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

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Wall Street Journal:

New York Times Objects to Journal Ad Slogan — Attorneys for the New York Times Co. have sent The Wall Street Journal a letter demanding that it stop using an advertising slogan for which the Times says it has a trademark pending. — The cease-and-desist letter, which the Journal …

Discussion: The Wire

Discussion: Romenesko, mediabistro.com, MEDIA BEESWAX, Editors Weblog, paidContent, FishbowlNY, MediaFile, The Wire, The Awl, Strupp, Gawker and Gothamist

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: Mashable!, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and AdPulp

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

Discussion: NewTeeVee and Poynter Online

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, WWD Media Headlines, New York Observer and BoomTown

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Google's iTunes Competitor Will Likely Be Called Google Music — At Google I/O a few weeks ago, Google teased the audience with a glimpse of a web-based iTunes competitor that would be a new section of the Android Market. Details were sparse during that time, but we may have found the name …

Discussion: Fortune

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 Rural Blog, The Huffington Post and Chicago Breaking News

Peter Kafka / D8 Conference:

D8 Video: Richard Rosenblatt Reveals (Some Of) Demand Media's Mysterious Business Plan — Is Demand Media really a content farm? Or just a domain harvester? Both, of course. But CEO Richard Rosenblatt walked through some of the details onstage at D8. Presumably we'll be able to verify …

Steve Buttry / Pursuing the Complete Community …:

A peek behind the Civil Beat paywall in Honolulu — From the day that Pierre Omidyar announced plans for a digital news organization in Honolulu, I have been intrigued by the project. Here was one of the most successful digital entrepreneurs, venturing into the local news field …

Discussion: TBD

Michael Leahy / Washington Post:

Michele Bachmann is cool to mainstream media, and an increasingly hot property — Her tone was bright. “Thank you for giving me this opportunity,” she said. — Michele Bachmann was on the phone. That alone was unusual. The Minnesota congresswoman generally does not speak …

Discussion: Romenesko and MinnPost

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

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

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.

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 …

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.

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

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 …

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