Mediagazer: Report: Pre-Roll Still Controls Ad Budgets (Gavin O'Malley/MediaPost)

Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:

Glamour Named Magazine of the Year — Glamour took the top honor at the National Magazine Awards on Thursday, winning in a new category called Magazine of the Year that awards both print and digital efforts. — The annual awards, given by the American Society of Magazine Editors, are considered the central awards in the industry.

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Gillian Reagan / The Wire:

Glamour, ‘Magazine Of The Year,’ Got $54.4 Million In Ad Revenue In 2010 — The American Society of Magazine Editors named the winners of their National Magazine Awards — also known as the Oscars for glossy prints — during a glitzy ceremony in New York last night.

Discussion: New York Observer, Gawker and AdAge

Magazine Publishers of America:

2010 National Magazine Awards Winners and Finalists — NOTE: All nominated issues are dated 2009 unless otherwise specified. The editor whose name appears in connection with finalists for 2010 held that position. or was listed on the masthead, at the time the issue was published in 2009.

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Alfred Hermida / Reportr.net:

NowPublic sacks most of its staff — Some bad news from the participatory journalism start-up NowPublic, based in Vancouver. — I've heard that the site had laid off most of its staff - 8 out of its team of 11 - and could likely be shutting down. (See update below: NowPublic denies it is closed)

David Kaplan / paidContent:

NowPublic Lays Off Staff, Citing Acquisition; Vows To Rebuild — Citizen-J site NowPublic has laid off several members of its dozen-person staff, paidContent has been told, confirming portions of an earlier post by Reportr.net. In an e-mail message to paidContent, NowPublic's founder Leonard Brody …

Discussion: Reportr.net

Scott James / Bay Area:

The Brave Online World of Linking, Borrowing and Attributing (or Not) — This week's column is about former Vice President Al Gore and his cable channel Current TV, which were taken to court in San Francisco for using an Orinda photographer's work without permission or payment.

Discussion: The Independent Journalist

Dan Gillmor / Mediactive:

Washington Post and NPR: Yes, Apple Can Block Their iPad Journalism — A few days ago, following up on questions I've asked a number of other news organizations about their relationships with Apple, the Washington Post's Rob Pegoraro a query to his bosses — and, unlike me with any traditional news company …

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Businessweek fires back at Fortune editor in mag rivalry — In talking up yesterday's launch of Bloomberg Businessweek, top executives boasted that the new-and-improved magazine would be the “most influential” among its competitors, and that rival Fortune “has moved away from core business coverage.”

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Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:

Happy Birthday, HuffPo. (Hint: Give Money) — Huffington Post is an impressive 5-year-old, ahead of its class, as it approaches its May 9th birthday. It seems like yesterday that it broke into the top 25 news rankings and now it has landed in the top 10.

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Chris Treadaway / ReadWriteWeb:

Why Newspapers Need to Heed Facebook, Now — Given Mark Zuckerberg's announcements at the Facebook F8 conference, one thing is certain: newspapers can no longer ignore Facebook's impact and reach. Whereas publishers continue to scapegoat Google for many of their current troubles, they should be equally, if not more, wary of Facebook.

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Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost:

Report: Pre-Roll Still Controls Ad Budgets — Nearly all ad executives and media buyers plan to increase spending on online video this year, according to new research from branded video ad network BrightRoll. Indeed, 94% of respondents said they plan to increase their spending on video — up from 87% last year.

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:

YouTube Video Rental Store Now Open — YouTube has quietly begun offering a variety of movies and TV episodes available for rental at youtube.com/store. After experimenting with $5 rentals of Sundance Film Festival movies this January, the site is now offering 48 hour rentals mostly between 99 cents and $3.99.

Discussion: Mashable!, Engadget, NewTeeVee, The Next Web, VentureBeat and paidContent

Marc Graser / Variety:

Disney drawing ‘Monsters Inc.’ sequel — Studio also sets release date for Pixar's ‘Brave’ — Disney is getting animated in 2012. — Studio has dated Pixar's “Brave” for June 15, 2012 while also confirming a sequel to “Monsters Inc.,” which will be released on Nov. 16, 2012.

Discussion: FirstShowing.net, /Film, Ain't It Cool News, Speakeasy and The Playlist

Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:

Gawker Owner: Gizmodo's iPhone Scoop Didn't Make Me Money — With characteristic humility, Gawker Media owner Nick Denton describes his company's acquisition of an iPhone 4Q — two months before Apple (AAPL) was set to unveil it — as “pretty much the biggest tech scoop ever.”

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Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:

How Nickelodeon Moved To A One-Brand Strategy — Branding in the digital age has become painful for aging companies, especially when brands give birth to mini brands without closely tying together the two. It worked for Apple early on, for example. The parent, more than 30 years old, spawned iPad and iPod.

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

GMG Names Finance Chief Miller Interim CEO — Guardian Media Group is putting a numbers guy in charge, at least for the time being, in place of outgoing veteran Carolyn McCall. — Chief financial officer Andrew Miller will be “interim chief executive” from July 1, following McCall's exit to easyJet at June's end.

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James Poniewozik / Time:

Can the CNN-ter Hold? — The evening of Easter Sunday, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit Baja California. At 8 p.m. E.T., CNN had live coverage. MSNBC was running a special, Why Planes Crash. Fox News had host, preacher and former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee talking about God …

Discussion: TVNewser and Tuned In

Neely Tucker / Washington Post:

How determined is Allbritton's D.C. news Web site to succeed? Well, that's TBD. — Media Wonk Alert! — The much-anticipated local news Web venture by Allbritton Communications (the folks who brought you Politico) has, after months of internal debate, finally been named. — It is TBD.com.

Jon Friedman / MarketWatch:

Roethlisberger poses a challenge for media — Roethlisberger's fall from grace reads like a juicy episode of “Law and Order:” A two-time Super Bowl champion, and an idol of millions, causes a vile sex scandal and turns from icon to pariah. The local football fans, disgusted and embarrassed …

Roben Farzad / Business Week:

Is the Times Ready for a Newspaper War? — A new Wall Street Journal local section may win ads from the NYT — The newspaper business is a reliable investing trap. Just ask McClatchy (MNI), which in 2006 swallowed Knight Ridder only to see its stock fall from $50 to 50 cents before rebounding to $7.

Discussion: Mother Jones and mediabistro.com

Editor and Publisher:

ABC Will Audit Newspaper Mobile Audience — The Audit Bureau of Circulations' interactive unit, ABCi, will audit newspapers' mobile content in a partnership with Verve Wireless, ABC announced Thursday. — “With all the buzz around the iPad and with use of mobile browsers exploding …

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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:

The Fifteen Minutes Problem — From the NYT Magazine profile of Mike Allen: … I think the 15 minutes thing is really pernicious and by no means restricted to Allen. Journalism, as a vocation, highly valorizes breaking news. In part this is about making money, but it's more fundamentally about the value system of the profession.

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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:

India's copyright bill gets it right — India's new copyright bill sounds like a pretty good piece of work: it declares private, personal copying to be “fair dealing” (like US fair use) and limits the prohibition on breaking DRM so that it's only illegal to do so if you're also violating copyright.

Discussion: Techdirt