Mediagazer: YouTube Is Huge: 24 Hours of Video Now Uploaded Every Minute (Ben Parr/Mashable!)

Nick Bilton / New York Times:

Google and Partners Seek a Television Foothold — Google and Intel have teamed with Sony to develop a platform called Google TV to bring the Web into the living room through a new generation of televisions and set-top boxes. — The move is an effort by Google and Intel to extend their dominance …

Discussion: Shelly Palmer, Beyond Search, Associated Press, paidContent, Search Engine Land, Silicon Alley Insider, NewTeeVee, FierceOnlineVideo, Gizmodo, Mashable!, VentureBeat and Engadget

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

ABC and Amanpour Close to Deal for ‘This Week’ — ABC News is close to concluding a deal to install the longtime CNN foreign correspondent Christiane Amanpour as the new host of its Sunday political discussion show “This Week.” — The network's interest in Ms. Amanpour …

Discussion: Michael Calderone's Blog

Discussion: B&C

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

AOL Sets Up $10 Million Venture Fund To Back Local Startups — AOL (NYSE: AOL)—which is doubling down on its own local efforts—is now setting up a $10 million venture capital fund to invest in the local space. The company cites the “increasing number of startups” in the market as driving …

Discussion: MediaPost and Local Onliner

Discussion: paidContent

Felix Salmon:

Advertising on the iPad — There was another panel today on the iPad and the future of magazines, this one featuring my friends Rachel Sklar and Jacob Lewis. Jacob was pretty downbeat about the ability of the iPad to rescue the economics of the magazine industry, for two reasons; one, I think, is much better than the other.

Discussion: Mother Jones

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: L.A. Times Tech Blog, Hitwise Intelligence, The Now/ledge, GigaOM, 901am and Fast Company

Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:

Yes, It Was a Bad Year for Ad Spending, But It Got Less Worse in the Fourth Quarter — Last year was, as expected, a terrible year for advertising spending in this country, according to a leading research company. But the year ended better than it began — still down …

Discussion: Media Buyer Planner, Business Wire, Broadcasting & Cable, Crain's New York Business, TechCrunch, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, paidContent, Romenesko, AdAge, TVWeek.com and Gannett Blog

Ben Parr / Mashable!:

YouTube Is Huge: 24 Hours of Video Now Uploaded Every Minute — YouTube has just announced that it has surpassed yet another milestone, and this one's a doozy: 24 hours of video is now uploaded to the social video site every sixty seconds. Every second you are browsing YouTube, a full 24 minutes of video is uploaded to the site.

Discussion: YouTube Blog, NewTeeVee, MediaFile and Podcasting News

Eli Sanders / The Stranger:

The Great West Coast Newspaper War — San Francisco in 2010 is a strange place for an old-school newspaper war. This is the city where the dot-com industry started, where Yelp is the way to make dinner plans, where Digg is headquartered, where Apple just unveiled its new tablet computer …

Discussion: Romenesko and The Rumpus.net

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter avoids jail after source reveals himself — A judge has admitted that he gave a psychiatric evaluation of serial-killing suspect Anthony Sowell to Plain Dealer reporter Gabriel Baird. The judge who threatened to jail Baird started today's hearing by blasting …

Discussion: Metro and Reporters Committee News

Stephanie Clifford / Media Decoder:

Patrick McCarthy to Leave Condé Nast — Patrick McCarthy, the chairman and editorial director of Condé Nast's Fairchild Fashion Group and de facto editor of the fashion magazine W, will be leaving the company at the end of the year. — The news was announced in a press release …

Discussion: Folio, New York Observer, mediaelites, The Wire and WWD Media Headlines

Liz Gannes / GigaOM:

Sequoia's Kvamme: Social Media Marketing Can Replace Advertising — Sequoia Capital partner Mark Kvamme, citing examples from campaigns run on Funny or Die and AdMob, told an audience of marketers at OMMA Global in San Francisco today, “If you can harness social media marketing, you don't have to pay for advertising any more.”

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Ailes to the DC Staff: No More Shooting Inside the Tent — Fox News founder and chairman Roger Ailes dropped in to the Washington Bureau this afternoon for an impromptu talk to the troops ahead of tonight's RTCA dinner. — Sources inside the packed newsroom tell TVNewser Ailes started …

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Umair Haque:

Twitter, SXSW, and Building a 21st Century Business — So, how was your week? Mine's been interesting. In case you haven't heard, I interviewed Twitter CEO Evan Williams at the keynote at this year's South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Conference on Monday in Austin, Texas.

Discussion: Media Analysis RSS

Andrew Clark / Guardian:

Blockbuster DVD chain warns it faces bankruptcy — Heavily indebted movie rental chain warns of danger of bankruptcy as it fights to keep up with interest payments and changing technology — After 15 years as a high street stalwart, the heavily indebted DVD rental chain Blockbuster …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic Online

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Daily Mail: iPad, E-Readers Will Have ‘Absolutely No’ Impact This Year — Hang on - weren't publishers falling over themselves in the rush for e-reader salvation? The Association of Online Publishers, in this video with its members, has found many execs are neither glowing nor certain about the e-reader opportunity in 2010...

Discussion: Online and Guardian

New York Times:

Amazon May Impede Access to Some Publishers' Books — Amazon.com has threatened to stop directly selling the books of some publishers online unless they agree to a detailed list of concessions regarding the sale of electronic books, according to two industry executives with direct knowledge the discussions.

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:

From CNN's lower third: ‘Jewish lobby runs America’ — CNN's practice of running viewers' Twitter feeds at the bottom of its screen put some jarringly raw anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiment on cable during an interview with Wolf Blitzer, a reader pointed out to me today, and the segment above illustrates.

Discussion: Gawker and Mediaite

The Deal LLC:

Upcoming waves of media restructuring — Turnaround expert Holly Felder Etlin says the media industry will go through multiple rounds of restructuring, akin to what the auto industry has endured, before consolidation picks up. As managing director of AlixPartners LLP …