Mediagazer: New York Times paywall has little impact on WU (Haley Cen/Student Life)

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Conde Nast Taps Brakes on Efforts to Build iPad Editions for All its Magazines — Company Still Committed, but Why Rush for More iPad Editions Before Pubs Can Find Big Audiences? — Conde Nast is tapping the brakes on its drive to deliver iPad editions of all its magazines …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Betabeat, MacRumors and The Wire

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Governors Come and Go, but This Reporter Keeps Slugging Away — Andrew M. Cuomo sailed right past Carl P. Paladino and the Tea Party. His first budget passed with ease. But he still has to face the rite of passage that every New York governor since Hugh L. Carey has had to navigate …

Discussion: Poynter, mediabistro.com and New York Observer

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

The Real Value of the Huffington Post's Blogs — The bloggers who are suing the Huffington Post for $105 million are vastly overestimating how much revenue their content generates in terms of ad sales. In one sense, however, they may be more right than they know.

Discussion: Poynter, FishbowlNY, The Wire and Beyond Search

Jojo Malig / Poynter:

Journalists learn what works (& doesn't work) on Tumblr — Tumblr's “media evangelist” Mark Coatney recently announced the arrival of big names in the industry that have launched their own tumblelogs, including The Los Angeles Times, Al-Jazeera English and The Guardian.

Joe Flint / Company Town:

News Corp. and Time Warner Cable fight on many fields — It seems every week Time Warner Cable and News Corp. are locked in some sort of fight. — The latest go-around between the two media giants has to do with the Dodgers. News Corp.'s Fox is in hot water with Major League Baseball …

Discussion: The Wire and The Big Picture

Reuters:

The Awl vs HuffPo — The Awl's David Cho has an interesting post on web publishing today: … If I were inclined to give Bill Keller the benefit of the doubt here — which I'm not — this is what I'd think that he was driving at with his talk of “adorable kitten videos”.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Lucian Cionca / Google News Blog:

Automatic Personalization and Recommended Sections in Google News — Last summer we redesigned Google News with new personalization features that let you tell us which subjects and sources you'd like to see more or less often. Starting today — if you're logged in — you may also find stories based …

Discussion: The Next Web, Poynter, WebProNews, Softpedia News, Search Engine Roundtable and Search Engine Land

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

AP expands its content-distribution experiment with nonprofit news — Earlier today, the Associated Press announced that it will be expanding its project to distribute content from nonprofit news outfits to newspapers. The expansion builds on the partnerships the cooperative …

Discussion: ap.org, Editors Weblog and KnightBlog

Haley Cen / Student Life:

New York Times paywall has little impact on WU — The recently imposed paywall on The New York Times' website has not impacted the Washington University community's ability to access news, students say. — On March 28, The New York Times, which had previously offered free access …

Discussion: MediaMemo, paidContent, GigaOM, CNN, eMedia Vitals, ReadWriteWeb, Techland, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, MarketWatch, FishbowlNY, VentureBeat and AdAge

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Turmoil in the Middle East and the Ascension of YouTube News, Olivia Ma has the Backstory — SAN BRUNO, Calif — With dramatic footage published today from violent demonstrations in Syria, YouTube is again displaying its role in giving the world a view of breaking news which is largely unseen …

Discussion: The Lede and Future of Journalism

Lauren Fisher / The Next Web:

Why Journalists should be using Facebook more — Twitter has long been regarded as a default news channel for breaking stories, featuring them well ahead of traditional news outlets. It's also the place where you can get valuable content that you wouldn't normally find such as people sharing …

David Hirschman / Street Fight:

Journal-Register's Brady: Local Advertisers Have a Tech Gap — Jim Brady made a name for himself turning WashingtonPost.com into a serious player on the Web before he went to TBD.com last year, going all in on hyperlocal. But when TBD shifted its strategy last fall, slashing staff …

Discussion: Strange Attractor

Rhodri Marsden / The Independent:

Web proves an unlikely saviour for investigative journalism — We're often told that the digital age has curtailed our attention span. Our patience is sorely tested by anything that doesn't grab us instantly; lengthy blog posts are routinely suffixed with “TLTR” (too long to read) …

New York Post:

‘Housewife’ Bensimon getting ink on her hands — Kelly Killoren Bensimon, now in her fourth season on “Real Housewives of New York City,” is going to return to her roots in the publishing world with a weekly column in amNew York, the freebie newspaper. — “It will be a little bit of everything …

Discussion: New York Magazine

MediaShift Idea Lab:

Notifying Next of Kin in the Age of Facebook — When she picked up the phone, I could tell from the sound of her voice that she didn't know yet. — “I'm sorry to tell you this — but I wanted you to hear from a friend, not Facebook. Tim Hetherington was killed in Libya. Chris Hondros too.