Mediagazer: Sumner Redstone Says Murdoch's Newspapers Will Fail (Bloomberg)

2:00 AM ET, April 28, 2010

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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 …

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Bloomberg:
Sumner Redstone Says Murdoch's Newspapers Will Fail

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Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Print War Between NYT and WSJ Is Really About Digital

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

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Tuesday, April 27, 2010, The Big Lead, FishbowlNY, Media Decoder and New York Magazine

Nick Bilton / Bits:

Can Gizmodo Win the iPhone Legal Battle? — As we move into the second week of the iPhone-left-in-the-bar saga, the plot is moving from a technology news story to a legal one — and entering a cul-de-sac of speculation. — As I reported today with my colleague Brian Stelter …

Discussion: DailyFinance, Electronic Frontier Foundation, On the News, Soup, Bay Area, New York Observer, Yahoo! News and Gizmodo

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: Threat Level, Fast Company, CNET News, Mashable!, Silicon Alley Insider, Digits and MacRumors

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: Editor and Publisher, Pop & Hiss, Romenesko, Media Decoder, Fitz & Jen, Kirk LaPointe's … and FishbowlLA

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.

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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.

Discussion: Gizmodo, NewTeeVee and Mashable!

Jim Barnett / Nieman Journalism Lab:

What advocacy nonprofits can learn from The Christian Science Monitor — When the nonprofit Christian Science Monitor announced in October 2008 that it would convert its daily printed report to a weekly edition and move its breaking news online, some people wondered whether the venerable newspaper would survive.

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

Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:

McGraw-Hill Education Has Small First Quarter Gain — Revenue at McGraw-Hill Education rose 1.5%, to $317.2 million, for the first quarter ended March 31 and the operating loss was cut by 19.3%, to $61.8 million. The increase was led by the higher education/professional/international group …

Discussion: MediaPost, Broadcasting & Cable and rbr.com

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, Silicon Alley Insider, Poynter Online and Daring Fireball

Nielsen Wire:

More than Nine Billion Video Streams Viewed in the U.S. in March — The Nielsen Company today reported overall online video usage and top online brands ranked by video streams for March 2010. The number of unique viewers of online video increased 1.3% year-over-year, from 130.1 million unique viewers …

Discussion: Media News International

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.

John McIntyre / You Don't Say:

Happy days are here again — Having been let go at The Baltimore Sun last April, as I have repeatedly, and no doubt tiresomely, reminded you, I spent eleven months looking for another job. — It would be indelicate to identify the potential employers who passed up the opportunity to engage my services …

Discussion: Romenesko and Charles Apple

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: Romenesko and The Huffington Post

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.