Mediagazer: In May, Lower Ratings for Larry King (Brian Stelter/Media Decoder)

Bids Submitted for Newsweek Sale — Two magnates, a conservative publisher and the company that bought TV Guide for $1 have all raised their hands as potential buyers of Newsweek. — By the time the deadline to submit preliminary bids for the magazine expired Wednesday at 5 p.m. …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal

Newsmax Media bidding to buy Newsweek — It's been almost a month since the Washington Post Co. put Newsweek on the market, and by 5 p.m. today the initial bids are due. Despite skepticism over whether there will be bidders, Yahoo! News can confirm there's at least one: Newsmax Media.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, New York Post, The Wire, The Huffington Post and New York Observer

Lee Siegel / New York Observer:
News-bleak! Or Is It? Grahams Succumb to Panic

Discussion: Guardian, International Media, TheWrap.com and Romenesko

Julie Bosman / New York Times:

The New Yorker Picks Young Writers Worth Watching — There are 10 women and 10 men, satirists and modernists, from Miami and Ethiopia and Peru and Chicago. And none of them were born before 1970. — The New Yorker has chosen its “20 Under 40” list of fiction writers worth watching …

Discussion: Gawker, Jacket Copy, New York Magazine, GalleyCat and ArtsBeat

MediaShift:

Why Journalists Should Learn Computer Programming — Yes, journalists should learn how to program. No, not every journalist should learn it right now — just those who want to stay in the industry for another ten years. More seriously, programming skills and knowledge enable us traditional journalists …

Discussion: B2B Memes and Kirk LaPointe's …

Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

iPad News Figs: UK's Times Sold 5,000, FT Shifted 130,000, WSJ 10,000 Subs — The Times' iPad edition, which went on sale along with the tablet's UK debut Friday morning, sold 5,000 copies in three days, News Corp.'s CEO Rupert Murdoch told AllThingsD's D8 conference Tuesday …

Discussion: Shaping the Future …, TheAustralian, CJR, ReadWriteWeb, National Media, Silicon Alley Insider, Poynter Online and eMedia Vitals

Discussion: paidContent:UK

The Independent:

PR stunt or the new journalism?: The titans of public relations are going direct to viewers and readers — It's easy to be cynical but it could be the future, says Ian Burrell — Public relations, to some the business of puff and fluff, is flexing its media muscles like never …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and Jon Slattery

Leroy Stick / Street Giant:

the man behind @BPGlobalPR — My name is Leroy Stick and I am the man behind @BPGlobalPR. First, let me begin by explaining my name. — When I was growing up, there was a dog that lived on my block named Leroy. Leroy was a big dog with a disdain for leashes and a thirst for blood.

Discussion: make the logo bigger, Fast Company, Advertising Analysis RSS and DailyFinance

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

In May, Lower Ratings for Larry King — In May “Larry King Live” scored its lowest monthly viewer total in at least 20 years. — According to Nielsen data, the struggling CNN talk show had an average of 653,000 viewers each night in May, its lowest average since the data started being electronically stored in the late 1980s.

Discussion: Romenesko, Mediaite, The Awl and The Wire

Jay Yarow / The Wire:

Wired's iPad App Now On 3% Of All iPads (AAPL) — Wired's iPad application could see downloads equal to monthly newsstand sales. — Wired editor David Rowan tweets, “By Monday evening, the US WIRED iPad app had been downloaded 62,431 times. For real money - at $4.99 a pop.”

Discussion: GigaOM

Dan Trombetto / Folio:

Media Mavericks — A year in, The Christian Science Monitor's strategic shift is showing promise. — Today, most publishers are re-examining their business model, driven by the collapse in print advertising and a shift in their audience to new outlets. Many have gone online only …

Adam Wright / VideoNuze:

Cisco: Video will be 91% of All IP Traffic by 2014 — Cisco released its annual Visual Networking Index forecast today, a model based on a combination of analyst projections and data collected from Cisco customers. Cisco is forecasting that global IP traffic will increase 4.3 times though 2014 …

Discussion: Digits and Mashable!

Liz Shannon Miller / NewTeeVee:

Why Glee Is TV's Most Web Video-Savvy Series (And Why It Isn't) — I spent last night slaving away on a very important task — catching up on the last several episodes of Fox's Glee. And while we've written extensively over the last year about the show's online marketing last fall …

Gina Chen / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Step aside, brand loyalty; we're loyal to information now — The Pew Research Center released an interesting study last week that offers some sobering — if unsurprising — insights for the news business. — Researchers examined top news stories in the mainstream press as well as what news got traction on blogs, Twitter and YouTube.

