Mediagazer: Wired iPad magazine sales set to surpass print sales (Carole Wurzelbacher/Editors Weblog)

9:05 PM ET, June 8, 2010

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Brad Stone / Bits:

Times Company Objects to News-Reader App — Last week I wrote about the Pulse News Reader, a popular iPad application developed by two students at the Stanford Institute of Design that collects and presents articles from Web sites of news organizations like The New York Times.

Discussion: GigaOM, VentureBeat, Scripting News and MediaPost Raw

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Pulse iPad App Gets Steve Jobs's Praise in Morning...Then Booted From App Store Hours Later After NYT Complains — Yesterday morning, the pair of Stanford University graduate students who made the hot news-reading iPad app, Pulse News Reader, were ecstatic to be mentioned first-for being among …

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Why Did The NYT Get The Pulse News Reader Yanked From iTunes? — Is the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) trying to shut down news reader apps that rely on RSS or is it just trying to smack down one in particular? An infringement letter (included in full below) from the New York Times to Apple …

Discussion: RJI, Epicenter, Poynter Online and BRANDING UNBOUND

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Apple Makes Good on Steve Jobs's Promise, Invites Other Advertisers. But What About Google's AdMob? — Last week, Steve Jobs promised that his iPhone and iPads would be open to outside ad networks. Yesterday, Apple made good on his promise, by changing the terms of its developer agreement.

Discussion: Gawker, MinOnline, TechCrunch, Fast Company, Fortune, Gizmodo, MacRumors, rbr.com, Engadget, Media Week, eMedia Vitals, MediaPost and Media Decoder

Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Safari 5's ‘Reader’ Nudges Web Publishers to App Store

Discussion: ResourceShelf and Arc90 Blog

David Kaplan / paidContent:
Corrected: @ CM Summit: AdMob's Hamoui: Nothing New About iAd's Rich Media

Discussion: TechCrunch

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

WHCA to Discuss Who Gets Thomas' Seat at Special Meeting Thursday — After legendary White House correspondent Helen Thomas announced Monday that she was retiring, it didn't take long for journalists to start asking: Who's going to get “the seat”? — The guessing games have already begun.

Discussion: Washington Post, Press Gazette, The Wrap, Media Matters for America, RaceWire, The New Republic, The Daily Caller, mediabistro.com, Gothamist, NY Daily News and The Huffington Post

Matt Welch / Hit & Run:
Helen Thomas, and the Awkward Transfer From “Straight” Reporting to Opinioneering

Discussion: Matthew Yglesias, Guardian, The Daily Dish, Felix Salmon, The Hill, The Politico, DailyFinance, The Daily Politics and Romenesko

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

Arianna Huffington Says HuffPo Is Not For Sale; AOL Exec Says Company Will Hire ‘Hundreds’ More Journalists Next Year — We're down at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute for an Internet Week panel called “The Future of Media” hosted by the daily aggregation website I Want Media.

Discussion: Romenesko, New York Observer and Digits

New York Post:
Bartz eyes a mate

Discussion: Guardian and eMedia Vitals

Joseph Plambeck / Media Decoder:

Sally Singer Named Editor of T Magazine — Sally Singer, the fashion news and features director at Vogue, has been named the editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. — Ms. Singer, 45, will take over on July 5, according to a note Bill Keller, executive editor of The Times, sent to staff on Tuesday.

Discussion: Romenesko, MinOnline, WWD, Gawker, MediaPost, mediabistro.com and The Wrap

Steve Busfield / Guardian:

Paul Cheesbrough leaves Telegraph — The group's chief information officer is leaving to take the same role at the rival company News International — Another key digital executive is to leave the Telegraph Media Group in the wake of Will Lewis's abrupt departure last month.

Discussion: Press Gazette and paidContent:UK

Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / CNN:

China's rise challenges western media — (FT) — China will overtake Japan as the world's second-largest advertising market by 2015, according to a report which predicts that advertising spending in North America will only just recover to the peak it reached in 2007 by that time.

Discussion: The Wire and Kirk LaPointe's …

Zeke Turner / New York Times:

Robert Thomson at Cocktail Hour: Disses ‘The Times,’ Sarah Ellison — Upon arriving last night at the Waldorf Astoria for the Deadline Club's annual award ceremony, Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson swept through the wine reception in the lobby and into the dining room while the guests …

Discussion: MediaPost, Romenesko, New York Observer and Gawker

Meghan Keane / the Econsultancy blog:

AOL's CEO wants to cure journalism's technophobia — AOL's CEO Tim Armstrong has been at the company for over a year now. As he readily admits, AOL has a long way to go before it will be able to stop depending on its slowly depleting dial-up revenues. But on stage at CMSummit in New York on Tuesday …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter and Media Decoder

Matt Creamer / Breaking Media:

Finally, A Smart Alternative to the AP — The maturation of the digital news business hasn't been kind to the Associated Press. In addition to fighting a pointless battle with Google over the distribution of AP articles in its news channel and taking potshots at aggregators …

Discussion: Publish2 Blog

DigiDave:

Spot.Us on the Edges of Revenue and Expansion — The beauty of starting something from scratch is the iterative and agile process I've talked about since before Spot.Us began. In this post I'm going to discuss two new developments at Spot.Us. One is an exciting feature and revenue stream.

Discussion: Spot.us and Nieman Journalism Lab

David Cohen / WebNewser:

CNN.com Geeks Up Technology Section — CNN.com is sprucing up the joint, following last week's launch of a retooled Entertainment section with an announcement Tuesday that its Technology section underwent a face-lift, as well. — CNN Tech is edited by CNN.com tech producer Brandon Griggs …

Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:

Independent switches blogs to WordPress in effort to raise standards — The Independent has relaunched its blogs, switching from Livejournal to WordPress as its publishing platform. — The new-look blogs on Independent.co.uk are now much closer in design to the rest of the website and more closely integrated.

Discussion: The Independent

Carole Wurzelbacher / Editors Weblog:

Wired iPad magazine sales set to surpass print sales — After just nine days, Condé Nast's magazine Wired is reporting an astonishing feat: the sales of its iPad edition are set to surpass those of its print edition. The New York Observer reports that just a little over a week …

Discussion: New York Observer and FishbowlNY

Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:

Stefano Tonchi Cleans House at W, Brings In Newsweek's Ted Moncreiff — It's a tumultuous day in the world of fashion editorial. First Sally Singer leaves Vogue for T, and now word comes that W's new editorial director, Stefano Tonchi (late of T himself), has cleaned house even further.

Discussion: Daily Front Row

Brad Stone / Bits:

Why Apple's iBooks Numbers Are Meaningless — There was e-book news on Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference: Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chief executive, said that big publishers had told him that sales of e-books for the iPad now accounted for 22 percent of all e-book sales.