Mediagazer: How Mark Luckie Created 'The Digital Journalist's Handbook' (Ryan Sholin/MediaShift Idea Lab)

Twitter and News and Media Websites — A couple of weeks ago, I did a follow up post on my blog entry, “Facebook Largest News Reader?”. The entry illustrated that Facebook users prefer Broadcast Media while Google News readers prefer Print Media. Several readers requested that I add Twitter to the mix.

Discussion: GigaOM, VentureBeat, 901am, Fast Company, Web Analytics World and Silicon Alley Insider

Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:

Conan O'Brien Plots A Movie Maneuver — EXCLUSIVE: Here's the latest twist to the Conan O'Brien odyssey. Getting shoved out of his TV dream job as Tonight Show host is going to make him a movie star. I'm told that early talks are underway to give documentary feature treatment …

Discussion: The Playlist, /Film, TV Tattle and New York Magazine

CNN:

Erickson joins the Best Political Team — Erick Erickson has joined CNN. — (CNN) - Prominent conservative commentator and RedState.com editor Erick Erickson will join CNN as a political contributor, appearing primarily on CNN's new show John King, USA¸ the network announced Tuesday.

Discussion: The Caucus, Runnin' Scared, The Politico, Gawker, The Atlantic Wire and Mediaite

Alex Koppelman / Salon:
What was CNN thinking with latest hire?

Discussion: RedState, The Impolitic and Washington Monthly

Nielsen Wire:

Facebook, Google and Yahoo! are Top Sites While Watching Big TV Events — Americans are getting into the habit of going online while watching television, with 10% or more of viewers visiting social networks, searching the web and browsing content during major TV events.

Discussion: MediaMemo, Fast Company, MediaPost and B&C

Ryan Sholin / MediaShift Idea Lab:

How Mark Luckie Created 'The Digital Journalist's Handbook' — It's an increasingly common story in the news business: Young journalist roars out of graduate school at Berkeley, gets a great job at a magazine in New York, works like mad, gets laid off when the economy tanks …

Monica Guzman / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

New media ventures blossom in Seattle — News is ever-changing, and the business of covering it is growing — especially in Seattle. — On Thursday, seattlepi.com marks a year as an online-only Web site. It emerged as a successor after the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper ceased publication on March 17, 2009.

Discussion: The Daily Weekly, Next Door Media, PubliCola and HyperlocalBlogger

Todd Shields / Bloomberg:

FCC Broadband Plan Raises Broadcasters' Alarm, Wireless Cheer — The U.S. plan to expand high-speed Internet service might come at a cost to broadcasters and that may signal a fight when lawmakers are asked to help turn television airwaves over to wireless competitors.

Discussion: Online NewsHour

Alex Pham / Los Angeles Times:

YouTube sets its sights on independent musicians — The video website is expected to announce plans to entice musicians by offering to share ad revenues. — YouTube wants to rock MySpace. — The Google-owned video site is expected to announce Wednesday a new program, dubbed Musicians Wanted …

Discussion: Epicenter and YouTube Blog

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Times Online Blocks Media Monitor Meltwater — Public relations news monitor Meltwater, which is still refusing to pay UK newspapers for crawling their websites, has now been blocked from indexing Times Online, the most serious of Rupert Murdoch's UK newspapers.

Discussion: Guardian, Editors Weblog and Journalism.co.uk

Martin Moore / MediaShift Idea Lab:

10 Reasons Why News Organizations Should Use ‘Linked Data’ — On a news organization's list of priorities, publishing articles as “linked data” probably comes slightly above remembering to turn the computer monitors off in the evening, and slightly below getting a new coffee machine.

Discussion: Martin Moore Blog and Journalism.co.uk

Richard Sandomir / New York Times:

Putting Games Online to Try to Satisfy Majority — If a flaw existed in CBS's coverage of the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament, it was the regionalization of games — especially in the first four days. — CBS doled out the games it felt met the needs of each market. (It still does.)

Discussion: Media on HuffingtonPost.com and Online Video News

Ryan Tate / Gawker:

Deadline Panic at AOL Over Hipster Contributors — AOL hired an army of underemployed music lovers to interview bands at South by Southwest. But the citizen journalists, paid $50 per story, are missing their deadlines, so AOL sent a panicked mass email (below).

Discussion: The Business Insider, Ex-Spectator, eMedia Vitals, Romenesko, FishBowlLA and Silicon Alley Insider

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Why the Future of Video Ads Looks a Lot Like Ancient History — Video publishers are still monkeying around with different ad formats. The latest, used by just about everyone except Google's YouTube (GOOG), is a menu that lets video watchers pick their own ad before the video starts.

Discussion: AdAge and A.V. Club

Erik Heinrich / Time:

Cisco CRS-3 Router Speeds Streaming, Worries Film Execs — The Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System, a next-generation Internet router, can handle 12 times the Internet traffic of the nearest competing product — Steve Wisbauer / Photodisc / Getty Images — Cisco's CRS-3 router made a bit …

Discussion: fierceonlinevideo.com …

Marlow Riley / mediaelites:

The Last Pop Star: Michael Jackson's Estate Signs the Biggest Record Contract in History — Despite the general industry downsizing, labels are still willing to pay to make Michael Jackson the next Tupac. His estate has just signed a $200 million contract with Sony (that could go up to $250 million) …

Discussion: The Wire and Los Angeles Times

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Boulder way: A bookstore's experiment with microdistribution — The “Recommended” section at the Boulder Book Store, an independent bookseller in Colorado, features a mix of titles and genres. And also: a mix of distribution models. Among the traditionally published works on display stand …

Mike Taylor / FishBowlNY:

New York Observer to Relaunch ‘Media Mob’ Blog — The New York Observer will be relaunching its “Media Mob” blog tonight under the name “Media Mob With Koblin and Gillette,” FishbowlNY has learned. — As the name indicates, the new vertical will prominently feature print media reporter John Koblin …

Discussion: FishBowlDC

Elisehu / Hey Elise:

Contextualizing Context — Some great thinkers in media are leading what I'll call the “context movement”, a push toward giving audiences more satisfying, better understanding of the worlds in which they live instead of simply presenting ephemeral, episodic stories as journalists always have.

Discussion: Strange Attractor, @JeremyLittau and The Future of Context

Aaron / YouTube Biz Blog:

Opening up YouTube to new display advertisers — One of our goals is to democratize access to display advertising and make it accessible and open — like search advertising — so new advertisers can participate easily. We launched Display Ad Builder in 2008 to help businesses easily set up and run display ad campaigns.

Discussion: ClickZ, fierceonlinevideo.com …, paidContent and NewTeeVee