Mediagazer: Steve Jobs Reinvents the CEO With E-Mail Campaign (Brian X. Chen/Gadget Lab)

1:05 AM ET, May 27, 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, TeleRead, MarketingVOX, VentureBeat, Media Decoder, MacRumors, 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: TeleRead, Silicon Alley Insider and The Wire

Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Launching a site? Five tips to get you off on the right foot — Big news on the nonprofit journalism front: The Bay Citizen, a nonprofit dedicated to covering the Bay Area with $5 million in funding, launched today. — The site has gotten plenty of publicity over the last few months …

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

Jonathan Weber / The Bay Citizen: Welcome to The Bay Citizen

Daniel Indiviglio / The Atlantic Online:

Did We Just Learn Disney's Selling ABC Through Ex-Employee's Arrest? — Who knew federal prosecutors were so good at breaking news? A former Disney administrative assistant and her friend have been arrested for attempting to sell non-public information to investors — but that may not be the big news.

Discussion: MediaFile, The Daily Beast, Multichannel, Deadline.com, The Wire and Dealbreaker

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Disney Said to Be In ‘Advanced Talks’ To Sell ABC

Discussion: Associated Press, rbr.com and FishbowlLA

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, FishbowlNY, Strupp, CJR, 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

Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:

Ad Spending Turns Up in First Quarter, Tracking Service Says, After Many Quarters of Declines — In a tangible sign that perceptions of better times along Madison Avenue may start becoming a reality, a leading ad tracking service reported that advertising spending in major media rose in the first quarter …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and mediabistro.com

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

The Huffington Post:
Janice Min Named Hollywood Reporter Editorial Director

Discussion: The Wrap

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 …

Discussion: New York Observer and FishbowlDC

Reuters:

Redstone says CBS, Viacom not for sale — CBS Corp (CBS.N) Executive Chairman Sumner Redstone spelled out again that he has no interest in selling the network or its sister company, Viacom Inc (VIAb.N). — “I will never, N-E-V-E-R, sell Viacom or CBS,” Redstone said in response …

Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:

‘Atlas Shrugged’ Rights Holder Sets June Production Start Whether Or Not Stars Align — For almost two decades, Hollywood has tried unsuccessfully to turn Ayn Rand's 1100 page classic Atlas Shrugged into a feature film with actresses ranging from Angelina Jolie to Charlize Theron to Faye Dunaway.

Discussion: The Playlist

Nieman Foundation News:

Nieman Foundation announces Nieman Fellows in Class of 2011 — CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has selected 25 journalists from the United States and abroad to join the 73rd class of Nieman Fellows. The group includes journalists who work in print, radio …

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 Magazine and New York Times

Rachel Metz / Associated Press:

Amazon and Penguin make e-book pricing deal — SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon.com Inc. and book publisher Penguin Group reached an agreement regarding the pricing of Penguin's electronic books, the online retailer and book publisher said Wednesday. — With the new agreement …

Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:

Steve Jobs Reinvents the CEO With E-Mail Campaign — Most Fortune 500 CEOs are about as accessible as Kim Jong Il, but Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been breaking the mold. He's sent terse e-mail replies to more than a dozen customer inquiries — and one journalist — in the past few months.

Discussion: AdPulp, Marketing Nirvana and AdAge

Lauren Kapp / nbcuniversal.presscentre.com:

RYAN OSBORN NAMED NBC NEWS, DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL MEDIA — In a newly created role, NBC News Ryan Osborn has been promoted to Director of Social Media for NBC News. Osborn will oversee and execute all social media initiatives for the news division. He will manage NBC News' usage of social media …