Mediagazer: Media has fun with hats, titles at royal wedding (David Bauder/Associated Press)

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

REVEALED: Columnists Join Bloomberg's New Opinion Stable — Last night, The Huffington Post revealed the full editorial board for Bloomberg Newsâ forthcoming editorial section, Bloomberg View. — While a couple recently hired columnists have been reported so far …

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David Bauder / Associated Press:

Media has fun with hats, titles at royal wedding — NEW YORK — Like guests who whisper asides to their friends from the back pews, the commoners in the media tried to have fun with the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton for Americans who awoke in pre-dawn hours to watch the pomp.

Discussion: CNN, The Royal Wedding, Poynter, The Royal Wedding, Guardian, Mashable!, TechCrunch and Media Decoder

Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
Royal Wedding: A Two-Screen Experience Like You've Never Seen

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Dylan Stableford / The Wrap: Media Braces for a Certifiably Wild Weekend of News

ESPN MediaZone:

All-Star Roster of Writers and Editors to Join New ESPN Web Site — Grantland.com- Conceived by ESPN's Bill Simmons - to Debut in June — Bill Simmons, in association with ESPN, announced the first wave of writer and editor hires for Grantland.com, the much anticipated sports and pop culture web site.

Discussion: Poynter, Deadspin, The Wire, SportsGrid, New York Magazine and Runnin' Scared

Casey Ross / Boston Globe:

Businessman prepares bid to buy Globe — A Wellesley businessman is preparing to offer more than $200 million to buy The Boston Globe from its longtime owner, The New York Times Co., according to a person briefed on the plan. — Aaron Kushner, an entrepreneur who has spent months researching …

Discussion: Poynter, Media Nation and FishbowlNY

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Arrington Makes a Mockery of AOL-Huffpo Ethics Policy — This is what Michael Arrington thinks of Arianna Huffington's ethics rules. Image by Joi via Flickr — Did Michael Arrington just show Arianna Huffington who's boss? I'm pretty sure he did. — Not too long after AOL acquired TechCrunch …

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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

WSJ hires new Money & Investing editor — TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE — Francesco Guerrera, the finance editor of the Financial Times, has been hired by The Wall Street Journal to be its new Money & Investing editor, according to two sources with knowledge of the move.

Matt Shanahan / Digital Equilibrium:

Why Online News Revenue will Never Equal Newspaper Revenue — A publisher's ability to monetize the news ONLINE is different than their ability to monetize the newsPAPER. — According to the Newspaper Association of America data at naa.org, the average user spent 1 minute and 12 seconds with online news last month.

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Courtney Boyd Myers / The Next Web:

Meet Flockler, where anyone can create the news. [Video interview] #TNW2011 — Yesterday at The Next Web Conference Startup Rally, the Finnish based startup Flockler, a social curation platform for publishers launched. Flockler's tools let audience members create topics, which members can then join.

Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:

Newspapers don't need new ideas; here are lots of ideas for new revenue streams — Alan Mutter documents the no-longer-surprising fact that newspaper advertising revenues continued to fall for the 20th straight quarter in the first three months of 2011. — This decline comes …

McGuire on Media:

Message to high school J-students:Storytelling needs to survive the media tumult — The following speech will be delivered at 7 pm. Thursday, April 28, 2011 to teachers and award-winning students of the Arizona Interscholastic Press Association. — Congratulations to all the award winners and to their teachers.

Discussion: Arizona Republic

Ben Parr / Mashable!:

What's The Matter With Google TV? — Google and its partners made a major bet on Google TV, an ambitious attempt to bridge the gap between the web and TV worlds. But so far it has failed to pay dividends — quite literally, in the case of Google partner Logitech.

Discussion: Technologizer, SAI and Engadget, more at Techmeme »

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Chris Hamilton appointed social media editor for BBC News — BBC digital journalist Chris Hamilton has been named as the broadcaster's new social media editor for BBC News. — Hamilton will succeed Alex Gubbay, who is leaving the BBC to join Johnston Press in June as head of digital content.

Discussion: Editors Weblog

Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:

The changing relationship between reporters and sources — By Robert Niles: I'd like to point you toward a post from Dallas NBA team owner and Internet entrepreneur Mark Cuban which I hope will get you thinking, but might just get many of you mad instead: — Here it is, and here's a taste:

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

Iconic Tuscaloosa News tornado photo lands on dozens of newspaper front pages — When Tuscaloosa News' Dusty Compton took a photo of the massive tornado that swept through Tuscaloosa, Ala., Wednesday afternoon, he didn't know it would land on the cover of The New York Times …

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Andrea Pitzer / Nieman Storyboard:

Eli Saslow on writing news narratives, creating empathy and characters' defining moments — Our latest Notable Narrative comes from The Washington Post's Eli Saslow, who wrote about a Wisconsin man's attempt to understand what the federal budget debate means for his family.