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11:45 AM ET, May 21, 2010

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Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Newsweek Sale Book: First Bids Due By June 2; Complete Financials  —  When the Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) announced that Newsweek was for sale, the top-line numbers we pulled out of SEC documents weren't new but they were stark.  The first-quarter earnings released a couple of days later highlighted the rationale.
Discussion: eMedia Vitals and The Wire
New York Observer:
Meet Vinnie Rotondaro, The J-School Grad Who Scored a Prokhorov Exclusive  —  Russian billionaire and new Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov was in extremely high demand among reporters on his tour through New York this week.  At a press conference on Wednesday, which lasted almost an hour …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Schmidt Says Google TV Ads Will Be a Cash Machine  —  Television may have been around for half a century or so, but Eric Schmidt thinks Google TV can one-up regular television — at least when it comes to advertising.  Why?  Because it can target ads the same way Google does online …
Discussion: paidContent, Sparksheet and NewTeeVee
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Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Google TV Combines Live TV, Hulu and the Rest of the Web
Salahuddin Choudhary / The Official Google Blog:
Announcing Google TV: TV meets web. Web meets TV.
Dan Gillmor / NewTeeVee:
Microchanneling: One Big Implication of Google TV
Discussion: Search Engine Land and TechCrunch
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
As CNN Considers Prime-Time Changes, Spitzer's Name Is Mentioned  —  As CNN scrambles to replace Campbell Brown on its wounded prime-time lineup, the most intriguing name purportedly on the channel's list is that of Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former governor of New York.
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Joe Pompeo / Silicon Alley Insider:
Meet Andrew Golis, The 26-Year-Old Behind Yahoo's Newsiest 57 Million Page Views (YHOO)  —  Ever since Yahoo! News started putting together an all-star team of journalists earlier this year, we've been curious about its plans.  —  For the first time, Yahoo! News actually has full-time beat writers …
Discussion: Romenesko
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The programmer majored in English: A fascinating study of the NYT's Interactive News unit  —  At the University of Texas's International Symposium on Online Journalism conference last month, a series of academics presented papers on the future of news.  There's great stuff, including …
Joe Strupp / Strupp:
New York Times' Public Editor Looking Into Blumenthal Coverage  —  As the criticism grows over The New York Times coverage of U.S. Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, specifically claims that the Times did not offer a full version of a video in which Blumenthal falsely claimed …
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the nytpicker:
Ignore The Rumblings. …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
James Murdoch: Surprised By Schmidt, Search Sites Should Give Us Answers  —  His father took a seat - next to News International CEO Rebekah Brooks and her new iPad - to hear News Corp (NYSE: NWS) EMEA CEO James Murdoch broaden the pay-for-news debate in to a grand call to salvage the sustainability …
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Fox News targets Latinos with new website  —  (Reuters) - Fox News plans to launch this fall a website aimed at a Latino audience as it seeks to build its coverage and links with one of the fastest-growing U.S. communities.  —  Fox News, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp …
Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal:
Bloggers Aim Posts at Regulators  —  WASHINGTON—U.S. trustbusters have set their sights on Silicon Valley, with a growing number of investigations targeting possible anticompetitive behavior by technology companies.  Now they are having to deal with an unexpected consequence …
Discussion: mediabistro.com
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Public Parts  —  That's the title of my next book about the end of privacy and the benefits of publicness.  I'm delighted to tell you that I've just agreed to write it for HarperCollins, my publisher for What Would Google Do? , working again with my brilliant editor there, Ben Loehnen.
Ruth Gledhill / Times Online:
‘Articles of Faith’ translates to heart of great paywall debate  —  Watch The Times' digital director Gurtej Sandhu debate paywalls at the Frontline Club last night.  —  So will you pay or won't you?  I hope enough of you do.  There has been much speculation about how the new paywall will work.
Discussion: One Man & His Blog
Zeke Turner / New York Observer:
‘War’ at the Four Seasons Hotel; Sarah Ellison on Her New Book and Greater New York … “I want to thank Rupert Murdoch for launching a newspaper war right in time for the launch of my book,” said Sarah Ellison, the author of War at The Wall Street Journal, last night.  “Impeccable timing.”
Discussion: Editors Weblog
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Appeals Court Halts ‘Hot News’ Publishing Order  —  A federal appeals court on Thursday lifted a lower court's order that a well-known financial news aggregator delay publication of prominent financial analysts' buy and sell recommendations — stock picks that allowed the well-to-do the first crack …
 
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From Techmeme:

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
What to expect from Apple's May 7 event: OLED iPad Pros possibly with M4 chips, 10.9" and 12.9" iPad Airs, and updates to the Apple Pencil and Magic Keyboard

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple Q2 revenue: iPhone down 10% YoY to $45.96B, Mac up 4% to $7.45B, iPad down 17% to $5.56B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 10% to $7.91B

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft outlines security principles and goals tied to executive compensation packages, following a scathing US Cyber Safety Review Board report in April 2024
 
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