Mediagazer: The Appalling Reaction to the iPhone Leak (ABCNEWS)

CBS News and CNN Are Back in Partnership Negotiations — CBS News and CNN are in advanced negotiations about signing a news-gathering partnership, according to executives familiar with the discussions. The talks revolve around how the two news divisions can combine operations in a bid to cut costs and expand audiences on both sides.

Discussion: MediaPost, LocalNewser, The Wire, New York Observer, Lost Remote and Tuned In

Wall Street Journal:

Google Moves on e-Books — Google Inc. will begin selling digital books in late June or July, a company representative said Tuesday, setting off a three-way battle between the Internet giant and Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. — Chris Palma, Google's manager for strategic-partner development …

Discussion: MediaMemo, paidContent, Fortune, eMedia Vitals, MarketBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, Geekosystem, ReadWriteWeb, Search Engine Land, Electronista and Engadget

Choire / The Awl:

Pink Weekly Debuts Cash-for-Traffic Reporter Bonus Jackpot Scheme — At last Wednesday's weekly staff meeting at the New York Observer, an old-fashioned paper memo was distributed; it was not sent out by email. It explained a new trial incentive program for reporters, to begin immediately.

Discussion: WebNewser and Journalism.co.uk

Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:

The Man Who Tried To Manage Murdoch — As Rupert Murdoch's jaws closed around The Wall Street Journal, managing editor Marcus Brauchli became the latest in a long line of editors who thought they could win over the conquering mogul. Brauchli set about feverishly redesigning the paper …

Discussion: Romenesko, National Media, CJR, Newser, New York Observer and New York Magazine

BrauBlog:

Star Tribune CEO Mike Klingensmith talks new paywall, digital re-do — Mike Klingensmith is no rocket scientist, just the son of one. The new Star Tribune publisher/CEO's dad was an aeronautical engineer for Honeywell in Minneapolis during the Apollo era; the son faces a challenge nearly …

Discussion: Romenesko and Newsonomics

Mark Leccese / Gatekeeper:

Tweeting the water story — I've been on Twitter (@mleccese) daily for a couple of months now trying to figure out if there's any useful journalism there. I've learned that nearly every tweet is inane, self-promotional (I'll be self-promoting this blog post on Twitter as soon as I finish it …

Discussion: Romenesko, ReadWriteWeb and Editors Weblog

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

eBay Founder Pierre Omidyar's $20-Per-Month Hawaii News Site Is Live — Honolulu Civil Beat, the new Hawaii-based online news site and community hub launched by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, went live this morning. — A little background: Omidyar describes the site as a “civic square for Hawaii …

Discussion: Romenesko, paidContent and WebNewser

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Cable news most trusted in new opinion survey — President Barack Obama, who in the past has dismissed TV talking heads and horse-race politics as “cable chatter,” revived his career as a bully-pulpit media critic this weekend. Delivering a commencement address to the University …

Discussion: Gawker, Romenesko, Runnin' Scared, mediabistro.com, Editors Weblog, Fitz & Jen, Mediaite, The Wire and CBS News

Sree Sreenivasan / DNAinfo.com:

Some Thoughts After Six Months of DNAinfo — DNAinfo has been around for six months. Time to reflect on what it's accomplished. — The notification came via e-mail from the oldest press club in the United States: “We are pleased and honored to inform you that DNAinfo.com is the recipient …

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Debt-Laden Private Buyouts Are Back - Pearson Sells IDC For $3.4 Billion — Pearson (NYSE: PSO) said back in January it wanted to sell Interactive Data Corporation, its financial market data analytics provider. And now it is - for a pretty sum. — Silver Lake and Warbug Pincus funds …

Discussion: Press Gazette, Guardian, Bloomberg, MinOnline, VentureBeat and eMedia Vitals

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Any Good Live Video on the Web Right Now? Ask Clicker. — For a bunch of reasons, Web video tends to work better when it has already been recorded. But here's one way to make live Web video more palatable: Make it easier to find. — Clicker, the would-be TV Guide for Web video, is now indexing live video streams, too.

