Mediagazer: CNN's new angle can be dizzying (Richard Huff/NY Daily News)

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

Discussion: Hot Air and Big Think

New York Post:
Slim has his pickings — MEXICAN billionaire Carlos Slim …

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

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, Romenesko, Crain's New York Business 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

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

Following James Dolan's Lead, MSG And Live Nation Pull All Of Their Advertising From The Village Voice — Wow. — Madison Square Garden Entertainment and Live Nation have pulled all of their advertising from The Village Voice, the paper's Runnin' Scared blogger Foster Kamer explains in an item titled …

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 and Media Buyer Planner

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, The Stranger …, Silicon Alley Insider and TechCrunch

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: Mobile Media, Y! Mobile Blog and ReadWriteWeb

Richard Huff / NY Daily News:

CNN's new angle can be dizzying — CNN changed its onscreen look this week. — After watching for a few days, I'm certain that someone there must own stock in Dramamine. — That's because it's hard to watch CNN for any length of time without getting seasick.

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

Yahoo CMO Steele On Ad Campaign: Word Of Mouth Isn't Enough For Us — Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) announced the second phase of its $100 million international ad campaign this week—a series of ads that push Yahoo's services. The slogan: “Your favorite stuff all in one place. Make Yahoo your home page.”

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, Wall Street Journal and MediaFile

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

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 …

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.

Discussion: NewTeeVee

Todd Shields / Bloomberg:

U.S. Lets Hollywood Disable Home TV Outputs to Prevent Piracy — The film industry can block outputs on home television equipment so studios can offer first-run movies while preventing viewers from making illicit copies, U.S. regulators said. — Temporarily disabling the outputs will …

Discussion: Mediactive, Company Town, paidContent, Media Decoder and Variety

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.

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