Mediagazer: ChicagoTribune.com redesign will feature real-time ads (Justin Ellis/Nieman Journalism Lab)

Guardian News & Media to be a digital-first organisation — Guardian News & Media (GNM), publisher of the Guardian, has revealed plans to become a digital-first organisation, placing open journalism on the web at the heart of its strategy. — Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of GNM …

Discussion: Press Gazette, Poynter, Jon Slattery, Editor's Blog, paidContent:UK, @dannysullivan, The Corsair, SiliconFilter and themediablog.typepad.com

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

Guardian staffs up planned U.S. website as ‘major’ digital ‘transformation’ begins — The Guardian is in the process of putting together the team that will steer its forthcoming U.S. website, which the U.K. broadsheet's parent company hopes to have up and running by the fall.

The Atlantic Wire:

Chris Matthews: What I Read — How do other people deal with the torrent of information that pours down on us all? What sources can't they live without? To find out, we regularly reach out to well-informed people to learn more about their media diets. This is drawn from a conversation …

Discussion: On Media's Blog

Hollywood Reporter:

NBC Chairman Robert Greenblatt Shares His Plan to Rebuild the Network (Exclusive Q&A) … When Robert Greenblatt took over as NBC's chairman of entertainment in late January, many in Hollywood had high hopes for the executive who had previously transformed Showtime from an also-ran …

Discussion: MediaPost

Noah Davis / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

EXCLUSIVE: Sports Illustrated Proves Why Tablets Are Better Than Print — Sports Illustrated will publish twice this week. — For the first time ever, the magazine will update its tablet editions with new content on Thursday. — The NHL playoffs going to a seventh game gave editors the opportunity.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of Reuters' Americanization — Editor's Note: Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab. — News quiz: Which company can claim the largest journalistic workforce in the world?

Discussion: Newsonomics

Wall Street Journal:

Regional Newspapers' Merger Talks Break Down — Buyout discussions between the publishers of the Denver Post and Orange County Register broke down recently amid disagreements over price, said people familiar with the matter, as regional newspapers grapple with consolidation efforts to shore up their finances.

Discussion: Gazette, The Latest Word and Poynter

David Kravets / Threat Level:

Bloggers Mull Legal Action Against Righthaven — Bloggers who paid thousands of dollars each to settle copyright-infringement allegations with Righthaven were mulling their legal options Wednesday, a day after a federal judge said the copyright troll had no legal standing to bring that kind of lawsuits.

Discussion: Techdirt, Poynter, Adweek, The Latest Word and Righthaven Victims

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

ChicagoTribune.com redesign will feature real-time ads — In redesigning their website, the Chicago Tribune staff focused on what they could take out of the homepage, not what they could add in. So when you go to the new Chicagotribune.com today, it's not hard to notice how simple the design appears …

Discussion: Cision, Time Out Chicago Blogs, Editors Weblog, PR Newswire and Street Fight

Glynnis MacNicol / The Wire:

Arianna Taps Actress Rita Wilson To Head New ‘Boomer’ Vertical Huff/Post 40 — Arianna has not lost her knack for splashy name-dropping. — The AOL Huffington Post Media Group announced today they have tapped actress (and wife of Tom Hanks) Rita Wilson to be editor-at-large of a new Boomer vertical Huff/Post 40.

Audrey Watters / ReadWriteWeb:

Does More Internet Streaming and Web Video Mean Less Traditional TV Viewership? — Despite all the hullabaloo about the ascendancy of Web video and predictions about the demise of cable, Americans still watch a lot of television. Those are the findings, at least, from the latest study by Nielsen.

Nielsen Wire:
Cross Platform Report: Americans Watching More TV, Mobile and Web Video

Discussion: GigaOM, Mashable!, Future of Journalism, WebProNews and Lost Remote

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Armstrong @ AOL Analyst Day: Critics Of HuffPo Deal Just Don't Understand — A month after AOL (NYSE: AOL) posted its first growth in display revenue after a more than three-year drought, the company is hosting an “analyst day” in New York's fashionable Soho district to further explain its strategy to Wall St. and the press.

Tom Groenfeldt / Forbes.com:

Journalism, of a Sort, is Alive and Well in Financial Services — At the SIFMA securities industry conference in New York this week, Joe Lanza, the president of Dow Jones Financial Markets, had a startling bit of news. The company employs more than 100 journalists just to cover the foreign exchange.

Jack Shafer / Slate:

U.K. tabloids: Threat or menace? — Brian Cathcart performs a radical bit of professional taxonomy in his 3,900-word essay in the new issue of Index on Censorship that amounts to an expulsion order for the more unscrupulous elements in the British tabloid press.

Discussion: Free Press

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Comparing The Major Magazine Publishers' App Portfolios — Magazine publishers are putting a lot of faith in apps, building development teams and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars (in some cases, much more) to launch them. Last week, Hearst unveiled its new app lab.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and Canadian Magazines