Mediagazer: The opportunities and challenges of Meporter, a new citizen journalism mobile app (Jeff Sonderman/Poynter)

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What I Learned In Joplin — I'm going to write this in a stream of consciousness, the same way I experienced Joplin. — It was my first time covering — more accurately, trying to cover — a disaster. The National desk knows I am a weather geek, so I came close to covering the tornadoes …

Discussion: gigaom.com, The Wire, Mediaite and Poynter

Dan Lyons / The Daily Beast:

David Pogue and Nicki Dugan: A Conflict of Interest? — THE DAILY BEAST ON: — Powerful New York Times tech reviewer David Pogue's new romance with a key Silicon Valley PR executive has many buzzing about a possible conflict of interest. — David Pogue is an incredibly popular technology columnist …

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, Mediaite, Gawker, Adweek, Poynter and NYConvergence.com

New York Times:

Facebook Is Developing Ways to Share Media — Facebook is developing features that will make the sharing of users' favorite music, television shows and other media as much a part of its site as playing games or posting vacation photos. — The company is in discussions with several online music services …

Discussion: gigaom.com, FT Tech Hub, Venture Capital Dispatch, The Wire, Disruptors, Softpedia News, Electronista, Adweek, Future of Journalism and WebProNews, more at Techmeme »

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:

TV Audience Shrinking — Season Ends With High Viewership for Finales but Overall Trend Shows Decline in 18-49 Group — Fewer young people watched TV on traditional sets over the past television season, the second consecutive year of decline as viewers face a proliferation of ways to watch TV shows.

Discussion: Company Town, Adweek, Future of Journalism and NetNewsCheck Latest

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Why Are Staffers Leaving Murdoch's iPad Paper? — NEW YORK — In the months leading up to Rupert Murdoch's unveiling of The Daily at the Guggenheim Museum, the buzz in media circles centered on all the journalists flocking to the forthcoming iPad-only “newspaper.” Lately, there's been more talk of who's leaving.

Discussion: Mogulite, Yahoo! News, Poynter, FishbowlNY and mediabistro.com

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

The opportunities and challenges of Meporter, a new citizen journalism mobile app — A mobile app called Meporter aims to help citizen journalists report on events and breaking news. — Meporter launched Tuesday afternoon at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York City.

Discussion: Beet.TV, Thanks:jeffsondermanch

Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

Mail Online expected to become world's most popular news website — The Mail Online could become the most popular news website in the world as bosses predict 70 million unique users will be reported for May. — In March the Mail Online overtook the Huffington Post to become the world's second most read news website.

Discussion: Yahoo! News and FishbowlNY

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Some Good News for AOL: Patch Traffic Has Doubled This Year — Spending $315 million to buy the Huffington Post was a big deal for AOL, but, in terms of ongoing investment, Patch is a much bigger one. The hyperlocal news network is burning through $40 million a quarter — more than Huffpo spent in all of last year.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, FishbowlNY and The Wire

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

SeeSaw online TV venture to close — Arqiva to pull plug on SeeSaw after failing to find an investment partner or buyer for the service — Arqiva is set to close online TV venture SeeSaw after failing to find an investment partner or buyer to keep the service alive.

Discussion: Media Week and Pocket-lint

Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:

Content-focused iPad apps value form over function, study finds — A report released by the Nielsen Norman Group shows that many iPad apps are confusing users by being too subtle about the gestures needed to navigate them, and some are not sensitive enough to the accuracy limit of fingertips.

Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac

David Pell / Gizmodo:

I Don't Care If You Read This Article — When it comes to Internet publishing, there's traffic figures and everything else. But does that mean we must become slaves to Comscore? Tweetage Wasteland's David Pell believes it may just be a matter of perspective.

Discussion: O'Reilly Radar

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Contreras out as head of E.W. Scripps newspaper division — Scripps says in a release that “we deeply appreciate his service,” but doesn't say why Mark Contreras was removed from the job, which he's had since January 2005. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne will serve as the acting head …