Mediagazer: AOL's Self-Imposed Turnaround Deadline May Be Sooner Than You Think (Staci D. Kramer/paidContent)

1:25 PM ET, May 14, 2010

Top News:

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: Strupp, Media Decoder, The Reformed Broker, Shaping the Future …, New York Observer and MEDIA BEESWAX

Wall Street Journal:

New York Times to Begin Website Charges in January — The New York Times will begin charging for access to articles on its website in January, Bill Keller, executive editor of the newspaper, said at a dinner for the Foreign Press Association Thursday evening.

Discussion: WebNewser, Romenesko, The Huffington Post, Lost Remote, Fast Company, The Wire, MarketWatch, eMedia Vitals, Gannett Blog, NYConvergence, Talking New Media and TheStreet.com

Joe Strupp / Strupp:

Keller: Pay Model Will Affect Few Non-Subscribers — Executive Editor Bill Keller of The New York Times said most readers of the paper's website will likely never have to pay for access under the new pay model set to launch next January. — “Those who mainly come to the website via search engines …

Discussion: On Media's Blog

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: Media Decoder, TheWrap.com, B&C, The Daily Beast and Gawker

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 …

Mike Shields / Mediaweek:

The Washington Post Co. Adds State-Focused Blogs — The Washington Post company has rolled out a new network of blogs focused on state politics. — The new collection of sites, housed at Voices.washingtonpost.com/politics/ blog-network, was born out of a blog posting by Chris Cillizza, who pens The Washington Post's The Fix Blog.

Discussion: Strupp, Washington Post, Online NewsHour, MEDIA BEESWAX and Shaping the Future …

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Oprah Opens Online Auditions, Voting For Her Next TV Star — When the Oprah Winfrey Network launches in January, we'll see whether her star power is enough to carry a whole network—and what it can do for one person in particular whose name we can't even imagine today.

Discussion: rbr.com, PR Newswire, Media News International and Bloomberg

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

New York Post:

Newhouse cuts back — THE cost cutting seems to be picking up steam at S.I. Newhouse Jr. media empire Condé Nast. — Yesterday, the glitzy publisher of Vanity Fair, Vogue, Glamour and The New Yorker told its 3,000 employees that starting July 1 their pension plans would be frozen.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, New York Magazine and The Wire

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 …

Discussion: Poynter Online, eMedia Vitals and TechCrunch

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 …

Discussion: Seattle Times, MyNorthwest.com and National Association …

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

AOL's Self-Imposed Turnaround Deadline May Be Sooner Than You Think — AOL (NYSE: AOL) has given itself a year from now to make bottom-line progress with its massive turnaround effort—or rethink its strategy, according to Barclays Capital analyst Douglas Anmuth.

Discussion: MediaMemo

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.

Michael Oneal / Chicago Tribune:

More roadblocks crop up as Tribune Co. tries to emerge from bankruptcy — Objections to Chapter 11 disclosure statement complicate company's efforts to win judge's approval — Objections to Tribune Co.'s Chapter 11 disclosure statement flooded into U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware on Thursday …

Discussion: Romenesko, mediabistro.com and Fitz & Jen

Dana Flavelle / Toronto Star:

Canwest must boost online revenue, strategist says — John Paton says half of earnings could be digital in 5 years … The man who is helping bring Canada's largest newspaper chain out of bankruptcy protection says traditional newspaper companies could be making half their profit from digital content within five years.

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: Media News International, paidContent, MediaPost and MediaPost

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.

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 …

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

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 …