Mediagazer: How I Made It: Jim Lanzone, president of CBS Interactive (Dawn C. Chmielewski/Los Angeles Times)

Brittany Anas / Daily Camera:

CU-Boulder journalism school to shut down after 5-4 vote by regents — Carrigan: 'We can't be afraid of change' — The University of Colorado's journalism school will close June 30, making it the first — but perhaps not the last — college to be shut down in the university's history.

Discussion: http://www.Stinkyjournalism …, The Huffington Post, College Media Matters and The Latest Word

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

The Real Reason Mike McCue Needs $50 Million: Google Is Building A Flipboard Killer — When news came out the other day that Flipboard just raised another $50 million at a $200 million valuation for its iPad news reading app, I gave CEO Mike McCue a hard time on Twitter and here on TechCrunch.

Discussion: Monday Note

Joe Mullin / paidContent:

Righthaven's Secret Contract Revealed: Will Its Strategy Collapse? — Angered at Righthaven's behavior, a Las Vegas federal judge unsealed the company's heretofore confidential agreement with the Las Vegas Review-Journal late on Friday. The contract reveals that the controversial copyright …

Discussion: Boing Boing, more at Techmeme »

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Students cleverly deal with order to run controversial story below the fold — The LaSalle University Collegian story's about a business professor having “exotic dancers” at an off-campus symposium was ready to go last week with a four-column banner headline, says executive editor Vinny Vella.

Discussion: Philly.com, La Salle University Collegian, College Media Matters and STUFF JOURNALISTS LIKE

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Why Does The Entertainment Industry Seek To Kill Any Innovation That's Helping It Adapt? — The LA Times recently had a good article about Hulu's struggles with its corporate parents, the various TV companies. While Hulu itself has been massively successful, the TV companies …

Andy Mannix / Dressing Room:

David Carr, Andrew Rossi talk ‘Page One,’ Gawker, and the future of newspapers — Last night, the documentary “Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times” premiered at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival. The movie stars Minneapolis alt-weekly alumnus David Carr, who is now the Times' brashest media writer.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and Poynter

MediaShift:

Susan Orlean Explains How Twitter Affects Her Long-Form Writing — As I spoke to Susan Orlean about the role the social web plays with her long feature articles and books, I couldn't help but compare her to another famous writer for the New Yorker: E.B. White.

Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:

How I Made It: Jim Lanzone, president of CBS Interactive — Before CBS bought his start-up Clicker, Lanzone spent much of his career helping people navigate and mine the Internet. — “When programming gets online it's not about when it's on, it's about where it's on and whether it's on …

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Call it the new Iron Curtain: Slovak media erect a nationwide paywall — It's become a cliché in discussions about the future of news: Most readers won't pay for news online because they can find it elsewhere for free. — But what if consumers had no free alternatives?

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Sarah Kessler / Mashable!:

Startup Aims To Build Billboards That Target You, Personally — Digital billboards that display different ads depending on who is looking at them were once only found in Minority Report. But a recently launched startup aims to make targeted billboard advertising as ubiquitous as targeted online advertising.

Eric D. Snider / VentureBeat:

Leaving in a Huff: or how AOL killed a beloved movie blog — One thing you may not know about me is that I am a writer. More specifically, I'm a freelance writer. This means I can have several clients at once, work from home in my underwear, and set my own hours.

Discussion: MediaVidea

David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:

E-book sales triple from a year ago, now top-selling book format — E-book sales are piling up fast. — In February, a couple of months after huge numbers of readers got electronic reading devices for the holidays, sales of e-books reached $90 million — more than tripling the number from a year earlier …

Discussion: The Association …, Electronista, GeekWire, Digital Trends, Kindle Review, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, CrunchGear and Engadget