Mediagazer: Read the Leaked P.R. Plan to Spin Our Dialysis Investigation (ProPublica)

Matt Thompson / Snarkmarket:

Was Marc Ambinder actually a blogger? — Last week, Marc Ambinder reached the end of his tenure as a politics blogger for the Atlantic, and toasted the event with a thoughtful post on the nature of blogging. The central nugget: … My esteemed coblogger tweeted some terrific observations about Ambinder's post:

Discussion: The Atlantic Online and The Daily Dish

ProPublica:

Read the Leaked P.R. Plan to Spin Our Dialysis Investigation — Update (2:39 p.m.): Kidney Care Partners released an official statement. — The umbrella group Kidney Care Partners (KCP), an advocacy and lobbying organization for dialysis providers, patient groups, drug companies and others …

Discussion: LA Observed

Editor's Note: How We Got the Government's Secret Dialysis Data — Today, we are publishing the first findings from our investigation of dialysis, a treatment relied upon by hundreds of thousands of people suffering from kidney failure. The United States spends billions of dollars annually on dialysis, nearly $80,000 per patient.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Romenesko and MinnPost

Wall Street Journal:

Schools Chancellor Klein to Join News Corp. — New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein is resigning to join News Corp., ending an eight-year reign at the helm of the nation's largest school system. — In his place, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is expected to announce Cathie Black, chairwoman of Hearst Magazines.

Discussion: Media Decoder, City Room, Romenesko, Mixed Media, Gothamist and Hit & Run

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

Fake ‘Olbermann’ emails sent to Philly columnist — Tucker Carlson boasted last July that his site, The Daily Caller, bought the domain name for liberal MSNBC host Keith Olbermann. Carlson, a conservative journalist and pundit, even said he would start using the email address keith@keitholbermann.com as a gag.

Discussion: Romenesko, New York Observer, The Huffington Post, Mediaite, Salon, The Wire, Gawker, CJR, Media Decoder and New York Magazine

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

Kommons Founder Sees Q&A Site as Way to Hold the Powerful Accountable — Social networking services have no doubt opened the lines of communication between citizens and public figures, but Cody Brown thinks they fall short in fostering two-way conversations. Politicians can easily ignore a voter's question on Twitter.

Jean-Paul Marthoz / Committee to Protect Journalists:

In France, is Sarkozy spying on journalists? — Every Wednesday morning in France, rain or shine, half a million people eagerly wait for the satirical weekly, Le Canard Enchainé. Some wait for it nervously. The old-fashioned broadsheet, a venerable media institution …

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Repeat After Me: Investors Are Never the Story — Earlier this week, RockMelt, a Facebook browser launched to massive press coverage from most major publications including GigaOM. — I was as fascinated by the story of RockMelt cofounders Eric Vishria and Tim Howes as I was by their belief …

Discussion: Adotas, TechCrunch, PC World and Boing Boing, more at Techmeme »

Jon Bershad / Mediaite:

Matt Lauer's George W. Bush Interview Gets Lower Ratings Than Everything Except 90210 — Last night on network TV, House finally relented and agreed to hire a female doctor to the team, Barney got an important clue in his quest to find his father, Jeff and Audrey got Jeff's lesbian friend …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, TVWeek.com, Broadcasting & Cable, The Huffington Post and Movieline

Ryan Chittum / CJR:

Sarah Palin, Media Critic — The former veep candidate (and journalism major) misleads readers on the WSJ with selective quotes — Aw, shucks. — Sarah Palin is “just a former governor and current housewife from Alaska, but even humble folks like (her) can read the newspaper.” — Reading's one thing.

Discussion: Real Time Economics, The Daily Dish, New York Magazine, TIME.com, The Atlantic Online, Gawker, LA Observed, CNN, Romenesko, The Huffington Post, Facebook, The Wire, Phoenix, Arizona and Das Krapital

David Kaplan / paidContent:

DailyCandy Wants To Make ‘Deals’ With Local Marketers — As the discount shopping space continues to attract attention from media companies, DailyCandy, the Comcast-owned fashion and entertainment e-newsletter operator, has expanded its own reach into that area with its DailyCandy Deals channel.

Nick Summers / New York Observer:

Blank Slate: Jacob Weisberg Doesn't Much Care for What Works on the Internet. Can Slate recover? — Slate, the Web site, is 14 years old, an eternity on the Internet. During that span, its New York offices have moved nine times. On a drizzly Friday morning, Jacob Weisberg …

Associated Press:

Tribune Co. asks court to approve $43M in bonuses — (AP) — The Tribune Co. is asking a Delaware bankruptcy judge to approve up to $43 million in bonuses for top executives and managers this year. — The plan calls for some 640 people to receive bonuses totaling from $16.5 million …

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Movieclips Nabs $3 Million To Catalogue And Mashup Scenes From Movies — Online movie clips site Movieclips.com has raised $3 million in Series A funding from Shasta Ventures and First Round Capital as well as a number of angel investors, including Jeff Clavier, Aydin Senkut, Naval Ravikant …

Discussion: Business Wire, GigaOM, VatorNews and MediaMemo

Jessica E. Vascellaro / Deal Journal:

Shhh...Quadrangle's Kinda-Secret Media Pow-Wow Hits the Plaza — Media moguls and financiers gathered at New York's Plaza Hotel today for the kick-off to Quadrangle's hush-hush annual media conference, Foursquare. — The two-day event, hosted by the New York-based private equity firm …

Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:

So you think you're a journalist? Sell your stories on eByline — eByline, an online service that brings together freelance journalists and publishers looking for stories, announced today it has raised $1.5 million in its first round of funding from The E.W. Scripps Company.

Discussion: MediaPost, VatorNews and paidContent

Kenneth Li / Reuters:

US TV networks seek to stop FilmOn — Four top U.S. television networks have asked a federal court to stop the Internet video service FilmOn.com from offering TV channels over the web and on Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) iPad for free. — FilmOn.com Plc (2F0.BE), which claims to be the first high …

Discussion: MediaPost

Brian Deagon / Investor's Business Daily:

Blowing Some Hot Air Works For Some Blogs — Ed Morrissey is a news junkie who wants his opinions known. — He started blogging in 2003 at his Web site Captain's Quarters, mostly about politics, and in 2008 joined the conservative Web site Hot-Air.com as editor.

Janet Paskin / CJR:

Serious Fun With Numbers — We're drowning in data, but few reporters know how to use them — The story was already great, even before Daniel Gilbert opened his first spreadsheet. Thousands of citizens in the southern Virginia area Gilbert covered for the Bristol Herald Courier …