas beneath their land were being stiffed out of millions of dollars in royalties.

Discussion: Guardian