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1:10 AM ET, May 12, 2010

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 Top News: 
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
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 …
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Choire / The Awl:
Google Believes Online Ads Could Be Worth More Than Print Ads by 2012
Discussion: Gawker
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
“Always collaborate”: Say hello to OpenFile, the local news site putting those new media maxims to the test  —  The thing about new media maxims is that, all too often, they remain just that — maxims.  Smart ideas that guide our thinking, yes, but that don't get much tangible testing in the hectic, messy space where journalism lives.
Canadian Press:
Group to acquire Canwest papers for $1.1 billion … TORONTO — Canwest Global Communications has approved the sale of its newspapers to a group led by National Post president and CEO Paul Godfrey in a $1.1-billion deal that preserves jobs and pays off the insolvent company's bankers.
Discussion: Globe and Mail and Guardian
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FP Top Stories List:
New role a ‘great privilege’: Godfrey
Discussion: Fitz & Jen
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: Romenesko
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
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.”
Discussion: Mashable! and New York Observer
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.
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Christopherfountain / For What It's Worth:
CNBC - on top of the world, but not world news
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 …
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
NBC Universal exec's cable ties add to her pull  —  Bridget Baker, who has been negotiating to secure distribution deals for not only NBC but also CNBC, MSNBC, USA and Bravo, has moved to the forefront amid Comcast's proposed $30-billion takeover.  —  Bridget Baker's corner office …
Discussion: B&C and Company Town
Tony Ortega / Runnin' Scared:
MEMO TO FOSTER KAMER, RE: DICK JOKE  —  ​Hey, Kamer.  —  Ortega here.  —  I want you to do something for me.  —  I want you to stop apologizing for the damn dick joke.  —  I caught the mea culpa at your Tumblr, and frankly, I wish you'd knock that s**t off.
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: Romenesko
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.
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Comcast to Revamp Its TV Everywhere Service  —  Comcast will soon streamline the authentication process for subscribers that want to log in and access premium, on-demand video content online, according to CEO Brian Roberts.  In a conversation with former News Corp. chief Peter Chernin …
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: NewTeeVee and TechCrunch
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.
Discussion: Media Decoder and rbr.com
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: Lens
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.
Discussion: FishbowlNY, Speakeasy and The Awl
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!”
The Texas Tribune:
On the Records: Come and Take Our Data  —  Records in the Texas Tribune's data library are licensed under Creative Commons, which means you're free to download them, remix them and republish them — so long as you comply with our simple terms.  —  If you use our data to build an app or visualization …
Dan Butcher / Mobile Marketer:
Time Inc. exec discusses CNNMoney.com mobile strategy  —  A Time Inc. executive discussed CNNMoney.com's mobile strategy in an exclusive interview with Mobile Marketer.  —  CNNMoney.com launched its first application for Research In Motion's BlackBerry last week, available now for free in the AppWorld store.
Discussion: Poynter Online and News On News
wan-press.org:
World Newspaper Congress called off, World Editors Forum postponed  —  Français Español Deutsch  —  The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has been forced to call off the World Newspaper Congress and postpone the World Editors Forum …
Brian Morrissey / Mediaweek:
Paid Brand Blogging on the Rise  —  More brands will compensate bloggers and social media users in an attempt to generate chatter about their products, a new study found.  —  PQ Media said such “sponsored conversations” — which compensate social media users for discussing brands' products …
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Foursquare Mulling Ad Options  —  Digg Account Director Emily Crume checks in on Foursquare nearly everywhere she goes.  Sunday night she checked in at the Los Angeles International Airport with 45 others.  That would have been the perfect opportunity for American Airlines or Virgin America …
 
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John Koblin / New York Observer:
Reuters, Politico Line Up for Newsweek
Discussion: The Wire
Bill Mitchell / Newspay:
Spot.Us Experiments with User-Directed Sponsorship Revenue
Discussion: Spot Us
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Are Mobile Ads the Next Big Thing? Maybe Not
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
NJ Supreme Court overturns The Record libel ruling
Jill Drew / CJR:
The New Investigators  —  Nonprofits are breaking new ground.
Discussion: Romenesko
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Digits:
Amazon: A Patch for Your Novel Is Ready To Download
Discussion: Gizmodo and TeleRead
Georg Szalai / Mediaweek:
CBS CFO: Net May Hold Back Ads From Upfront
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Bill Mickey / Folio:
Ripp Promoted to Publisher of TIME
Discussion: paidContent and FishbowlNY
AdAge:
TiVo-Millward Brown Pact Lets Advertisers Get Granular
Discussion: MediaPost
David McKay Wilson / Columbia College:
Watching the Watchdogs  —  Journalists may be society's watchdogs …
Discussion: Big Think and Romenesko
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Why Egan-Managed Capital Gave WordStream Millions
Discussion: paidContent
George O'Brien / BusinessWest:
Teaching Aspiring Journalists How to Write — and Be Entrepreneurial
Alastair Harper / Prospect Magazine:
George Orwell, patron saint of hacks
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple Q2 revenue: iPhone down 10% YoY to $45.96B, Mac up 4% to $7.45B, iPad down 17% to $5.56B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 10% to $7.91B

Sudz Niel Kar / MyHealthyApple:
Apple Watch's AFib history feature gets FDA approval for use in clinical studies, the first digital health tech qualified under FDA's MDDT program

Ashley Stewart / Business Insider:
Sources: Bill Gates remains intimately involved in Microsoft's operations, advising on strategy, nurturing Microsoft's relationship with Sam Altman, and more

 
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