Mediagazer: Stephen Glover: Times' losses won't be tolerated forever (The Independent)

1:35 AM ET, May 3, 2010

Top News:

Conan O'Brien on ‘60 Minutes’: The Comedian Talks Jay Leno, NBC, His Beard … During tonight's episode of ‘60 Minutes,’ correspondent Steve Kroft traveled to Seattle to catch up with Conan O'Brien. The comedian — who recently announced a deal with TBS for a late-night show to start later this fall …

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Glynnis MacNicol / Mediaite:

Obama Kills At WHCD: ‘Approval Ratings Are High In Country Of My Birth’ (VIDEO) — Well if his day job doesn't end up working out President Barack Obama may have a comedy career to fall back on. Obama addressed the star-studded crowd (for Washington, anyway) at the White House Correspondents dinner tonight …

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Joseph A. Palermo / Media on HuffingtonPost.com:
The White House Correspondents' Association Dinner: Nothing to Celebrate

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Christine Simmons / Associated Press:
Jay Leno, Obama jockey for laughs at annual dinner

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Slate:

An interactive test of how open-minded your news diet is. … - The United States Is Completely Unprepared To Fight a Cyberwar- British Candidates Woo Voters Over Artisanal Cheese at the Farmers' Market- Why Do Insurers Ignore the Most Promising Way of Cutting Health Costs?

Discussion: TechCrunch

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

H.264 Already Won—Makes Up 66 Percent Of Web Videos — Earlier this week, Steve Jobs kicked the debate about the need for Flash into high gear, especially for Web video. As he explained, Apple products like the iPhone and iPad don't support Flash because although 75 percent of video on the Web is in Flash …

Discussion: Media on HuffingtonPost.com, Geekosystem, Monday Note, Fortune and Gizmodo

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 …

Standupkid / LocalNewser:

Big News, Zero Coverage. Local TV News in New York Argues for Its Own Irrelevance — How Is This Not News? New York Times photo — Yes, news happens on weekends. And sadly, the economics of news today mean weekends are a cost-cutting mess. All this was played out vividly …

Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:

Inside Brazil's Advertising Startup Boom — I just got back from a few weeks in Brazil. It was one of my last research trips for my upcoming book on entrepreneurship in emerging markets. During my last trip to the country, I wrote about the preponderance of finance multinationals …

David Byrne / Times of London:

40 bloggers who really count — Meet the online writers, stars and commentators that everybody's talking about — CELEBRITY — Few professionals in the arts maintain a blog as lovingly as David Byrne, or post at such length about topics of genuine interest (one recent entry …

Editor and Publisher:

Ohio Newspaper Chain Brown Publishing Files for Bankruptcy, Will Sell All Their Papers to Unnamed Bidder — Newspaper publishers Brown Media Holdings Co. and Brown Publishing Co. have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy relief and plan to sell their assets in 10 states to a bidder the companies have chosen.

Discussion: Fitz & Jen

The Independent:

Stephen Glover: Times' losses won't be tolerated forever — Media Studies: Rupert Murdoch has heroically endured losses every year since he bought the paper in 1981 — On Saturday The Times endorsed the Tories for the first time since 1992. It was not obvious that it would.

Mark Fitzgerald / Editor and Publisher:

‘O.C. Register’ Parent Freedom Communications Emerges from Bankruptcy, Minus $450 Million of Debt — CHICAGO The ranks of newspaper publishers still in bankruptcy shrank again this weekend as Freedom Communications announced it had officially emerged from Chapter 11.

Discussion: The Rural Blog

Joe Mandese / MediaPost:

Nielsen Turns The ‘Channel’ Off, Permanently — In a move that is a bit ironic and very symbolic for the television industry, Nielsen Wednesday said it has effectively turned off the TV channel. As part of the release of an annual report on America's television audiences …