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9:15 PM ET, April 29, 2010

Top News:

AP Directors vote to launch wide range of collaborative new digital initiatives — News Registry rolls out in July; AP will also launch college football hub and offer members ability to create locally branded apps — NEW YORK — The Associated Press Board of Directors voted unanimously today …

Discussion: Media Decoder, paidContent, The Wire, Romenesko and Nieman Journalism Lab

Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:

Associated Press profit and revenue slide in 2009 — The Associated Press said Thursday its net income plunged as revenue fell nearly 10 percent last year. The news cooperative also expects a decline in revenue this year, which would be its first back-to-back drop since the Great Depression.

Discussion: Romenesko

Editor and Publisher:

Michael Golden, Katharine Weymouth Join AP Board — NEW YORK Michael Golden, vice chairman of the New York Times Co. and COO of its Regional Media Group, and Katharine Weymouth, publisher of The Washington Post and CEO of Washington Post Media, were elected to the board of directors …

Discussion: Strupp

Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:

Apple to Charge a Premium to Put Ads in Mobile Apps — Setting a high bar for its debut in the advertising business, Apple Inc. aims to charge close to $1 million for ads on its mobile devices this year and perhaps even more to be among the first, ad executives say.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, Mashable!, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, MacRumors, Epicenter, TUAW, All Things Digital, BRANDING UNBOUND, eMedia Vitals and CNET News

John Cook / Yahoo! News:

Times-Union case puts newspaper in awkward position of blocking reach of state ‘sunshine’ law — Newspapers are supposed to support sunshine laws, right? That's how they pry crucial documents from the hands of secrecy-obsessed government bureaucrats. — That's also why states such as New York …

Discussion: Romenesko, CJR and Runnin' Scared

Steve Jobs / Apple:

Thoughts on Flash — Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe's founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years.

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

The Huffington Post Starts To Give Out Badges To Readers — The Huffington Post is taking on more of the trappings of a social network. Borrowing from Foursquare, today it will start giving out badges to loyal readers who comment like crazy and share HuffPost stories via Facebook and Twitter …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Media on HuffingtonPost.com, GigaOM, FishbowlNY and eMedia Vitals

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Before The Paywall, Murdoch Stops Disclosing UK News Site Traffic — With nearly a month to go before News International raises its first paywall in June, both Times Online and Sun Online have stopped publishing their user numbers through the ABC in the UK.

Discussion: Guardian, FishbowlNY, mediabistro.com, Media Week, Journalism.co.uk, Press Gazette and Editors Weblog

Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:

Linking Customer Loyalty With Social Networking — PEPSICO wants to sell its customers sodas whether they are near a grocery store, a restaurant or a gas station. With a new partnership that weaves its loyalty program into the location-based network Foursquare, PepsiCo gets a live notification …

Discussion: AdPulp and Conversion Rater

Claude Brodesser-Akner / New York Magazine:

Vulture Exclusive: J.J. Abrams' Next Movie Is a Collaboration with Steven Spielberg — Vulture has learned that J.J. Abrams has picked his next movie, and it's both a tribute to and a collaboration with Steven Spielberg. An insider tells us that Abrams is just now finishing a script described as …

Discussion: Cinema Blend Feeds, Ain't It Cool News and Geekosystem

Eric Zhang / Google News Blog:

Bringing Living Stories to WordPress — For the last few months we've been talking with publishers about ways to make it easier for them to use Living Stories, our experimental format for displaying news coverage, on their own websites. Today we're releasing a Living Stories plugin and theme for WordPress.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and AndyDickinson.net

The Live Feed | THR:

Conan: I would not have done the same to Leno — CBS has released an excerpt from Sunday night's highly anticipated “60 Minutes” interview with Conan O'Brien: — “He went and took that show back and I think in a similar situation, if roles had been reversed, I know— I know me, I wouldn't have done that,” O'Brien says.

Discussion: Gawker, blogs.tampabay.com, Mediaite, Broadcasting & Cable, New York Observer, The Wire and New York Magazine

John Koblin / New York Times:

Reporter Jim Baumbach Leaves Journal to Return to Newsday — Before he even had one byline for the paper, Yankees beat reporter Jim Baumbach has left The Journal. He is returning to Newsday. — “It's over. He made a decision. We're moving forward,” said John Seeley, the editor of The Journal's Greater New York section.

Discussion: Romenesko

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

NYTer's tweet sparks ‘off the record’ definition debate — Nick Bilton (left) tweeted that a Facebook employee told him “off the record” that CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn't believe in privacy. The Times reporter contends “'off record' means there is no attribution to who it is but conversation …

Discussion: Everyday Ethics, Electronic Frontier Foundation, BusinessJournalism.org …, Epicenter, All Facebook and Fast Company

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

Viacom's Sumner Redstone: We'll ‘Engage Audiences On Every Screen, On Every Device’ — Except Hulu (VIA) — At the beginning of Viacom's first-quarter 2010 earnings call this morning, Viacom's Executive Chairman Sumner Redstone proclaimed: “We'll engage audiences on every screen, on every device and every place on this planet.”

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Crain's New York Business, rbr.com, MediaPost and Media Money …

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

How News Organizations Hope to Benefit from Facebook's New Features — Facebook's new plugins, which help integrate the social networking site with the rest of the Web, have presented news organizations with an opportunity to think more creatively about how they can use social media to meet their audiences' needs.

Discussion: paidContent, TechCrunch, Beet.TV, The Wire, Digits, CyberJournalist.net and PR Newswire

comScore, Inc.:

comScore Releases March 2010 U.S. Online Video Rankings — YouTube Viewers Watched Average of 96 Videos per Viewer in March — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released March 2010 data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing …

Discussion: MediaMemo and VideoNuze

Alison Gow / Headlines and Deadlines:

Journalism students and work experience: getting the most out of a newsroom — Journalist Patrick Smith tweeted some sensible advice for student journos preparing for the world of work experience this week: — He followed it up by urging workies not to be scared of suggesting ideas …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and FleetStreetBlues

Editor and Publisher:

Lancaster Newspapers Shuts Down ‘TalkBack’ Online Forum — CHICAGO Lancaster (Pa.) Newspapers pulled the plug on its online TalkBack Thursday morning, blaming the “blatant misuse” of the public forum by anonymous posters of racist material. — President and CEO Harold E. Miller Jr …

New York Times:

Director Is Elected at Times Co. — Carolyn Greenspon, a fifth-generation member of the family that controls The New York Times Company, was elected as a director. — Ms. Greenspon, 41, a psychotherapist, was approved by shareholders to serve on the board at the company's annual meeting on Tuesday.

Discussion: The Wire and FishbowlNY

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Have Money? Arthur Sulzberger Wants A Deeper Relationship

Discussion: The Wire, Cision and Comments on

Tim Wu / Slate:

Don't Prosecute Gizmodo for the iPhone That Walked Into a Bar … - The Senate Tries To Get Goldman Sachs To Admit They're a Bunch of Jerks- Now Doulas Are Assisting During Abortions as Well as Childbirth- The Incredibly Unfair Trial of Muslim Activist Syed Fahad Hashmi- Troy Patterson: Is Happy Town the Next Lost?