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5:10 PM ET, April 28, 2010

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Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Yahoo! News Hires Newsweek's Former White House Correspondent Holly Bailey (YHOO)  —  Yahoo! News has recruited yet another high profile journalist.  —  We hear that Holly Bailey, a former Newsweek White House correspondent, has taken a job as senior politics writer for Yahoo's politics, national affairs and media blog, The Newsroom .
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Felix Gillette / New York Observer:
Jamie Mottram, Sportif Yahoo Bloglord, Pushes ‘Portal Power’  —  On April 1, Gawker chief Nick Denton passed on some surprising news via Twitter.  “Damn!”  Mr. Denton wrote.  “Gawker's awesome John Cook is about to disappear into the maw of Yahoo.  Someone else—WSJ?—should save him.  We tried.”
Matea Gold / Company Town:
ABC News concludes wrenching round of cuts with fewer involuntary layoffs than expected  —  A brutal round of cuts at ABC News came to a close this week when executives laid off 22 employees Tuesday, a far smaller number than they had expected.  —  The final tally was less than anticipated …
Philly.com:
Phila.  Newspapers sold to lenders  —  NEW YORK - Brian P. Tierney, CEO of Philadelphia Newspapers L.L.C., announced Wednesday afternoon that the company that owns the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News has been sold to its senior lenders for $135 million.
Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Conan O'Brien Will Appear on ‘60 Minutes’ on Sunday  —  Conan O'Brien will break his post-NBC silence Sunday night when he gives his first interview about his departure from “The Tonight Show” to CBS's “60 Minutes.”  —  In the deal he signed that settled his contract with NBC …
Gillian Reagan / The Wire:
Arthur Sulzberger Jr.: NYT's Metered Paywall Is About Building ‘Emotional Connection’ With Readers (NYT)  —  The New York Times (NYT) is building its metered model for NYTimes.com in 2011 for many reasons, as chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. pointed out during the Times' annual meeting of stockholders yesterday.
Media Maverick:
Gizmodo considers suing police after iPhone raid  —  A lawyer for Gizmodo says that the gadget blog could sue the San Mateo County sheriff's office for raiding an editor's home last Friday as part of a probe into an errant iPhone prototype.  —  The option of a lawsuit “is available …
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Edmund Lee / AdAge:
More Publishers Trying Outsourced Journalism  —  Established News Shops Running Articles From Pool of Freelancers for as Little as $5 a Story  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — More major media companies are looking for ways to find cheap content.  Thomson Reuters, Cox Newspapers and Hachette Filipacchi …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Tremor Media Rounds Up Another $40 Million For Web Video Ads  —  Remember when the pre-roll — ads that run before Web video clips — was supposed to be on its way out?  Somebody forgot to tell Tremor Media.  —  The video ad network, which makes most of its money selling pre-rolls …
Tom Grasty / Online Journalism Review:
Is the future of digital news collaborative?  —  By Tom Grasty: We all know the problems inherent in creating digital news packages: reporting from disparate geographic locations not only bloats budgets but hampers the ability to make timely decisions; slow uploads and incompatible file conversions often lead …
David Kaplan / paidContent:
AOL Sells IM Service ICQ To Russia's DST For $187.5 Million  —  As expected, Russian investment group Digital Sky Technologies says it has reached an agreement with AOL (NYSE: AOL) to buy its instant messaging service ICQ for $187.5 million.  DST, which has investment in Facebook and Zynga …
Editor and Publisher:
Honolulu Joining Ranks of One-Paper City As ‘Star-Bulletin’ Get Antitrust OK to Buy ‘Advertiser’  —  CHICAGO Nobody will buy the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, whose owner was given U.S. Justice Department approval to buy its rival Honolulu Advertiser from Gannett Co.
Mark Fitzgerald / Editor and Publisher:
Commentary: One Thumbs Up For ‘L.A. Times’ E-Commerce  —  CHICAGO I'm surprised at the relative silence that greeted Editor Russ Stanton's announcement that the Los Angeles Times will soon begin adding e-commerce links to some stories and blog postings.  Happily surprised.
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
FiOS to offer YouTube, Net radio  —  Media Manager lets subscribers stream music from PC to TV  —  NEW YORK — Telecom giant Verizon's FiOS TV service has signed new deals that, it says, make it the first TV provider to offer both YouTube and Internet radio on the TV screen.
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
'09 Music Sales Shed $1 Billion; U.S. Downloads Stagnant  —  Global recorded music sales shrank by 7.2 percent, from $18.3 billion to $17 billion, through 2009 - meaning the industry has scored fewer sales each year since 1999.  —  Digital sales grew 9.2 percent and now make up over a quarter of all music income...
Discussion: George Dearing
Glynnis MacNicol / Mediaite:
ABC's @JakeTapper Rebuts @ABCWorldNews Over False SCOTUS Nominee Tweet (UPDATED)  —  Wow.  Looking for an example of how fast news flies and how journalists are one man operations these days?  Look no further.  Check out this fascinating exchange, on Twitter, between ABC News' Jake Tapper and the ABC World News Twitter feed.
Discussion: TVNewser
Reuters:
Why reporters are down on Obama  —  One of the enduring storylines of Barack Obama's presidency, dating back to the earliest days of his candidacy, is that the press loves him.  —  “Most of you covered me.  All of you voted for me,” Obama joked last year at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
Bloomberg:
Comcast-NBC Deal Lets FCC Seek Web-TV Concessions  —  U.S. regulators may use their veto power over Comcast Corp.'s planned purchase of NBC Universal to demand concessions that help Web startups, analysts say.  —  The Federal Communications Commission extended its review of the deal this month …
Discussion: NewTeeVee
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Joe Flint / Company Town:
Latest protester of Comcast …
Discussion: Variety, The Wire and Media Money …
cyber.law.harvard.edu:
A Tale of Two Blogospheres: Discursive Practices on the Left and Right  —  Authored by Yochai Benkler, Aaron Shaw, Victoria Stodden  —  Abstract  —  Discussions of the political effects of the Internet and networked discourse tend to presume consistent patterns of technological adoption and use within a given society.
Discussion: Berkman Center and ResourceShelf
Ian Burrell / The Independent:
Top BBC strategist quits after inquiry into leak of 6 Music closure plans  —  A senior BBC strategist has left the corporation following a high-level internal investigation into the leaking of a confidential report mapping out the future of the organisation, including the closure of the digital radio station 6 Music.
Lauren Hatch / The Wire:
Forbes Collaborates With Daylife For Cheaper Content  —  Forbes.com just announced a new vendor relationship with Daylife, a start-up which supplies online publishing tools to media companies.  —  Daylife will augment Forbes.com's popular billionaires feature with topic pages …
Discussion: Daylife Blog
 
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