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4:50 PM ET, May 17, 2010

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David Carr / New York Times:
Taylor Momsen Did Not Write This Headline  —  Don't know who Taylor Momsen is?  Neither to do I, beyond that she is the mean one on “Gossip Girl.”  But Facebook knows her well, Twitter loves her, and she and Google have been hooking up, like, forever.  —  One more fact about Ms. Momsen …
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Kirk LaPointe / Kirk LaPointe's themediamanager.com:   David Carr of the New York Times on Web headline SEO
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:   After You Read This Headline, Please Click It
Rebecca Mead / New Yorker:
RAGE MACHINE  —  Andrew Breitbart's empire of bluster.  —  On Sunday, March 21st, the day that the House voted to pass health-care reform, Andrew Breitbart, the conservative Internet entrepreneur, was thousands of miles away, at home in Westwood, a neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Chris Nuttall / Financial Times:
Google and Intel in web TV launch  —  Google and Intel are expected to announce a significant breakthrough into consumer electronics and the broadcast industry this week with the launch of a “Smart TV” platform.  —  Top executives from the Silicon Valley companies are reported to be ready …
Peter Lauria / The Daily Beast:
The Most Powerful Woman in Newspapers?  —  Hungry Beast Giving Beast Women in the World  —  Blogs and Stories  —  As the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal bash each other, the Financial Times, led by its sharp, glamorous new U.S. editor, Gillian Tett, intends to become a status symbol of American business.
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Mark Potts / Recovering Journalist:
Sneaking Around the WSJ.com Paywall  —  The Wall Street Journal online edition is the poster child for the argument in favor of paid subscriptions for news Web sites.  WSJ.com has 400,000 paid online subscribers (hundreds of thousands more get the site along with their print subscription) …
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Fans of Gourmet Magazine Accept No Stand-Ins  —  Loren Shlaes, a pediatric occupational therapist in Manhattan, is the kind of amateur cook who bakes cakes for her friends' weddings and makes her own spaetzle.  She's an avid reader of food magazines, and, over the years, has subscribed to Cook's Country …
Discussion: Romenesko and Eater NY
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Howard Kurtz explores how oil spill, bombing news trumped Nashville flood  —  As Nashville anchor Bob Sellers watched his city submerged and spent time helping colleagues whose homes were utterly ruined, he was struck by how the disaster remained a largely local story.
Joe Pompeo / Silicon Alley Insider:
New York Times Will Announce Paywall Specifics Toward ‘Latter’ Part Of The Year (NYT)  —  The New York Times will announce the “pricing and specifics” of its online metered paywall model “toward the latter part of the year,” the company's senior vice president of digital operations …
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
The Oxymoronic Citizen Journalism  —  Let's fire a few missiles at politically correct ideas such as “Digital media makes all of us journalists”, “citizens will soon displace professional reporters”, and so on.  That's nonsense (I have more explicit words in mind).  Does it means public input in news should be kept at bay?
Megan McCarthy / Mediagazer News:
Mediagazer Leaderboard brings you the top 100 media news sites  —  Today we're launching the Mediagazer Leaderboard - a list of our top 100 source websites, ranked in order.  The ranking is based on a variable we call presence - the percentage of headline space a source occupied on Mediagazer over the past 30 days.
Discussion: TNW Apps and Techmeme News
Mia / YouTube Blog:
At five years, two billion views per day and counting  —  Five years ago, after months of late nights, testing and preparation, YouTube's founders launched the first beta version of YouTube.com in May, with a simple mission: give anyone a place to easily upload their videos and share them with the world.
Michael Hirschorn / New York Magazine:
1. Embrace Change  —  The industry is in turmoil.  Hooray!  —  When all else fails, try being good.  This may seem like an awfully cynical way to start an analysis of how great TV gets made.  But TV is the most finely tuned of commercial instruments (up there with boy bands …
Discussion: NYConvergence
Luke Harding / Guardian:
Alexander Lebedev: 'I'm thinking about alliances, not a free paper'  —  The Russian billionaire tells of his admiration for the UK and how he laughed with a Murdoch over the Independent's ad campaign  —  It was the election's biggest media bust-up.  After the Independent launched …
Peter Preston / Guardian:
So you want a media career?  Taking a course is only the start  —  With 15,000 media students out there, that's an awful lot of hopefuls in a hard world.  To succeed, they'll need iron ambition  —  A distant relative with an 18-year-old daughter interested in a media career …
Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
WaPo wades into HuffPo's unpaid content model  —  A top news and politics site is packaging content written by unpaid bloggers, hoping to engage its audience, give writers a platform, and make some money selling ads.  No, I'm not talking about The Huffington Post.
Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
President signs press freedom act amid grumblings about pool coverage  —  In the Oval Office on Monday, President Obama signed the Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act, which requires the State Department to include repression of journalists in its annual Human Rights Reports.
Discussion: The Caucus, Romenesko and FishbowlDC
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Don't Kid Yourself, Mobile Ad Companies: Apple Really Does Want to Lock Up the App Market  —  Is Apple really trying to shut out other ad networks from its iPhones and iPad apps?  That's what it looked like at first blush last month.  —  Recently, though, I've talked to some mobile ad companies that are more hopeful.
 
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Sean Blanda / eMedia Vitals:
The McDonalds of local news
Editor & Publisher:
EPpy Award Finalists for Best Media Web Sites Announced
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Surprise: Traditional Blogging Platforms Still Reign Supreme
Discussion: PostRank Blog, Soup and The Toad Stool
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
An Online Game to Entice the Movie Audience
Discussion: The Wall Blog
Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
Big Publishers Circling Foursquare
Dave Goodchild / Journalism.co.uk:
Developers and journalists forging common ground
Jim / Gannett Blog:
Amid more competition, local-local offers an edge; but will …
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Eric Deggans / St. Petersburg Times:
Former Tampa Bay radio star Skip Mahaffey cast aside, ignored
Discussion: blogs.tampabay.com
The Independent:
Stephen Glover: The nearest thing to a one-party press
Discussion: Daily Mail, Guardian and Jon Slattery
Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
For U.S. Newspaper Industry, an Example in Germany?
Sally Jackson / TheAustralian:
At the end of the day, ex-journalist counts on hackneyed cliches
Discussion: Gawker
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Future of news  —  I taped this show months ago and didn't even know when it aired on PBS.
Magda Abu-Fadil / The Huffington Post:
Fifth Estate, Censorship Battles at Dubai's Arab Media Forum
Michele Mclellan / RJI:
Bay Citizen: Partners welcome
Discussion: The Snitch and Romenesko
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Business school ditches Kindle DX after trial run
Discussion: Poynter Online