Mediagazer: Times' Revamped Friday Arts Section Takes Aim at Journal (John Koblin/New York Times)

Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

On Rupert's iPad: Times, Sky TV Show Different Charging Approaches — The Times joined the Financial Times as the only national UK newspaper with a news app for iPad's international launch Friday morning. — Yes, it's pay-for, but there's an entirely different pricepoint from the new websites …

Discussion: Times of London, Shaping the Future …, FishbowlNY and Guardian

Introducing the iPad edition of The Times — Hot on the heels of thetimes.co.uk comes the latest edition of The Times. Owners of the new Apple iPad can subscribe to The Times iPad edition through the App Store on the device. — Times designers have worked to make best use of the iPad's touch screen …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, eMedia Vitals and WebNewser

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: Ars Technica, Kindle Review, Fast Company, Podcasting News 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.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider

Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:

Time Inc. Dives Deeper Into iPad Revolution — Time Inc. revealed it would develop iPad apps for seven more of its brands this year, including a series of paid apps from lifestyle magazine Real Simple. — Speaking May 27 during a Time Warner investor day, Time Inc. chairman …

Discussion: The Wire and FishbowlNY

Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:

Frank DiGiacomo to Take Over Daily News Gossip Column — Vanity Fair contributing editor and former “Page Six” helmer Frank DiGiacomo will return to his tabloid past this summer. He's headed to the New York Daily News to take over the “Gatecrasher” column from able young scribe Amanda Sidman …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Discussion: The Awl

Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:

The next Apple TV revealed: cloud storage and iPhone OS on tap... and a $99 price tag — If you thought that Apple's foray into the world of home entertainment died with the last iteration of the Apple TV, you're quite wrong. A tip we've received — which has been confirmed by a source …

Discussion: paidContent, WebNewser, Scripting News, TUAW, Techland, MediaFile, TechCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider, NetNewsCheck Latest, ReadWriteWeb, Gadget Lab, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Mashable!, MacRumors and Gizmodo

Dan Primack / PE Hub Blog:

Exclusive: Forbes Gets Into Capital-Raising Business — The Forbes brand has always been associated with financial services, but almost always from the media bleachers. Until now. — peHUB has learned that a new effort called Forbes Private Capital Group recently launched …

Discussion: The Wire

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: Editors Weblog, mediabistro.com, Silicon Alley Insider, FishbowlNY, Romenesko, New York Observer, Lost Remote, The Wire and Newsweek

Jon Gilkison / interfacelab:

Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn't They Just Use HTML 5? — I just downloaded the Wired iPad application, and like most iPad applications (and most magazines for that matter), I found myself bored with it within the first 20 minutes. I'm sure the content is engaging …

Discussion: Media Decoder, PC World, eMedia Vitals, Nxtblog, paidContent and Epicenter

Greg Bensinger / Bloomberg:

U.S. Newspaper Web-Ad Sales Rise First Time Since '08 — U.S. newspaper publishers in the first quarter reported their first gain in online advertising sales since the same period in 2008, helping offset a continued decline in more lucrative print ads. — Industrywide online ad sales rose 4.9 percent …

Discussion: Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, Shaping the Future … and FishbowlNY

Michael Miner / Chicago Reader:

The Pitfalls of “Cooperative” News — San Francisco's new Bay Citizen pitches a controversial plan. Plus: what it can learn from the Chicago News Co-op. — The Bay Citizen opens for business this week in San Francisco, and there are two big reasons the news industry is paying attention.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and MEDIA BEESWAX

John Koblin / New York Observer:

A.G. Sulzberger will be the Times' Kansas City Bureau Chief — A.G. Sulzberger has a new job at the Times! And it's still as a reporter. — Mr. Sulzberger, who joined the staff of the Times in February 2009, will become the paper's Kansas City Bureau chief. The KC bureau is being reopend by the Times this year.

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Fergie's book boost — “This year, it's all about celebrities,” noted HarperCollins Executive Editor Jonathan Burnham. — Some booksellers were grumbling that Streisand's coffee table book, “My Passion for Design,” would be tough to sell because of its $60 price tag.

Discussion: The Wire

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Harsh lessons to learn from the Irish News paywall — If you want to get a grasp on the effect of paywalls, take a look at the experience of the Belfast-based Irish News. — Without doubt, it is one of the best UK regional dailies. Independently-owned, moderately nationalist in outlook …

Discussion: The Wire, Slugger O'Toole, eMedia Vitals and Shaping the Future …

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

‘Digital good for media’ says TW CEO Bewkes — Investors told piracy threat ‘seems to be stabilized’ — NEW YORK — “Digital is good for media,” if managed well, Time Warner chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes said here Thursday in opening the conglomerates' first investor day in years.

John Koblin / New York Times:

Times' Revamped Friday Arts Section Takes Aim at Journal — The Times' Weekend Arts section has gotten reworked, and every move seems to take dead aim at the Journal's Greater New York section. — For starters, the Escapes section, which lost its stand-alone status last year and got lumped …

Discussion: New York Times and FishbowlNY

Reuters:

Wall Street debates fate of Disney's ABC — (Reuters) - Wall Street has long seen sense in Walt Disney Co selling or spinning off ABC, the low-rated TV network and the one piece that does not seem to fit well with the entire entertainment empire. — But the problem is finding a buyer, analysts say.

Discussion: Company Town

Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Newspapers now have lost half of core sales — The decline in newspaper advertising eased in the first three months of 2010, but the industry exited the quarter with less than half the revenue base it had in the same period in 2005. — Print ad sales for the industry skidded 11.4% …

Felix Salmon:

News consumers, paywalls, and useless tourists — John Gapper returns to the subject of newspaper paywalls today, saying that in the UK, Rupert Murdoch's Times will have to appeal to a narrow elite if it is to succeed online — something Murdoch has never been comfortable doing.

Discussion: Mother Jones, Recovering Journalist, CJR, Financial Times and Guardian

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: mediabistro.com, Gawker, Breitbart.tv and The Huffington Post

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

Forbes Firings Will Be ‘Ruthless’ — UPDATE: One Forbes staffer tells us: “The attitude now is that you're an idiot if you're not looking for another job.” — A few weeks ago, we reported that Forbes staffers were bracing for another big shakeup, this time with layoffs coming to higher-ups …

Discussion: WWD