Mediagazer: Johnston Scarborough journalists to strike on Friday (The National Union of Journalists)

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Jon Stewart of ‘The Daily Show’ Takes On Fox News — George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are long gone. Fox News Channel is Jon Stewart's new enemy No. 1. — Last week that comedian did something that the hosts of “Fox & Friends,” the morning show on Fox News, did not do …

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

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 …

Elva Ramirez / Speakeasy:

Anna Wintour on the Web, Vogue's Future, and the iPad … Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour joined a very exclusive club on Thursday evening, when she was formally inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame during the National Magazine Awards, held at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.

Discussion: WWD, Gawker and WWD Media Headlines

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

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

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

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

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

Discussion: The Daily Beast and Brand Republic

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 …

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Changes at ABC News Assignment Desk — ABC News president David Westin has announced a restructuring of the newsgathering apparatus of the divison. — “The Desk will become a more active partner with the programs and platforms in choosing the right stories to cover,” Westin writes to the staff, in an email obtained by TVNewser.

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.

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 and Los Angeles Times

Danny Shea / The Huffington Post:

‘30 Rock’ Mocks Ben Silverman In ‘Bitch Hunter’ Clip (VIDEO) — Ben Silverman may be gone from NBC, but he's not forgotten at “30 Rock.” — The former NBC entertainment chief, who now runs IAC-backed production outfit Electus, was mocked in a clip of a fake show called “Bitch Hunter.”

Discussion: Vanity Fair and TV Tattle

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, ArtsBeat, Bookninja and The Daily Beast

The National Union of Journalists:

Johnston Scarborough journalists to strike on Friday — Journalists employed in Yorkshire by the Johnston Press Group at Scarborough, Whitby and Malton are taking strike action next Friday (April 30) in the NUJ dispute with the group over the introduction of the Atex content management system …

Discussion: Jon Slattery

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

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

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.

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