Mediagazer: UK Publishers Expect Even Slower Online Revenue Growth (Robert Andrews/paidContent)

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: The Now/ledge, 901am, Fast Company, Web Analytics World and Silicon Alley Insider

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 …

Discussion: The Wrap, Los Angeles Times, NY Daily News, Company Town, MTV Movies Blog, /Film, The Playlist, TV Tattle and New York Magazine

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

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 …

Discussion: Free Press, Romenesko, Views of the News and Boing Boing

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.

CNN:
Erickson joins the Best Political Team

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

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.

Discussion: Guardian, Editors Weblog and paidContent

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.

Discussion: Martin Moore Blog and Journalism.co.uk