Mediagazer: CBS Picks Up Sitcom ‘Bleep My Dad Says’ (Nellie Andreeva/Deadline.com)

Andrew Romano / Newsweek:

Tweet the Press — A NEWSWEEK reporter risks public embarrassment by attempting to profile controversial Congresswoman Michele Bachmann in 140-character bursts. — Cameron Wittig for Newsweek — Reaching Out? Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann listens to a voter's concerns after a recent ‘jobs forum’ in her district

Chris Nuttall / Financial Times:

Google and Intel in web TV launch — Google and Intel are expected to announce a significant breakthrough into consumer electronics and the broadcast industry this week with the launch of a “Smart TV” platform. — Top executives from the Silicon Valley companies are reported to be ready …

Discussion: Relevant Results, NewTeeVee, Mashable!, Fast Company, Yahoo! News, VentureBeat, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, TechCrunch, The Huffington Post and Shelly Palmer

Megan McCarthy / Mediagazer News:

Mediagazer Leaderboard brings you the top 100 media news sites — Today we're launching the Mediagazer Leaderboard - a list of our top 100 source websites, ranked in order. The ranking is based on a variable we call presence - the percentage of headline space a source occupied on Mediagazer over the past 30 days.

Discussion: Techmeme News and TNW Apps

Brooks Barnes / Media Decoder:

Judge Dismisses Suit Over Variety Review — The trade paper Variety has escaped from a legal tangle over a negative review for the independent film “Iron Cross.” — A Los Angeles Superior Court last week dismissed a lawsuit that charged Variety of illegally damaging the movie by luring …

Mia / YouTube Blog:

At five years, two billion views per day and counting — Five years ago, after months of late nights, testing and preparation, YouTube's founders launched the first beta version of YouTube.com in May, with a simple mission: give anyone a place to easily upload their videos and share them with the world.

Discussion: Epicenter, The Nation, New York Times, MediaMemo, National Media, Digits, SocialTimes.com, NewTeeVee, 901am, WebNewser, The Wire, ReadWriteWeb, Fortune, ResourceShelf, paidContent, Fast Company, Podcasting News and FutureBook blogs

Joe Pompeo / Silicon Alley Insider:

New York Times Will Announce Paywall Specifics Toward ‘Latter’ Part Of The Year (NYT) — The New York Times will announce the “pricing and specifics” of its online metered paywall model “toward the latter part of the year,” the company's senior vice president of digital operations …

Discussion: Romenesko, Crain's New York Business, The New York Times Company, The Wire, New York Magazine and New York Times Co. Blog

Sean Blanda / eMedia Vitals:

The McDonalds of local news — Main Street Connect plans on rolling out 3000 local news websites by 2013. — Most independent hyperlocal startups have the same plan: start a news site, make it profitable and franchise the model out to other locations. — Few however, have been successful in scaling local news.

Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:

CBS Picks Up Sitcom ‘Bleep My Dad Says’ — The William Shatner starrer Bleep My Dad Says based on the Twitter account becomes CBS' second new comedy series, joining Chuck Lorre's Mike & Molly. For those keeping score, it's been one comedy (Bleep) and four new drama series pickups …

Discussion: From Inside the Box and Movieline

Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:

WaPo wades into HuffPo's unpaid content model — A top news and politics site is packaging content written by unpaid bloggers, hoping to engage its audience, give writers a platform, and make some money selling ads. No, I'm not talking about The Huffington Post.

Discussion: Silicon Valley Watcher and FishbowlDC

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

Jonathan Alter vs. Michael Wolff: The Pissy Email War — Last Friday, professional media beef-starter called Newsweek's Jonathan Alter “the most pompous man in American journalism.” Today, Wolff's column dismissively cited Alter's new book about Barack Obama.

