Mediagazer: Cameron denies “grand deal” to help Murdoch (David Milliken/Reuters)

3:20 PM ET, April 29, 2012

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Noah Rothman / Mediaite:

Obama Jabs At Romney, Congress, Huffington Post And Dogs At W.H. Correspondents Dinner — President Obama took the stage at the White House Correspondent's Dinner on Saturday night, where he made a number of jokes at his and others' expense. He took aim at Congress, Mitt Romney, the Huffington Post and dogs.

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Buzzfeed's Jonah Peretti: Display dollars aren't coming back — Content providers are wringing their hands over how to get advertisers to pony up the big bucks they once spent on display ads. Maybe that money is just gone forever. — Jonah Peretti, a founder of the Huffington Post …

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Nicholas Carr / Technology Review:

The Library of Utopia — Google's ambitious book-scanning program is foundering in the courts. Now a Harvard-led group is launching its own sweeping effort to put our literary heritage online. Will the Ivy League succeed where Silicon Valley failed? — In his 1938 book World Brain …

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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of 99-cent media — Honk if you still love newsprint enough to pay $700 or more a year for a seven-day print subscription to The New York Times. Of course, you have many other choices. — You can try one of several print/bundled options for considerably less money.

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: The Billion-Dollar Inside Story of How Demand Media Almost Went Private Last Week (And Then Didn't) — According to sources close to the situation, Demand Media was deep into discussions with a private equity firm to complete a deal that would have taken the online content company private …

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David Milliken / Reuters:

Cameron denies “grand deal” to help Murdoch — Prime Minister David Cameron has denied favouring Rupert Murdoch's business interests in exchange for political support from his newspaper empire, and defended a minister's handling of an ill-fated takeover bid involving the media magnate.

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Justin Elliott / ProPublica:

FCC-Required Political Ad Data Disclosures Won't Be Searchable — The Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 this morning to require broadcasters to post political ad data on the Web, making it easier for the public to see how as much as $3.2 billion will be spent on TV advertising in this election.

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Candace Clement / Save the News:
Political Files? Meet the Internet

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Doug Halonen / The Wrap:
FCC Approves Rules for TV Stations to Put Political Ad Information Online

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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Approve This Message: Politics through Awl-colored glasses — The Awl sure likes to build stuff. In about three years, they've gone from a single “New York City-based web concern” to a family of six sites. The latest just debuted: Approve This Message, a kind of politics wire with the sensibility of The Awl mothership.

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Journatic CEO: We are creating a better future for journalism — The Chicago Tribune recently laid off many of the reporters and editors who produced its hyper-local editions, and announced that it was outsourcing those functions to a startup called Journatic — a move that drew criticism …

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Richard Sandomir / New York Times:

Yellowing Paper and Vanishing Ink as Sports Cartooning Declines — BALTIMORE — Mike Ricigliano practices a nearly extinct newspaper art: he is a sports cartoonist, poking fun at sports figures with pen, paper and a gag writer's shtick. — How much longer he can earn a living doing what he loves …

Steve Buttry / @stevebuttry:

One of the best analyses I've read of today's poisoned political climate and journalism's failure by pursuing balance: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

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Lauren Kirchner / CJR:

How Scandinavia's press councils keep the media accountable — How Scandinavia's press councils keep the media accountable — When right-wing militant Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in and around bucolic Oslo last July, the story dominated the press in Norway for months.