Mediagazer: Live Mobile TV Gets Summer Test Run (Chris Ariens/TVNewser)

6:05 AM 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 …

Discussion: Technology News, the Econsultancy blog, Fast Company, Mashable!, Search Engine Land, Kirk LaPointe's … and TechCrunch

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: GigaOM, MediaMemo, paidContent, Mobile Entertainment, TechCrunch, John Battelle's Searchblog, Mashable!, New York Times, Search Engine Land and Press Gazette

Biz / Twitter Blog:
Hello World — Although our services extend beyond the Web …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb

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 …

John Koblin / New York Observer:

Washington Post Edges Times in Pulitzers; Journal Shut Out Once Again — The Washington Post edged out the Times today and took home four Pulitzers to lead all newspapers in the 2010 Pulitzer Prizes. — It's a big win for Post editor Marcus Brauchli who has gone through a year marred …

Discussion: Reuters, The Huffington Post, Associated Press, Speakeasy, The Wire, Richard Prince's Journal-isms, ResourceShelf, Mediaite, The New Yorker Blog and News Corp. Blog

Charles McNulty / 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. — The musical's rock score may be generic and its understanding …

Discussion: LA Observed

Fitz & Jen:
2010 Pulitzer Prize winners:

Rick Anderson / The Daily Weekly:
Seattle Times Wins Another Pulitzer Prize; National Enquirer Shut Out

Discussion: Newsbroke, IRE, Editor and Publisher and Comic Riffs

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

Conan O'Brien Will Do a Late-Night Show on TBS — In a move that qualifies as a shocker, Conan O'Brien has made a deal to return to television in a new late-night show on cable—not network—television. — The former “Tonight Show” host has agreed to start up a new show on TBS …

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

How the Conan O'Brien-TBS Deal Happened — Conan O'Brien's manager, Gavin Polone, said that a whirlwind negotiation of only about 10 days led the late-night star to leave network television and jump to the cable network, TBS. — “They called us about a week and a half ago,” Mr. Polone said, in outlining how the negotiations began.

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, CrunchGear, Deadline.com, New York Magazine, Broadcasting & Cable, Geekosystem, The Wire, TVWeek.com and TVbytheNumbers

Josef Adalian / The Wrap:
Shocker: Conan Headed Back to TV— On TBS, Not Fox

Discussion: TVbytheNumbers, NPR Blogs, Media Decoder, Thompson on Hollywood, The Wire, Newsbroke, Rolling Stone, MarketWatch, Multichannel News, TMZ.com, NY Daily News, Speakeasy and New York Magazine

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Twitter Launches A New Guide For Media Organizations — Twitter has just launched a new site called Twitter Media, where it's offering media organizations and journalists some case studies and guidelines to better connect with their Twitter fans. Alongside the new portal, Twitter has also launched an official Twitter Media account.

Discussion: Twitter Media, FishBowlNY, New York Observer, SocialTimes.com and Lost Remote

Angela Natividad / mipblog:

MIPTV Liveblog: Twitter as Friend, Not Foe, to Media Players — Full house for Chloe Sladden this afternoon. Sladden (@chloes) is in charge of Twitter's media partnerships, with which she aspires to “create captivating interactive media experiences.” — Tall order.

Stuart Dredge / Mobile Entertainment: Twitter: ‘We almost make the EPG irrelevant’

AdAge:

Apple to Lend Hand to IAd Producers — Early Adopters Get an Added Bonus: Some Fairy Dust From Company Itself — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Apple's not just getting into the business of selling ads. They're going to make them as well, at least in the beginning for the earliest adopters of the new iAd format.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo: Is Apple Closing Off the iPhone to Rival Ad Networks?

Cody Brown / TechCrunch:

Dear Authors, Your Next Book Should be an App, Not an iBook — This post was written by 21 year old Cody Brown, the founder of kommons and NYU Local. — So much has been said in the past few weeks about how the iPad will change the book industry but in almost all of the tweets, posts …

Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
NSFW: I Admit It, The iPad Is A Kindle Killer. …

Discussion: Screenwerk, Soup, Kindle Review and broadstuff

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The future is mobile, and other thoughts from Google CEO Eric Schmidt's speech at ASNE — Yes, he got the inevitable “shouldn't you pay content providers?” question from an audience member. And, yes, he gave the inevitable “most news organizations actually want the traffic we provide” answer.

Discussion: Google News Blog, Guardian, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Podcasting News, FishBowlNY, Lost Remote, Romenesko, Newspaper Death Watch, Poynter Online, CNET News, Gawker and Editors Weblog

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

YC's NewsTilt Aims To Help Journalists Create A Business Model For Content — The business and content models behind news have been changing dramatically over the past few years; with the mechanisms by which journalists interact with their audiences constantly transforming along the way.

Discussion: Romenesko

Reinventing the Newsroom:

Putting Demand Media to the Test — Last week I read in the Los Angeles Times that Demand Media is now supplying text and video to USA Today, creating a new section called Travel Tips. — I've gone on record as not exactly being a fan of Demand Media, though I think my perspective …

Discussion: TechCrunch

Nat Ives / AdAge:

New York Times Revamps Business Section Online — Move Is Latest, but Not First, Play for Wall Street Journal's Readers and Advertisers — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Even as The Wall Street Journal prepares a New York edition aimed squarely at New York Times readers and advertisers …

Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:

Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video — Google will soon make its VP8 video codec open source, we've learned from multiple sources. The company is scheduled to officially announce the release at its Google I/O developers conference next month, a source with knowledge of the announcement said.

Discussion: Daring Fireball

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Live Mobile TV Gets Summer Test Run — FOX Business Network anchor Nicole Petallides moderated the opening breakfast discussion this morning at the 2010 NAB Show. The topic: taking live programming on the go, on any number of new mobile devices, including the iPad, which was front at center during this morning's chat.

Discussion: rbr.com, Multichannel and Broadcasting & Cable

JD Lasica / Socialmedia.biz:

GroundReport: Citizen journalism gets richer — A chat with the founder of GroundReport from JD Lasica on Vimeo. — Five years ago we launched Ourmedia.org as the first free hosting and sharing site for video and digital media (yes, before YouTube). Secretly, I wished that more of the videos …