Mediagazer: Why Hulu Will—And Should—Charge For Hulu Plus (James McQuivey/paidContent)

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: FishbowlNY, MinOnline, Gawker, New York Observer and AdAge

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

Discussion: WWD, Gawker and WWD Media Headlines

Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Glamour Named Magazine of the Year

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

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

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 …

David Folkenflik / NPR:

Bias or Balance? Media Wrestle With Faltering Trust — The public's widespread disgust with government officials has been well documented, most recently in polling by the Pew Research Center and NPR. — But the news media — the institutions that accept the mission to hold those officials accountable …

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

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

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: FierceTelecom

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, ArtsBeat, PageView, Times of London, Bookninja and The Daily Beast

MaryAnn Spoto / New Jersey Online:

N.J. court rules blogger is not protected under shield law in porn company defamation case … FREEHOLD — A blogger sued for defamation because of her writings about a Freehold software company is not a journalist and is not covered by a law that protects them from revealing confidential sources, an appellate court ruled today.

Discussion: Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, Romenesko and Ethical Martini

James McQuivey / paidContent:

Why Hulu Will—And Should—Charge For Hulu Plus — The Hulu-will-charge-you-money rumor mill is churning once again, and the blogosphere has lit up with preemptively angered Hulu viewers vowing that they will never darken Hulu's digital door again. Some call it greed, others point …

Discussion: NewTeeVee

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

Alexandra Fenwick / CJR:

You Pick It, You Report It — The Faster Times plots a new pro-am collaboration — The Faster Times, an online newspaper launched in July 2009 (tagline: “A new type of newspaper for a new type of world"), has introduced a new kind of investigative model for that new world.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab

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

Washington Post:

Network News: Facebook integrates with washingtonpost.com — Washington Post Managing Editor; Facebook Director of Platform — Raju Narisetti: Hi. Thank you for joining me in the chat. We have a guest today—Bret Taylor, Director of Platform—at Facebook who will also be answering your questions from the West Coast.

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: Bloomberg, Romenesko and mediabistro.com

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.

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Journalism's tea party express — Are the media serving you too much tea? — Are journalists so revved up on caffeine that they're breathlessly hyping the importance of a group that has little clout? — Is this how bored reporters fill the lull before the midterms heat up?

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.

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.