Mediagazer: Reckitt Benckiser Breaks Record With $40 Million Video Buy (Michael Learmonth/AdAge)

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: Gawker, New York Observer and AdAge

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.

Discussion: Magazine Publishers of America, Romenesko, New York Post, The New Yorker Blog, The Snitch, UnBeige, Media Life Magazine, mediabistro.com, The Huffington Post, The Wrap, Gawker, Folio and New York Magazine

Elva Ramirez / Speakeasy:
Anna Wintour on the Web, Vogue's Future, and the iPad

Discussion: WWD and Gawker

Magazine Publishers of America:
2010 National Magazine Awards Winners and Finalists

Discussion: Styleite, CJR, LA Observed, WWD Media Headlines, Speakeasy, Newsweek Blogs, magCulture.com/blog and Brow Beat

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

A Court Victory Al Gore May Not Want to Advertise — Courts have not always sided with Al Gore, but his interests have prevailed in a San Francisco case involving a work of art whose creator claimed it had been misappropriated by Mr. Gore's cable television channel, Current TV.

Discussion: FishbowlLA

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

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: Tuned In and TVNewser

Rob Pegoraro / Washington Post:

App rejected? There's a rule for that. — The story could have been programmed to draw media coverage, were it not for its implausibility: Apple (a reader magnet) banned a future Pulitzer Prize winner's iPhone application (invoking journalists' professional pride) because it …

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.”

Discussion: The Wire and Romenesko

Discussion: Yahoo! News

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.

Discussion: Media Week, Guardian and Press Gazette

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: Romenesko and mediabistro.com

Jim O'Neill / FierceOnlineVideo:

Level 3 lands ABC News deal — Chalk one up for Broomfield, Colo.-based Level 3 Communications . (NASDAQ: LVLT), which has announced that ABC has tapped it to help the broadcaster move masses of video between its New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles ABC News locations across its Tier 1 backbone.

Discussion: NewTeeVee and FierceTelecom

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Gizmodo Caught In Copyright Crossfire — At TorrentFreak we keep a close eye on the DMCA takedown requests that are received by search engines such as Google and Yahoo. These are usually sent out by music and film companies but last week we saw them being joined by the Gawker Media-owned weblog Gizmodo.

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.

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's … and Washington Post

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, Ain't It Cool News, /Film, Speakeasy and The Playlist

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Reckitt Benckiser Breaks Record With $40 Million Video Buy — But Breaks the Backs of Publishers With Onerous Terms and $2 CPMs — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Reckitt Benckiser is pouring nearly $40 million into web video in 2010, thought to be the biggest single buy for the medium, according to execs with knowledge of the deal.

Discussion: Search Engine Watch

Media Week:

‘Old’ media reasserts supremacy as election battle heats up — As the election campaigns reach fever pitch, Stephen Armstrong reports how traditional media such as TV and posters are replacing online mashups as the political parties' battlegrounds of choice

Richard Lea / Guardian:

Author admits poison pen reviews — After Amazon notices rubbishing peers' work were spotted, esteemed Russianist's lawyers initially denied all connection, then said his wife had written them. He has now conceded the ‘foolish errors’ were his own — After threatening colleagues …

Discussion: Techdirt, PageView, Times of London, ArtsBeat, The Daily Beast and Bookninja

Los Angeles Times:

Threat against ‘South Park’ creators highlights dilemma for media companies — Comedy Central bleeped out all references to the prophet Muhammad in the show after he was depicted dressed as a bear. The show's creators disagreed strongly with the decision.

Discussion: The Big Picture

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: Ars Technica, Mashable!, Gizmodo, Engadget, NewTeeVee, The Next Web, VentureBeat and paidContent

Robert Rich / online.journalism.utexas.edu:

The Keynote: Steven Kydd of Demand Media — This year's keynote speech was without a doubt one of the most anticipated in the event's 11 year history. Steven Kydd of Demand Media presented an engaging speech to kick off the events, and impressively, mentioned the controversy surrounding the company first.

Discussion: Snarkmarket and International Symposium …

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.

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.

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.