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10:45 AM ET, May 14, 2010

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 Top News: 
Andrew Rice / New York Times:
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 …
Deadline.com:
NBC CANCELS ‘LAW & ORDER’ FLAGSHIP: Dick Wolf Furious That Net Reneged On Deal And May Take Show To TNT; Should NBC Reconsider?  —  BREAKING NEWS!  KEEP REFRESHING!  3:30 PM UPDATE!  Here's the latest news on this fast-moving story.  A deal was in place if NBC picked up the Law & Order flagship …
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Josef Adalian / New York Magazine:
Vulture Exclusive: NBC Offered to Renew Law & Order, But Did Dick Wolf Play Chicken?  —  Is Law & Order really over?  After multiple reports suggesting that the iconic New York-based crime procedural would definitely be back for a 21st season next fall — allowing Dick Wolf his life-long dream …
Discussion: TheWrap.com, B&C, The Daily Beast and Gawker
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
Murdoch-Owned Sun Online Blocks Meltwater Media Monitor  —  The Sun's website has fallen in behind its News International stablemate Times Online by barring the PR media monitoring service Meltwater from crawling its articles.  —  Sun Online used the robots.txt protocol to block the service on Thursday …
Discussion: Editors Weblog
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Media execs embrace the iPad  —  Chase Carey, Brian Roberts praise device's earnings potential  —  When asked about digital technology last month on a stage in Beverly Hills, Chase Carey went off on the wonders of Apple's new iPad.  —  “Digital,” said former Warner Bros. and Yahoo honcho Terry Semel.
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
Gowalla Partners with National Geographic and Washington Post for Branded Trips  —  Location-sharing service Gowalla has just revamped its website and expanded its Trips feature.  The Foursquare competitor is launching the new feature set with two big business partners …
Richard Prince's Journal-isms:
Heads Roll at Station That Failed to Air Video  —  Seattle News Director Quits; Assignment Editor Fired  —  Seattle News Director Quits, Assignment Editor Fired  —  The Seattle news director whose station turned down the video of a police beating resigned, and an assignment manager has been fired …
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Asmith / Richard Prince's Journal-isms:
Station Turned Down Video of Police Beating
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Adding Fuel to the Bloomberg/ABC News Rumors  —  So, we've been following the chatter about ABC News possibly joining up with Bloomberg TV.  That meme took an interesting turn last night on “World News” as Diane Sawyer introduced a story about women CEO's salaries being higher than men's in 2009.
Crain's New York Business:
Ratings system highlights the reach of new media  —  Matthew Flamm - NBC's cult comedy The Office may have ranked 60th last year in the Nielsen ratings universe, among viewers over the age of 18.  But in terms of overall impact and buzz, the show came in seventh, according to media buying and planning agency Optimedia U.S.
Discussion: MediaPost and AdAge
Al Tompkins / Al's Morning Meeting:
Journalists Should Celebrate Decisions by Two Top State Courts  —  As journalists, we complain about a lot.  But in the past couple of weeks, two state supreme courts have given us something to cheer about.  They recognized some foundational aspects of journalism and said we should keep them.
Nick Summers / Newsweek Blogs:
As Facebook Takes a Beating, a Brutal Movie Is Set to Make Things Much Worse  —  A passage from Sorkin's The Social Network screenplay.  —  Ever since its launch in 2004, Facebook has rolled along like a juggernaut.  Users occasionally protest its policies and privacy changes …
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Microsoft, Yahoo Start Sorting Through Paid-Search Ad Problems  —  Acknowledging concerns from advertisers, Microsoft and Yahoo began answering questions Thursday about their paid-search ads and sales transition plan.  Although the two have begun moving customers to Microsoft's ad platform adCenter …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
You're Welcome, You Bastards  —  A week ago we posted two excerpts from Fortune columnist David Kirkpatrick's new book The Facebook Effect.  We're big fans of Kirkpatrick and have been following his book progress since last year.  When Fortune's PR department called to ask us to print the excerpts, we quickly agreed.
Discussion: Felix Salmon
rbr.com:
NBC taps Microsoft for digital ads  —  NBC and Microsoft Advertising announced a unique digital marketing partnership designed to promote NBC's “More Colorful” Fall 2010 program lineup.  The partnership will be executed through an extensive multi-screen advertising campaign that includes MSN, X-box, Microsoft Mobile and Bing.
Discussion: paidContent, MediaPost and MediaPost
Allison Schaefers / Star Bulletin:
Combined newspaper to employ up to 500 workers  —  Nearly 400 employees from both publications might lose their jobs in the consolidation  —  Oahu Publications Inc., which is consolidating the state's two largest daily newspapers into the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, expects to employ between 450 …
Discussion: The Biz Blog and Gannett Blog
Phil Rosenthal / Chicago Tribune:
‘Annie’ left a homeless orphan in newspaper world  —  Through more than 85 years of hardships and challenges — spanning the Great Depression, a world war, foreign cabals, corruption at home, several kidnappings and, well, being an orphan — she somehow always found a way to triumph.
comScore, Inc.:
Americans Received 1 Trillion Display Ads in Q1 2010 as Online Advertising Market Rebounds from 2009 Recession  —  Facebook Was Top Display Ad Publisher in Q1, AT&T Ranked as Top Advertiser  —  comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released an overview …
Jason Fry / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Why the biggest competitor to iPad news apps may be a familiar icon  —  Once we got done making jokes about the name, one of the more amusing aspects of the iPad's launch was how many people made up their minds about the product's worthiness and market fate without the benefit of using one for very long, if at all.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Media Meets Commerce, As Thrillist Buys JackThreads (Plus, 1,000 Invites)  —  It was only this past weekend that Dave Chase argued in a guest post here on TechCrunch that online media companies should get into e-commerce through group buying and flash sale sites.
 
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rbr.com:
Jelli scores $7 million in funding for Crowdsourced Radio
Discussion: PR Newswire and paidContent
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
CBS Buys ‘Green’ Media Firm EcoMedia
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and rbr.com
Alex Weprin / WebNewser:
The Fiscal Times Celebrates Launch
Discussion: GalleyCat, TVNewser, AgencySpy and The Wire
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
HMV's Simon Fox to be GMG director
Discussion: paidContent:UK
Peter Lauria / The Daily Beast:
Sony's Family Saga
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Company Town
Jim / Gannett Blog:
Lost in switch to USAT news: local reader opinion …
Discussion: USA Today and Law Blog
 Earlier Picks: 
Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:
Private Eye backs hyperlocal Hackney newspaper in row with council
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Newsonomics of copyediting value
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
Ctouhey / TBD:
We're Crowdsourcing Plans for TBD
Discussion: Zombie Journalism
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Hulu: HTML5 Isn't Ready for Prime Time
Leon Neyfakh / New York Observer:
America's Next Top Novel