Mediagazer: The Readers' Front Page (New York Times)

Johnnie L. Roberts / The Wrap:

Steve Burke Replacing Zucker Atop NBCU — Steve Burke, Comcast chief operating officer and a onetime executive star at Disney, will become CEO of NBC Universal once federal regulators approve the cable TV giant's $30-billion proposal to control the content company.

Discussion: Business Wire, paidContent, Media Decoder, From Inside the Box and Wall Street Journal

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Zucker: Why Announce Exit Now? No Reason To Hold Back In A Twitter World — Why did Jeff Zucker announce his pending exit as CEO of NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) months before the merger with Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) is likely to close? “Once you have something like that done in a world like we live in today …

Discussion: rbr.com, National Media, Broadcasting & Cable, Variety, Company Town, The Daily Beast, Tower Ticker, Hollywood Reporter, B&C and Deal Journal

Slate:

Why the Fox News Suit Against Robin Carnahan's Campaign Is Bogus — It's legally weak and makes the network look partisan. — Last week, in an apparently unprecedented move, Fox News sued Robin Carnahan, Missouri's Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, for copyright infringement.

Discussion: Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog and Romenesko

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Forbes' New Advertising Pitch: Wanna Buy a Blog? — The Revenue Side of DVorkin's AdVoice Model Means Advertisers Publish Under Company's Banner — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — When Forbes bought blogging startup True/Slant, it got a familiar face in True/Slant CEO and former Forbes editor Lewis DVorkin …

Discussion: AdPulp and Talking Biz News

New York Times:

The Readers' Front Page — Views from readers, responses from the staff, and thoughts from the public editor. — The Times's Web site always lists the most popular e-mailed stories. These are increasingly taking the role of “headlines.” One looks at them to see what one may have missed, or what others are reading.

David Folkenflik / NPR:

How The L.A. Times Broke The Bell Corruption Story … A vendor sells a copy of the Los Angeles Times with an article about Bell city officials on the cover. — Reporters get threatened, dismissed or ignored all the time. Less common is the experience of Ruben Vives …

Baekdal.com:

Why Media Companies Shouldn't Accept Apple's Subscription Plans — As you are probably already aware of, there is a lot of talk about Apple's plans for subscription coupled with a “newsstand” for the iPad. It's bad, really bad. The short story is this. — Apple is currently working on a new …

Abigail Pesta / New York Times:

Making a Name Writing to Editors — JUST before 9 a.m. on a Monday, Bobby Crawford arrived at the Hearst Tower, the slick Midtown temple of glossies like Esquire and Cosmopolitan. In the sprawling lobby, editors, writers and arbiters of style glided skyward to their respective aeries, on escalators flanked by rainwater waterfalls.

Saul Berman / Great Speculations:

Old Media Must Deliver Digital Experiences Consumers Demand — What is the new reality for dealing with a digital world? If content is king, then there's a new emperor in town: the digital experience. The business of selling content has now become the business of delivering audiences.

Anil Dash:

Gourmet Live and Rewarding Experiences — The short version: Gourmet Live, the new iPad app that reimagines Gourmet as a sort of massively multiplayer magazine, is live. I've been working on this for the past six months, and I'm enormously proud of it, so if you've got an iPad …

Discussion: Gourmet Live and Michael J. Wolf

Joe Flint / Company Town:

CNN got rid of its U.S. president Jon Klein not long after extending his deal — While there was constant speculation that Jon Klein's days as president of CNN's U.S. operation were numbered, the executive himself was caught off-guard by his dismissal. — In an interview …

Discussion: Inside Cable News, Guardian, Media Decoder and Vanity Fair

Tim Arango / New York Times:

Magazine's Obama Critique Spurs Fact Checking and Media Soul Searching — When Forbes published a cover story this month by Dinesh D'Souza, the conservative author, asserting that President Obama is opposed to free markets and traditional American values because he inherited …

Discussion: Guardian