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1:25 PM ET, April 20, 2010

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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.
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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 …
Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
How Checkbook Journalism Gave Gizmodo Its iPhone Scoop
Choire / The Awl:
How Much Gizmodo Paid for the Next iPhone: $5K Plus Bonus
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.
Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Kate Kelly: CNBC's New Charlie Gasparino  —  CNBC made its official announcement yesterday that it had hired veteran Wall Street Journal reporter Kate Kelly.  We jumped on the phone with her to talk about the move.  —  “I wasn't looking to leave The Journal per se,” she told us.
Discussion: CNBC and The Big Picture
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Dean Starkman / CJR:
Mangling “Power Problem”
Discussion: TVNewser, Guardian and New York Times
Yvette Kantrow / The Deal LLC:
Franchise player  —  When The New York Observer broke the news …
Discussion: Globe and Mail
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Forbes Offers Media Bloggers Chance to Work For Free  —  Forbes is seeking to put together a top-flight team of media bloggers!  They offer bloggers the chance to write for “millions of Forbes readers.”  In return, bloggers get no money.  Sound good?  —  Sad to see such an established name falling …
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.
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Jack Neff / AdAge:
Nielsen: Facebook's Ads Work Pretty Well  —  When Social Ads Collide With Stated Interests, Awareness Goes Up  —  BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) — It pays to have fans on Facebook if you want your ads to work there too, according to the first public study to come out of the collaboration of Nielsen Co. and Facebook.
The Wire:
News Corp Will Reap An Additional $1 Billion Making People Pay For Content, Says Macquarie (NWS)  —  After meeting with News Corp management, Macquarie is reiterating their positive stance on the company, and highlighting the enormous revenue opportunities ahead.  —  Macquarie's Ben Stretch:
Discussion: eMedia Vitals and George Dearing
Tom Shales / Washington Post:
Tom Shales on TV: Is Larry King's CNN reign nearing its end?  —  “Respected U.S. newsman Larry King has filed for divorce from his country-singer wife, Shawn Southwick,” the wire service story says dryly.  It seems simple enough until you stop to wonder: Is “respected U.S. newsman Larry King” …
Discussion: TVNewser, CJR and TMZ.com
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David Bauder / Canadian Press:
With 25th anniversary nearing, trouble on the way for Larry King show
Discussion: Gretawire
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Tumblr Raises Another $5 Million From Spark and Union Square.  Now It Wants Your Money.  —  Who wants to bet on a Web company with lots of users but very little revenue?  The same people who have bet on it before.  Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures have poured another $5 million into Tumblr …
Mark Briggs / Journalism 2.0:
NPR executing the ultimate distribution strategy  —  Still think NPR is a cute little public radio station?  Think again.  —  The same technology that brought Google Maps to so many websites - the Application Programming Interface (API) - is now enabling NPR to become a distribution juggernaut.
Greg Braxton / Los Angeles Times:
Los Angeles newscasts are waking up earlier  —  TV stations are pouring considerable resources into winning the race for early morning viewers.  —  The streets are dark, the sun has not yet risen and most residents are still sleeping.  But the daily war on the local TV front is already blazing.
Discussion: TVWeek.com and Collective Talent
David Eaves / eaves.ca:
Why Old Media and Social Media Don't Get Along  —  Earlier today I did a brief drop in phone interview on CPAC's Goldhawk Live.  The topic was “Have social media and technology changed the way Canadians get news?” and Christoper Waddell, the Director of Carleton University's School of Journalism …
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
BlackArrow Raises $20 Million More For “New TV” Ad Systems  —  BlackArrow, which sells ad systems designed to reach what the company calls users of “new-TV” (DVR customers, mobile TV etc.) has raised $20 million in a third round of funding.  The round was led by NDS Group …
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
/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: Variety and Company Town
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Keith Olbermann: RightNetwork Lied About Comcast Deal  —  Yesterday we reported that a new, conservative-friendly media outlet called RightNetwork was soon to launch, announcing cable giant Comcast as a partner.  But not so fast!  Shortly thereafter, Comcast released a statement claiming no such partnership …
Katie Goldsmith / New York Magazine:
Anna Wintour Discusses Fashion Bloggers, Irving Penn, and Hamish Bowles's Surfing Lesson  —  Vogue's March feature on style bloggers may have been one indication that Anna Wintour embraces her fashion-obsessed Internet counterparts.  But last night at Pratt Institute, where she spoke …
Discussion: Gawker and New York Observer
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 …
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: mediabistro.com and MinOnline
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
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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NYC is partnering with Evolv, a weapons detection company that has faced scrutiny over its machines' accuracy, to test AI-based gun detectors on the subway

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