Mediagazer: Should the Times Care About Blog Links? (Marion Maneker/The Big Money)

Times of London:

How iPad may make the future of newspapers a different story — The iPad goes on sale in Britain for the first time today, with many in the newspaper industry backing it to change journalism. — The Apple device, which has already sold more than 1 million in the US, has been much anticipated in Britain.

Discussion: Telegraph, Shaping the Future …, Journalism.co.uk, Editors Weblog, FleetStreetBlues and blogs.journalism.co.uk

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: Guardian, FishbowlNY and eMedia Vitals

Dominic Lawson / Times of London:

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: WebNewser and Journalism.co.uk

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Publish2's Ryan Sholin: “We did not set out to kill the Associated Press” — This week, with much fanfare, Publish2 announced its new News Exchange service. Using the new platform, CEO Scott Karp wrote, “newspapers can replace the AP's obsolete cooperative with direct content sharing …

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 …

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, Epicenter, MacRumors and Boy Genius Report

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, IAB SmartBrief and FishbowlNY

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: CJR, The Wire, Slugger O'Toole and Shaping the Future …

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

Matt Baume / Poynter Online:

Code Sprint Yields Important Lessons for iPad News Apps — At a conference last weekend for developers of iPad news apps, organizer Burt Herman posed an unexpected question: “How can we make news more like finger-painting?” he asked. — He was responding to a point made by Jennifer Bove of Kicker Studio, a product-design firm.

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

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

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.

Discussion: Slate

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

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, Nxtblog, PC World and paidContent

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

Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:

Viacom Promotes Dooley to Operating Chief, Extends Contract Through 2016 — Viacom Inc. promoted Chief Financial Officer Thomas E. Dooley to the new post of chief operating officer, establishing him as second in command behind Chief Executive Officer Philippe Dauman.

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: MEDIA BEESWAX

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Critiquing the D.C. echo chamber from within — As Hollywood glamour and Washington political celebrity coalesced this month at the White House Correspondents Dinner, reporter Mark Leibovich observed what he considers “a tipping point of self-celebration” in the nation's capital.

Discussion: New York Observer, The Wire and Wonkette

Media Week:

VW releases customer magazine on iPad — Volkswagen has become the first car manufacturer to launch a customer magazine as an iPad app, which it is dubbing DAS (Digital Automotive Space). — Volkswagen iPad customer magazine — The unveiling of VW's app has been timed to coincide with today's European launch of Apple's iPad.

Discussion: Brand Republic

Marion Maneker / The Big Money:

Should the Times Care About Blog Links? — Jeff Bercovici on AOL Wednesday responds to my doubts about the value of blogger's links as a measure of newspaper's success: … To be fair, I had Felix Salmon in mind when I wrote that bloggers were being self-involved when they used blogging links as the measure of a newspaper's success.