Mediagazer: Laid-off Baltimore Sun staffers tell their stories on new website (Jim Romenesko/Romenesko)

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: Gawker, The Wire, New York Observer, Gothamist, New York Magazine and WebNewser

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

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

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: The Huffington Post, Gothamist, Mediaite, Big Think, Big Journalism, Globe and Mail, Romenesko, WMC Blog, Chickaboomer, The Politico and The Daily Dish

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: Hulu Blog, MediaMemo and Gizmodo

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.

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

Ctouhey / TBD:

We're Crowdsourcing Plans for TBD — While we were working on a name for our new project (we settled on TBD), we used a lot of different names to refer to it, including, well, TBD, nonameyet, and many others. — At one point, a tweep suggested that we crowdsource the name, seeking suggestions on Twitter.

Discussion: Zombie Journalism

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

Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:

Adobe targets Apple in ad campaign launched today, publishes open letter from founders — If you're reading Engadget today (and let's be honest, you're reading it right now), then you might have noticed that Adobe has launched a pretty full-force campaign to call out Apple on its anti-Flash mission.

Discussion: AdAge, Digital Daily, MediaPost, eMedia Vitals, Technologizer, Mashable!, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, App Advice, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, TUAW, MacRumors and The Wire

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

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, NABJ and San Francisco Chronicle

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 …

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Newsonomics of copyediting value — [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] — What's copyediting worth these days?

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!

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

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 …