Mediagazer: Yahoo! to open major Denver office as part of Associated Content acquisition (Michael Roberts/The Latest Word)

6:20 PM ET, May 26, 2010

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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, paidContent, Media Decoder, NetNewsCheck Latest, MarketingVOX, MacRumors, VentureBeat, New York Observer, magCulture.com/blog and Journalism.co.uk

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: Silicon Alley Insider and The Wire

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: MediaPost, Strupp, eMedia Vitals and Fitz & Jen

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Wall Street Journal Readership Is Up 20% Since Rupert Murdoch Took Over (NWS)

Discussion: Lost Remote

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: Crain's New York Business, Media Decoder, New York Observer, WebNewser, Company Town, Gawker, WWD Media Headlines, DailyFinance, MinOnline and Variety

The Huffington Post:

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.

Discussion: The Wrap

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.

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.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab

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

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, National Media and Poynter Online

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

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Disney Said to Be In ‘Advanced Talks’ To Sell ABC — Update: Disney released the following statement earlier this afternoon saying that the section of the criminal complaint pertaining to the sale of ABC was not true: … The original version of the story is below:

Discussion: Associated Press, rbr.com and FishbowlLA

Daniel Indiviglio / The Atlantic Online:
Did We Just Learn Disney's Selling ABC Through Ex-Employee's Arrest?

Discussion: Deadline.com, The Wire and Dealbreaker

Michael Roberts / The Latest Word:

Yahoo! to open major Denver office as part of Associated Content acquisition — Lately, major businesses like Frontier Airlines and Qwest have made news for decreasing their presence in Denver, not expanding it. — But Yahoo!'s acquisition of Associated Content last week brings more positive tidings.

Discussion: AdPulp

Yahoo! News:

WH pulling out all the stops to defend oil spill handling to media — The White House, continuing its effort to push back against negative media coverage of the government's handling of the oil spill, set up an on the record meeting today between incident commander Thad Allen …

Discussion: Hot Air and FishbowlDC

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 …

Discussion: Folio

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Armed With Consumer Research, HuffPo Revenue Plan Moves To Phase II — Huffington Post President and Chief Revenue Officer Greg Coleman says that he's on target to reach his goal of doubling the news aggregator's ad sales this year thanks to two things that hadn't existed at the company before he arrived.

John Koblin / New York Observer:

Ryan McGinley Shoots for Times Magazine — Lynn Hirschberg penned her final piece for The New York Times Magazine this weekend on M.I.A., and what a way to go out! Ryan McGinley shot the—pretty amazing—photos for the piece. — Suddenly Gerry Marzorati seems to be expanding that photo portfolio!

Discussion: New York Times

Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:

Atlantic Media Halts Work on Business Website — Atlantic Media's plan to start a business-news website has encountered another setback. The launch has been postponed indefinitely, and the editor heading up the project is leaving the company. — “Yes, it's on hold for now but we are still committed …

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.

Jarvis Coffin / The Huffington Post:

Is the Algorithm the New Media Decision Maker? — Greg Hills wrote a very thoughtful piece over at AdExchanger titled, “The Algorithm Is the New Decision Maker: Communicating with the New Demand Side.” — Of course, the title makes my skin crawl, as does Greg's statement that the …

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.

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

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

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