• PRNewser: Hey you all you boys and girls who have plans for Memorial Day Weekend that don’t involve taking an hour long train ride alone to Coney Island where you’ll probably choke and die on a hot dog without anyone noticing, here are some tips for celebrating the holiday as someone’s weekend guest, courtesy of PR guru Susan Blond!

• FishbowlLA: Gary Coleman is dead. And I’ve only read one “different… strokes” joke on Twitter so far.

• The Awl: Here’s a list of things you can regret by Tuesday morning. Have a great (long) weekend, everyone!

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There were some glimmers of hope for the news business. A Newspaper Association of America study revealed that although print ad revenue for newspapers had declined overall in the first quarter, online ad sales rose for the first time since 2008. Meanwhile, overall ad spending has risen 5.1% year over year for the first quarter, according to a Kantar Media Study.

A few more details emerged about the The New York Times Co.’s (NYT) plans to implement a paywall next year. A Times spokesperson said that links to NYTimes.com from blogs and other third-party sites would count against a limited number of free visits, but outside links would still allow readers who had surpassed the limit to read Times stories. Some media pundits had floated the concern that a paywall would block inbound blog links, thus slowing traffic and perhaps display-ad revenues as a result. Shares rose 3.2% to $9.28.

An additional company joined the cohort of prospective buyers of The Washington Post Co.’s (WPO) Newsweek. Open Gate Capital, which bought TV Guide for $1 in 2008 and had been in the running for BusinessWeek last year, expressed interest in the magazine. The deadline for bids on Newsweek is June 2. Shares of The Washington Post dropped 3.8% on the week to end at $465.73.

News Corp. (NWS) unveiled a new iPad application for its UK-based Times newspaper, as the tablet made its debut in Britain. Outside the media titan’s print operations, reports emerged of the company shopping its Beliefnet social networking site and ringtone hawker Jamster. Shares dipped rose less than 1% to $15.36.

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Then again, revenue for the company declined 10.2 percent to $413.9 million following a reduced base rate for Reader’s Digest magazine, as well as the shuttering of Backyard Living, Cooking for Two, Purpose Driven Connection and Selecciones.

Folio: explains some of the smarter accounting practices the company has been implementing since coming out of bankruptcy, including “the write-down of the unearned revenue liability which reduce magazine revenues after emergence from Chapter 11; an increase in depreciation and amortization expense prospectively as a consequence of the adjustment to the fair value of tangible and intangible assets; and a reduction of pension income due to the write-off of unrealized gains on pension assets.”

RDA president and CEO Mary Berner announced that the company is proud of their “improved profitability” and gains by their Lifestyle & Entertainment Direct and U.S. businesses.

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Sulzberger, whose family has long played a pivotal role in overseeing the New York Times Co, had no comment on the move.

The full memo from national editor Rick Berke about Sulzberger’s new role, via the NY Observer, appears after the jump.

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While promoting her book in Washington DC, Gould shared some also-interesting insights about her former boss, Gawker Media founder Nick Denton:

It’s a hard job and you’re working for a crazy person. [...] I mean, it’s just so incredibly obvious to me what a lunatic [he is]. It’s like, not a cute look for a 40-something-year-old man.

Yeah! Good thing none of us will never be forty-somethings, or else comments like those made in our youth might come back to haunt us.

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In an interesting Murdochian twist, that $14.44 only buys the iPad app, so people who want to use their computers to get behind the Times‘s paywall will have to pay the same price all over again.

paidContent also points out what may be a bit of advertorializing in today’s Times:

The Times’ iPad announcement today is accompanied by a story on how the iPad “may rewrite the future of newspapers”.

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The article, “M.I.A.’s Agitprop Pop,” looks at M.I.A. as an artist and as a celebrity, and included lines like “Although her publicist had a wheelchair ready and a midwife on call, Maya, who has a deep and instinctive affinity for the provocative, knew that this Grammy moment was not to be missed. It had everything: artistic credibility, high drama, a massive audience. The baby would just have to wait” and “Maya’s tirade, typical in the way it moved from the political to the personal and back again, was interrupted by a waiter, who offered her a variety of rolls. She chose the olive bread.”

The author in question was Lynn Hirschberg, who was, understandably, less than amused at having her phone number broadcast to countless strangers. Nonetheless, she has no plans to have it changed.

As she tells the New York Observer, Hirschberg doesn’t quite understand why M.I.A. would draw more attention to an article one would assume the singer wouldn’t want people to read in the first place: “I find it kind of interesting that she would cast the spotlight on the story in any way, shape or form. I can’t say what she thinks of it. But it seems you would want it to go away.”

