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1:55 PM ET, April 28, 2010

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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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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.
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 …
Mary Duan / bizjournals:
Apple asked for ‘lost’ iPhone criminal probe  —  The criminal investigation into the purported theft of an apparent iPhone prototype came at the request of Apple Inc., officials said Tuesday.  —  Investigators said they have identified and interviewed the person who took the phone …
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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.
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 …
Discussion: MediaMemo, eMedia Vitals and TechCrunch
Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Reuters' Paying Subscribers Are ‘Demanding’ In-Depth Investigations (TRI)  —  It was only last year that Reuters started getting into long-form investigative journalism.  —  But the newswire's been garnering recognition because of it, and it plans to keep expanding the effort.
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.
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.”
Discussion: Romenesko
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Has the Gothamist Acquisition Fallen Through?  —  We hear Cablevision's much-heralded acquisition of blog network Gothamist might be imploding.  That would certainly help explain why Gothamist is trying to hire its own sales guy, a month after news of its supposed acquisition.  More »
GQ Magazine: GQ:
Cancel Publish: A Call For the End of Tumblr Book Deals  —  On April 6, the proprietor of the popular Tumblr blog Hipster Puppies—a repository for photos of dogs dressed in Ray Ban Wayfarers, fake mustaches and Keffiyehs—announced that he had secured a book deal.
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: CJR
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Businessweek's Relaunch Pitch: We're A... Business Weekly  —  Bloomberg's new-look “Bloomberg Businessweek” tasked WPP's JWT with its global relaunch campaign.  The knock-out idea: reminding folk that it's... a business weekly...  This print ad is the opening gambit in a 12-week cross …
 
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Nielsen Wire:
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Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
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Jim Barnett / Nieman Journalism Lab:
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Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:
New UK Bureau of Investigative Journalism will need £6m in funding
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Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
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Discussion: Philly.com
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Bloomberg executive editor named co-chair of Pulitzer board
Discussion: Romenesko, FishbowlNY and Cision
Michael Wolff / Newser:
Creepy Steve Jobs May Not Want You to Read This (or Will Break Down Your Door)
Steven Beardsley / Naples Daily News:
Fox News founder Roger Ailes jabs mainstream media, health care …
Discussion: TVNewser
Emma Barnett / Telegraph:
Hulu ‘abandons UK plans’ after broadcaster talks collapse
Media Week:
The Sun to publish 3D issue