Mediagazer: Q & A With Brent D. Payne, In-House SEO Director, Tribune Company (Aaron Bradley/Search Engine Land)

7:20 AM ET, May 28, 2010

Top News:

David Kaplan / paidContent:

New Newsweek.com Emphasizes Minimalism; Paid iPad App Next Week — As the Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) tries to find a buyer for its struggling Newsweek, the magazine has revamped its website with a somewhat lighter look. In a note to users, Mark Miller, Newsweek Digital's editor …

Discussion: mediabistro.com, Mediaweek, FishbowlNY and Romenesko

Mark Miller / Newsweek:
Welcome to the New Newsweek.com

Discussion: New York Observer, Lost Remote, FishbowlNY, New York Magazine and The Wire

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Slap for Apple — Adobe's Flash video software has become a flashpoint in negotiations between Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Big Media. — On a day when Apple execs probably cheered the fact the company had surpassed Microsoft as the world's most valuable tech company, Jobs was grappling …

Discussion: Engadget, Shelly Palmer, Mashable!, WebNewser, Media Buyer Planner, The Daily Caller, Gizmodo and MacRumors

David W. Martin / Mac|Life:

Apple Reveals New Service for Authors to Sell Their Books Directly in the iBookstore — Are you a budding author? The next Stephen King? Or an author currently looking to cut out the middle man as you rollout your own books? It looks like your time has come — Apple has released information on self-publishing for the iBookstore!

Discussion: Fast Company, Podcasting News, Kindle Review and MacRumors

Laura Sydell / NPR:

Website Editors Strive To Rein In Nasty Comments … It's easy to lose your temper on the Internet. Anyone who reads — or writes — comments on blogs and news sites knows that the conversation can quickly stray from civil discourse to scathing personal attacks.

Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:

Yahoo Builds Pullover Ad Unit For Macy's, Garners Higher CPM — Macy's tapped Yahoo this week to recreate its offline Memorial Day sales circular into a Smart Ad-powered pullover ad unit in Yahoo Mail, becoming the first retailer to run the advertisement. — Yahoo worked with Pointroll …

Newsweek:

BP's Photo Blockade of the Gulf Oil Spill — Photographers say BP and government officials are preventing them from documenting the impact of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. — As BP makes its latest attempt to plug its gushing oil well, news photographers are complaining that their efforts …

Discussion: Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, FishbowlNY, New York Times, AdPulp, Room for Debate, The New Yorker Blog, ProPublica, Romenesko and Gothamist

John Koblin / New York Observer:

Lynn Hirschberg's Response to M.I.A. Tweet: ‘Fairly Unethical’ and ‘Infuriating’ — This morning, M.I.A. tweeted out writer Lynn Hirschberg's phone number in response to a piece in this weekend's Times Magazine. The tweet seemed to suggest that M.I.A. wasn't much of a fan of the piece.

Discussion: Romenesko, The Wrap, Sound of the City, Gawker, The Awl, Gothamist, Flavorwire, Jezebel, PopEater, New York Magazine, Speakeasy, The Stranger … and Vanity Fair

Aaron Bradley / Search Engine Land:

Q & A With Brent D. Payne, In-House SEO Director, Tribune Company — Brent D. Payne is the SEO Director at Tribune Company, whose properties include the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Baltimore Sun. In one form or another, Brent has been engaged in search engine marketing for over a decade.

Bloomberg:

Yahoo, Facebook, EBay Urge End to Viacom YouTube Suit — Yahoo! Inc., IAC/InterActiveCorp, EBay Inc. and Facebook Inc. urged a judge to dismiss Viacom Inc.'s copyright-infringement lawsuit against Google Inc.'s YouTube video-sharing website. — The four Internet companies filed friend …

Discussion: Digital Daily, Digits, VentureBeat, paidContent and MediaPost

Nielsen Wire:

“Glee” and the Rolling Stones Lead Surge of Digital and Indie Retail Music Sales — Following its season premier in April, the music-themed TV show “Glee” saw track downloads from its four compilations jump from 50-350K in the first week. The show's latest “Showstoppers” …

Discussion: Mashable! and MediaPost

Washington Examiner:

Former Gawker editor comes to D.C., disses Denton — She has worked for one of New York's most controversial media figures, but is airing out her opinion about it in D.C. — Former Gawker.com editor Emily Gould told Yeas and Nays that she doesn't miss the gossip scene or her old boss, Nick Denton, former owner of Wonkette.

Colby Hall / Mediaite:

When Local News Goes Awry: Reporter And PR Person Battle Over Touching — Dan Noyes is not only a local reporter for the ABC Bay Area affiliate, KGO-TV, but his tenacious style of local journalism is about to make him a rising star in the world of viral video.

Discussion: Gawker and The Huffington Post

Garrison Keillor / New York Times:

The End of an Era in Publishing — I ran into my daughter's favorite author, Mary Pope Osborne, in New York the other night, whose Magic Tree House books I've read to the child at night, and a moment later, Scott Turow, who writes legal thrillers that keep people awake all night, and David Remnick, the biographer of Obama.

Discussion: New York Magazine