Mediagazer: So excited that we'll have subscriptions for the @wired iPad edition, starting with June issue. And May is still available for free! (Mark McClusky/@markmcc)

12:55 PM ET, May 9, 2011

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Navigating News Online — WHERE PEOPLE GO, HOW THEY GET THERE AND WHAT LURES THEM AWAY — Whatever the future of journalism much of it depends on understanding the ways that people navigate the digital news environment—the behavior of what might be called the new news consumer.

Lauren Dugan / AllTwitter:
Twitter “Barely Registers As A Referring Source” For News Websites

Discussion: @zseward

Journalism.org:
Google: Parasite or Provider?

Discussion: Journalism.org

Journalism.org:
Drudge Report: Small Operation, Large Influence

Discussion: Online NewsHour, Mixed Media and Slashdot

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Apple Brings Conde Nast Aboard the Subscription Bandwagon, Starting With the New Yorker — Apple is winning over the big publishers. Last week, Hearst Corp. said it planned to start selling its magazines using Apple's new iTunes subscription service. Now rival Conde Nast is actually doing it, via the publisher's New Yorker title.

Mark McClusky / @markmcc:

So excited that we'll have subscriptions for the @wired iPad edition, starting with June issue. And May is still available for free!

David Carr / New York Times:

Now to Sell Advertisers on Tablets — If you wanted to get your message in front of a reader of The New Yorker, it would cost you $141,174 for a full-page ad in the magazine's glossy pages. — What would it be worth to reach the same reader if he or she were on an iPad? More, less or the same?

Discussion: Poynter, Noted and Future of Journalism

Joann S. Lublin / Wall Street Journal:

CEO Pay in 2010 Jumped 11% — Chief executives at the biggest U.S. companies saw their pay jump sharply in 2010, as boards rewarded them for strong profit and share-price growth with bigger bonuses and stock grants. — The median value of salaries, bonuses and long-term incentive awards …

Discussion: The Wire, FishbowlNY, Fortune, New York Magazine, Company Town, ThinkProgress, Deal Journal, Mogulite, Real Time Economics and Tech Trader Daily

Wall Street Journal:

A Changed Tune on Netflix — Some Media Firms Shift Stance on Video Service, Seeing a Potential to Help TV — Media chiefs are shifting their public stance toward Netflix Inc. and are now trying to convince investors that the video streaming service will expand their business rather than destroy it.

Discussion: Adweek and Tech Trader Daily

Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:

Dateline NBC takes Facebook engagement to new level — While Dateline NBC's correspondents have interacted with viewers on Facebook while the news magazine is on the air, Sunday night the subject of a segment answered viewers' questions. David Goldman, who regained custody of his son …

Discussion: rbr.com and NetNewsCheck Latest

Morning Gloria / Jezebel:

Hillary Clinton Photoshopped Out of Situation Room Photo [Wtf] — Ultra Orthodox Hasidic newspaper Der Tzitung is telling its readers like it isn't- by editing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from the now-iconic Bin Laden raid Situation Room photo. Oy vey.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, New York Magazine, The Daily Beast, CBS New York, The Jewish Week, The Snitch, Runnin' Scared, The Raw Story and MetaFilter

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Why Fortune's Apple Story is AWOL from the Web-And Why You Can Buy It on Amazon — Last week, Fortune published a deep dive into Apple, then made sure that many people who would care about it couldn't read it: The story was available in the magazine's print and iPad editions, but not on the Web.

Discussion: Fortune, Guardian, Softpedia News and everythingiCafe, more at Techmeme »

Keach Hagey / On Media's Blog:

Meredith Vieira leaving “Today” — The long-awaited shakeup of the “Today” show, expected last week but apparently delayed amidst the news of Osama bin Laden's death, is now official: Meredith Vieira is leaving the show next month, and Ann Curry is replacing her as co-anchor.

Discussion: Media Decoder, rbr.com, TVNewser, FishbowlDC, mediabistro.com, Mediaite, The Wrap, Inside Cable News, The Wire, National Review, Speakeasy and newsfeed.time.com

Tom Evslin / Fractals of Change:

Hey NYTimes, Where's the Link? — It's no longer acceptable online to make a naked assertion on a controversial subject without at least a link to back it up, at least not for anyone practicing serious journalism and writing a news story. But here's what appeared in the New York Times online today …

Eric Pfanner / New York Times:

European Ventures Seek to Fill a Void in World News — PARIS — As news organizations around the world close down foreign bureaus, journalists, entrepreneurs and even government bodies in Europe are creating news ventures to try to fill the void. — As a result, readers seeking international news …

Discussion: Noted

Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:

Digital Ad Firms Crash TV's Upfront — Digital ad firms and start-ups are crashing one of the television industry's biggest events—a procession of glitzy presentations to advertisers dubbed the “upfront”—by hosting competing events and parties in a bid to tap into the annual ad-spending frenzy.

Dylan Byers / Adweek:

The Best Media Writer at the NYT — New York Times columnist Virginia Heffernan, by some chattering class estimates the best media writer at the paper, has a brain many brainy men have fallen in love with—sometimes to their peril. One of those men is socialite and investment banker Euan Rellie.

Jeremy Beiler / New York Times:

Stars Gain Control of Online Images — When Tom Hanks posts a message to Twitter leading his 1.8 million followers to view a photo, perhaps of him in a candid moment on a movie set, they are sent to a special kind of site, one that gives him and other celebrities new control over their presence on social media.