Mediagazer: ‘Variety,’ ‘Newsday’: Pay Walls Mean Fewer Page Views (David Goetzl/MediaPost)

6:25 PM ET, April 27, 2010

Top News:

At Greater New York Fete, Murdoch Tells Sulzberger to ‘Get a Life’ — It was a few minutes after 7 p.m. Monday night on Broadway and 36th Street, and Rupert Murdoch was addressing a crowd of a few hundred pinstripe-suited machers. “With tonight's launch of Greater New York …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, Romenesko, Crain's New York Business, Gawker, The Wire, Runnin' Scared, New York Magazine and DailyFinance

Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:

Print War Between NYT and WSJ Is Really About Digital — The New York Times sold part of its headquarters for $225 million last year, and now leases it back from a real estate company. — NEW YORK — The stage was set for a clash of the titans Monday as Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal …

Discussion: Slate, Runnin' Scared, mediabistro.com, Journalism.co.uk, The Wire, FishbowlNY and MediaPost

John Koblin / New York Observer:
Robert Thomson and Les Hinton Introduce ‘Greater New York’ at the Plaza

Discussion: Bloomberg, Tuesday, April 27, 2010, MediaFile, The Daily Beast, FishbowlNY, Romenesko, Media Decoder and New York Magazine

Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:

LAT to add paid links to stories, blogs — The Los Angeles Times will begin selling e-commerce links in selected stories and blog posts — but not in news stories or columns — as “both a reader service and a revenue opportunity for the company,” editor Russ Stanton announced to the newsroom in a memo this morning.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Fitz & Jen, Pop & Hiss, Romenesko, Editor and Publisher and FishbowlLA

David Goetzl / MediaPost:

‘Variety,’ ‘Newsday’: Pay Walls Mean Fewer Page Views — As Hollywood trade publication Variety has joined the select few publications with an online pay wall, it has seen page views drop more than 40%, according to Nielsen figures. The number of unique visitors has fallen a lesser 18% …

Discussion: Center for Sustainable …, MarketingVOX, FishbowlLA and eMedia Vitals

Gizmodo:

Police Seize Jason Chen's Computers — Last Friday night, California's Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team entered editor Jason Chen's home without him present, seizing four computers and two servers. — They did so using a warrant by Judge of Superior Court of San Mateo.

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
iPhone Leak Investigation Pauses As DA Ponders Gizmodo Shield Law Defense

Yahoo! News:
What is Apple Inc.'s role in task force investigating iPhone case?

Discussion: bizjournals, Mashable!, PC World, Daggle, FishbowlLA, Daring Fireball, VentureBeat, The Wire and Threat Level

Emma Barnett / Telegraph:

Hulu ‘abandons UK plans’ after broadcaster talks collapse — Hulu, the US video aggregator, has been forced to abandon plans to launch a UK version of its web TV service after talks with the major British broadcasters have collapsed, The Telegraph can reveal.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Mobile Blogger “Boy Genius” Unmasked, Acquired — You probably haven't heard of Jonathan Geller. But you may have read his site. Geller's Boy Genius Report is avidly followed by those obsessed with mobile phones and the companies who make them. — Among those paying attention …

Discussion: Dan Shanoff and MediaPost

Boy Genius Report:
Taking BGR to the next level — MMC acquires BGR

Discussion: paidContent, Digits and Geekosystem

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Updated: BBC, C4, Five Going After TV Streamers; Zattoo Removes Streams — The legality of services like Zattoo and TVCatchUp, which re-stream public-service TV channels via what they say is a provision in copyright law, has long been a hornet's nest waiting to be stirred.

Steve O'Hear / last100:
Zattoo turns off BBC streams, could TVCatchup be forced to do the same?

Discussion: NewTeeVee

Tim Bradshaw / blogs.ft.com:

Spotify moving on up — ‘, Assanka. $(this).parents(’.falconpostactions'), “, ‘Share’, 530)”>Share — Spotify is growing up fast. After first pitching itself as the best weapon against piracy, the online music service now has Apple in its sights. Apple's approval of Spotify's mobile application …

Discussion: blogs.telegraph.co.uk, MediaPost, Financial Times and Mashable!

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Bloomberg executive editor named co-chair of Pulitzer board — Longtime business journalist Amanda Bennett, the executive editor of Bloomberg News, has been named the co-chair of the Pulitzer Prize board. — David Kennedy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Stanford University professor …

Discussion: Romenesko, Media Matters for America and Cision

Michael Wolff / Newser:

Creepy Steve Jobs May Not Want You to Read This (or Will Break Down Your Door) — Follow him on Twitter @MichaelWolffNYC — Speaking of Apple's weird and scary overreactions—yes, good idea, have the police storm the Gizmodo editor's house in the lost iPhone prototype caper—here's my story:

Discussion: Fortune and Silicon Alley Insider

Media Week:

The Sun to publish 3D issue — LONDON - The Sun is to publish a 3D edition with 3D colour ads and editorial, including Page 3, a week before the start of this year's World Cup. — The News International-owned red-top is to be the first national newspaper to run ads and editorial in this format.

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Super Mike, Politico's star — If the cover of the New York Times Magazine is any indication, Mike Allen must be the most important journalist in Washington. — I'm afraid I don't get it. — This is not a knock at the Politico reporter, who has also toiled for my paper, Time and the New York Times.

Discussion: The New Yorker Blog, Romenesko, Gawker, Mediaite, Story Lab and bookforum.com

Joe Flint / Company Town:

Latest protester of Comcast - NBC deal plays race card and has ex-FCC chairman on board — A recently formed advocacy group has some pretty harsh words for cable giant Comcast Corp. and has hired a former FCC chairman as its counsel. — “For decades Comcast has shut the door …

Discussion: The Wire, Media Money …, Faster Forward, Los Angeles Times and The Consumerist