Mediagazer: Martha Stewart can return to her ailing company (Crain's New York)

After a Rocky Five Years, Talk of Couric Parting With CBS — For Katie Couric, the offer in 2006 to become the anchor of “CBS Evening News” came with another incentive, one she prized almost as highly, according to two of her friends: the chance to report for “60 Minutes,” …

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News of the World:

News International statement: News of the World says sorry — ON Friday our parent company News International issued an important statement regarding voicemail interception at the News of the World between 2004 to 2006. — It said that following an extensive internal investigation …

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Tessa Jowell phone-hacking admission changes everything — Am I alone in being troubled by the fact that News of the World journalists targeted the former culture secretary, the minister responsible for media policy? — Two days ago it seemed that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp had finally seized …

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David Carr / New York Times:

At Gannett, Furloughs but Nice Paydays for Brass — Just in case Gannett employees thought 2011 might bring better news after years of layoffs and furloughs, the year was just four days old when a note landed in the in-box of people who work for the community news division saying, once again …

Discussion: Poynter and Gannett Blog

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Bloomberg BusinessWeek Launches iPad App With Monthly Subscription Plan — Bloomberg BusinessWeek could not have picked a better time to launch its iPad app. A year after a major overhaul following the sale from McGraw Hill, the latest Publishers Information Bureau figures had BBW's ad pages up 49 percent …

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Om Malik / GigaOM:

Will iPad & Tablets Be Our Sunday Paper? — From Rupert Murdoch's The Daily to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, it seems more and more newspapers are turning to iPads and other tablets in an effort to capture a fraction of our daily attention.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Brian Steinberg / AdAge:

Turner Experiments With Building a Smarter Ad for Its Cable Networks — Invests in Tech to Allow Spots Thematically Tied to Shows on TBS, TNT, Tru — Time Warner's cable outlets are trying to stitch together the gaps between TV shows and the commercials that support them.

Max Fisher / The Atlantic Online:

Detained Journalists Thought to Be Held in Tripoli Jail — A group of journalists who were detained by Libyan troops on Tuesday are now believed to be in a government detention center in Tripoli. They were last seen in the facility on Thursday, The Atlantic has learned, where they were being treated well by government captors.

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Dan Abrams Hires Peter Lauria For Mogulite — Peter Lauria, who's covered his share of media moguls for the New York Post and the Daily Beast, is joining the soon-to-be-launched Mogulite as consulting editor. — Some powerful media and entertainment figures might not be so fond of Lauria …

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Twitter Loves TV, and The Feeling Is Mutual — Twitter has been making a persistent pitch to TV in recent months: Work with us, and we'll boost your ratings. — And here's a TV network taking them up on the offer: Viacom's Comedy Central, which is counting on Twitter to promote its “Comedy Awards” show tonight.

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Crain's New York:

Martha Stewart can return to her ailing company — This summer, Martha Stewart can return to rule her company after a five-year ban expires—and not a moment too soon. — Since regulators barred the domestic-arts guru from serving as CEO or director as part of the settlement …

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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

Actors in Smaller Studios, Making Pictures for the Smaller Screen — CULVER CITY, Calif. — The film set was professional, even if the actors kept messing up the scene by laughing at the star, who was flailing in front of a green screen, pretending to be eaten alive. — “We need it clean,” the sound man shouted.

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

The man who won Steve Jobs' trust — Who is Walter Isaacson, and why did Jobs choose him to tell the story of his life? — Isaacson at the iPad unveiling. Photo: Michael Copeland — [NOTE: Simon & Schuster announced Sunday that the first authorized biography of Steve Jobs — iSteve …

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Damon Kiesow / Poynter:

Bing's new iPad app is a newspaper in disguise — Microsoft's new Bing iPad app, released Thursday, does more than search — it begins to remake the newspaper experience in digital form. — The app is not being marketed as a news platform, but journalists should consider it one because it offers …