Mediagazer: Charlie Gasparino: “I Want To Turn This Into A Fight With Our Competition” (Steve Krakauer/Mediaite)

7:50 PM ET, April 22, 2010

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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:

Times Company Reports Profit — The New York Times Company reported results on Thursday that reflected a turnaround driven by cost-cutting and an improved advertising market. — The Times Company reported a net income of $14.1 million for the first quarter, compared with a loss of $74.3 million in the period a year earlier.

Discussion: Sacramento Bee, Romenesko, Crain's New York Business and Gawker

Gillian Reagan / The Wire:

New York Times Executives Take On Wall Street Journal In Earnings Call (NYT) — The New York Times Co. (NYT) executives aren't afraid of Rupert Murdoch. On the earnings call this morning, CEO Janet Robinson addressed the competition, with the Wall Street Journal's new New York section debuting on April 26th.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Romenesko and Silicon Alley Insider

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
New York Times Reports Q1 Profit, Digital Ad Revenues Now 26% Of Total

Discussion: Business Wire, paidContent, Seeking Alpha, The Wrap, The Wire, eMedia Vitals and Editors Weblog

Choire / The Awl:
‘NYT’ 1st Quarter: Online Growth Totally Eroded by Print Tailspin

Discussion: New York Magazine

Dawn Chmielewski / Company Town:

Hulu pushes forward with $9.95 subscription service — Hulu, the popular online site for watching television shows, plans to begin testing a subscription service as soon as May 24, according to people with knowledge of the plans. — Under the proposal, Hulu would continue to provide …

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Why $10 a Month for Hulu Is Too Much. And Too Little. — Is ten bucks a month too much to pay for “Hulu Plus”? Or too little? — Perhaps both. — The Web video site is getting ready to roll out its much discussed subscription offering of $9.95 a month, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Discussion: Company Town, NetNewsCheck Latest and The Next Web

Katie Benner / Fortune:

Bloomberg's ambition … (Fortune) — BusinessWeek relaunches this week with a new name, a new design, and a new editorial vision, just four months after it was bought by financial information giant Bloomberg LP. Viewed through the lens of an acquisition, it's therefore perplexing …

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Bloomberg launches new Businessweek, ballyhoos its influence

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Romenesko

Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Cheat Sheet on BusinessWeek's Relaunch, Under Bloomberg

Discussion: MinOnline, Romenesko, Media Week, Wall Street Journal, Gawker, Folio, Talking Biz News, The Wire and New York Magazine

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Making the case for fact-checking the Sunday chat — The audience for Sunday morning public affairs shows traditionally skews older. But two college students are now trying to shake up the longest-running Sunday talk franchise of them all: NBC's “Meet the Press”

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Meet The Facts

Chris Ariens / WebNewser: Group Launches “Meet the Facts” to Pressure NBC Show to Bring on Fact-Checkers

Michael Triplett / Mediaite:

Washington Post Swings, Misses in Ramp Up for Rival TBD.com — With former Washington Post online executive editor Jim Brady getting closer to launching his local D.C. news operation TBD.com, WaPo announced a new local blogger opinion feature yesterday to tap into the news on the streets …

Discussion: All Opinions Are Local, Washington Post, Zombie Journalism and Romenesko

Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
Hoax or Legit? AllBritton's New Local Site Gets a Name: ‘TBD’

Discussion: Editor and Publisher, jeffsonderman and WebNewser

Mark Leibovich / New York Times:

Mike Allen, the Man the White House Wakes Up To — Before he goes to sleep, between 11 and midnight, Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, typically checks in by e-mail with the same reporter: Mike Allen of Politico, who is also the first reporter Pfeiffer corresponds with after he wakes up at 4:20.

