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11:20 AM ET, May 12, 2010

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John Koblin / New York Observer:
Reuters, Politico Line Up for Newsweek  —  It has been only a week since Washington Post Co.'s chairman, Donald Graham, announced that Newsweek was on the block, but already a few big media players are taking an early look at the newsweekly.  —  Thomson Reuters and Politico owner Allbritton Communications …
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Brightcove and FreeWheel to Enable Video Advertising on the Apple iPad  —  Since the launch of the Apple iPad, many online video publishers have been been working feverishly to get video onto the the popular platform.  —  Since Apple does not allow Adobe's Flash on the device …
Discussion: USA Today
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Jeff Whatcott / Brightcove Blog:
Solving the Online Video Monetization Puzzle  —  The image of a jigsaw puzzle kept coming to mind as I watched last week's Brightcove Video Monetization Summit.  The good news is that the picture is starting to take shape.  We recently published some new research findings with TubeMogul showing …
Discussion: PR Newswire and VideoNuze
Stephanie Clifford / Media Decoder:
A Peek at Vanity Fair's iPad App  —  “Magazines are actually pretty brilliant concepts the way they are,” said Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter on Tuesday as he previewed his magazine's new iPad app.  “At the same time, we have a few bells and whistles that a magazine cannot provide.”
The Huffington Post:
Comcast CEO: We Won't Interfere With NBC News  —  PHILADELPHIA — The chief executive of Comcast says he won't interfere with the editorial decisions of NBC's news programs.  —  Brian Roberts said Tuesday at a cable industry trade convention in Los Angeles that NBC News is an “awesome asset” that needs to be protected.
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Makes Ad Inroads  —  Facebook Inc. is catching up to rivals Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in selling display ads.  —  In the first quarter, Facebook pulled ahead of Yahoo for the first time and delivered more banner ads to its U.S. users than any other Web publisher, according to market-research firm comScore Inc.
Ben Elowitz / paidContent:
The New Rules For Judging ‘Quality’ In Published Content  —  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: TeleRead
Alex Beam / Boston Globe:
Ye Olde Newsweek  —  When a being a journalist-on-the-rise was a glass half-filled job  —  My first job in journalism was at the now-foundering Newsweek magazine, which the Washington Post Co. has put up for sale.  This was — gasp — more than 30 years ago, and my memories are grossly irrelevant …
Discussion: The Wire, Adam Sherk and Romenesko
Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
CNN Contributor Erickson Draws Ire From All Sides  —  MACON, Ga. — In his seven weeks as one of CNN's newest contributors, Erick Erickson has made scarcely more than a dozen appearances on the network.  —  But his every utterance — every Twitter message, blog post and radio rant …
Discussion: Mediaite, TVNewser and Romenesko
Bill Mitchell / Newspay:
Spot.Us Experiments with User-Directed Sponsorship Revenue  —  In some ways, it seems like a no-brainer: Encourage consumer engagement with advertising by giving users a stake in deciding how the revenue gets spent.  —  As far as I can tell, though, Spot.Us is breaking some new ground with the …
Discussion: Spot Us and Editors Weblog
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Lacey named New York Times Phoenix bureau chief  —  Just when you thought the red-hot news out of Arizona was getting pushed off Page One, we have a Grand Canyon State scoop of our own: The first New York Times Phoenix Bureau Chief will be.Marc Lacey.  Read more in this note from Rick Berke.
Discussion: LA Observed
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Delivery Agent Acquires Media Firm The Band To Enable Cross Platform E-Commerce  —  Fresh off an acquisition of flash sales site Billion Dollar Babes, TV e-commerce company Delivery Agent is making another purchase this week: interactive TV firm The Band.  It appears that Delivery Agent …
Discussion: paidContent
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
FT claims total worldwide readership of 1.9m each day  —  The Financial Times today released new readership figures which suggest that around one in ten of its print readers also look at the FT online.  —  The new figures claim that the FT has 1.9m readers a day across its various publishing platforms.
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
Todd Spangler / Multichannel News:
Cable Show 2010: CTOs See IP Video In Their Future  —  Panelists Also Discuss Telephony Peering, DOCSIS 3.0, ITV  —  Los Angeles — Cable probably will still be delivering video to MPEG-2 set-tops in 10 years, but in the meantime they will need to quench their customers' thirst for IP video …
Curt Hopkins / ReadWriteWeb:
Court Rules for MobiTV in Fee Case  —  The United States 5th District Court in New York handed down a ruling today regarding the licensing rates and terms that may be charged for streaming television and radio content to mobile devices.  —  In US v. ASCAP, music performance rights publisher ASCAP sued MobiTV …
