Mediagazer: Reuters, Politico Line Up for Newsweek (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 …

Discussion: WWD, Wonkette, rbr.com, FishbowlNY, New York Magazine, Deal Journal, Gawker, The Wire and Tech Trader Daily

Sarah Kunst / New York | Guest of a Guest:

Neel Shah Claims He Can't Even Get In To Avenue — Have you seen Neel Shah's new taxi TV commercial for Bing, in which he is rejected from Avenue? The casting is random-and a harbinger of more internet “celebrities” making the jump to tv.- — The death of old media has been greatly exaggerated it seems …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, nbcuniversal.presscentre.com, MediaPost, Runnin' Scared, The Wire and WebNewser

Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:

John Carney Joins CNBC: “Corporate Environments Don't Frighten Me” — Former Business Insider managing editor John Carney is going corporate - he joins NBCU today as senior editor at CNBC.com, to appear regularly on-air. — Guest Of A Guest broke the news, and the full release is after the jump.

Jon Friedman / MarketWatch:
Andrew Ross Sorkin: NYT's Mr. Controversy

Discussion: FOXBusiness.com and New York Magazine

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Magazines to Sell Subscriptions Within Facebook's News Feed — Facebook Users Can Stay in News Feed While Buying Print Subs and Reading Whole Articles — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The magazine business may soon have a way to do more with Facebook than engage fans and promote its brands.

Discussion: paidContent, Romenesko, Mashable! and FishbowlNY

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Location, location, etc: What does the WSJ's Foursquare check-in say about the future of location in news? — It was the Foursquare check-in heard 'round the world. Or, at least, 'round the future-of-news Twitterverse. On Friday, the Wall Street Journal checked in to the platform's Times Square venue with some breaking news:

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Lost Remote and Mobile Media

Vadim Lavrusik:

The missing link in journalism curricula: Community engagement — Next Tuesday, I will graduate with a master's of science degree in digital media from the prestigious Columbia University Journalism School. As I graduate, I have gained skills in reporting, video production, audio, editing …

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, NewTeeVee, Online Video News, VideoNuze and E-Media Tidbits

Discussion: USA Today

Media Decoder:

Saban Reacquires ‘Power Rangers,’ Moves Show to Nickelodeon — The media investor Haim Saban said Wednesday that he had bought back the rights to his biggest franchise, “Power Rangers,” from The Walt Disney Company, and had licensed the show to Nickelodeon, the children's cable channel owned by Viacom.

Discussion: Variety and Company Town

Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:

Inside Lorne Michaels' Bubble — Hungry Beast Giving Beast Women in the World — Blogs and Stories — The Saturday Night Live creator talks to The Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove about his action flick MacGruber, Conan's departure from NBC, Comcast's takeover of the network—and SNL's Betty White episode.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Ryan Chittum / CJR:

At the WSJ, A Question of Trust — The real issue in the Kagan softball dustup: The paper has lost credibility in the Murdoch era … Simpson is the respected former Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, and that quote is from former WSJer Sarah Ellison's new book War at The Wall Street Journal …

Discussion: Romenesko, Ben Smith's Blog and WMC Blog

Los Angeles Times:

With TV Everywhere, pay-TV industry seeks to fend off an Apple invasion — Fearful that they'll suffer the same fate as the music business, television firms are racing to come up with services such as TV Everywhere, which would let paying customers view shows on any device.

Discussion: Company Town and NewTeeVee

New York Post:

Mort offers voluntary buyouts as deadline looms — Daily News Publisher Mort Zuckerman may be recuperating from knee surgery, but that hasn't stopped him from looking to trim the ranks of the paper's editorial department. — Sources told Media Ink that voluntary buyouts …

Discussion: TVNewser, Gawker, Runnin' Scared and FishbowlNY

Robert Quigley / Geekosystem:

There's a Dirty UNIX Joke in the New York Times' Facebook Backlash Story (Update) — This morning's New York Times features a story on a group of NYU undergraduates working on a would-be Facebook killer called Diaspora*, the software for which “will let users set up their own personal servers …

Discussion: MediaPost, iMedia Connection Blog, Gawker, Scripting News, the nytpicker, Gizmodo, New York Times, Runnin' Scared, Gothamist and Epicenter

Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:

Media Landscape Gets a Radical Redesign — The New York media map is being redrawn. — Newsweek magazine is one example of the city's media migrations. Even before Washington Post Co. disclosed last week that it was putting Newsweek up for sale, the magazine had moved its Manhattan base …

Discussion: Romenesko

Sim Simeonov / paidContent:

Steve Jobs To Ad Industry: Leave The Premium Inventory To Us — Simeon Simeonov is co-founder and CTO of Better Advertising, a provider of online advertising compliance and assurance solutions. Sim is also founder of FastIgnite. Previously, he was a VC at Polaris Venture Partners …

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

RRE Ventures, Ron Conway, And Founder Collective Bet $8 Million On BuzzFeed — Making buzz happen online is an elusive enterprise, but BuzzFeed is making a business around it. The New York City startup just raised an $8 million series B financing, led by RRE Ventures.

Discussion: paidContent and VentureBeat

Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Slate advertiser incorporates a mystery story into an animated ad that will only bother you once — As I was perusing Slate's homepage Monday, an ad caught my eye. Granted, I'd have to have had my eyes closed to miss it: It was the kind that takes over your screen momentarily …

Discussion: Slate

Media Week:

Financial Times unveils iPad app — LONDON - The Financial Times has released details and a video demo of its iPad app, which subject to Apple approval will go live in the very near future. — The app, currently in beta, takes its navigational lead from the FT's website rather than the print edition …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

TV Quick faces closure — H Bauer begins consultation with staff about closing 19-year-old listings weekly, down 26% in last round of ABCs — Publisher H Bauer looks set to close TV Quick, 19 years after the weekly title launched to take advantage of deregulation of the UK TV listings market.

Discussion: Press Gazette

Michael Cieply / New York Times:

Chernin Assembling a Vast Media Empire — LOS ANGELES — Ever since Peter A. Chernin left the News Corporation as Rupert Murdoch's second in command, the media world has wondered what he would do next. — Rather than joining another big media company, Mr. Chernin is in the early stages …

Discussion: Gawker, The Wire, TVWeek.com and Company Town

Rachel Deahl / Publishers Weekly:

Amazon to Drop Free Books from Kindle Bestseller List — For some in publishing it may be a curiosity, for others a point of contention—Amazon's practice of including free downloads in its list of most popular Kindle titles. It will soon no longer be an issue.

Discussion: GalleyCat

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

Christina Warren / Mashable!:

Commenting Platform Echo Lands More Big Media Partnerships — Real-time comment and reaction platform Echo announced its next group of major partnerships today. These new clients — which include The Washington Post, Time, Forbes, Sports Illustrated and Slate — are part of the company's effort …

Discussion: TechCrunch, louisgray.com, Echo Blog and TNW Social Media