Discussion: AdPulp

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Pandora Raises Its Fifth Funding Round — Music discovery service Pandora has raised an undisclosed amount of funding to promote continued growth, the company said in a statement. The round was led by GGV Capital, with additional investment from Allen & Company.

Discussion: TechCrunch and GigaOM

Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:

WaPo rezones a neighborhood on its site, builds a new local point of entry — Following its recent launch of PostPolitics, The Washington Post today unveiled another stand-alone landing page at PostLocal.com. The page pulls together existing local content from its Metro section, plus houses new blogs and a few interactive features.

Discussion: FishbowlDC, Lost Remote and Washington Post

Sam Schechner / Speakeasy:

Basic Cable Dance-Off: Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert Stop By Conan O'Brien Comedy Tour … Conan O'Brien gave fans a taste of a different kind of late-night rivalry Tuesday night: He faced Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert in a dance-off. — The two Comedy Central hosts appeared as surprise guests late …

Discussion: The Wire

Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Steve Jobs: If your app does not fit, you must resubmit — Last night, Apple CEO Steve Jobs spoke at All Things Digital's D8 conference, where among other topics he discussed the touchy matter of apps being rejected from the iTunes store for political content.

Discussion: GigaOM, Digits, louisgray.com, The Atlantic Online, ReadWriteWeb and NewTeeVee

The New York Times Company:

The Bay Citizen to Provide News for The New York Times's Bay Area Pages Beginning Friday June 4, 2010 — The Bay Citizen, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public media organization based in San Francisco, announced that it will provide branded local news content to The New York Times for its Bay Area pages beginning this Friday, June 4.

Jeffisraely / News Launch Diary:

Pardon the Disruption: What My News Startup Does NOT Aim To Disrupt — The go-for-the-jugular ambition of the good folk at Publish2 is inspiring. It is also a bit scary to see a 10-person startup try to take on/take DOWN the Associated Press... for what it says about how broken the news business is …

James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:

On the Media: Publisher Sara Miller McCune has serious goals for journalism — Her aim to spread the word on important scientific research results in Miller-McCune, a wonky social sciences magazine that with a little more storytelling could expand its base. — Reporting From Santa Barbara —

Discussion: Romenesko

Georg Szalai / Mediaweek:

Disney's Iger: ABC Upfront Looking Good — Walt Disney president and CEO Bob Iger said here Wednesday that early TV upfront advertising sales for the ABC network have been good. — “We are in the middle of selling,” he said when asked about the upfront market at the 26th annual Sanford C …

Discussion: Media Decoder

News Corporation:

WSJ.com Launches “Opinion Journal Live” — Daily Live Show Features Commentary From The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page — The Wall Street Journal continues to expand its live video offerings with the launch of Opinion Journal Live — a daily online broadcast, providing commentary …

Discussion: Talking Biz News

Will Richmond / VideoNuze:

Mobile Video Ad Network Transpera Raises $9 Million — Mobile video ad network Transpera is announcing this morning that it has raised a Series C round of $9 million, led by BlackBerry Partners Fund, with participation from existing investors Flybridge Capital Partners, First Round Capital, Intel Capital and Labrador Ventures.

Discussion: Market Wire, VentureBeat and TechCrunch

Brian Womack / Bloomberg:

Facebook Sees Fourfold Jump in Number of Advertisers Since 2009 — Facebook Inc., owner of the world's largest social-networking site, said its advertisers have more than quadrupled since the start of 2009 as marketers aim to get their products before a growing global audience.

Discussion: GigaOM, VentureBeat and All Facebook

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Scannell Takes Over at BBC America — The former Nickelodeon president Herb Scannell is taking over U.S. operations for the British Broadcasting Corporation. — Currently the chief executive of the digital media studio Next New Networks, Mr. Scannell has been appointed the president …

Discussion: Company Town, New York Times, Deadline.com, AdAge, paidContent:UK, Multichannel News, TVWeek.com, Guardian and TheWrap.com

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The art of the (public) cover letter: Journal Register staff apply for ideaLab spots via blog comments — After last week's successful completion of the Journal Register Company's Ben Franklin Project, CEO John Paton was looking for a new project that would keep the momentum of innovation going for the beleaguered newspaper network.

Steve McClellan / Adweek:

Upfront Sales Begin With Fox First to Deal — Unlike last year, the action's arrived early in post-recession climate — In contrast to last year, the TV upfront marketplace began in earnest today, a little more than a week after the broadcast networks unveiled their new fall schedules.

Discussion: Media Buyer Planner, Company Town and MediaPost