Mediagazer: Newspaper comments: Forget anonymity! The problem is management (Scott Rosenberg/Scott Rosenberg's …)

11:25 PM ET, April 13, 2010

Top News:

Hello World — Although our services extend beyond the Web, Twitter ranks as one of the most popular sites on the Internet. Over the years, we've resisted introducing a traditional Web advertising model because we wanted to optimize for value before profit.

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

Twitter Unveils Plans to Draw Money From Ads — Twitter will unveil on Tuesday a much-anticipated plan for making money from advertising, finally answering the question of how the company expects to turn its exponential growth into revenue. — The advertising program …

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Twitter's Costolo: Promoted Tweets And The Importance Of ‘Resonance’ — With Twitter's big announcement of how it plans to make money with Promoted Tweets out of the way, the micro-blogging service's COO Dick Costolo took the stage at the Ad Age Digital Conference to sell the idea.

Discussion: broadstuff

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Twitter to Rival Ad Players: Tread Carefully — Twitter has started showing ads to its users. But Twitter is not the only one doing that-there's a host of start-ups trying to insert ads into the Twitter stream, and more on the way. — So here's a question: Will Twitter force publishers …

Discussion: VentureBeat, ReveNews and Digits

Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:

CNN Fights Back With ‘Objectivity’ Arguments — In a presentation to advertisers and agencies on Tuesday morning, executives of CNN indicated how they plan to counter the growing ratings of — and buzz about — the rival Fox News Channel: play up their channel's identity as an objective source of news.

Discussion: The Wire, Romenesko, Broadcasting & Cable, Beet.TV, Inside Cable News, Variety and Chickaboomer

Matea Gold / Company Town:

CNN execs say they plan no imminent changes to primetime despite ratings slide — CNN executives on Tuesday said they had no imminent plans to change the network's prime-time line-up despite a steep fall-off in viewership, but suggested they are stepping up efforts to increase the performance of the current slate of shows.

Discussion: Mediaite and Inside Cable News

Gillian Reagan / The Wire: CNN Takes Over The Internet With New Tech, Showbiz, Food Sites (TWX)

Paul Krugman:

Andrew Ross Sorkin Owes Several People an Apology … I certainly never said anything like that, and I don't think Nouriel did either. First of all, I never called for “nationalizing the entire banking system” — I wanted the government to take temporary full ownership of a few weak banks …

Discussion: Runnin' Scared, CJR, Mediaite, New York Times, The Wire, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post, Gawker, FishBowlNY, Felix Salmon, The Atlantic Wire, New York Observer, Media Research Center, Dealbreaker, Cheat Sheet and DealBook

Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:

Dear Professor Krugman ... I read your blog post about my column in Tuesday's newspaper. — As you know, I'm a big fan of yours. I just want to point to some of the source material I had consulted for the column. — You quoted part of my column that said, “Some economists …

Discussion: The Wire, Salon and New York Magazine

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Tough love: Gawker finds making it harder for comments to be seen leads to more (and better) comments — That chart is, for news organizations seeking to tame their commenters, perhaps the best evidence yet that adding a few obstacles for those seeking the leave their mark on a web page can actually lead to more comments.

Discussion: The Wire, New York Observer, thomped and NetNewsCheck Latest

Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:

YouTube CEO Chad Hurley Defends Net Neutrality — In an exclusive interview with TheWrap, YouTube CEO and co-founder Chad Hurley defended the need for net neutrality as a means for preserving the democratization of video on the internet. — “The telecom industry pretends like it's not getting paid …

Felix Salmon:

Questions answered on business blogging — I got an email this morning from a journalism student with a few questions; I thought if I was answering them I might as well do so on the blog, for anybody else interested. — 1) How and why were business bloggers able to gain so much respect …

Discussion: Talking Biz News, BusinessJournalism.org … and CJR

Tricia Duryee / paidContent:

A Dozen National Broadcasters Align To Create One Mobile TV Network — After working together for years through a trade association, a dozen broadcasters are now forming a financially-backed joint venture to develop a national mobile service, including live and on-demand video …

Discussion: PR Newswire, NewTeeVee, TechCrunch, Company Town, Lost Remote, Multichannel and Broadcasting & Cable

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Can explainers be the basis for a revenue stream? Voice of San Diego's Scott Lewis thinks so — You may have seen Megan's post a couple weeks ago about how lauded news nonprofit Voice of San Diego is trying to hire an “engagement editor” to help push its stories into social media and public consciousness.

