Mediagazer: Billionaire funds web news rival to San Francisco Chronicle paper (Stephen Foley/The Independent)

Chris Anderson / Wired:

Wired Magazine's iPad Edition Goes Live — The irony that Wired, a magazine founded to chronicle the digital revolution, has traditionally come to you each month on the smooshed atoms of dead trees is not lost on us. Let's just say the medium is not always the message. — Except that now it is.

Discussion: MediaMemo, Media Decoder, New York Observer, Journalism.co.uk, Press Gazette, MacRumors and magCulture.com/blog

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Wired Introduces Adobe-Built IPad Edition — Improves on Magazine Apps in Some Ways, Lags in Others — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Wired magazine has introduced its much-anticipated iPad edition, a slick $4.99 app that was built by Adobe in a 10-month development process despite Apple's midstream ban …

Discussion: The Wire

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

Richard Beckman' First Big Move At e5 Global Media: Putting Janice Min In Charge Of The Hollywood Reporter — Ever since Nielsen sold a bunch of publications—including Adweek, Mediaweek, Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter—to e5 Global Media back in December, media watchers have been wondering about the company's plans.

Discussion: WebNewser, Media Decoder, New York Observer, MinOnline and Variety

Janice Min Named Hollywood Reporter Editorial Director — Former Us Weekly editor-in-chief Janice Min is joining trade publication The Hollywood Reporter as Editorial Director. — Min left Us Weekly when her contract expired last year. — “The Hollywood Reporter is one of the most iconic brands in the entertainment industry.

Mark Fitzgerald / Editor & Publisher:

Media Audit: ‘Wall St. Journal’ Readership Up Big Since Murdoch Takeover, While ‘N.Y. Times’ Stays Flat and ‘USA Today’ Falls — CHICAGO — Readership of The Wall Street Journal has jumped 20% since News Corp. acquired the paper in 2007, according to a new study by The Media Audit.

Discussion: Strupp, eMedia Vitals and Fitz & Jen

Discussion: Lost Remote

Adriano Farano / Owni:

Burt Herman:|| “We should apply technology lessons to journalism” — Hacks/Hackers' founder speaks to OWNI about his brainchild, a group that tries to connect journalists and technologists. He talks about the genesis of the initiative during a Knight journalism Fellowship year.

Discussion: Silicon Valley Watcher

Billionaire funds web news rival to San Francisco Chronicle paper — One of America's oldest and largest newspapers, the San Francisco Chroncile, faces a new online-only rival from today, with the launch of Baycitizen.org - a not-for-profit website that is part of a growing trend reshaping US journalism.

Discussion: National Media, Guardian and Editors Weblog

Brad Stone / New York Times:

U.S. Is Said to Scrutinize Apple's Online Music Tactics — SAN FRANCISCO — The Justice Department is examining Apple's tactics in the market for digital music, and its staff members have talked to major music labels and Internet music companies, according to several people briefed on the conversations.

Discussion: MediaMemo, Ars Technica, PC World, Yahoo! News, TUAW, PC Magazine, Company Town, DailyFinance, hypebot, The Consumerist, Matthew Yglesias, VentureBeat, Fast Company, MacRumors and L.A. Times Tech Blog

Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

Stop The Presses: ‘Sunset’ For Print In Five Years, FT Sees — For years, even many of us in the online realm had countered digital prophesies of “the death of print” with cautious reservation. — But now - as newsprint costs rise, digital operations grow their importance to publishers …

Discussion: The Wire, Media Money, Press Gazette and Kirk LaPointe's …

Media Week:

'If paywall doesn't work I'm in the s**t', admits News Int's commercial chief — LONDON - News International's commercial leader, Paul Hayes, joked his neck could be on the line if the publisher's eagerly anticipated plans to erect paywalls around online content fail next month.

