Mediagazer: ASME Announces Award Winners (Amy Wicks/WWD)

6:50 AM ET, May 4, 2012

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Amy Wicks / WWD:

ASME Announces Award Winners — ASME'S BIG NIGHT: The newsweekly is dead! Long live the newsweekly! The format may be struggling in ad sales and on the newsstand, but in the close-knit magazine world, it seems to still reign supreme. During the American Society of Magazine Editors' annual gala …

Discussion: MinOnline, AdAge, LA Observed and Adweek

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Discovery Channel Gets a Web Video Arm, Courtesy of Revision 3 — Web video is supposed to disrupt cable TV. And maybe it will, one day. In the meantime, the cable guys are doing just fine. — Here's a proof point: The Discovery Channel has purchased Revision3, a Web video startup …

Discussion: PC Magazine, MediaPost, Adweek, SocialTimes, WebProNews, The Next Web, Broadcasting & Cable, @pkafka, The Wrap, CNET, Digital Media Wire and TechCrunch

John Koblin / Deadspin:

Sources: Sarah Phillips And Nilesh Prasad Picked Games Together, Scammed People Together, Got Fired From T-Mobile Together — What have we learned about Sarah Phillips, the woman who was apparently scamming people on the Internet when she wasn't writing a column for ESPN.com, in the 24 hours since our story was published?

Chris Greenberg / The Huffington Post: Sarah Phillips Scandal: Ex-ESPN Columnist's Story Could Have Wide Ramifications

John Koblin / Deadspin: Meet Nilesh Prasad, Sarah Phillips's Scamming Partner And Supposed “Puppetmaster”

John Koblin / Deadspin:
Another Sarah Phillips Scam: “I'm A Writer For ESPN And I Plan To Take Over The World”

Discussion: Forbes

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Ted Turner: ‘I wanted CNN to be like the New York Times’ — Amid falling ratings and negative press, CNN founder Ted Turner is defending his network's attempts to offer straightforward, nonpartisan cable news while the competition — Fox News and MSNBC — drifts ever further toward the ideological fringes.

Discussion: Mediaite, @rafat and nation.foxnews.com

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

CNN Ratings Decline Stirs Worries — That is what a longtime CNN employee theorized last year, during one of the channel's predictable defeats in the Nielsen ratings. When elections and explosions happen, people tune in to CNN, the same way they hurry to a hospital when they think they are having a heart attack.

Discussion: Media Decoder, mediabistro.com, Mediaite, WebProNews, TVWeek.com, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine and Capital New York

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

It doesn't matter what e-books cost to make — Book publishers are trying hard to defend the pricing of e-books — perhaps in part because they've been accused by the Justice Department of rigging prices to keep them artificially high — by arguing that it costs a lot more than most people …

Discussion: The FJP and TERRIBLEMINDS, Thanks:@mathewi

Jed Lipinski / Capital New York:

It's the year 1472 in journalism, a fact some people like and some don't — Jarvis, Rosen, Dean Starkman, Karen Dunlap, Joshua Benton Jed Lipinski — “You ask what the future of news is? I have no friggin' idea. No one does.” — So said Jeff Jarvis at last night's roundtable discussion titled …

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Romney Woos Conservative Media In Private Meeting — NEW YORK — In an effort to reach out to conservative media, presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney and wife Ann met for two hours Wednesday with several dozen conservative bloggers, reporters and columnists in an off-the-record gathering …

Discussion: Slate, Mediaite, TVNewser and The Atlantic Online

Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: Romney campaign backs off... BuzzFeed to stay in the Romney press pool...

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
News Orgs Balk At Romney Campaign Deciding Press Pool Membership

Discussion: FishbowlNY and Erik Wemple

Erik Wemple:

Politico reporter challenges ‘New York girlfriend’ backlash — Craig Silverman, the resident expert on journalistic error at Poynter.org, posted a massive item titled “How Politico can fix its mistake about Obama book.” It noted how a blog item posted yesterday by Politico's Dylan Byers reported …

Discussion: Washington Post and 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com

Craig Silverman / Poynter:
How Politico can fix its mistake about Obama book

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Washington Post, ABCNEWS, @dylanbyers, Media Decoder, Mediaite, Erik Wemple and Poynter

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Murdoch's Daily adds iPhone app: lower price, some free stories — The Daily, which launched in early 2011 as a tablet tabloid available only on the iPad, finally is adding an iPhone edition, with Android handsets to follow. The new app includes some free stories but readers will have to subscribe …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Nielsen Reports a Decline in Television Viewing — The number of American households with access to a television set and a TV signal is shrinking for the second year in a row. — The data, released by The Nielsen Company on Thursday morning, is sure to be pored over by television …

Discussion: Media Decoder, WebProNews, CNET, Forbes, MediaPost, Nielsen Wire and LA Biz Observed

John Cook / Gawker:

A Low Six-Figure Book Deal for the Fox Mole — Congratulations to Joe Muto, formerly known as the Fox Mole, for selling a book about his experiences inside Fox News Channel to Dutton, an imprint of Penguin. — The book—tentatively titled An Atheist in the Foxhole—will be a …

Discussion: mediabistro.com

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

ProPublica's Stephen Engelberg named to Pulitzer board (after ProPublica wins two of them) — The Pulitzer Prize board has a new member. Columbia University, which administers the annual journalism awards, announced today that Stephen Engelberg, managing editor of ProPublica, has joined the board.

Discussion: Associated Press, Columbia University … and FishbowlNY

Alysia Santo / CJR:

The reporter who saw it coming — Mike Hudson thought he was merely exposing injustice, but he also was unearthing the roots of a global financial meltdown … Follow the ex-employees — The great thing about The Roanoke Times was that there was an emphasis on investigation …

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson to face Leveson inquiry — Andy Coulson, David Cameron's former spin doctor, is to appear at the Leveson inquiry next week along with Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International. Coulson is appearing on Thursday, along …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, Press Gazette, Guardian and London Evening Standard