Mediagazer: State Backing Films Says Cannibal Is Deal-Breaker (Michael Cieply/New York Times)

Lauren Goode / Digits:

Internet Is Set to Overtake Newspapers in Ad Revenue — The Internet is poised to overtake newspapers as the second-largest U.S. advertising medium by revenue behind television, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers' Global Entertainment and Media Outlook for 2010 to 2014.

Discussion: Romenesko, Media Decoder, The Next Web, GigaOM and ReadWriteWeb, more at Techmeme »

Joseph De Avila / Wall Street Journal:

City Launches New Effort to Aid Media Sector — The Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Columbia University and the city plan to open a new lab that will aim to stimulate the local media industry, city officials said Monday. — The NYC Media Lab is the latest of several steps …

Bloomberg Announces Launch of New York City Media Lab Website — NEW YORK — Mayor Bloomberg made a surprise appearance at the Wired Business Conference, announcing the launch of the New York City Media Lab's website: www.nycmedialab.org. Modeled after innovation centers at the Massachusetts Institute …

Discussion: http://codybrown.tumblr.com/, Crain's New York Business and 1010WINS.com

New York Post:

Shrinking CNN taps Spitzer, Morgan — Ted Turner must be flinging his remote at the wall in despair. CNN, the cable network he founded, is poised to turn its prime-time schedule over to two disgraced public figures, ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer and former British tabloid editor Piers Morgan, in its desperate bid to restore lost ratings.

Discussion: Gawker, Metropolis, The Wire, New York Magazine, TVWeek.com, Inside Cable News, Chickaboomer and Yahoo! News

Michael Cieply / New York Times:

State Backing Films Says Cannibal Is Deal-Breaker — LOS ANGELES — When Andrew van den Houten got a letter two weeks ago rejecting his request for Michigan public money to help finance his latest horror movie, “The Woman,” it came with an admonition about the state's good name.

Discussion: Hit & Run, PopWatch, Gawker, Company Town, Cinema Blend Feeds and New York Magazine

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

“Hulu for Magazines” Gets a CEO: Good Luck, Morgan Guenther! — Remember Next Issue Media, the “Hulu for magazines” joint venture that was supposed to help the big publishers negotiate with the likes of Apple and Amazon in the e-reader market? It has been awfully quiet for a long time …

Discussion: MinOnline, New York Observer, eMedia Vitals, The Wire and paidContent

Will Richmond / VideoNuze:

Exclusive: ABC Has Doubled the Number of Ads in Its iPad App; ABC.com Will Be Next — Yesterday ABC began implementing a new ad policy for its popular iPad app, which up to doubles the number of ads included per episode. ABC intends to apply the new ad policy to programs viewed on ABC.com soon as well.

Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:

White House Will Answer Your Oil Spill Questions from YouTube Tonight — At 8pm ET tonight, President Obama plans to address the nation about the BP oil spill from the Oval Office. In addition, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs will also answer questions from YouTube users right after the president's address.

Discussion: Washington Post, Media Decoder, YouTube Blog, Mashable!, The Official Google Blog, White House.gov Blog Feed, TechCrunch and Hillicon Valley

Jay Rosen / PressThink:

Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right: On the Actual Ideology of the American Press — That it's easy to describe the ideology of the press is a point on which the left, the right and the profession of journalism converge. I disagree. I think it's tricky.

Discussion: Salon, Romenesko and Scripting News

GordonMacMillan / The Wall Blog:

News International closes Times Online — by @gordonmacmillan, posted on 15 June, 2010 at 3:31 pm, filed under Digital media, Paywall, paid content and tagged The Sunday Times, The Times. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. — It's so long to the Times Online.

Discussion: Techdirt

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

48 HR Magazine: “CBS Is Being Unreasonable” — On Friday, June 11, Mat Honan, one of the creators of 48 HR—the new San Francisco-based experimental magazine that gets put together in literally two days—Tweeted the following: — “CBS is going to try to f*ck us pretty hard.

