Mediagazer: Station Turned Down Video of Police Beating (Asmith/Richard Prince's Journal-isms)

Putting a Price on Words — Last year, Sam Apple got the idea into his head that what the world needed was a new kind of newspaper. This was, to put it mildly, at odds with the consensus of the marketplace. At the time, several large media companies were in bankruptcy …

Discussion: New York Observer and Media Decoder

Charles V. Bagli / New York Times:

Condé Nast Considers Move to New W.T.C. Tower — The publishing giant Condé Nast has been talking to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey about moving to 1 World Trade Center when it is complete, a potential coup for the signature skyscraper rising from ground zero.

Discussion: New York Observer and WebNewser

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: Poynter Online, Gothamist, The Huffington Post, Mediaite, Big Think, Big Journalism, Romenesko, WMC Blog, Globe and Mail, Ben Smith's Blog, Chickaboomer, The Politico and The Daily Dish

Ian Burrell / The Independent:

Will Rupert Murdoch's plans to charge for access to his websites pay off? — Next week Rupert Murdoch introduces a charge for access to the websites of his best-known news titles. Will his latest gamble pay off? — The big reveal comes next week. We'll have a better idea then whether …

Discussion: Fitz & Jen and New York Magazine

Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:

Haim Saban Plans ‘Serious Look’ at Newsweek — Billionaire media investor Haim Saban said Wednesday he's planning to “take a serious look” at Newsweek magazine, which is on the auction block. — Mr. Saban said Don Graham, chairman of Newsweek parent company Washington Post Co. …

Discussion: paidContent, Romenesko, Gawker, The Wire, New York Observer, mediabistro.com, New York Magazine, Guardian, Reuters and Geekosystem

Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:

Hulu: HTML5 Isn't Ready for Prime Time — UPDATED: Hulu rolled out a number of updates to its video player today, including making it bigger, adding adaptive bitrate streaming, improving content recommendations and enabling users to receive more personalized ads.

Discussion: Gizmodo

Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter:

Moguls: Models matter most — Tech convergence critical, say Cable Show panelists — Industry leaders discussing the implications of consumers having media everywhere all the time surprised themselves by having more on which to agree than disagree during the opening general session Wednesday at the Cable Show.

Discussion: paidContent, Media Buyer Planner, Multichannel, TVNewser, MediaPost, WebNewser and Beet.TV

Steve Donohue / Light Reading: Comcast CEO Dismisses Cord-Cutting Trend

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: Mashable!, the Econsultancy blog, Romenesko, paidContent and FishbowlNY

Asmith / Richard Prince's Journal-isms:

Station Turned Down Video of Police Beating — Uproar After Photographer Shows Material on YouTube — Essayist Debra Dickerson Says She Is “Homeless” — Laid-Off Baltimore Sun Workers Share Stories — White House Defends Court Nominee on Diversity — Lena Horne Services to be Held Friday in New York

Discussion: KCPQ Q13 FOX News, TheWrap.com and Writing / Editing

Leon Neyfakh / New York Observer:

America's Next Top Novel — On June 7, The New Yorker will publish a double fiction issue in which it will name 20 individuals under the age of 40 whom they believe to be the most talented and important American writers of their generation. The authors who are being considered for the list …

Lois Beckett / The Snitch:

Behind the Scenes at 48 Hour Magazine — Sunday, 7:07 a.m. Alexis Madrigal and Mat Honan. Five hours left. — This weekend, a group of San Francisco media friends got together and produced a glossy print magazine, start to finish, in just about 48 hours.

Discussion: 48 Hour Magazine

Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:

A Digital Boot Camp to Groom Talent for Agencies — WHEN she founded the digital ad agency Exopolis nine years ago, Kat Egan wasn't worried about finding good talent. Although the Internet was young, she figured trained technologists would soon be pelting her with résumés.

Agence France Presse:

Today's Robin Hood would target media, says Russell Crowe — If Robin Hood were alive today he would aim his arrows at media monopolies, Russell Crowe said after a Cannes press screening of a new film on the English outlaw. — “My theory would be that if Robin was alive today he would be looking …

Discussion: Gawker and The Wire

Rupal Parekh / AdAge:

Chrysler Prepping New TV Campaign to Help Brand Image — Automaker Taps Gotham to Lure Back Buyers With Spots — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Chrysler is prepping the launch of a corporate branding TV campaign it hopes will help repair its image in the minds of consumers — and it's hired a new agency …

Discussion: MediaPost and AdScam/The Horror!

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

Laid-off Baltimore Sun staffers tell their stories on new website — LAID-OFF BALTIMORE SUN WORKERS FIND A VOICE ON NEW WEBSITE CREATED BY FELLOWSHIP FROM WRITERS GUILD, EAST FOUNDATION — NEW YORK CITY - In the spring of 2009, more than 60 Baltimore Sun writers and staff were laid off …

Discussion: Strupp

John M. Glionna / Los Angeles Times:

Samsung drops civil suit against columnist — The South Korean technology giant says it reached a consensus with a British-born newspaper columnist who wrote a satirical piece that commented about its chairman. He still faces criminal charges. — Reporting from Seoul

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.

Discussion: Speakeasy

Discussion: Gawker, The Wire, FishbowlNY, WebNewser and Runnin' Scared

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: Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Variety and Company Town

Spiegel Online:

‘We Should Not Let Nostalgia For Newspapers Cloud Our Thinking’ — In a SPIEGEL interview, Washington Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli discusses the global media crisis, the death of the “paper of record” and the iPad hype. He argues there is still a bright future for the kind …