Mediagazer: Apple iPad Sales Pass 1 Million Mark; iBooks Not Flying Off Shelves (Staci D. Kramer/paidContent)

5:35 PM ET, May 3, 2010

Top News:

Rattled Journal Staff Renew Pursuit of Pulitzers — Last week, Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal tried to take his battle with the New York Times into the streets — and sometimes the gutters — with the launch of the Journal's “Greater New York” section.

Discussion: Romenesko

TheAustralian:
WSJ takes no prisoners in home-turf tussle with Times

Discussion: New York Observer

Joseph Plambeck / New York Times:

Big Paydays for Chiefs of Top Media Companies — The media industry may be going through some rough times, with the landscape changing day to day, but at least one aspect is business as usual: big paydays for the people at the top. — Top executives at the country's largest media companies continued …

Discussion: Gawker, Vanity Fair, New York Observer, New York Magazine, Big Journalism, Gannett Blog and The Wire

David Carr / New York Times:

The Media Equation: A Lost iPhone Reveals Apple's Churlish Side — Journalists are already getting warmed up for the next big Apple event, the Worldwide Developer's Conference in June, where they will most likely get a look at the next generation of the iPhone.

Discussion: Gawker

Ed Pilkington / Guardian: Apple v Gizmodo: Gawker's Nick Denton on the battle over the lost iPhone

Bill Carter / New York Times:

NBC Changes Strategy of Cutting Prime-Time TV Costs — LOS ANGELES — For Jeff Gaspin, handed the task of pulling NBC's prime-time schedule out of a long, precipitous slide, the first priority is reality — as a concept, not a program genre. — “This is the first year in quite …

Discussion: rbr.com, The Live Feed | THR, Media Buyer Planner, Broadcasting & Cable, Movieline, New York Magazine, TVWeek.com and BLTv

Scott Patterson / MarketBeat:

Buffett: Mind Blowing How Fast Newspapers Losing Ground — Warren Buffett delivered more doom and gloom news for the state of the newspaper industry. — Asked about his views on the struggling industry, which has seen a rising trend of diminishing revenues and distribution in recent years …

Discussion: New York Observer

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Success of Pay Walls at Smaller Papers Is Good Sign for Print — Positive Numbers at Local Dailies Give Hope to Bigger Players, but Recipe Has Not Worked for All — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — If you want to know what paid content on the web can do for newspapers' paid circulation …

Discussion: Romenesko and NetNewsCheck Latest

Norman Gomlak / Washington Post:

AOL seeks to fill need for local news with online news site Patch — AOL Inc. is apparently gearing up to launch dozens of community news sites in the Washington-Baltimore area, part of an aggressive push to fill the void left by newspaper cutbacks and to tap the region's local online ad spending.

Discussion: WebNewser

Twitter Media:

Tweets are the new quotes — Have you ever been quoted in a news article or blog post? If so, you know it can be a strange experience: you recognize your words, but they never sound quite right. It's the peril of transcription. — That's just one of a couple reasons we like ReadWriteWeb's approach …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, louisgray.com, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, TNW Social Media, Mashable! and Silicon Alley Insider

Dan Levy / Sparksheet:

The New Yorker On Brand: Q&A with Web Editor Blake Eskin — You were hired as The New Yorker's first Web editor in 2006, when newyorker.com was relatively primitive and “blog” was a four-letter word to most staff writers. How have attitudes toward the Web changed since then? — They've changed a lot.

under the wire:

How Wired.com Tracked the iPhone Finder — In response to Wired.com's scoop identifying the finder of the lost iPhone prototype, many have asked me how we did it. The process of uncovering digital footprints to identify Brian Hogan was indeed challenging and enlightening, so I thought I'd tell the story here.

Discussion: WebNewser, Silicon Alley Insider, VentureBeat and just enough

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Apple iPad Sales Pass 1 Million Mark; iBooks Not Flying Off Shelves — Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs is crowing this morning about breaking the one million mark with iPad in 28 days—less than half the time it took for the iPhone to achieve the same feat.

Discussion: Apple, mediabistro.com, New York Post, AppleInsider, Lost Remote, Gadget Lab, GigaOM, Fast Company, Kindle Review, Geekosystem, Fortune, Mashable!, VentureBeat, All Things Digital, TUAW and New York Observer

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Close Encounters of the Regulatory Kind: Google-AdMob Brace for the Worst — While executives at both AdMob and Google are pulling out all the stops to convince federal government regulators otherwise, multiple sources close to the situation said that the pair now expect the Federal Trade Commission …

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, Bloomberg, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, eWeek, MarketingVOX and bizjournals

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Media-intern auction winners pay for chance to work for free — Breaking into the media business is tough, with a seemingly endless supply of bright young college graduates vying for unpaid internships at elite publications. Still, there's another route to getting one's foot in the door, if you have money to burn: Win an auction!

Discussion: Romenesko, Gawker and The Wire

Fern Siegel / MediaPost:

China Starts 24-Hour English Channel — China's biggest national news agency is set to launch its global, English-language television news network, part of efforts to expand the government's media influence abroad. Starting Saturday, May 1, China Xinhua News Network Corp. (CNC) …

Discussion: Media News

CBS News:

Conan Breaks Silence on “Tonight Show,” NBC Exit — O'Brien Tells “60 Minutes” Not Possible Show Lost Money Under His Watch; Says Six Months Was Too Soon To Judge His Potential — (CBS) Very few things in this country galvanize public opinion like someone trying to mess around with people's preferences in the bedroom.

Discussion: TechCrunch, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline.com, Celebritology 2.0 and New York Magazine