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1:15 PM ET, April 28, 2010

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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.

Discussion: BusinessJournalism.org …, National Media, Star Bulletin and Fitz & Jen

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 …

Discussion: Speakeasy, TVWeek.com, PopWatch, The Wire, The Huffington Post, Moraes on TV and New York Magazine

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

Joe Flint / Company Town:
Latest protester of Comcast …

Discussion: Variety, MediaPost, Media Money … and The Wire

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.

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.

Discussion: The New York Times Company and Romenesko

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 …

Discussion: Fast Company, PC Magazine, Threat Level, VentureBeat, Mobile Media, CNET News, Digits, Silicon Alley Insider, Mashable! and MacRumors

Nick Bilton / Bits:
Can Gizmodo Win the iPhone Legal Battle?

Discussion: CNET News, DailyFinance, the Econsultancy blog, On the News, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Daring Fireball, Soup, Bay Area, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, New York Observer and Gizmodo

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.

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 …

Discussion: Media on HuffingtonPost.com, Business Wire, Online Video News, Silicon Alley Insider, NewTeeVee and paidContent

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.

Discussion: Editors Weblog, Romenesko and The Huffington Post

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 …

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 »

Glynnis MacNicol / Mediaite:

ABC's @JakeTapper Rebuts @ABCWorldNews Over False SCOTUS Nominee Tweet — 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

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.

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 …

Alex Weprin / Broadcasting & Cable:

HBO Launches ‘True Blood’ Webisodes — Shortform clips will premiere on Yahoo! TV before becoming available to other sites, VOD — HBO is launching original webisodes (or “minisodes” as the network is calling them) set in the True Blood universe. The first of six original episodes will premiere Tuesday …

Discussion: Multichannel and TVWeek.com