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Are Mobile Ads the Next Big Thing?  Maybe Not  —  A lot of buzz among online advertising companies these days is focused on mobile ads delivered to smart phones.  Google executives have even talked about becoming a “mobile first” company, and Apple and Google have both made recent moves into mobile advertising.
Doree Shafrir / New York Magazine:
Wisenheimers, Scary People, and Debate-Team Captains: A Taxonomy of Commenting Communities  —  Every online publication with a comments section develops its own culture of readers who gather every day to post funny one-liners, shout at each other, resume long-running debates …
Discussion: Tomorrow Museum and Deadspin
Tom Shales / Washington Post:
Tom Shales on PBS's ‘Need to Know’  —  Suppose Charles Dickens were alive today and just sitting down at a keyboard to input the content of a new cybernovel.  Here is how he might begin: “It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times.”  —  Not even Dickens at his most Christmassy …
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Crowdsourcing goes global: The NYT's “Moment in Time”  —  Visit the New York Times' Lens blog today, and you'll find an image slightly different from the high-quality photographs that normally populate the outlet: a spinning globe, highly stylized, its surface popping with piles of pictures.
Discussion: New York Times and Lens
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Another Web Ad That Wants to Eat Your Screen (With Your Permission)  —  Another entrant from the giant-ad-that-takes-over-your-entire- screen competition: Firefly Video, which is launching an ad network today.  —  Firefly's ad unit is a mashup of lots of things we've seen in the past …
Discussion: MediaPost, NewTeeVee and TechCrunch
Choire / The Awl:
Google Believes Online Ads Could Be Worth More Than Print Ads by 2012  —  When you look through the delightful PowerPoint presentation prepared at Google on the newspaper industry, a few things stand out.  —  Now, this graph, while entertaining, isn't a useful comparison of anything.
Discussion: Gawker
Jon Friedman / MarketWatch:
Andrew Ross Sorkin: NYT's Mr. Controversy  —  Commentary: ‘Everyone in life wants to be loved,’ he says  —  NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times has put his stamp on the Wall Street reporting scene, launched the “DealBook” blog and written a best-seller called “Too Big Too Fail.”
CNN:
Brown's quit offer sparks newspaper frenzy  —  London, England (CNN) — British premier Gordon Brown's offer to step down as part of a deal to entice the Liberal Democrats into a coalition government with Labour rather than David Cameron's Conservatives provoked a mixed reaction in the UK press Tuesday.
Marc Brownstein / AdAge:
Overreliance on Social Media Will Damage Your Brand  —  It's Good for Maintaining Relationships, but How Will New Customers Find You?  —  Last year, a friend of mine who is the CEO of a successful retail apparel brand gleefully told me how he cut his $5 million advertising budget, in lieu of a 100% Facebook/social-media strategy.
Discussion: mUmBRELLA
Mark Fitzgerald / Editor & Publisher:
Burned by Bankruptcies, But Betting on Newspapers  —  CHICAGO  —  While JPMorgan Chase was negotiating with debtor newspapers where its investments went badly, such as bankrupt Tribune Co., it was also making a big bet on the business — tripling its holdings in the nation's largest newspaper publisher, Gannett Co.
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Disney Digital Narrows Losses As Revs Rise 20 Percent  —  The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) posted healthy gains this past quarter, and the company cited box office successes such as Alice In Wonderland and the acquisition of Marvel, which has the number one film at the box office with Iron Man 2, as the reasons for the growth.
Don Babwin / Associated Press:
Playboy ‘readers’ get 3-D centerfold in June issue  —  CHICAGO - Playboy readers who can only imagine what it would look like if a centerfold jumped right off the page are getting new specs to help them see into Hef's world.  —  The magazine's June edition hits newsstands Friday equipped with 3-D glasses.
FP Top Stories List:
New role a ‘great privilege’: Godfrey  —  Paul Godfrey emerged as the public face of the winning bid for Canada's largest newspaper chain with a mandate to change the way it operates.  —  “We're going to have to do business a little bit differently,” explained Mr. Godfrey, currently president and CEO of the National Post.
Discussion: Toronto Star and Fitz & Jen
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Canadian Press:
Group to acquire Canwest papers for $1.1 billion
Discussion: Guardian and Globe and Mail
 
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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
“Always collaborate”: Say hello to OpenFile, the local news site …
AdAge:
TiVo-Millward Brown Pact Lets Advertisers Get Granular
Tony Ortega / Runnin' Scared:
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
NBC Universal exec's cable ties add to her pull
Discussion: B&C and Company Town
David McKay Wilson / Columbia College:
Watching the Watchdogs  —  Journalists may be society's watchdogs …
Discussion: Big Think and Romenesko
 

 
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