Mediagazer: New Magazines and Books to Launch on iPad (Lauren Kirchner/CJR)

Matt Zimmerman / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

San Mateo D.A. Withdraws Controversial Gizmodo iPhone Warrant — Today, San Mateo Superior Court Judge Clifford Cretan granted an application by the San Mateo County D.A.'s office to withdraw the controversial warrant it obtained to search the house of Gizmodo.com journalist Jason Chen.

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Alexandra Alter / Wall Street Journal:

Luxury Lit: A Book For $75,000 — Publishers are marketing elaborate editions with all sorts of pricey features, banking on them to grow in value like rare coins or artworks — For $75,000, you can buy a piece of Indian cricket star Sachin Tendulkar. — Luxury publisher Kraken Opus mixed …

Discussion: New York Observer and Bookninja

The Morning News:

Paper Tigers [Roundtables] — Sports are stupid. Beautiful. Dull. Transcendent. Most of all, they're more than just games, and MATT ROBISON's assembly of sports writers, critics, freaks, and authors tell us why.

Zeke Turner / New York Observer:

Changes at The Paris Review's Poetry Desk, Lorin Stein at Play … “I think there's a good argument for having fun when you work,” said Paris Review editor Lorin Stein on the phone from his White Street offices yesterday. “Life is short! And none of us is making a banker's salary, right?”

Lauren Kirchner / CJR:

New Magazines and Books to Launch on iPad — Although I am loath to give Richard Branson any more publicity than he already gets, I was intrigued to read that Virgin is launching a new consumer magazine called Maverick, to be available exclusively for iPad and iPhone, and eventually Android.

Discussion: MediaPost, Digits and Fast Company

Rick Edmonds / The Biz Blog:

Gannett Ups Digital Revenues and Experimentation — Friday morning, Gannett reported second-quarter earnings that were more than double those of the same quarter a year ago, but the news of the day was a series of new business initiatives. — The company has now built digital revenues …

Discussion: Business Wire, FishbowlNY and Romenesko

Discussion: Guardian, Poynter Online and FishbowlNY

Laura Conaway / The Rachel Maddow Show:

Louis C.K. gets Terry Gross, Fresh Air run out of Mississippi — On Monday, Mississippi Public Broadcasting announced it had dropped Terry Gross and Fresh Air because of “recurring inappropriate content.” (Full disclosure: I used to work for NPR.) — The blog that first reported the news …

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, Gawker, Runnin' Scared, New York Observer, PopEater, Romenesko and A Unitarian Universalist …

Gene Weingarten / Washington Post:

Gene Weingarten column mentions Lady Gaga. — Not very long ago, the typical American newsroom had three types of jobs: reporter, editor and photographer. But lately, as newspapers have been frantically converting themselves into high-tech, 24-hour online operations, things are more complicated.

Discussion: CJR, NewTeeVee, Romenesko and New York Magazine

Michael Cieply / Media Decoder:

No Future for Box-Office Exchanges — Plans to open exchanges that would trade in movie box-office futures died on Thursday, as the Senate passed financial reform legislation that includes a provision banning the proposed practice. The legislation was already passed by the House, and moved to President Obama for his signature.

Discussion: Tubefilter News

Katjusa Cisar / The Awl:

A Q&A with the Creator of “I Write Like”: “The Algorithm is Not a Rocket Science” — This week's meme is I Write Like, a new website that uses an algorithm of mysterious methodology to tell you which author's work your writing most resembles. You enter some text—"your latest blog post …

Discussion: ArtsBeat, FishbowlNY and Runnin' Scared

Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:

Crowdsourcing the pain of transcribing audio — The trouble with recording interviews is that you have to transcribe them. So after one of my forays to New Haven last week, where I interviewed people in connection with a book I'm working on about community news sites …

Judy Sims / SimsBlog:

If Newspapers Cease to Be, There Will be Two Causes of Death — Part 2 — Cause of Death #2: Failure to focus on ROI — Mainstream media organizations have spent insane amounts of time and effort trying to teach traditional sales reps to sell digital ads (give up, they will never do it well).

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Elizabeth Guider / Hollywood Reporter:

Primetime to get racier after FCC ruling — VIDEO: ‘Friends With Benefits,’ others feature risque scenes — There was a particularly unbridled episode of Fox's “American Dad” in January in which Stan, well, gave “full release” to a racehorse. That shenanigan was duly hit with an FCC fine.

Discussion: Company Town and TVWeek.com