Discussion: Unofficial ASNE10 blog

Damon Kiesow / Poynter Online:

WSJ.com emerging tech editor: iPad app ‘gives me hope’ — As one of the two major newspapers known to have early access to an iPad for app development, The Wall Street Journal drew more than its fair share of gossip and speculation over the past month. Since launch, the app has drawn rave reviews …

Discussion: New York Observer and BusinessJournalism.org …

Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:

Bantam Dell Merged with Ballantine, Taublib Departs — At one time Bantam, Dell, and Ballantine were the major players in mass market paperback, and now those imprints are being united into one division under the Random House Publishing Group. The Ballantine Bantam Dell unit will be overseen …

Discussion: GalleyCat and Media Decoder

Alissa Krinsky / TVNewser:

Ted Koppel On the State of the News Industry: 'I Think It's a Disaster' — On BBC World News America last night, contributing analyst Ted Koppel had a few choice words about the state of the news industry these days. — In response to a question from anchor Katty Kay about a new Pew Research survey …

Elizabeth Jensen / TVWeek.com:

The 10 Most Powerful in TV News — It's time again to name NewsPro's 10 Most Powerful in TV News. This year there's an unseen puppeteer pulling the strings behind the scenes. Call him (or her) Moneybags. Or Wall-E Street. Or Quarterly Profit Mistress.

Discussion: Mediaite, The TV Guy and Chickaboomer

Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:

Newspaper comments: Forget anonymity! The problem is management — This New York Times piece Monday reflects a growing chorus of resentment among newspaper website managers against the “barroom brawl” atmosphere so many of them have ended up with in the comments sections on their sites.

Discussion: The Rural Blog and Techdirt

Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:

ABC News Employees Upset Over Amanpour This Week Hire — Ever since the non-ABC News hire of Christiane Amanpour for This Week anchor, rumors have circulated about employee discontent over the decision as well as questions over what the show would become with a more internationally-focused anchor at the helm.

Discussion: The Wire

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Cuomo Runs P.R. Machine Behind the Curtain — ALBANY — Press conferences called by Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo have a “Wizard of Oz” feel: They are routinely done by conference call, with Mr. Cuomo remaining invisible, a booming authoritative voice sticking carefully to his chosen subject.

Discussion: Capital Tonight, New York Magazine, Ben Smith's Blog, msnbc.com and Gawker

Ryan Tate / Gawker:

The Dark Side of Steve Jobs — Steve Jobs seduced New York's media moguls all too easily, convincing them his iPad would magically keep them in business — and in chauffeured limos. But nothing easy comes free, and the publishers' digital debt is now due.

Discussion: sjvn's blog, MediaPost, Beyond Search, Signal vs. Noise and AdAge

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Alpha Media Names Joseph Mangione Its Latest CEO — Maxim Publisher, Alpha's Fifth CEO Since 2007, Plans Growth in Marketing, Promotions and Events — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Maxim publisher Alpha Media named Joeseph Mangione its latest CEO today, making him the fifth person to hold …

Discussion: Folio, FishBowlNY, MinOnline and paidContent

Dan Martin / Guardian:

Songwriters slam Spotify royalties — A songwriters' association has criticised the Spotify streaming service over ‘tiny’ payments to musicians — An association of songwriters has hit out at Spotify, casting fresh doubt on the streaming service's capacity to generate income for musicians.

Discussion: New York Magazine

Greg Marx / CJR:

The Never-Ending Story — Inside Huffington Post's 11,000-word piece on progressive Democrats — Media critics like to wonder whether there's a place on the Web for long-form narrative journalism. But evidence that such work can still be produced, and still find an audience …

Discussion: A plain blog about politics

Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:

South Park's 200th, litigious celebs and Mohammed: Matt Stone and Trey Parker (BB Video) — Watch on YouTube. or Download MP4 — In this Boing Boing Video exclusive, South Park co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker speak with Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin on the eve of the 200th episode of the hit Comedy Central series.

Discussion: Hit & Run, TVbytheNumbers and The Daily Dish

Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:

Do Journalists ‘Grieve’ the Decline of Journalism? — Spinning off a speech by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumpka at Harvard about why working people are angry, Ezra Klein makes this point comparing the reaction to job losses in manufacturing to job losses in journalism: … Grief from whom?

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Ezra Klein