Discussion: Romenesko, The Atlantic Online, The Politico, Salon, New York Observer, Politics Daily, Washington Post, Gretawire, Cision, FleetStreetBlues, Meet The Facts, The Atlantic Wire, Fast Company, Gothamist and The Huffington Post

Holly Yeager / CJR:
The Future? We Hope Not — NYT's Politico Profile Paints a Scary Picture

Discussion: FishbowlDC

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Maurice Lévy to leave Publicis — Chairman and chief executive of French advertising giant Publicis Groupe will not seek to renew contract at end of 2011 — Maurice Lévy, the chairman and chief executive of the French advertising giant Publicis Groupe, is to step down after 40 years.

Discussion: Advertising Analysis RSS, Media Buyer Planner, paidContent, PRNewser and ClickZ

Mark Fitzgerald / Editor and Publisher:

McClatchy Turns to Profit in Q1 on ‘Improving’ Advertising Environment — CHICAGO The McClatchy Co. Thursday reported first-quarter net income including discontinued operations of $2.2 million, or $0.03 per share, compared to a loss of $37.52 million, or $0.45 a share, in the year-ago period.

Discussion: Fitz & Jen and NetNewsCheck Latest

Jan Schaffer / J-Lab:

Exploring a Networked Journalism Collaborative in Philadelphia — An Analysis of the City's Media Ecosystem with Final Recommendations — In the nation's sixth largest city, a vibrant media landscape exists with niche reporting sites, legacy newspapers and an active community of creative technologists.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals blogs, Citizen Media Law Project and Romenesko

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

History Channel Turns Foursquare Into A Real World Pop-Up Video — For all the talk about Foursquare, one of the coolest features that gets very little buzz is the Tips area. Here, you'll find suggestions about venues from other users of the service. And if you're friends with a user …

Ian Burrell / The Independent:

Journalism's next generation: A new wave of writers are going online to get their message across — High-quality reporting is flourishing outside traditional newsrooms. — Being the former dance critic of the The Daily Telegraph didn't make it any easier for Ismene Brown to learn business skills on the hoof.

Discussion: Editors Weblog and Press Gazette

Guardian:

James Murdoch at the Independent: ‘like a scene out of Dodge City’ — In common with so many problems involving young men in modern London, it was a squall about reputation and respect — After a lifetime at the helm of the world's most powerful media organisation and in the crosshairs of the left …

Discussion: Gawker, Financial Times, Newser, The Wire, Indecision Forever and The Huffington Post

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Clay Shirky: On the necessity of waste, the power of institutions, and the safety of the infinite time horizon — Internet thinker Clay Shirky and veteran investigative journalist Walter Robinson came to Harvard this week to talk about how the Internet has changed the art of digging up dirt on powerful institutions.

Discussion: Romenesko, Big Journalism and Harvard Kennedy School

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Bloomberg Signs Willow Bay to Cover Milken Conference — Bloomberg Television has signed Willow Bay, the former CNN business anchor, as a special correspondent for next week's Milken Institute Global Conference. — The short-term hiring of Ms. Bay, the wife of the Disney chief executive Robert Iger …

Discussion: MarketWatch, TVWeek.com, TVNewser and The Wire

Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:

‘South Park’ Episode Is Altered After Muslim Group's Warning — A message posted on SouthParkStudios.com, the Web site of Trey Parker and Matt Stone's production company. — 8:56 a.m. | Updated — An episode of “South Park” that continued a story line involving the Prophet Muhammad …

Discussion: Mediaite, Hit & Run, ANIMAL, The Huffington Post, New York Times, The New Yorker Blog, Show Tracker, mediaelites, The Daily Dish, The Wrap, Big Hollywood, This Just In, The Wire, Geekosystem, PopEater, New York Magazine, Underwire and Hot Air

Choire / The Awl:

The New Media and the Attention Economy: “Syndication” — A couple of times in the last month, Gawker Media sites have been all, “Hey that piece on your site was great, can we syndicate it?” Now, I am old. And for us olds, “syndication” is a term of art in the world of publishing things.

Discussion: Jezebel