Discussion: Press Gazette and Brand Republic

Discussion: Mashable!, allmediascotland.com Spike, Ethical Martini, magCulture.com/blog, malcolm coles, Silicon Alley Insider, Brand Republic, Editor's Blog, One Man & His Blog and Journalism.co.uk

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Engaging with journos: At GigaOM, there's an app for that — Have you ever tried to get in touch with a journalist, only to wander her employer website's labyrinthine maze of non-linked bylines and PR department messages and institutional contact forms? Have you ever, desperate but not optimistic …

Discussion: GigaOM

John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:

FCC Launches Media-Ownership Rules Review — Notice of inquiry officially begins Congressionally-mandated review of five rules limiting local ownership, cross-ownership — The FCC officially launched its congressionally-mandated review of its media ownership rules.

Discussion: rbr.com, TVNewser and WebNewser

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

RealNetworks Founder Glaser Becomes a VC at Accel-The Venture Firm That Backed Him 15 Years Ago — Rob Glaser, the founder of RealNetworks, is joining Accel Partners as a part-time venture partner. — Ironically, it was Accel that first funded the digital media pioneer …

Discussion: NewTeeVee

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Forbes power shift — Forbres shook up its editorial ranks by bringing Lewis Dvorkin back into the fold after a 10-year absence. This time he is the top dog. — He has the title of chief product officer but the release announcing his arrival said he will be overseeing “all editorial areas” and will start on June 1.

Jonathan Weber / The Bay Citizen:

Welcome to The Bay Citizen — We'll let our website and our stories do most of the talking today, but we wanted to welcome you formally to The Bay Citizen. We hope you'll find it interesting, educational, entertaining, engaging and ultimately indispensable.

Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:

New media company preaches tech's role in solving world's problems — Silicon Valley often views itself through the prism of the world-changing technology it creates. — Last month, for example, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone told an audience of software developers at the website's Chirp conference …

Glen Dickson / Broadcasting & Cable:

Tennis Channel teams with Google TV Ads — Latest cable net to use automated platform — Cable sports network Tennis Channel announced May 24 that it will make part of its advertising inventory available through Google TV Ads, the Internet search giant's online platform for buying cable spots.

Discussion: rbr.com

Zeke Turner / New York Observer:

Mike Bloomberg is an iPad Fiend! But Says Technology is a Distraction for Publishing Industry — Just this morning Mayor Mike Bloomberg used his iPad to Tweet, update his Facebook profile, read Digg and checked in on Foursquare, according to The New York Times. — “I even posted a personal on Craigslist,” he said.

Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:

5 Ways to Monetize the Future of News Media — This series is supported by The Poynter Institute's Mobile Media blog - your guide to the intersection of mobile and media. Sign up to receive the blog in newsletter format and be entered into a drawing to win an iPad at Poynter.org/ipadgiveaway.

Discussion: New York Magazine

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Scribd Ramps Up Migration To HTML5; Scores Partnerships With Forbes Media And Others — We reported recently that online document sharing site Scribd will start to ditch Flash across its tens of millions of uploaded documents and convert them all to native HTML5 Web pages, another win for Apple in its battle against Flash.

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

BitTorrent Download Record Shattered By Lost Series Finale — Last year, Lost achieved the questionable honor of being the second most-pirated TV-show on BitTorrent. With more than 6 million downloads for a single episode, Lost was only trailing Heroes by a few thousand downloads.

Discussion: Fast Company, TVbytheNumbers and CrunchGear

MediaShift:

PBS NewsHour Collaborations Require Buy-In from the Top — Collaboration is one of the public broadcasting buzzwords of the moment. The new PBS NewsHour is a national news organization that is trying to figure out how collaboration works. — Collaboration was one of the bullet points when we announced the changes to the program.

Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Borrowing from burgers: franchise-model startup wants to make community news sites profitable — Launching a community news site is tough. You've got editorial decisions, like putting together a team of reporters and editors, plus technical hurdles like finding the right CMS and hosting service …