Mediagazer: The ‘gamification’ of news, and how it can be relevant (Robert Quigley/Old Media, New Tricks)

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

Chris Lehmann to lead Yahoo's news blogs network — Andrew Golis is leaving his post as managing editor of The Upshot network of news blogs at Yahoo! to become director of digital media and senior editor at “Frontline,” the PBS investigative documentary series.

Discussion: SAI, paidContent, New York Magazine and Poynter

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

AOL Asks Us If We Can Tone It Down — Earlier this week I interviewed Duncan Jones and Jake Gyllenhaal at SXSW, at the press junket for their movie The Source Code. While the film doesn't have a huge tech angle other than the title, I thought it might be good video content for TCTV …

Discussion: Poynter, The Wrap, The Awl, Kempton and @poniewozik

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

Here's a Washington Post Story With All the Editor's Notes In It — If you spend more than five minutes talking to an editor, you're sure to hear about how some story or other was a total piece of s**t before said editor got his hands on it. Now you can judge for yourself!

Discussion: Poynter and CJR

Paige Albiniak / Broadcasting & Cable:

EXCLUSIVE: Couric Talker Looking Likely for 2012 — Former NBCU Distribution head Ed Wilson advising anchor — A syndicated talk show featuring Katie Couric is looking increasingly likely for fall 2012. — Couric's $15 million annual contract to anchor the CBS Evening News expires this June …

Discussion: The Wire, TVNewser, Company Town, Yahoo! News, Mediaite and On Media's Blog

Robert Quigley / Old Media, New Tricks:

The ‘gamification’ of news, and how it can be relevant — One of the somewhat-obnoxious buzzwords going around the South by Southwest Interactive Festival is the “gamification” of, well, everything, including the news. In a nutshell, that means taking video-game style processes and applying …

Discussion: mediabistro.com

Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:

NYT's Good Timing on Pay Launch, Amid News Chaos — Timing may not be everything, but it's a lot in life, and the New York Times could have not have picked a better time — soon - to launch both its new paid plans and new tablet product. — Why? Well, the world's conspired to wait …

Discussion: Poynter and AdPulp

Robminto / Online Journalism Blog:

When is an online comment defamatory? — Rob Minto looks at two recent cases that leave the field of libel online as confusing as ever. — For several years, newspapers, bloggers and other online publishers have been waiting for a landmark case to clarify defamation online.

Discussion: Media News

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Netflix Crushing the Digital Movie Competition — If you're going to pay for a movie over the Web, you don't have to use Netflix. But there's a very good chance you'll do just that: A 60 percent chance, says NPD. — The consumer tracking outfit says Reed Hastings' company owns 61 percent …

Discussion: Ars Technica, more at Techmeme »

Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:

Cable News Viewership Declines Double Digits in 2010 … After years of audience growth, cable news may have hit a wall. — According to the Project for Excellence in Journalism's annual State of the News Media report, cable news viewership for CNN, MSNBC and Fox News fell substantially in 2010 …

Discussion: TeleRead, The Atlantic Wire, paidContent, TVNewser, Reportr.net, Editors Weblog, Yahoo! News, Kirk LaPointe's …, MediaPost and Inside Cable News

New York Observer:

We Got the Betabeat! ‘The Observer’ Tech Site Launches Tomorrow — We're excited to announce the launch of our New York tech scene site, Betabeat (BETABEAT.com). Beginning tomorrow, Betabeat will deliver insider information on the latest ventures, startups and investments in Silicon Alley …

Discussion: Talking Biz News and WebNewser

Damon Kiesow / Poynter:

Highlights from SXSW: 7 steps to building trust and credibility with an online audience — Doreen Marchionni spent the last four years studying how journalists can boost their credibility and engagement with digital audiences. She found the simple secret: Interact online and be human.

Discussion: RJI

Philip Bump / Mediaite:

Breaking Down (Then Rebuilding) the Media Industry, One Atom Of Content At A Time — If you wanted to skip to a particular song thirty years ago, you had to drop a diamond-tipped needle into the smooth intermediate section on a vinyl record, which was maybe a millimeter across. — It made changing songs a pain.

The Huffington Post:

EXCLUSIVE: Fox News Signing Former Sen. Evan Bayh As A Contributor — UPDATE: Fox News officially announced on Monday afternoon that former Democratic Senator Evan Bayh is becoming a contributor to the network. — Michael Clemente, the network's senior vice president for news, announced the move in a statement.

Discussion: Yglesias, Most Recent Home Page Posts …, Salon, Politics Daily, The Atlantic Wire, Gawker and TPMDC

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

YouTube's Premium-Content Strategy Starts to Take Shape — Talks of Providing $2M-$5M Seed Funds to Agents and Producers Who Commit to Episodes — How do you get professional video if you don't want to do big money deals with Hollywood studios? You go straight to the creators.

Discussion: Techland

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

News portal, super aggregator, and curator: new plans for PBSNews.org — [See update below.] — PBS finds itself with what could be the definition of a “good” problem. (Well, not that defunding problem, but another one.) Here's the scenario: Under the PBS umbrella you'll find news shows …

Babbage:

Journalistic nuclear physics — A LARGE chunk of SXSW is about the future of journalism, and one theme over the past couple of years has been the attempt to blast what is currently the atomic unit of journalism, the article or “story”, into its constituent quarks, and reassemble them as something else.