Discussion: TechCrunch, NewTeeVee and Mashable!

Greg Mitchell / The Nation:

Welcome to MEDIA FIX, Day One! — OUR media watchdogs require close watching. It's been an article of faith for Nation editors and readers since the founding of the magazine. In recent decades, Nation writers have provided smart, often witty, media coverage.

ABCNEWS:

The Appalling Reaction to the iPhone Leak — The Apple G4 iPhone Debacle Shows Journalism Has Lost Much of Its Muscle — Remember when reporters had guts? — In the late '70s, when I was just out of college, and even before I began my career as a journalist, I worked in public relations at Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion: Christian Science Monitor

Markcuban / blog maverick:

The Future of TV is......TV — Before I get into the topic at hand, I want to first commend Google and Youtube. Just read the article “Are Live Sports the Next Frontier for Youtube?” Dang, why didn't I think of that 15 years ago ??. Oh well. And one more thing.

Discussion: NewTeeVee, MediaMemo and MediaPost

Twitter Media:

Fresh-baked tweets for your posts — Here at Twitter Media, we want to experiment in exactly the same way we're encouraging you to experiment. We want to implement the things we're recommending that you implement. And we want to share tools that we develop—even when they're quite simple.

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Social, Guardian and VentureBeat

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Nielsen Acquires Online Video Analytics Company GlanceGuide — Analytics and audience measurement giant Nielsen has acquired video analytics company GlanceGuide. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. — GlanceGuide's analytics and measurements provide insights into how consumers interact with the video they watch online.

Discussion: paidContent and NewTeeVee

Martin Langeveld / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Moderating declines: Parsing the NAA's spin on newspaper circ data — Newspapers could borrow a line from a recent Dilbert comic strip: “We've been doing great since we redefined success as a slowing of failure.” Or perhaps it was the other way around, and Dilbert creator Scott Adams …

Discussion: Editor and Publisher, Newspaper Association … and eMedia Vitals

Ryan Tate / Gawker:

Steve Jobs' Big New York Times Letdown — Users have jeered the New York Times' main iPad app, but the newspaper is listening to one in particular: We hear Steve Jobs is among the app's most vociferous critics and has been shunning it. — Jobs clearly wanted to make access to the electronic Times …

Ben Elowitz / paidContent:

Traditional Ways Of Judging ‘Quality’ In Published Content Are Now Useless — Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a platform for social web sites, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to Wetpaint, Elowitz co-founded Blue Nile, the online retailer of luxury goods.

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

NYT's Goldman Scoopster, Louise Story, Joins Bloomberg TV As Contributing Editor — Louise Story, one of the two New York Times reporters who broke the news on April 16 about the S.E.C. suing Goldman Sachs for fraud, has joined Bloomberg TV as a contributing editor.

Discussion: Talking Biz News and DealBook

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Facebook Stirs Up Trouble for Silicon Valley — Online-Privacy Legislation Just Got a Big Boost From Social Network — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — It's larger than the population of the U.S. and is increasingly the nerve center of an interconnected world. But that didn't stop Facebook …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Dirk Smillie / Forbes:

Another Spin For Guccione — The “SPIN” founder on why he tried to buy “Fortune,” what magazines are doing wrong and what he plans to do about it. — The magazine business is in the midst of a “Darwinian culling,” says Bob Guccione Jr. So why does Guccione, the founder of SPIN and Gear, plan to re-enter publishing this year?

Discussion: New York Observer, Romenesko and Talking Biz News

AdAge:

Is It Worth $1M in Media to Be a First Adopter With Apple's IAd? — Mobile-Ad Platform Will Have Marketers Paying Twice and Rob Agencies of Production Fees — at First — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — When Apple introduces a shiny new object, a faithful group of early adopters pony up top dollar to be the first to play with it.

Discussion: Fortune, MediaPost and The Consumerist