Mediagazer: YouTube sets its sights on independent musicians (Alex Pham/Los Angeles Times)

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: 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

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

Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:

AOL Says It Never Expected To Interview All 2,000 SXSW Bands (AOL) — How is AOL's big music writing experiment in SXSW going? According to AOL's Saul Hansell, “great,” but he admits AOL won't be interviewing all 2,000 bands as hoped. — In an email to us, Saul tries moving the goal posts:

Discussion: WebNewser

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, Company Town, MTV Movies Blog, The Playlist, /Film, TV Tattle and New York Magazine

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

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

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

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 …

Market Wire:

Journal Register Company Establishes Advisory Board — Prominent Media Thinkers Jeff Jarvis, Jay Rosen and Betsy Morgan to Advise Company on Rapidly Changing Media Landscape — Journal Register Company, a leading multi-media company in local news and information announced today the establishment of an Advisory Board.

Discussion: Romenesko

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 and Views of the News

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.

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

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

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 …

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

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