Mediagazer: Is the TV package outdated? (Deborah Potter/NewsLab)

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 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 …

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Deborah Potter / NewsLab:

Is the TV package outdated? — Consider this: at many local television stations, reporters cover two or more stories a day and never turn a package. Former news director Geoff Roth, who now teaches at Hofstra University, says the trend toward covering the news with live shots and v/o's or v/o-sots is not going away.

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

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

Discussion: Yahoo! News