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8:35 AM ET, May 15, 2010

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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Gizmodo Editor Brian Lam's Email To Steve Jobs Raises Question: Would Gizmodo Have Published IPhone Story If Apple Hadn't Spurned It?  —  After Gizmodo published its exclusive on the [stolen] iPhone 4.0, Steve Jobs called Gizmodo and asked for it back.  —  For a variety of reasons …
Discussion: Runnin' Scared
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Joe Eskenazi / The Snitch:   Media Dogpile For iPhonegate Warrant
KHVO:
Merged Honolulu Star-Advertiser Begins June 7  —  As Many As 400 People Will Be Laid Off  —  HONOLULU — The merged Honolulu Star-Advertiser debuts June 7, with nearly 400 people losing their jobs in the process, according to the publisher of the combined newspaper.
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Jacob Weisberg / Slate:
Apple's Way  —  Why publishers should beware the App Store.  In a brilliant column published 16 years ago, the Italian philosopher Umberto Eco explained the difference between Apple and Microsoft in terms of the divide between Catholics and Protestants.  In the DOS-based universe, he noted …
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.
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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Google-and-the-News Followups  —  There is a wider variety of reaction to my current article (I've got to say it: subscribe!) than I can deal with in any comprehensive way at the moment.  For now, a restatement of a central theme, then two reader dissents.  —  If there is a point that …
Lori Rotenberk / New York Times:
Terkel Coming Online  —  If someone was an important figure in American culture in the 20th century, chances are he or she was interviewed by Studs Terkel.  —  Conversations with Rosa Parks, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King Jr. and Louis Armstrong are among the nearly 6,000 hours of interviews conducted …
Media Week:
NEWSPAPER ABCS: Daily Star suffers April setback  —  LONDON - Richard Desmond's Daily Star tabloid hit the buffers in April after its circulation fell month-on-month for the first time in 2010.  —  Daily Star: circulation fall  —  Desmond has been aggressively price promoting the newspaper …
Discussion: Guardian
Sebastien Provencher / The Praized Blog:
Are Newspapers Outsourcing Core Features to Foursquare?  —  Megan Garber from the Nieman Journalism Lab explains in details how the Wall Street Journal uses Foursquare to offer geo-localized news: … via Location, location, etc: What does the WSJ's Foursquare check-in say about the future of location in news?
Dennis Yang / Techdirt:
Viacom Still Not Getting It — Files Bogus Takedown And Kills Some Free Transformers Buzz  —  Ben Brown and Micki Krimmel stumbled upon the filming of Transformers 3, and from their office window, watched as cars were thrown across the air for one of the scenes.
Discussion: CrunchGear
Josh / Groundswell:
Lessons and Questions from New News Collaborations  —  On the last day of the Journalism Innovations conference a group of journalists gathered around a table at the University of San Francisco to talk about struggles and opportunities related to collaboration.
Discussion: DigiDave
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Media Attacks On Facebook And Mark Zuckerberg Are Getting Out Of Hand  —  Friday is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 26th birthday.  My guess is he won't be enjoying it as much as he should, given that the top tech story of the day is a look at a private instant message exchange he supposedly had six or seven years ago at Harvard.
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Gannett Folds Ripple6 Into Pointroll  —  As it continues its search to replace ex-digital head Chris Saridakis, Gannett (NYSE: GCI) is trying to make the most of its two successful digital units by bringing them more closely together.  Under the new plan, rich media provider PointRoll will oversee social media marketing unit Ripple6.
Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
NBC Bows ‘Fan It’ Viewer Rewards Program Online  —  As it looks to bounce back from another disappointing season, NBC is urging its viewers to become advocates of their favorite shows through a rewards-based program called Fan It.  —  Similar to Facebook's “Like” function …
Discussion: TechCrunch, MediaFreak and The Wire
 
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Jet Publisher: ‘We Had to Completely Rethink’ Distribution Beyond Print
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Michael Oneal / Chicago Tribune:
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Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
A number of Apple users say they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on April 26 and forced to reset their password before logging back in

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

Karen Weise / New York Times:
Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending
 
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