Mediagazer: Mad Men man poached by the BBC (Caroline Davies/Guardian)

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: Gawker and Romenesko

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: FishbowlNY, Romenesko and NetNewsCheck Latest

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.

Discussion: MediaPost

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

How News Orgs Are Turning to Staff, Technology & Users to Improve Comments — In recent weeks, some journalists have argued that news sites should stop allowing anonymous comments. They're an “invitation to mischief,” Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz wrote after the paper unmasked …

Discussion: Shaping the Future … and The Huffington Post

Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

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

Discussion: FishbowlNY and New York Observer

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

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: NetNewsCheck Latest and New York Observer

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, Silicon Alley Insider, louisgray.com, CNET News, VentureBeat, TNW Social Media, Mashable and TechCrunch

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, GigaOM, Fast Company, Kindle Review, Fortune, Lost Remote, Gadget Lab, Geekosystem, Mashable!, VentureBeat, All Things Digital, TUAW and New York Observer

Phil Rosenthal / Chicago Tribune:

MSNBC boss stands ready in ideological battle with Fox News — Phil Griffin says he learned a valuable lesson from Roger Ailes, creator of Fox News Channel: Viewers will stand behind a news outlet that stands for something — MSNBC boss Phil Griffin looks at what Roger Ailes created at Fox News Channel with no small amount of awe.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Mediaite, TVNewser, Daily Kos, The Wire, New York Observer and Gawker

Simon Dumenco / AdAge:

Who Really Killed Media? Craig ‘Craigslist’ Newmark? Jimmy ‘Wikipedia’ Wales? Oprah? — Without Non-Disclosing Too Much, the Truth May Lie in a Pair of Alcohol-Fueled Conga Lines — I have something to get off my chest: At 3 a.m. recently in a smoky dance club in Valencia, Spain …

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

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, MarketingVOX, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, eWeek, bizjournals and Bloomberg

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Newsonomics of reborn newspaper profit — [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] — The first quarter newspaper numbers are in. They paint a consistent picture.

Discussion: Reflections of a Newsosaur and Romenesko

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Bill Moyers Ends PBS ‘Journal’; His Next Step Is Unclear — “Bill Moyers Journal,” first broadcast in 1971, came to a close on Friday, with Mr. Moyers warning viewers that “plutocracy and democracy don't mix,” as he compared past eras of populist insurgency to the present moment in America.

Discussion: Big Journalism

Caroline Davies / Guardian:

Mad Men man poached by the BBC — The BBC has poached Vlad Wolynetz, an American TV executive whose successes include the award-winning Mad Men, in its quest to crack the notoriously difficult US drama market. — The move to beef up BBC Worldwide Productions' “format factory” …

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Topix Gets Local With Twitter and Social With Facebook — Topix.com has rolled out a suite of new enhancements, including a Twitter feature that sends local news to users based on their location, the integration of Facebook's social plugins on topic pages, and a doubling of the amount …

Discussion: blog.topix.com

Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:

YouTube Developing Self-Serve Rental Model — YouTube engineers are working on a self-service method that will give moviemakers the ability to upload and provide their streaming content for rent, Hunter Walk, who heads product management at YouTube, told MediaPost.

Discussion: Mashable!, Cinematical, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Fast Company and NewTeeVee

Nazanin Rafsanjani / CJR:

Behind Bars — Roxana Saberi talks about her Iranian captivity — Roxana Saberi was an American freelance reporter living and working in Tehran when she was arrested by Iranian authorities in January 2009. She had been in the country for six years, and was about to return to the United States …

Heather Timmons / New York Times:

New Role: YouTube as Outlet for Live Sports — NEW DELHI, India — The Indian Premier League, a 20-team tournament here that turns staid cricket into something fast-paced and glamorous, just ended its third season with a new champion, the Chennai Super Kings, and a new scandal revolving around allegations of financial fraud.

Discussion: Fortune

Joe Strupp / Strupp:

American Spectator Hitting Readers Up for $26,000 in Donations — The American Spectator is asking its subscribers to pony up some $26,000 in donations to help it offset increased printing costs. — A letter sent out to some 60,000 e-mail subscribers last week states that the money is needed to …

Discussion: Wonkette