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3:35 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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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 …
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: Gawker and The Awl
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: New York Magazine
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Yvette Kantrow / The Deal LLC:
Franchise player  —  When The New York Observer broke the news that Jeffrey McCracken, The Wall Street Journal's mergers and acquisitions reporter, was leaving the paper for Bloomberg, it called the deal beat “one of the biggest and most vital franchises at the Journal.”
MediaPost:
CNBC Hires 2 New ‘Business Day’ Reporters  —  CNBC announced that Herb Greenberg and Kate Kelly will join the network.  Greenberg will be senior stocks commentator and Kelly will be a reporter focusing on Wall Street.  Both will appear daily during CNBC's “Business Day” programming and on CNBC.com.
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Ken Auletta / New Yorker:
PUBLISH OR PERISH  —  Can the iPad topple the Kindle, and save the book business?  —  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.
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Steven Levy / Wired:
Steven Levy on Typos in the Kindle Age
Discussion: TeleRead
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.
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: Fitz & Jen
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Wall Street Journal:
Is Internet Civility an Oxymoron?
Discussion: Romenesko
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.
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Bloomberg's Krim: Our Paywall Won't Be Like Everyone Else's  —  Bloomberg.com began showing off its new look earlier today, but sometime in the next few months, the site will also be sporting a paywall around some of its content.  In an interview with paidContent, Kevin Krim …
Discussion: Talking Biz News
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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.
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, FishbowlNY and Gawker
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
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
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 …
Gillian Reagan / The Wire:
CBS CEO Les Moonves Gets $43.2 Million For 2009 (CBS)  —  CBS Corp.'s CEO Les Moonves got a fat compensation package of $43.2 million for 2009, according to the company's SEC filing.  On top of his $3.5 million salary, he pulled in a $15 million bonus, stock worth $7.6 million and stock options currently worth about $14.3 million.
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Microsoft Online Ad Exec Howe To Quit  —  Scott Howe, who oversees Microsoft's advertiser and publisher solutions group, is resigning—the latest former aQuantive executive to leave Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT).  Microsoft says Howe is departing “to spend some quality time with his family …
Lauren Goode / Digits:
Boxee, Roku Announcing Deals for Streaming Live Sports on TV  —  Watching live sports on television via the Web may have just gotten easier. … Starting Monday, Web-to-TV software company Boxee will distribute the National Hockey League's Game Center Live online video content.
Discussion: Boxee Blog
David Cay Johnston / TheWrap.com:
Daryl Gates: The Story the L.A. Times Didn't Tell  —  When Daryl Gates, who died on Friday, ran the LAPD from 1978 to 1992 he also ran a worldwide political spying operation.  And he lavished time on it, sometimes several hours each day, including all the dossiers and reports he got …
Discussion: Romenesko and Los Angeles Times
 
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Tom Petner / TVWeek.com:
Sign Off: Multimedia, Multitasking and Mediocre Everything
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Updated: AdAge.com's Paywall Shifting To Metered Model
New York Post:
NBC Universal execs Jeff Zucker and Ron Meyer feuding
Discussion: MediaWire Daily and Chickaboomer
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Mail Online: 'Why We're Staying Free'
David Bauder / Canadian Press:
With 25th anniversary nearing, trouble on the way for Larry King show
Discussion: Gretawire, TVNewser, Mediaite and The Wire
Brian Steinberg / AdAge:
CNN Marries Content and Commercials to Retain Viewers
 Earlier Picks: 
David Kaplan / paidContent:
AOL's Self-Serve ‘Ad Desk’ To Be Focal Point For Display Efforts
Discussion: AdExchanger.com and AdAge
Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:
CSM Posts Pay Model for ‘Breakfast’
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
The Independent:
Stephen Glover: The future of the free press will rest on Murdoch making us pay
Richard Wray / Guardian:
Media consumption on the increase
Discussion: Editors Weblog
Bill Carter / New York Times:
For TBS and O'Brien, a Match Driven by Demographics
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
ProPublica's nonprofit's news gathering pays off for partners
Discussion: Romenesko and Editors Weblog