Mediagazer: David Simon: 'The Huffington Post Doesn't Mean Sh#t To The Average American' (Joe Pompeo/The Wire)

David Carr / Media Decoder:

Google's Newspass: Is the King of Free About to Help News Providers Get Paid? — On Thursday, word seemed to quietly leak out, in Italian no less, that Google would soon unveil a one-click payment system for content called “Newspass.” — According to the newspaper La Repubblica, Google …

Discussion: Pursuing the Complete …, New York Observer, ReadWriteWeb, Search Engine Watch, The Money Shot, Press Gazette, NetNewsCheck Latest, Guardian and Editors Weblog

Discussion: TechCrunch and MediaPost

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Le Monde on The Brink — Within two weeks, the French newspaper Le Monde will run out of cash. By this Monday at noon, candidates to the takeover of the most prestigious French daily will have disclosed their offers. By June 28, the staff will vote and make the final decision for the fate of the 66 years-old paper.

Discussion: Guardian, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, eMedia Vitals and DealBook

David Teather / Guardian:

Losses on social networks hit £1bn — Facebook is still a winner but Bebo, MySpace and Friends Reunited show the high price of investing in fickle trends — The media industry has now lost $1.5bn (£1bn) on investments in the social networking craze after AOL sold Bebo last week …

Discussion: Noted

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Increasingly, nonprofits fill a need for investigative reporting — In a seventh-floor conference room festooned with framed articles and journalism awards, Managing Editor Gordon Witkin leads the morning discussion of stories his staff is pursuing. — Their latest scoop …

Discussion: Free Press and Romenesko

David Carr / New York Times:

Larry King's Endgame at CNN — At the beginning of June, CNN's Larry King celebrated 25 years in the same slot on the same network — a remarkable achievement in a come-and-go business — and was joined over a week by Bill Gates, LeBron James and the leader of the free world to mark the occasion.

Discussion: The Wire, Mediaite, Romenesko, The Huffington Post, Company Town, Beehive City, CJR, Inside Cable News, Chickaboomer and New York Magazine

Martin Fackler / New York Times:

Ink Gushes in Japan's Media Landscape — TOKYO — For years, the online newspaper JanJan News mounted a scrappy challenge to Japan's blandly conformist press, offering articles written by readers who took on taboo subjects like whaling and the media's collusion with the government.

Discussion: Guardian

the nytpicker:

“Who Is This Clown?” NYU Prof. Tony Judt Asks, Denying Michael Wolff Allegation That He “Made Up” Son's Contribution To NYT Op-Ed Piece. — This morning, media critic Michael Wolff posted a piece on his newser.com blog claiming that NYU professor Tony Judt “made up” his son's portion …

Discussion: Gawker, Romenesko, splicetoday.com and New York Times

Discussion: Runnin' Scared

Dylan Stableford / TheWrap.com:

Portal Predicament: No One Hangs Around Anymore — Before the Internet could finish off newspapers, the pillars of the digital age are already suffering their own slide. Portals Yahoo!, MSN and AOL — for years the largest source of traffic on the web — are seeing recent dropoffs in visitors …

Discussion: Romenesko and watchmojo.com, more at Techmeme »

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

It's Official: CNN Drops AP Subscription — As TVNewser first reported earlier this month, CNN is dropping its subscription to the Associated Press, effective immediately. — CNN's own newsgathering operation will be the primary source of content on CNN, CNN.com and CNN Radio.

Discussion: Yahoo! News

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

On Web Video, Captions Are Coming Slowly — The actress Marlee Matlin shimmied her way onto “Dancing With the Stars” two years ago, memorably using sign language to tell viewers to “read my hips.” But when Ms. Matlin, who is deaf, went to ABC.com to watch a replay of the show …

Discussion: Beet.TV and MediaPost Raw

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Local Broadcasters Are Fearful of an NBC-Comcast Deal — Comcast, the nation's biggest cable provider, has long played hardball with competitors and content providers. Now that it is seeking control of NBC Universal in a $30 billion transaction, those competitors are piping up …

Jim Barnett / Nieman Journalism Lab:

What makes a nonprofit news org “legit”? Here's one six-fold path — Back in February, I posted an essay in this space posing the question: What makes a nonprofit news organization legitimate? It's a question that nonprofits and their critics have been wrestling with for some time now.

Discussion: American University …

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

David Simon: 'The Huffington Post Doesn't Mean Sh#t To The Average American' — There's been a lot of talk lately—this website included—about The Huffington Post's rising web traffic and revenue prospects. — HuffPo is now getting around 13 million uniques a month (as of March).

Margaret Sullivan / Buffalo News:

Seeking a return to civility in online comments — Some editors were sitting in a news meeting one morning not long ago, bemoaning the often outrageous, intolerant and hateful online “comments” attached to stories on The News Web site, when News Business Editor Grove Potter uttered a simple but eloquent truth:

Discussion: American Journalism Review, Media Decoder, Romenesko and BrauBlog