Mediagazer: NPR affiliate WRNI aims to be a major media player in Rhode Island (Jim Romenesko/Romenesko)

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: pwc.com, Media Decoder, Romenesko, FishbowlNY, Media Buyer Planner, The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb, Screenwerk and paidContent

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Memo to Media Cos.: Disruption? You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet — The media and entertainment industries have been through an unprecedented amount of upheaval over the past several years, as content has become increasingly digital, consumers have correspondingly moved their attention online and advertisers have begun to follow.

Discussion: digiday:DAILY and paidContent:UK

Nat Ives / AdAge:
Magazine Print Ad Revenue Will Ebb Until 2013, Outlook Says

Discussion: Strupp

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.

Discussion: Romenesko and NetNewsCheck Latest

Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:

The Salahis Will Be On Real Housewives; White House Crashing Will Be Part Of Series — Confirming what many believed was an inevitable outcome, Bravo will announce today the first season of Real Housewives of D.C. will debut August 5, and Michaele Salahi is part of the cast (and her husband Tareq Salahi is part of the show too).

Discussion: Media Decoder, rbr.com, Variety, The Huffington Post and Moraes on TV

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.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb

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.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and eMedia Vitals

/ Lindsay Robertson:

CBS vs 48 Hours Magazine: Team Goliath — I can't believe how much I'm on CBS's side of the 48 Hour Magazine debacle, but I really, really am. Here's why: — 1. This isn't like when the US Postal Service sued the band The Postal Service. Nobody was going to get confused and try to mail a letter by putting it in a CD case.

Discussion: Emptyage

Discussion: Media Decoder and FishbowlNY

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 …

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

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.

more at Techmeme »

Discussion: FishbowlNY, The Next Web, Mobile Entertainment and eMedia Vitals

Yahoo! News:

NYT reporter defends Afghani minerals piece, lashes out at critics — New York Times reporter James Risen is fighting back against critics who have cast a skeptical eye on his Page One story yesterday about Afghanistan's mineral deposits. In an interview with Yahoo! News …

Discussion: BAGnewsNotes, The Daily Beast, PostPartisan, FP Passport and Romenesko

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

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: Mashable!, The Official Google Blog, YouTube Blog, Washington Post, Media Decoder, Erictric, Gothamist, DailyFinance, White House.gov Blog Feed and TechCrunch

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.

Discussion: Daring Fireball

Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:

Gowalla Teams Up with USA Today for Travel Tips — USA Today has partnered with location-based social network Gowalla to bring its travel content to the network's users. — Gowalla users who follow USA Today and check in at major U.S. airports will receive airport and airline news …

Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:

Blogger said Patch tried to poach him away — The publisher of a Los Angeles neighborhood blog, AltadenaBlog.com, says he was approached by Patch with an offer to lure him away to create a new Patch site in the same neighborhood. Calling the AOL local news startup “Poach” instead of Patch …

Discussion: altadenablog and HyperlocalBlogger

Steve Rosenbaum / The Wire:

Content Is No Longer King: Curation Is King — “Content is King” — no longer. Today, the world has changed. “Curation Is King.” — Ok, I hear all the content-makers sharpening their knives to take me on. — I'm ready. — First, why content is dead:

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …

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, FishbowlNY, New York Observer, The Wire, paidContent and eMedia Vitals

Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:

Lawrence O'Donnell Will Host New 10pmET Show On MSNBC — MSNBC announced today it would begin working “immediately” on a new 10pmET show hosted by Lawrence O'Donnell. — O'Donnell had been Keith Olbermann's primary fill-in on Countdown, a point made by Olbermann in his tweet about the news.

Discussion: Media Decoder, New York Observer and The Wrap

Mark Walsh / MediaPost:

One-Third of Internet Users Watching Web TV — Web video isn't just for snacking anymore. A third of adult U.S. Internet users will watch full-length television shows online this year on a monthly basis, according to new data from market research firm eMarketer.

Discussion: The eMarketer Blog and the Econsultancy blog

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

Democrat-Gazette limits use of its reporting by Little Rock AP members — Little Rock news outlets are no longer allowed to publish Associated Press stories on their websites if the news came from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The paper recently invoked its right under the AP bylaws …

Discussion: ArkansasBusiness.com

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

What does the shift from editor-as-gatekeeper to a collective pursuit mean for the news industry? — [Our sister publication Nieman Reports is out with its latest issue, and its focus is the new digital landscape of journalism. There are lots of interesting articles, and we'll be highlighting a few here over the next few days.

Christine Egan / Blisstree:

Exclusive: Mediabistro.com Founder Laurel Touby on Making Millions, Marriage, and Moving Forward — Some family members have been calling with all kinds of investment schemes, and while it's hard to say no to your family, you don't want to risk what you've worked for your entire adult life.

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

NPR affiliate WRNI aims to be a major media player in Rhode Island — The station, which has five reporters vs. Providence Journal's four dozen, tries to compete with the paper on the three to five biggest stories of the week. General manager Joe O'Connor tells David Scharfenberg that he hopes …