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8:35 AM ET, April 20, 2010

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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
How Apple Lost the Next iPhone  —  The Gourmet Haus Staudt.  A nice place to enjoy good German ales.  And if you are an Apple Software Engineer named Gray Powell and you get one too many beers, it's also a nice place to lose the next-generation iPhone.  —  The 27-year-old Powell …
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Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
Gizmodo's iPhone Scoop: The Nick Denton Interview  —  ​Maybe you heard, but yesterday, Gawker Media's gadget site Gizmodo published quite a story.  It might be short of hyperbole to note their “get” of a new iPhone prototype as one of the biggest scoops in tech reporting history.
Discussion: The Awl and Gawker
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 …
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 …
Discussion: CJR and New York Magazine
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Dean Starkman / CJR:
Mangling “Power Problem”  —  Heidi N. Moore, an ex-WSJ staffer and vocal defender of the business press, has been Twittering like mad to lambaste anyone who might question the MSM's performance covering financial institutions before the great crash of '08, which, of course, took everyone …
Discussion: TVNewser, The Wire and New York Times
MediaPost:
CNBC Hires 2 New ‘Business Day’ Reporters
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Yvette Kantrow / The Deal LLC:   Franchise player  —  When The New York Observer broke the news …
Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert To Stay on Comedy Central Through 2012 Election  —  With Conan O'Brien about to change the calculus of late-night cable programming, the Comedy Central channel has made a move to lock up its two dominant stars, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Facebook, Nielsen Try To Put A Value On ‘Earned’ Media  —  Lots of nifty stats from Nielsen and Facebook in the first major report since they started partnering on data last fall—and you won't be shocked to hear that it all bolsters their ideas about the value of social media advertising.
Steven Levy / Wired:
Steven Levy on Typos in the Kindle Age  —  Before a recent trip, I downloaded the latest Stephen Hunter novel to my Kindle.  Hunter writes about shooters, so it's not surprising that the name of the book is I, Sniper.  —  Not that you'd know it from the title screen.  The only words on that e-ink page were “I, Snipper.”
Discussion: Regret the Error and TeleRead
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.
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Updated: AdAge.com's Paywall Shifting To Metered Model  —  AdAge.com will significantly limit free access to articles on its website later this week, when it institutes a metered paywall.  Starting Wednesday, non-subscribers will be able to access up to three stories in a given 24-hour period …
Discussion: MinOnline
John Temple / TEMPLE TALK:
Wall Street Journal column incorrect about Peer News in column on comments on news Web sites  —  A column by Gordon Crovitz in Monday's Wall Street Journal mischaracterizes our approach to comments at Peer News, the start-up news service in Honolulu I'm working on with eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.
Discussion: Romenesko and Fitz & Jen
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Wall Street Journal:
Is Internet Civility an Oxymoron?
Discussion: Romenesko
/Film:
Development on Bond 23 Suspended Indefinitely; MGM Woes to Blame  —  Remember last year when MGM's bankruptcy troubles first came to light and we were relatively optimistic that the future of the James Bond franchise was not much in doubt?  Well, we're less optimistic now …
Discussion: Company Town and Variety
Paige Albiniak / Broadcasting & Cable:
Litton to Produce Six New E/I Shows For ABC Stations  —  ‘Ocean Mysteries,’ ‘Earth: Angry Planet,’ and ‘CultureClick’ among new offerings  —  Litton Studios, a division of Litton Entertainment, has signed a deal to exclusively produce six new half-hour educational and informational series …
Discussion: rbr.com and MediaPost
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: Jezebel, FishbowlNY, Romenesko and Gawker
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.
Danny Shea / The Huffington Post:
Oprah Dismisses Kitty Kelley Book: ‘So-Called Biography’  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  Oprah dismissed Kitty Kelley's controversial book about her at a luncheon Monday afternoon in New York.  —  Speaking at the New York Women in Communications' annual Matrix Awards lunch …
Rachel Whetstone / The Official Google Blog:
Controversial content and free expression on the web: a refresher  —  Two and a half years ago, we outlined our approach to removing content from Google products and services.  Our process hasn't changed since then, but our recent decision to stop censoring search on Google.cn has raised …
Discussion: Lifehacker and TechCrunch
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.
Mike Stern / Media Life Magazine:
For radio, alas, fading of the shock jock  —  Indecency complaints to the FCC are down dramatically  —  Is the shock gone from shock jock radio?  —  So it appears.  —  Not so many years ago, much of American radio's mornings, indeed much of its day, were filled with off-color musings …
Tom Petner / TVWeek.com:
Sign Off: Multimedia, Multitasking and Mediocre Everything  —  Sign Off: Multimedia, Multitasking and Mediocre Everything  —  There's good news and bad news to report in the homogenization of local TV news.  —  The good news is who's getting hired these days in the reporting ranks.
 
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Brian Steinberg / AdAge:
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
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Discussion: AdExchanger.com and AdAge
Richard Wray / Guardian:
Media consumption on the increase
Discussion: Editors Weblog