Time Inc. editor in chief Martha Nelson and Bloomberg Businessweek creative director Richard Turley are among those who have so far contributed  $37,000 (including $3,000 since this Adweek article was published) to help pay the medical bills of recovering injury victim Bob Newman, currently a magazine design consultant, a former design director of New York, Details and Fortune, and a former creative director at Real Simple and Reader's Digest.  Newman, whose recent clients have included Adweek, is recovering from a severe head injury. The goal is to raise $50,000. Donations can be made here.    

Michael Corty, senior equity analyst at Morningstar, was chosen The Wall Street Journal’s “top-rated analyst in the advertising and publishing sectors” and “one of the top three media stock pickers.”  Corty’s notable picks in 2012 included WPP and Interpublic, writes Keach Hagey.  Besides seeing strength in traditional ad agencies (in stark contrast to this new Harvard Business Journal blog post headlined  “The End of Traditional Ad Agencies”), Corty also believes TV cord-cutting fears are overblown.  And he regrets not rating Lamar Advertising as a “buy” last year when the outdoor ad firm’s stock ended up rising 41%.

Oy, not a good day to be working at three venerable New York City newspapers. First, the two top editors at alt-weekly Village Voice have resigned rather than "lay off or drastically reduce the role of five employees on the 20-person staff," writes David Carr in The New York Times. At the New York Post, management is offering voluntary buyouts to qualified newsroom employees to achieve a 10% staff reduction, though the paper says it could institute layoffs if not enough employees take the deal, according to Capital New York. And the New York …

Just before its upfront, Telemundo got expanded advertising commitments from three big fish -- AT&T, Ford and State Farm -- this time for "La Voz Kids," the Hispanic spinoff of its sister network's hit  "The Voice."

The Dallas Morning News is joining the trend for newspapers including the New York Times to tweak their digital paywalls "to try to capture a larger readership," writes Justin Ellis. "Publisher Jim Moroney says the company is exploring its options — including adding a meter that would allow for a limited number of free stories, creating specialized tiers of digital access to Dallasnews.com, or creating time-limited access to the site, like a 24-hour pass."

Time Warner Cable, Hearst, HBO and Verizon have pledged to provide a total of $150,000 each to fund the NYC Media Lab, founded in 2010 "as part of a media-industry effort to encourage and benefit from research in the same way that tech companies already do," writes Kate Kaye."As paying charter members, the companies are afforded access to the findings of research work conducted on the behalf of other participants."

Proof that the magazine model isn't dead, though it is constantly morphing: First, there's Medium, launched last year by Twitter cofounders Evan Williams and Biz Stone "as a collaborative publishing tool that connected writers to a larger network," writes Laura Hazard Owen. Five editors help "curate" the content, which means there's some selectivity involved. Then there's the just-launched (April 29) Nautilus: Science Connected, which is availalble as a glossy print quarterly as well as online. According to John Steele, founder, publisher and editorial director, it aims to be  “a New Yorker version of Scientific American."

Who will run Al Jazeera America? This position is both "one of the biggest jobs in media"  and "a high-risk opportunity," according to Sharon Waxman. Leading candidates, according to sources Waxman cites, include Mark Whitaker, former managing editor at CNN; Former CNN President Jon Klein "("Would it be cool for a Jewish guy to run an Arab-owned news network?" Waxman asks) and Steve Capus, former NBC News president. Waxman analyzes the chances for each, along with others also reportedly on the short list.

MSNBC.com is hiring a slew of employees from well-known companies to work as  reporters, including Adam Serwer, previously of Mother Jones, who will focus on civil rights and social justice; Suzy Khimm, formerly at the Washington Post and founding writer of Wonkblog; and Benjy Sarlin, who covered the 2012 presidential race for Talking Points Memo.

"The parallels between TV stations today and newspapers in 2005 should be heeded by local TV executives," writes Randy Bennett. "The trends are equally troubling and there is much they can learn from newspapers’ experience and response." For example: "While newspapers have had a degree of success at driving audience through mobile, video and social platforms, monetization of those platforms, so far, has been a long, hard slog. TV needs to be in the game today to capitalize on increasing shifts of ad dollars to those platforms."