Discussion: Newser and Newsweek

Michael Cieply / Media Decoder:

Once P.R. Allies, Now Foes — Grab the flak jackets: Allan Mayer, a partner in the public relations powerhouse 42 West, has joined in a lawsuit against his old associate Michael Sitrick, the Hollywood crisis king. — Mr. Mayer on Friday aligned with an earlier plaintiff, Richard Wool …

Discussion: LA Observed

Guardian:

Tabloid tales: journalists' memoirs from kiss ‘n’ tell to quit ‘n’ tell — Why should tabloid writers let truth get in the way of a good memoir? Plus, Sharon Marshall's Tabloid Girl digested by John Crace — Sharon Marshall's Tabloid Girl is the latest showbiz-journalism memoir …

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

“It's a totally new universe”: Digital media expert Mario Tedeschini-Lalli on the way forward for Italian media — While attending the International Journalism Festival in April, I met Mario Tedeschini-Lalli, one of Italy's premier new media thinkers. Co-chair of the Online News Association's …

Liz Jones / Daily Mail:

To all 4,100 of you who answered my cry from the heart - thank you — I wrote last week in You magazine how I felt close to suicide. The final straw had come at NatWest when Paula refused to let me withdraw £20 to get me through the next few days. I begged. I reminded her I'd been a customer since 1978.

Discussion: Guardian and Press Gazette

Bill Mitchell / Poynter Online:

200 Moments that Transformed Journalism — Funny thing about the transformation of media: there's often no way to tell, in the moment, whether any given development signals a passing fancy, a seed of destruction or a glimpse of tomorrow. — Thus were most of us puzzled, at the time …

David Goetzl / MediaPost:

Upfront Challenge: Selling Buyers When Key C3 Network Ratings Down — In upfront presentations this week, networks touting ratings face a tough PR job. With talk about the business thriving despite challenges from the Web and elsewhere, advertisers looking under the hood may find engines still needing a jump-start.

Discussion: Media Buyer Planner, Speakeasy, Media Decoder and Moraes on TV

rbr.com:

Targeted web ads: a look at how they're regulated — With recent news that broadcasters are finally monetizing their web pages and selling advertising, in some cases doing better with online advertising than newspapers, more attention may also be focused on broadcast online advertising by regulators.

Rebecca Mead / New Yorker:

RAGE MACHINE — Andrew Breitbart's empire of bluster. — On Sunday, March 21st, the day that the House voted to pass health-care reform, Andrew Breitbart, the conservative Internet entrepreneur, was thousands of miles away, at home in Westwood, a neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Discussion: Romenesko, Big Government and LA Observed

Peter Lauria / The Daily Beast:

Can Hollywood's Survivor Do It Again? — Hungry Beast Giving Beast Women in the World — Blogs and Stories — After a soft opening for Robin Hood, Universal's veteran studio boss, Ron Meyer, again finds his job in jeopardy. Peter Lauria on a looming showdown with his new corporate masters.

Alexander Trowbridge / On Media's Blog:

Lehrer on journalism — Fresh off a book tour for his 20th novel “Super,” PBS NewsHour host Jim Lehrer sat down with POLITICO at Politics and Prose Sunday to talk media. — He held forth on the future of journalism, promising that public television will be one of its saviors, and discouraged fame-seekers from entering the trade.

Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:

After You Read This Headline, Please Click It — The New York Times' David Carr has an interesting column on how the Internet changes headline writing. A century ago, headlines meandered down the page like a “wedding cake,” Carr writes. Some magazines like the New Yorker and New Republic still hold fast to two-word punches.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Words at Work, Mediaite and CJR

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:

An Online Game to Entice the Movie Audience — LOS ANGELES — Sony Pictures has been hard at work on a project with a complex script about spies and terrorists, filming on location and using props that include a rented airplane. — Is it the studio's latest blockbuster in the making? Not even close.

Discussion: iMedia Connection Blog and FirstShowing.net

Michael Hirschorn / New York Magazine:

1. Embrace Change — The industry is in turmoil. Hooray! — When all else fails, try being good. This may seem like an awfully cynical way to start an analysis of how great TV gets made. But TV is the most finely tuned of commercial instruments (up there with boy bands …

Discussion: NYConvergence