Mediagazer: Simon & Schuster's Digital Publishing Revenue Up Sharply (Staci D. Kramer/paidContent)

12:55 PM ET, May 6, 2010

Top News:

Newsweek's Jon Meacham On ‘The Daily Show’: It's Time To Flip The Switch From Print To Digital — On Wednesday night's episode of “The Daily Show,” Newsweek editor in chief Jon Meacham laid out what you'd think should be a no-brainer strategy for any news organization toggling between the print and digital worlds.

Discussion: TeleRead

Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:

Newsweek on Block as Era of the Newsweekly Fades — The Washington Post Company announced Wednesday it would try to sell Newsweek magazine, raising questions about the future of the iconic newsweekly — and whether a fragmented nation still looked to mass magazines to define the weekly conversation.

Discussion: Center for Sustainable …, Free Press, eMedia Vitals, Newsonomics, The Future of Capitalism, FishbowlNY and Dorian Benkoil

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Don Graham On Newsweek: 'We'll Get A Buyer'

Discussion: MediaMemo and Economy Watch

Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:
Can Jon Meacham Save Newsweek Now?

Discussion: Newser, New York Observer, Washington Post, Big Journalism, Mediaite, Guardian and Romenesko

John Koblin / New York Observer:
Meacham on Buying Newsweek: 'I'm Going to Take a Look at This'

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Simon & Schuster's Digital Publishing Revenue Up Sharply — Today's standout standout but still small digital number from earnings reports: CBS (NYSE: CBS) Publishing aka Simon & Schuster reports a roughly 233 percent increase in digital publishing revenue for Q1, to $12 million from $3.6 million.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

David Kaplan / paidContent:

CBS Interactive Display Revs Rise 19 Percent — As CBS and the other broadcast nets head into the heart of the upfront season, the ad recovery appears to be gaining momentum. The company's revenues and profits were up by healthy amounts. But one of the clearest signs of a turnaround …

Discussion: Media Money …, Poynter Online, rbr.com and Broadcasting & Cable

Ian Shapira / Story Lab:

Should journalists out each other's sources? — On Wednesday morning, I read a piece on the Politico web site speculating about the identity of confidential sources who helped me break a story about negotiations to sell The Washington Times. Initially, the Politico headline …

Discussion: Gawker

Patrick Gavin / The Politico:

What's next for the Washington Times — Like any newsroom, the Washington Times has never suffered from a shortage of gossip and chatter about its own machinations. And, on the heels of reports that the newspaper is up for sale, it's an appropriate time to consider some of the questions floating around …

Discussion: Romenesko

James Hibberd / Hollywood Reporter:

A&E stocks up on celebrity reality projects — Eight new series included in latest upfronts — A&E is stocking up on celebrity reality projects with new series starring David Hasselhoff, Bob Saget, Dee Snider and Tony Danza. In addition, the network is also ordering both a spin-off …

Discussion: PopWatch and TV Tattle

Marisa Guthrie / Broadcasting & Cable:

Upfronts 2010: A&E Plans Unscripted Projects With Danza, Hasselhoff and Saget — Coming off record ratings quarter, new originals to compliment 12 renewed series — A&E unveiled 2010-11 programming slate heavy on original non-scripted series including an Intervention spin-off …

Discussion: MediaPost and Multichannel

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:

Yahoo Launches New Ad Blitz — Campaign Promoting Site as One-Stop Web Destination Makes a Jab at Google — On the heels of a disappointing ad campaign, Yahoo is hoping to increase traffic to its home page and win back share in the Internet-search market with a new ad blitz that takes a shot at larger rival Google.

Discussion: BoomTown, Silicon Alley Insider, paidContent, Search Engine Land and Mashable!

Twitter Media:

Breaking news with the @statesman — This case study, which traces the Austin Stateman's use of Twitter to cover the plane crash in Austin last February, is the best practical exploration of breaking news on Twitter that I've yet seen. The post, by Steve Buttry, is detailed and accessible …

Gerry Storch / Forbes:

All The News That's Fit To Buy — Why papers should charge for online content. — The advent of the iPad means two things for medialand. It means failing newspapers can save themselves if they have the guts to do so, and it means the sudden and well-deserved demise of the once-dominant …

Carol Fisher / Media Week:

I-level placed into administration — LONDON - I-level, the digital media agency led by co-founder Andrew Walmsley and group chief executive Stephen Rust, has fallen into administration today. — Walmsley: co-founded i-Level in 1999 — The 10-year-old agency lost the Government's multi …

Discussion: Brand Republic and paidContent

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

Media mogul launches Saban Brands — Media mogul Haim Saban wants to become a brand mogul, too. — Saban, who first earned a fortune with “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” and now is chairman and chief executive of Saban Capital Group, which counts the powerful Spanish-language broadcast …

Discussion: Media Decoder

Guardian:

Will Lewis out at Telegraph Media Group — Editor-in-chief and digital managing director understood to have departed after disagreement with chief executive — Greenslade: Why Lewis really fell out with MacLennan — Will Lewis has been pushed out of the Telegraph Media Group …

Discussion: Press Gazette, Beehive City, Financial Times, paidContent, Journalism.co.uk, Media Week, Editors Weblog and Jon Slattery

Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:

Effort to Integrate Madison Avenue Turns to Super Sunday — A long-running attempt to bring more racial diversity to the advertising industry is shining a spotlight on the biggest day of the year for advertising — Super Bowl Sunday — in an effort to bring its arguments to life.

Discussion: Media Buyer Planner

Joanne McNeil / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Tracking memes on their native turf: Viral anthropology at ROFLcon — If ROFLcon isn't the world's largest gathering of Internet celebrities, it at least appears to have the highest concentration. In the audience was Matt Harding, who danced around the world in his series of videos, Where the Hell is Matt?

Discussion: Tomorrow Museum

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Irony Alert: Slate Group Claims Q1 Ad Revs Rose More Than 50 Percent — Not all of the Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Company's publications are seeing a long list of declines: On the same day that its parent announced plans to sell struggling print Newsweek and Newsweek.com …

Jack Loechner / MediaPost:

... Yet Without Information, We Are Nothing — A new study, conducted by the International Center for Media & the Public Agenda (ICMPA) and students at the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland, “24 Hours: Unplugged,” asked 200 students at the College Park campus to give up all media for 24 hours.