Mediagazer: Variety Sues Punk Rock Band The Vandals (Dylan Stableford/The Wrap)

4:45 PM ET, April 13, 2010

Top News:

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.

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?

Discussion: Search Engine Land, GigaOM, MediaMemo, TechCrunch, Mashable!, The Next Web, Mobile Entertainment, paidContent and New York Times

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: Romenesko, Beet.TV, The Wire, Broadcasting & Cable, Company Town, Inside Cable News and Chickaboomer

Gillian Reagan / The Wire:

CNN Takes Over The Internet With New Tech, Showbiz, Food Sites (TWX) — CNN's digital network is huge — and it's about to get even bigger. — At a big presentation today at the Time Warner Center, CNN.com general manager KC Estenson boasted to a crowd of advertisers and agencies about the network's massive online reach.

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 — In honoring ‘Next to Normal,’ the board ignored the advice of its drama jury in favor of its own sentiments, says Pulitzer jurist Charles McNulty. — Buried in Monday's announcement of the 2010 Pulitzer winners …

Discussion: ArtsBeat, Washington Times, Washington Post, The Daily Weekly, New York Times, New York Observer and LA Observed

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

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

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: Times of London and The Atlantic Wire

Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:

MSNBC President Griffin Says David Shuster Suspension “All About Loyalty” — We published an email exchange Thursday night between MSNBC President Phil Griffin and a David Shuster fan about his anchor's indefinite suspension. — Mediaite spoke exclusively with Griffin today about the reasons behind …

Discussion: The Wire, TVNewser and Inside Cable News

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

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

Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:

Finally, It's Batter Up For ‘Moneyball’ — UPDATE: Sony sources tell me that Major League Baseball is on board with the version that will go into production. (MLB previously had approved the Steven Soderbergh version.) EXCLUSIVE: Columbia Pictures is locking in a July start date for the Bennett Miller-directed Moneyball.

Discussion: The Playlist, NBC Miami, Movieline, Thompson on Hollywood, New York Magazine and PopWatch

Jason Fell / Folio:

Report: Magazine Die-Off Slows But So Do New Launches — Mag closures down 76.8 percent in Q1, according to MediaFinder. — Only 22 magazines folded during the first period of 2010, according to the latest report from online magazine database MediaFinder.com.

Discussion: Gawker

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

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

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: Broadband TV News and Dow Jones Newswires

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: MinOnline and paidContent

Carlo Longino / Techdirt:

Daily Variety: We're Putting In A Paywall So We Don't Have To Write About Gossip — Andy Marx writes in to share a letter Daily Variety magazine sent to its subscribers, letting them know that it will soon be putting up a paywall, or as it prefers to call it, a “velvet rope”.

Discussion: Deadline.com

Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:

Variety Sues Punk Rock Band The Vandals — Variety is suing a venerable California punk rock band over the unauthorized use of its logo. Again. — According to the latest suit, filed in Delaware District Court on March 24, the band — the Vandals - and its record label - Kung Fu Records …

GalleyCat:

Hipster Puppies Site Lands Book Deal; Creator Explores the “Natural Tumblr-to-Book Ecosystem” — Last week the popular Tumblr blog Hipster Puppies nabbed a book deal with NAL/Penguin, bringing cute pictures of puppies in sunglasses, mustaches, and hip neck scarves to bookstores.

Jason Horowitz / Washington Post:

Obama spokesman Gibbs sounds eager for future strategist role — Robert Gibbs does not seem particularly attached to his office. — There is a dormant fireplace ("a problem with the flue," Gibbs said), a cluttered desk, a flat-screen television and a smaller monitor simultaneously displaying C-SPAN, MSNBC, the networks.