Mediagazer: CNN Fights Back With ‘Objectivity’ Arguments (Stuart Elliott/Media Decoder)

7:40 PM ET, April 13, 2010

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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 …

Biz / Twitter Blog:

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.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

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

Discussion: ReveNews, Digits and New Media Age

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Twitter Has a Business Model: ‘Promoted Tweets’ — Search Ads For Twitter That Split Difference Between ‘Earned’ and ‘Paid’ Media — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — In the four years since Twitter launched, two questions have hung over the micro-blog service: Can it make money? If so, how?

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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

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: Mediaite, Company Town, Beet.TV, Romenesko, The Wire, Inside Cable News, Variety and Chickaboomer

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

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, NetNewsCheck Latest, New York Observer and thomped

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

Mark S. Luckie / 10,000 Words:

Online and multimedia storytelling from the 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners — In today's digital media environment, it's not enough to produce a lengthy print piece — you've got to have some sort of web element that adds to and enhances it. The following Pulitzer Prize-winning stories show …

Discussion: ResourceShelf, New York Observer, Fitz & Jen and The Daily Weekly

Los Angeles Times:
Critic's Notebook: On this year's drama award, the Pulitzer board blew it

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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: 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, Multichannel, Lost Remote, Broadcasting & Cable and TechCrunch

Adrian Chen / Gawker:

Stephen Colbert Grills Wikileaks Founder on Helicopter Video — Tonight on the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert interviewed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. We were wondering how Colbert would handle a subject as serious as a video showing 12 people being killed. Well, he handled it pretty seriously.

Discussion: Media & Culture, Times of London and The Atlantic Wire

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

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Realtime Media Sharing Service TweetPhoto Raises $2.6 Million Series A — Realtime media sharing platform TweetPhoto this morning announced that it has raised $2.6 million in a Series A financing led by Canaan Partners, with additional investment from Anthem Venture Partners …

Discussion: PRWeb, MediaPost, GigaOM, Mashable! and MediaMemo

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

News(paper) in the cloud — I think it's possible today to run a news organization — up to the point of publishing — from the cloud, changing not only the production process of news but also its culture. John Paton, CEO of Journal Register, is about to prove it with his Ben Franklin Project.

Discussion: FishBowlNY

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, the Econsultancy blog and Techdirt

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 …

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

“The 24/7 News Cycle”: David Carr, Arianna Huffington, and Mark Russell debate the future at ASNE — Earlier this morning, David Carr, Arianna Huffington, and the Orlando Sentinel's Mark Russell gathered to discuss “The 24/7 News Cycle: New Opportunities, New Pressures.”

Discussion: blogs.tampabay.com, The Huffington Post and Romenesko

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 …

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

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

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

Kristen Schweizer / Bloomberg:

YouTube to Air Elle, Women's Day Clips to Gain Ads — Google Inc's YouTube will air branded video clips from Elle, Car and Driver and Digital Spy under a deal with French publisher Lagardere SA to gain more users and boost revenue from premium content. — Under the three-year revenue-sharing contract …

Discussion: Dow Jones Newswires and Broadband TV News

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