Mediagazer: TheStreet Lost $45.5 Million In '09; But Ad Revs May Have Turned A Corner (David Kaplan/paidContent)

2:35 AM ET, March 16, 2010

Top News:

@anywhere — When we designed Twitter, we took a different approach—we didn't require a relationship model like that of a social network. Keeping things open meant you could browse our site to read tweets from friends, celebrities, companies, media outlets, fictional characters, and more.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Where Are Twitter's Ads? You May Have to Wait a Month (Or More). — Twitter CEO Evan Williams did not announce the new ad platform the company is working on today. — So when will we see it? Think mid-April. — One good bet is at Chirp, the company's developer conference four weeks from now.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, AdExchanger.com, GigaOM, TechCrunch and NetNewsCheck Latest

Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:

Twitter launches “At Anywhere” platform, integrates tweets, profiles across the web — Twitter CEO Ev Williams demonstrated a new platform today that will spread the microblogging network's profiles, tweets and possibly advertising across the web. It's taking the hovercards it launched …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Gawker, TechCrunch and Speakeasy

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Pew: Online News Users Don't Want To Pay—Or Look At Ads — The latest report on online news economics from Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism is one of those studies that will bolster just about any view people have about paying for news online. Want to show that news consumers are unwilling to pay?

Alexandra Fenwick / CJR:
State of the Media, By the Numbers

Discussion: Romenesko, Journalism.co.uk, Journalism.org, blogs.tampabay.com, Agence France Presse and Mediaite

Gillian Reagan / The Business Insider:

NYT Vs. WSJ War Continues: New York Times Ads Slam Wall Street Journal Stats (NYT, NWS) — The New York Times just turned up the heat in their battle against the Wall Street Journal for advertisers—this time with a new ad campaign called “Numbers.” — A new microsite and ads …

Discussion: The Wire

The New York Times Company:
The New York Times Launches New Trade Campaign, ‘Numbers’

Discussion: Editor and Publisher, paidContent, Romenesko, New York Observer and Michael Calderone's Blog

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

C-Span Puts Its Full Archives on the Web — WASHINGTON — Researchers, political satirists and partisan mudslingers, take note: C-Span has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet. — The archives, at C-SpanVideo.org, cover 23 years of history …

Discussion: ResourceShelf and News On News

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

Ex-E&P editor Mitchell to blog for The Nation — Greg Mitchell will edit The Nation's “Media Fix” blog, a snapshot of the best and worst each day in media and journalism. It will launch in April when TheNation.com is redesigned. Mitchell's @MediaFixBlog Twitter feed is up and running.

Discussion: The Nation, Media on HuffingtonPost.com, WebNewser, GalleyCat, E&P In Exile and Michael Calderone's Blog

Peter Lattman / Deal Journal:

Michael Lewis's ‘The Big Short’? Read the Harvard Thesis Instead! — Deal Journal has yet to read “The Big Short,” Michael Lewis's yarn on the financial crisis that hit stores today. We did, however, read his acknowledgments, where Lewis praises “A.K. Barnett-Hart, a Harvard undergraduate …

Discussion: The Wire and Dealbreaker

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Euthanazing the paper? Not yet. — I love this year-old Warren Buffet quote: “If Mr. Gutenberg had come up with the Internet instead of movable type back in the late 15th century, and for 400 years we had used the Internet for news and all types of entertainment and all kinds of everything else …

Discussion: Reflections of a Newsosaur and Kirk LaPointe's …

MediaShift:

How Journalism is Getting Better — Michael Arrington's recent TechCrunch post about old media “guys” who don't get it made me realize how far things have come — and how much better they've gotten — in the world of journalism. — I worked for more than 15 years in what's now called …

John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:

FCC Broadband Plan: Reactions Pour In — UPDATED: Comcast's Roberts commends plan — Comment from Washington came pouring over the electronic transom Monday as details of the FCC's national broadband plan were revealed. — Broadcasters said they would look closely at the plan …

Discussion: Multichannel, Variety, MediaPost and paidContent

Sean Blanda / eMedia Vitals:

VIDEO: The magazine stand of the future — Here, the coolest thing EMV has seen so far at SXSW: Todd Clare demonstrates how one day, we will be able to drop a tablet computer on a special table and drag magazines onto our device.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and Gizmodo Australia

Paige Albiniak / Broadcasting & Cable:

Syndication Keeping Tribune in the Game — Company hoping CW will broaden out programming to help primetime — Syndicated programming and expanded local newscasts are the foundation on which the 23 Tribune stations are working to build strong businesses in its 19 markets.

Discussion: TVbytheNumbers and The Wire

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

NYT reminds freelancers of its ethics policies — To: FreelanceWriters1-NO_REPLY@nytimes.com — This is a reminder about The Times's ethics policies for journalists. — As you know, The Times takes very seriously the issue of conflicts of interest and other problems that might undermine the credibility of our journalism.

Discussion: Mediaite

Felix Gillette / New York Observer:

ABC Tinkers with the Idea of Midday News — With the audiences for traditional network news shows steadily declining, (see the PEJ's State of the News Media 2010) executives at the broadcast news divisions are continuing to brainstorm new ideas on how to expand their offerings.

Kevin Allocca / TVNewser:

Christiane Amanpour Offered ABC ‘This Week’ Job — FishbowlDC reports that CNN's Christiane Amanpour, who had been rumored to be in talks with ABC News, has told colleagues that she received an offer for the “This Week” hosting job: “As of this moment she is declaring a 50-50 chance that she's going to accept the offer.”

Discussion: FishBowlDC, Michael Calderone's Blog and Mediaite

Joe Grimm / Ask the Recruiter:

TIME magazine editor becomes freelancer, blogger — While the news industry is frantically searching for solutions and new directions, journalists' lives have been disrupted by cutbacks and job changes. Poynter Online wants to help by sharing how-they-did-it snapshots from people who overcame employment challenges.

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Bruni and Sarkozy: How two tweets have made twits out of many British journalists — It seems that two tweets can make a twit out of a great many journalists. — The Sunday Times reported yesterday that just two anonymous postings on the social media site Twitter were behind …

Discussion: Editors Weblog, The Independent and Times of London

David Kaplan / paidContent:

TheStreet Lost $45.5 Million In '09; But Ad Revs May Have Turned A Corner — Financial news site TheStreet.com may have finished the year with a loss of $45.5 million—compared with 2008's $2.4 million profit—the company finally got a glimmer of hope of on the ad front.