Mediagazer: Chrysler Prepping New TV Campaign to Help Brand Image (Rupal Parekh/AdAge)

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!, Journalism.co.uk, Romenesko, the Econsultancy blog, paidContent and FishbowlNY

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 …

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, Big Think, Mediaite, Big Journalism, WMC Blog, The Politico, Chickaboomer, Ben Smith's Blog and New York Observer

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.

Sarah Kunst / New York | Guest of a Guest:
Neel Shah Claims He Can't Even Get In To Avenue

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

Marisa Guthrie / Broadcasting & Cable:

Cable Show 2010: TV Everywhere, Money Not So Much — Media executives rehash perennial concerns about financial viability of multiplatform distribution — Moderated by former FCC chairman Michael Powell, who has segued from the federal payroll to Providence Equity Partners …

Discussion: Multichannel, TVNewser, MediaPost, WebNewser and Beet.TV

Dawn Chmielewski / Company Town:
ESPN lands new 3-D channel on Comcast cable systems

Discussion: Multichannel, The Awl, MediaPost, Broadcasting & Cable and Variety

Los Angeles Times:
With TV Everywhere, pay-TV industry seeks to fend off an Apple invasion

Discussion: MediaPost, Company Town, Free Press and NewTeeVee

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: Lost Remote

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

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 …

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, Variety 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: eBookNewser, Kindle Review, TeleRead and GalleyCat

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

Al Bawaba:

Arab Media Forum Discussion Analyzes the ‘Al Jazeera Effect’ at AMF 2010 — Whenever Al Jazeera is accessible to an audience, they tend to find some solidarity with it, commented Adel Iskandar, Media and Communication Lecturer at Georgetown University, citing examples of a Vermont-based cable operator …

Discussion: Salon and english.globalarabnetwork.com

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: Richard Prince's Journal-isms

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 …

Wendy Davis / MediaPost:

Judge Upholds Ban On FlyOnTheWall's Publishing Financial ‘Hot News’ — A federal judge has rejected Theflyonthewall.com's request to resume publishing banks' stock recommendations early in the morning. U.S. District Court Judge Denise Cote in New York ruled that the site had not shown …

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

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