Mediagazer: Four Journalists Banned From Gitmo Coverage for Outing an Interrogator (blogs.abcnews.com)

Reuters:

Mexican tycoon Slim not doubling NY Times stake -aide — * Washington Post looking to sell Newsweek — Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim is not doubling his stake in New York Times Co (NYT.N) or looking to acquire Newsweek magazine or silver miner Fresnillo, one of his close aides told Reuters on Friday.

Discussion: Billions, The Wire, Romenesko and Newser

New York Post:

Slim has his pickings — MEXICAN billionaire Carlos Slim is wheeling and dealing his way through the media world. — According to people familiar with the matter, Slim is sinking more money into The New York Times Co., doubling his current 7 percent stake, while also visiting the offices of Newsweek …

Discussion: Romenesko, FishbowlNY, Vanity Fair, The Wire and Fitz & Jen

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Likely Newsweek buyers not exactly thronging the market

Discussion: Hot Air and Big Think

Bill Mickey / Folio:

Discover Magazine Up for Sale — First round of bids are due May 17. — Discover Magazine is on the block, FOLIO: has learned. The first round of bids are due Monday, May 17. — Discover Media LLC is backed by private equity firms WallerSutton and Sandler Capital Management.

Discussion: National Media, Crain's New York Business, Romenesko and FishbowlNY

Runnin' Scared:

Media Mogul James Dolan Elects to Use ‘Nuclear Option’ on Village Voice, Yet Again Pulling More Advertising Than Ever! — Back in March, a blog post we published regarding a potential media acquisition by Cablevision, MSG Entertainment, and Rainbow Media owner James Dolan …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Mediaite, New York Observer and Soup

Discussion: Gawker and The Awl

Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:

CBS Will Have Full Slate of Web Video on the iPad — CBS may have the most aggressive plans to enable viewers to watch web video on the iPad, but so far, that's all they are — plans. The broadcaster has made only a limited number of promotional clips available for viewing on the tablet device …

Discussion: Mashable!, Engadget and The TV Guy

Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:

CNN's Ad Revenue Down On Weak Ratings - Time Warner CEO Wants To “Fix” Problem — CNN has consistently claimed all is well even as ratings have fallen off significantly. — But according to Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes on yesterday's first quarter conference call, CNN has declined financially …

Discussion: Variety, Chickaboomer, Bloomberg and Media Buyer Planner

blogs.abcnews.com:

Four Journalists Banned From Gitmo Coverage for Outing an Interrogator — The Pentagon has barred four reporters from further reporting of the military commission proceedings at the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay because they published articles identifying a witness whose identity …

Discussion: International Media, Reporters Committee News, Romenesko, McClatchy Washington Bureau, Josh Gerstein's Blog and The Washington Independent

Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

MSM earn middling marks on first iPad apps — The mainstream media have earned only middling grades from consumers for their initial iPad applications, leaving plenty of room for improvement. — A quick survey at the iTunes Store found that the average user rating of the 10 …

Discussion: Poynter Online, Y! Mobile Blog and ReadWriteWeb

Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:

UK general election 2010 - online journalism is ordinary — Has online journalism become ordinary? Are the approaches starting to standardise? Little has stood out in the online journalism coverage of this election - the innovation of previous years has been replaced by consolidation.

Discussion: Editors Weblog, One Man & His Blog, Journalism.co.uk and Mirror.co.uk

John Plunkett / Guardian:

ITV chairman outlines five-year plan — Archie Norman says ITV will develop its presence on non-traditional platforms such as the internet, video-on-demand and mobile phones — ITV chairman Archie Norman warned today that the broadcaster could afford “no more false dawns” …

Discussion: Variety

Nielsen Wire:

Three Screen Study Shows Many Chinese Homes Online While Watching TV — Recently, The Nielsen Company launched a pilot “Three Screen” study to provide China with its first ever audience insights across TV, Internet and Mobile phone platforms, to better understand how Chinese consumers use media.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Another E-Reader? Really? Meet Borders' “Kobo.” — I don't know why every bookseller seems compelled to come out with its own e-reader. An e-bookstore, sure, but not the device. — Nevertheless, you can now place orders for Borders' “Kobo.” It costs $149, and Borders (BGP) …

Discussion: paidContent, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch and The Stranger …

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

An involuntary Facebook for reporters and their work: Martin Moore on the U.K.'s Journalisted — In the era of big media, our conceptions of trust were tied up in news organizations. If a story was on page 1 of The New York Times, that fact alone conjured up different associations of quality …

Jason Fry / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Why Twitter looks like a social network but feels like news media — Information Week posted an interesting account of an academic paper presented at the International World Wide Web Conference last month. The paper, written by four Korean researchers, analyzed 41.7 million Twitter user profiles …

Discussion: Reinventing the Newsroom and InformationWeek

Felix Gillette / New York Observer:

Rachel Maddow Touts the ‘The Maddow Blog’ — “I think a lot of times the blog is better than the show,” said Rachel Maddow. — It was Thursday afternoon, and Ms. Maddow was on the phone with Media Mob talking about her team's newly revamped platform, The Maddow Blog, which quietly launched a few months ago.

Discussion: The Wire, The Huffington Post and WebNewser

Jolie O'Dell / Mashable!:

Wikipedia Now Lets You Order Printed Books — Wikipedia's launching a new feature for English readers: The ability to create custom books from Wikipedia's huge bank of free content. Because of the way Wikipedia's images and copy are licensed, they're free for anyone to access, use and share in this way.

Discussion: Lost Remote

David Kaplan / paidContent:

There Goes The Neighborhood: Hachette Moving Into Time Inc.'s Building — Here's an interesting New York real estate story: we've heard that Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S will be vacating its long-time 50th St. and Broadway offices this fall and will move a block and a half east to the Time Life Building.