Hirschberg adds that, while she is not surprised by M.I.A.’s reaction given that M.I.A. is, somewhat by profession, a “provocateur,” she does find it “unethical.” And she has a personal message for the artist:

The messages have mostly been from people trying to hook up with M.I.A. If she wants to get together with John at Bard next week, I have his number.

The internet has certainly weighed in on the ongoing feud, but M.I.A. will get have her say, again, soon:

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Still, the private equity firm isn’t betting on a short-term turnaround. The Post quotes Open Gate CEO Andre Nikou: “”No way is there immediate profitability. It will take a lot of heavy lifting. It’s probably two or three years away.”

Open Gate has a history with storied-but-struggling publications. It bought TV Guide for one dollar in 2008, and made a run at BusinessWeek before that magazine’s eventual sale to Bloomberg last October.

Open Gate now joins Politico, Reuters, “Power Rangers” guy Haim Saban and Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman on the list of mooted Newsweek buyers.

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Next month, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will unveil a resized, recolored and simplified edition of the well-known map, its first overhaul in more than a decade.

Manhattan will become taller, bulkier and 30 percent wider, to better display its spaghetti of subway lines. Staten Island, meanwhile, will shrink by half. The spreadsheetlike “service guide,” along the map’s bottom border, will be eliminated, and the other three boroughs will grow to fill the space.

Spaghetti! The guy’s a genius.

Grynbaum also documents the discontent surrounding the old map, which dates back to 1979. The clamor for change has recently made itself manifest in the form of complaints and suggestions by online map enthusiasts and mobile-device application designers. “The authority now concedes that the map became overcrowded,” writes Grynbaum in a dramatic one-sentence paragraph.

There’s also a neat interactive feature showing how the map has changed over time alongside the new design. The map is due for release next month, so there’s plenty of time to get some studying in.

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This week, Paybarah is apparently doing double duty between the Observer and WNYC.org; here’s his Observer post from today about Andrew Cuomo’s gubernatorial campaign, and here’s his Tuesday WNYC post on the 2010 New York state democratic convention.

The list of departures from the Observer continues to grow, and the politics desk is looking especially thin. Editor Katharine Jose took off last week to join ex-Observer editors Tom McGeveran and Josh Benson at their new Web project, Capital. In recent months, quite a few other Observers have left their posts, including: managing editor Joe Pompeo, managing editor of digital content Tyler Thoreson and reporter Gillian Reagan (who recently left The Business Insider to also join Capital).

But the old revolving door goes both ways; The Observer is apparently hiring to fill Paybarah’s spot.

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Logan, 38, succeeds W’s longtime group design director, Edward Leida, who was shown the door soon after Tonchi came into power. Logan — who has also worked at French Vogue and Arena Homme Plus — will report to W’s new creative director, Jody Quon. In a conversation with Tonchi and Quon, Logan told WWD, “What we’ve talked about is making something extremely refined and something in line with, or maybe built around, the interests of the first W that existed under Mr. Fairchild.”

In another editorial changeup, 83-year-old John Fairchild will no longer be penning his society column under the pseudonym Countess Louise J. Esterhazy, the New York Post reports.

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Frank DiGiacomo will be returning to his former beat as he takes over the Daily News‘ gossip column. DiGiacomo, who contributes to Vanity Fair and has formerly covered celebrity and entertainment gossip for Page Six, is taking over the Gatecrasher column as the section’s current writer, Amanda Sidman, moves on to become a features writer at the paper.

DiGiacomo’s hire comes in in the wake of fellow gossip scribe George Rush‘s decision to take the buyout package offered to Daily News staffers. In fact, DiGiacomo co-edited Page Six with Rush’s wife, fellow Daily News columnist Joanna Molloy, who most recently co-wrote Rush & Molloy before her husband’s departure.

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• FishbowlLA: I sing this softly to myself every morning while in a fetal position.

• FishbowlDC: Is TPM being a copygato?

• The L Magazine: Twenty-four hours of eating and drinking in NYC. Starting… Now!

• Twitter: Gary Coleman is in critical condition in a Utah hospital. And, so. Now you know what everyone’s talking ’bout.

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More.com visitors can vote for their favorites online and judges from More magazine and Voice Books will ultimately choose the winner from among the top 25. Women can enter the contest online here.

The winner will be announced on September 15, 2010.

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