Mediagazer: The State of Online Video (Kristen Purcell/Pew Internet)

Magazine is well red — The latest numbers on celebrity glossy OK! magazine appear to leave little doubt that it qualifies as the most expensive magazine launch in the history of American publishing — with total losses in the first four-plus years now totaling a staggering $175.7 million.

Discussion: New York Observer, The Wire, Press Gazette, MediaWire Daily, mediabistro.com and Romenesko

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Kristen Purcell / Pew Internet:

The State of Online Video — Seven in ten adult internet users (69%) have used the internet to watch or download video. That represents 52% of all adults in the United States. — Driven by the popularity of online video among 18-29 year-olds, there have been dramatic increases since 2007 in the number of American adults watching:

Discussion: News for Digital Journalists, Search Engine Watch, PewResearch.org and Online NewsHour

Discussion: NewTeeVee and Poynter Online

Douglas Quenqua / ClickZ:

Google Quietly Brings Twitter Feeds to Display Ads — Google has quietly invited a handful of advertisers to test a new display-ad integration with Twitter. — The layout of the ads is simple: The familiar Twitter bird is in the left-hand corner, and the advertiser's latest tweet is featured in a box centered in the unit.

Discussion: Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and AdPulp

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Hachette Hires Microsoft Ad Exec Domeniconi To Head Elle Group — Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) ad exec Robin Domeniconi is officially leaving the company and will return to the magazine world to take on the role of SVP, chief brand officer for Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S.'s Elle Group …

Discussion: Media Decoder, New York Observer and BoomTown

Josh Stearns / Save the News Blog:

Public Policy and Journalism Innovation — Over the weekend the journalism tweetosphere and blogs were abuzz with rumors of a government plot to freeze journalism in time by propping up a range of failing business models at the expense of new innovation in news.

Media Week:

Associated Newspapers plans fashion and beauty title — Associated Newspapers is preparing to launch a standalone annual fashion and beauty magazine, currently being touted to media buyers as “Project Inspire”. — Marcus Rich: MD of The Mail On Sunday — The free glossy will be bagged …

Discussion: Shaping the Future …, Guardian and pfj.co.uk

Rachel Sklar / Mediaite:

Olivia Munn “Tries Out” As Daily Show Correspondent — Whoa! The Daily Show has another female correspondent! And — whoa! It's Olivia Munn! And — whoa! She was awesome. — Munn, the fetching and fanboy-minting co-host of Attack of the Show on the G-4 network, debuted last night as the new …

Discussion: The Live Feed | THR and Speakeasy

Michael Messner / The Huffington Post:

Dropping the Ball on Covering Women's Sports — If you missed the Lakers-Celtics game in the NBA Finals, you could easily have watched the highlights later on local TV news. But if you wanted to know which teams were winning in the Women's College World Series, the NCAA's premiere softball tournament …

James Robinson / Guardian:

Channel 4 barred from buying Five — Legislation would have to be amended to enable Five to join ITV and BSkyB as potential bidder for RTL-owned broadcaster — Channel 4 is legally barred from buying Channel Five, which has been put up for sale by its owner RTL, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal.

Robert Feder / blogs.vocalo.org:

Poker party ‘desecrates’ Tribune Tower shrine — ← Chicago in the national news: 6/2 — Well, if it HAD to be dececrated, at least it was done by a group of people with taste and refinement, people with values.....WHAT A BUNCH OF ***HOLES!!!! — Ebert Thorn # — Can I just say “who cares?”

Discussion: TV and Media Blog, Romenesko, Tower Ticker, rbr.com, FishbowlNY and Fitz & Jen

Javier C. Hernandez / New York Times:

Breakfast With Dean Kagan: A Student Journalist's Eye-Opener — When I was 19 and a rookie student reporter, I asked out Elena Kagan. Harvard deans don't usually respond to e-mails from overzealous freshmen looking for scoops, but she did, and within seven minutes we had a date: breakfast, the Charles Hotel, 8:30 a.m.

Discussion: The Caucus

John Koblin / New York Observer:

Times Sends Journal Cease and Desist Letter Over Brand Campaign — A lawyer from The New York Times Company has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the marketing director at Dow Jones after a recent Journal advertisement used the same language as a recent Times ad. — “Not Just Wall Street.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Romenesko, mediabistro.com, MEDIA BEESWAX, paidContent, FishbowlNY, MediaFile, The Wire, The Awl, Strupp, Gawker and Gothamist

David Cohen / WebNewser:

CNN.com: That's Entertainment (Revamped) — CNN.com rolled out a retooled Entertainment section, with new features including: spotlighted breaking-news stories and videos, complete with CNN.com and Facebook comments; the Click section, which features a gallery of paparazzi photos; a Quote Board …

mywebtimes.com:

Appellate Court: Times must turn over commenter's info — Dan Churney, danc@mywebtimes.com, 815-431-4050 — By a 2-1 margin this week in a precedent-setting case that drew attention from news and watchdog organizations across the country, the Third District Appellate Court in Ottawa ruled …

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Chicago Breaking News

Alex Weprin / WebNewser:

ABC News Digital Reorganizes Leadership — ABC News Digital is reorganizing its senior leadership, according to an email from senior VP of digital Paul Slavin. — Slavin announced that Jon Dube, VP of ABCNews.com, decided to take one of the buyouts that ABC News offered employees earlier in the year, and will be leaving ABC in July.

Discussion: paidContent

Phil Bronstein / SFGate:

@BPGlobalPR “Twitter-Gate” Shows That Even Digital Tools Have Rules — You probably missed it, but journalism died early last week. Again. — The latest obit was written by SF MuniFail blogger and design director Mike Monteiro. He was complaining about a CNET story from reporter Caroline McCarthy …

Discussion: the Econsultancy blog

Michael J. Miller / Forward Thinking:

AOL's Tim Armstrong: The Power of Local Journalism — Tim Armstrong , CEO of AOL, said he believes the next phase of the Internet is about content. And he told the audience at D8 that AOL is working on the “future of journalism.” — Armstrong stressed the importance and power of local journalism …

Discussion: Beyond Binary, PC Magazine, Bloomberg, The Seattle Times and Tech Trader Daily

Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:

Flo TV Fails to Attract, Qualcomm CEO Says — RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.—A service from Qualcomm Inc. for delivering television shows to mobile phones and other portable devices hasn't found the audience the company had hoped for, according to Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs.

Discussion: Multichannel News

Journalism.org:

IN SOCIAL MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY DRIVES THE NEWS AGENDA — In a week when the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico dominated the mainstream press, the social media were focused on news that revolved around computer technology. — For bloggers, the main subject was the ever-popular social networking site, Facebook.

Discussion: Babbage and WebNewser

Claire Kirch / Publishers Weekly:

Paris Literary Icon Launches Prize and Magazine — Shakespeare & Company Bookshop, the Paris literary icon originally founded by Sylvia Beach in 1919, and opened by George Whitman in 1951, is launching a literary magazine and literary prize. Both ventures will be officially announced …

Discussion: Vanity Fair, MOBYLIVES and FishbowlNY