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12:50 PM ET, March 17, 2010

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Heather Hopkins / Hitwise Intelligence:
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.
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Nadia Majid / VentureBeat:
Hitwise: People get their news from Facebook and Google — not Twitter  —  The value of Twitter when it comes to breaking news and eyewitness reports has been discussed as length (evidenced by CNN's race to get the most followers, and the buzz surrounding the site's role in the Iran protests last year) …
Discussion: GigaOM
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 …
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).
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Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Says It Never Expected To Interview All 2,000 SXSW Bands (AOL)
Discussion: WebNewser
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
Local TV news doesn't share the public interest  —  A study says L.A. news broadcasts devote only 22 seconds per 30 minutes to local government coverage.  Is it likely to get better?  —  The Federal Communications Commission says that, in exchange for the right to use the airwaves we all own …
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
Brian Steinberg / AdAge:
NBC, Dr Pepper Manage to Blur Commerce, Content Even More  —  ‘30 Rock’ Commercial Points to New Direction in TV Advertising  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The day when commercials are indistinguishable from the programs they support finally arrived — just before 10 p.m. Eastern last Thursday night.
Discussion: Gawker
Eve Conant / The Gaggle:
How Will Conservative Bloggers Attack the Mainstream Media Once the Networks Start Hiring Them?  —  Prominent Redstate.com commentator Erick Erickson will join CNN, the network announced Tuesday, welcoming the “self-described ‘obsessive news junkie’ ” to their team.
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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 …
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
John Koblin / New York Observer:
Times' National Desk in ‘Head-Snapping’ Revamp  —  In recent weeks, The New York Times' national desk has undergone quite a face-lift.  There's a new editor, Rick Berke.  There is a new deputy editor in Adam Bryant.  And there will be a new Los Angeles bureau chief in Adam Nagourney.
Discussion: Romenesko
Marie Bénilde / New York Times:
The End of Newspapers?  —  Journalists are now in the same situation as steel workers in the 1970s: They are destined to disappear, but they don't know it.  —  That was the assessment of a banker from BNP-Paribas at the French national press federation's conference in Strasbourg in 2006.
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
UK Publishers Expect Even Slower Online Revenue Growth  —  The days of web sales nearly doubling each year are long gone.  UK Association of Online Publishers (AOP) members - who forecast 31 percent higher online income in 2008 and 16 percent in 2009 - now expect 2010 growth of just 10 percent.
Discussion: Romenesko and Guardian
Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:
BBC Global News staff face cuts in management shake-up  —  Senior management roles will be cut as part of an extensive management restructure within the BBC's Global News division, Journalism.co.uk has learned.  —  Nine senior management posts will close as part of the changes, which will create a saving of £600,000.
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
John Cook / Gawker:
Meet the Generation That Will Save and/or Destroy the New York Times  —  The only way the New York Times can escape the clutches of a Mexican billionaire is by successfully instituting a paywall.  Who has it chosen to manage this treacherous path?  The publisher's nephew.  He used to run a DJ school.
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 …
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.
 
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Market Wire:
Journal Register Company Establishes Advisory Board
Discussion: Romenesko
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Putting Games Online to Try to Satisfy Majority
Paulgillin / Newspaper Death Watch:
Garfield on Media Chaos
Erik Heinrich / Time:
Cisco CRS-3 Router Speeds Streaming, Worries Film Execs
Peter Kirwan / Wired.co.uk:
Ads nauseam: The battle to save UK privacy online
Aaron / YouTube Biz Blog:
Opening up YouTube to new display advertisers
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Times Online Blocks Media Monitor Meltwater
 Earlier Picks: 
Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
E.U. Broadcasters Push to Change Copyright Rules Tying Up Online Offerings
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Why the Future of Video Ads Looks a Lot Like Ancient History
Discussion: AdAge and A.V. Club
Mike Taylor / FishBowlNY:
New York Observer to Relaunch ‘Media Mob’ Blog
Discussion: FishBowlDC
Jason Fell / Folio:
Publishers Make, Save Money Through Partnerships
Discussion: The Wire
Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
EPIX, CHARLES TARGET STEVE JOBS WITH ICON SERIES PILOT
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Audit Bureau Revises Guidelines For Broader Inclusion Of E-Reader …