Mediagazer: Why Egan-Managed Capital Gave WordStream Millions (Laurie Sullivan/MediaPost)

How to Save the News — Plummeting newspaper circulation, disappearing classified ads, “unbundling” of content—the list of what's killing journalism is long. But high on that list, many would say, is Google, the biggest unbundler of them all. Now, having helped break the news business …

Discussion: MediaMemo and The Wire

Anna Leach / Shiny Shiny:

Apple's no-nipples policy means fashion mags are censoring their iPad editions — Magazines planning to launch iPad editions for the Apple's glossy e-Reader device will have to censor themselves to make into Apple's No Porn app store, I heard yesterday. — And we're not just talking about Nuts …

Discussion: Gawker, The Jawa Report and The (e)Grommet

Julia Ioffe / New Yorker:

ROULETTE RUSSIAN — The teen-ager behind Chatroulette. — The random encounters of Chatroulette buck a decade-long trend that has made the Internet feel progressively more ordered. … KEYWORDS … Andrey Ternovskiy, an eighteen-year-old high-school dropout from Moscow …

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Atlantic Wire, MediaMemo, Silicon Alley Insider and MediaPost

Ian Schafer / AdAge:

How Facebook's Geo-Networking Plans Will Change Everything — What a Check-in on Facebook Will Mean for Foursquare, Gowalla and Marketers — As reported by Ad Age, Facebook is preparing to launch functionality that allows people to instantly broadcast their present locations and whereabouts …

Discussion: Click Here Blog, CNET News, TechCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider and Soup

Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:

Michael Wolff's Rupert Murdoch/CityFile/Page Six Conspiracy Theory: Shut Down! — Earlier today, an interview with media critic Michael Wolff went up on The Guardian, in which Wolff essentially told an interviewer that News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch has taken steps to exercise …

Discussion: New York Observer and New York Magazine

currybetdotnet:

Do journalists need to learn to be programmers? Yes. And no. — There has recently been a resurgence in the debate about whether journalists need to learn to be programmers. Partly, it seems, this has been fuelled by the announcement of a qualification that combines journalism and computer science …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and The (e)Grommet

Wolfgang Spahr / Billboard.Biz:

GEMA Talks With YouTube Break Down — Digital and Mobile — German collecting society GEMA has ordered YouTube to remove 600 videos by its members from the video-sharing platform's German service, after contract renewal talks broke down. — GEMA has taken a defiant stand against YouTube …

Discussion: Media News and paidContent

Jason Fell / Folio:

RBI: Remaining Shuttered Brands Not for Sale — Publisher to keep seven unsold brands for lead gen purposes. — After closing down 23 trade magazine brands it didn't sell on the open market and then auctioning the majority of them off to their former managers, Reed Business Information …

Discussion: Publishing Executive …

Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:

Why Egan-Managed Capital Gave WordStream Millions — WordStream announced Friday that it has secured $6 million in series B financing from Egan-Managed Capital and Sigma + Partners, but the real story sits behind one of the VC's decisions to dole out the funds.

Discussion: paidContent

The Huffington Post:

CNN Ratings Rebound? Network Saw Big Dayside, Primetime Success Last Week — A funny thing happened on cable news last week: CNN — yes, the beleaguered, ratings-starved, down the middle cable news network that just can't find an audience — scored major ratings victories over Fox News and MSNBC.

Discussion: TVbytheNumbers, Mediaite, Chickaboomer and TVNewser

George O'Brien / BusinessWest:

Teaching Aspiring Journalists How to Write — and Be Entrepreneurial — B.J. Roche says that today's journalists must be, in a word, entrepreneurial. — B.J. Roche says she was talking recently to one of her journalism students about what he'd like to do career-wise.

Max Read / Gawker:

How Did the Miami New Times Catch George Rekers with a Rentboy? — Catching a well-known homophobe in hot gay rentboy action is the dream of every budding young journalist. But short of following Rick Warren around with a camera all the time, how do you do it?

Adweek:

Born-Again Ads — The first generation of iPad marketing aims to give brands a turbo-charged sheen — Michael Ancevic, svp, group cd at Mullen, is nearly as excited about Apple's iPad as those in the publishing industry. (The only difference: his future may not depend on it.)

Discussion: the Econsultancy blog and Poynter Online

Andrea Pitzer / Nieman Storyboard:

International Journalism Festival in review: talking story in Italy (or, “Is social media really more dangerous than terrorists?") — Last month, I went to the International Journalism Festival in Italy for a panel on the future of story in the digital era.

Alastair Harper / Prospect Magazine:

George Orwell, patron saint of hacks — No-one, ultimately, had a clue about the election. The pollsters, the politicians, the pundits got it wrong. Even the bookies, who are always meant to be right, having a financial interest in being so, were wrong. No-one predicted the result we got or understands it now we've got it.

Richard Prince's Journal-isms:

Lena Horne Was a Friend to the Press — She Made Remarkable Revelations," Biographer Says — Profs Concerned About Court Nominee's Hiring Record — Information Shouldn't Become “Distraction,” Obama Warns — Denied Weekly Column, Massey CEO Sued the Paper — National Project Compares the Races' Well-Being

Discussion: Media Matters for America, Salon, City Room, FishbowlDC, Hit & Run, The Daily Beast and The Wrap

Hitsville:

The case against non-profit news sites — It's understandable that journalists shocked at the financial state of their industry would at some point think about a non-profit business model. — Behind the cynicism of most reporters lies a romantic streak, for one.

Discussion: Runnin' Scared

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

PCC clears Loaded magazine for ‘epic boobs girl’ pictures taken from internet — The Press Complaints Commission has rejected a privacy complaint from a woman about an article and pictures of her in Loaded magazine under the headline “Wanted! The epic boobs girl!”

Discussion: Press Gazette and pcc.org.uk

Tracy Rosenberg / Media on HuffingtonPost.com:

Geeks Rule: Why Media Ownership Still Matters — On May 21st, the FCC traveling road show will come to Stanford University in Palo Alto, California for the third of three field workshops on media ownership. Academics, pundits, and various other mucky-mucks will debate whether the explosive growth …

Ryan Tate / Gawker:

‘Beat the Internet’ Is AOL's Official New Mantra — The official theme of AOL, the fast-fading internet giant, is to “beat the internet,” CEO Tim Armstrong confirms in an internal memo. And by “beat” he apparently means “pummel into a bloody whimpering mess.”

Dan Gillmor / Mediactive:

Why I'm Going to Publish the Mediactive Book with Lulu — Some members of the traditional publishing industry don't care for what I write, and some who do aren't thrilled with one of the ways I try to spread my ideas. So when Mediactive appears between dead-tree covers a bit later this year …

Discussion: Joho the Blog