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Times' Frank Bruni Leaves Restaurant Beat Behind (FishbowlNY)
Frank Bruni, the influential restaurant critic for The New York Times, is leaving his post after five years. Executive editor Bill Keller said Bruni will be abandoning the restaurant beat this summer to promote his book. Afterward, he will take up a position as writer-at-large for the Times Magazine.
MTP Audience Slips With Gregory (Politico)
Meet the Press, as usual, was the most-watched Sunday show this past week. But its lead under David Gregory is steadily dropping. While ratings for both the ABC and CBS Sunday shows are up since last year, NBC's public affairs staple is down 28 percent.
Miss California Is New Fox & Friends Co-Anchor (USN&WR/Washington Whispers)
Miss California and Miss USA runner-up, Carrie Prejean, tossed around in the battle over gay marriage, will be a one-day guest host for Fox News Channel's popular morning show Fox & Friends. She will host the 6 a.m.-to-7 a.m. slot on May 27, filling in for Gretchen Carlson.
Hulu Questions Count of Its Audience (NYT)
Does Hulu, the Web's most popular place for TV viewing, reach nine million people a month or 42 million? Millions of dollars in advertising revenue may hinge on the answer. But no one seems to know for sure how big the site's audience is. TV Week: YouTube stays on top despite Hulu's rapid growth.
Inside Google's Plans to Save The New York Times (Silicon Alley Insider)
Google took a look and decided it didn't want to buy the New York Times Company. But that doesn't mean it isn't trying to help the newspaper and others like it. Google continues to hold talks with Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, who visited Google's headquarters last month.
60 Minutes Gets Rare Sitdown With Anna Wintour (NYDN)
In an interview with 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer, Vogue editor and queen of haute couture Anna Wintour dishes on everything from why she wears her signature dark sunglasses to Vogue's editorial adjustments during the recession.
Jesse Ashlock Named Editor-in-Chief of I.D. (UnBeige)
I.D. magazine has a new editor-in-chief. Publisher F+W Media announced that Jesse Ashlock will take over the top editorial spot at the international design magazine on May 26. Ashlock has for the past three years moderated the interactive category for I.D.'s annual design review. FishbowlNY: Former I.D. managing editor Jill Singer and senior editor Monica Khemsurov have founded a design consulting company called Sight Unseen.
Interview Publisher to Launch Modern Magazine (Folio:)
Interview publisher Brant Publications is set to launch Modern, a quarterly print magazine about design. "Modern covers all of the facets of collecting modern design, from aesthetics to market conditions," the company said. The mag will have an $8.00 cover price and an initial circulation of 50,000.
Some at NYT Don't Like It When Staffers Tweet Through Meetings (NYO)
New York Times Metro editor Jodi Rudoren said that she doesn't believe Times staffers should be tweeting any internal news -- good news, bad news, whatever. "To me, we were in a weird zone," Rudoren said of a recent meeting whose details were broadcast to the world. E&P: Newspapers are tweeting like crazy, but what are the rules?
Could Globe Union Reject NYT Co. Deal? (Boston Phoenix)
When the Boston Newspaper Guild, the Boston Globe's largest union, decided to take the New York Times Company's latest contract offer to its members last week, ratification seemed like a done deal. Surprisingly, though, the opposition seems to have plenty of support.
MSLO to Charge for Online Videos (WWD)
Martha Stewart is about to try something most magazine publishers have yet to attempt: charging for online videos. Next month, Stewart will begin testing consumers' appetite to pay for videos, which will come from archives that are not yet available online. Mediaweek: Stewart cooks up tweets, looks to the future.
Last Day for Ann Arbor News Will Be July 23 (Ann Arbor News)
The Ann Arbor News will publish its last newspaper on Thursday, July 23, publisher Laurel Champion told employees in an email Thursday. "It's kind of a relief, that it's not up in the air anymore and we have a final date," said Russell Grenham, a systems operation specialist at the paper.
The Jay Leno Experiment (BusinessWeek)
Jay Leno's move to primetime is likely to cause sizable shifts among the viewers advertisers crave most. Four months before the jokester starts throwing one-liners at a prime-time audience, television execs are tussling over who stands to benefit when NBC launches its Leno experiment. AP: Conan O'Brien to be Leno's final Tonight Show guest.
Oprah Collects 1M Twitter Followers -- Run for Your Lives (AdAge)
Simon Dumenco: It's rather breathtaking to contemplate how quickly Oprah Winfrey amassed 1 million followers on Twitter (she crossed the line just today). Wow, she really showed that Ashton punk, didn't she? Oprah being Oprah, she's so far using Twitter in sage, Oprah-esque ways.
Google to Whining Publishers: Use a Robot to Block our Spiders (Beet.tv)
If publishers don't want their content crawled, they can easily tag their content with a "Robot" which blocks Google's spiders from indexing their pages, says Google spokesman Gabriel Stricker. Blocking Google is easily done with a simple tag called Robots Exclusion Protocol, or robots.txt protocol.
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