Discussion: Lindsay Robertson and Media Decoder

Jim Lynch:

The Safari Reader Arms Race — Last week I caught a lot of heat for my column about Apple's Weapon of Mass Destruction. The column seemed to go a bit viral and I got quite a lot of visitors, many of whom were angry. They felt that they were entitled to a quiet reading experience, totally free from web clutter and ads.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

How to Get Your Porn App into iTunes: Wrap a Newspaper Around It — Steve Jobs wants to keep porn out of his iTunes App Store. But not all porn. At least if you define porn as “half-naked shots of unknown British models.” — Because that's what you get with the new iPad app from The Sun.

Discussion: The Next Web, TechCrunch Europe, Mobile Entertainment and eMedia Vitals

Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:

News Corp. picks up more bricks for pay wall — Rupert Murdoch-owned conglomerate buys the maker of electronic news delivery software and acquires a stake in a venture devising an online payment system for journalism sites. — Rupert Murdoch's quest to find a way to get people to pay …

Discussion: New York Times, Business Wire and paidContent:UK

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Don't use my name: The anonymity game — You've heard the pledges before: We're going to swear off the stuff, really we are. Or at least — hic! — reduce our consumption. — But journalists seem more addicted than ever to the elixir of anonymous sources.

Philip B. Corbett / Times Topics:

The ‘Tweet’ Debate — Notes from the newsroom on grammar, usage and style. (Some frequently asked questions are here.) — After I distributed the in-house version of After Deadline to my colleagues last week, word leaked out that I had supposedly “banned” use of the word “tweet” to refer to messages posted on Twitter.

Discussion: The Awl, Pursuing the Complete …, CJR, Silicon Alley Insider and Romenesko

Paul Carr / TechCrunch:

A Death Of A Thousand Hacks: New Forbes Editorial Genius In Bold Plan To Kill Forbes … This website uses IntenseDebate comments, but they are not currently loaded because either your browser doesn't support JavaScript, or they didn't load fast enough.

Discussion: Canadian Magazines and Silicon Alley Insider

Nat Ives / AdAge:

New York Times Plans Public Beta Site for Its Experiments — A Place to Test Products Without Disrupting the Main Site — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The New York Times is building a public beta testing site where it will experiment with new ideas and applications before deciding whether they deserve to go live on NYTimes.com.

Derrick Henry / Media Decoder:

Newsweek Rises From the Dead — Programmers for Newsweek's Web site, Newsweek.com, have apparently placed a hidden joke on the magazine's home page for readers who enter a special keyboard combination, triggering a page of headlines purporting to provide coverage of an uprising by the undead.

Discussion: Romenesko, MediaMemo, New York Magazine and MTV Movies Blog

Eric Pfanner / New York Times:

Sarkozy Is Rebuked for Interfering in the Sale of Le Monde — PARIS — A group of shareholders in the French newspaper Le Monde has denounced President Nicolas Sarkozy for interfering in the process of selling the struggling publication. — Mr. Sarkozy last week summoned Éric Fottorino …

Discussion: Guardian

Elizabeth Guider / Hollywood Reporter:

Iger: Disney innovated by Pixar, Marvel — Chief says company had not been enough of ‘a wave maker’ — The biggest challenge in running a company as big and varied as Disney is “to maintain the balance between heritage and innovation.” Also tough is to resist those folks who want the company …

Greg Sandoval / CNET News:

Google music store could launch this fall — Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO is preparing to take on Apple's iTunes. Schmidt visited with Doug Morris, Universal Music Group CEO (left) and Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, the Sony Music chief, during the Vevo launch party last December. — (Credit: Greg Sandoval/CNET)

Discussion: Softpedia News, ZDNet, DailyTech, 9 to 5 Mac, Electronista, Macgasm, Erictric, ReadWriteWeb, Techland, Geek.com and Tech Trader Daily, more at Techmeme »

Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Make no mistake: Newspapers are still in trouble — With newspaper share prices up some 380% in the last 12 months, even the ordinarily incisive Economist Magazine last week offered an upbeat appraisal for an industry that many had written off for dead a year ago.

Media Week:

News Corp rebuffed after £7.8bn offer to buy remainder of Sky — The independent directors of BSkyB have rejected an offer from Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation of 700p a share for the 60.9% of the company not already owned by News Corp. — Murdoch: launched Sky in 1989

Discussion: Guardian, rbr.com, Variety, Media News International, Multichannel and Telegraph