Mediagazer: Oh Look, The Number Of People Employed In The Movie And Music Recording Business Just Hit An All Time High (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Boston Herald:

Taylors reportedly considering bid for Boston Globe — By: — Members of the Taylor family, longtime owners of the Boston Globe who sold the paper to the New York Times Co. in 1993 for $1.1 billion, are considering a bid to buy back the paper, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal

Investment bankers set deadline for bids to buy The Boston Globe — The New York Times Co.'s investment bankers have set a deadline of April 18 for initial bids from potential buyers of The Boston Globe, according to people briefed on the matter. — This first round of bids will not be binding offers.

Gayle Fee / Boston Herald: Reading between lines on Boston Globe sale

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Twitter Music Is Here Today, and You Can't Use It — Want to play with Twitter's new music app? You can get it today — if you're really famous. — If not, you're going to have to wait a week. — Here's the deal: As we wrote yesterday, Twitter is launching its new music discovery app for iOS devices …

Discussion: Billboard, BGR, SlashGear, AppNewser, New York Times, CNET, Christian Science Monitor, Digital Media Wire, AllAccess.com, TechCrunch, Wired, App Advice, Rolling Stone, Marketing Land, ReadWrite, WebProNews, AllThingsD and Marketing Land

Nicholas Diakopoulos / Poynter:

What data & algorithms teach us about the language news orgs use — How do we discuss immigration? Sounds like a job for the ‘lingo scope!’ — Last week the Associated Press decided to strike the phrase “illegal immigrant” from its style guide. Related idioms such as “illegal alien …

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Joshua Gillin / Poynter:

Media coverage swells over the lack of media coverage for abortion provider Kermit Gosnell — The trial of Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia doctor accused of performing illegal and particularly grisly late-term abortions, has garnered copious media coverage in the last week …

Discussion: Salon, The Atlantic Online, New York Magazine and USA Today

Dan Gillmor / Guardian:

Once again, TV executives are eager to stifle tech innovations like Aereo — Broadcasters seem to hate the internet, except when they can control it for their own uses - and profits — I can use an antenna to watch local TV shows via their broadcast towers.

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Oh Look, The Number Of People Employed In The Movie And Music Recording Business Just Hit An All Time High — The common refrain coming out of the MPAA and RIAA over the past few years has really focused on “jobs, jobs, jobs!” This is a message that often works with Congress.

Discussion: Zero Hedge

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Newspaper-Backed Wanderful Media Revamps Its Local Deal Service Find&Save — Wanderful Media, a startup backed by of a bunch of major news publishers, announced today that it's launching a dramatically improved version of its Find&Save service. — The company's vision is to create …

Discussion: Poynter and Local Media Watch

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Dish Network Chairman Said To Be Seeking A Merger With T-Mobile USA — Say what you will about Dish Network, but the Colorado company's brass has some moxie. — The satellite media service provider has been trying for years now to link up with notable national wireless carrier to help operate …

Discussion: Bloomberg, BGR, multichannel.com/rss and Forbes

Emily Heffter / The Seattle Times:

Sinclair known for conservative political tilt — Sinclair Broadcast Group, which is buying Seattle-based Fisher Communications, has a history of using its television stations to support its political views. — Sinclair Broadcast Group executives said they will bring resources and stability …

Discussion: Politico and Variety

Jim Romenesko:

McClatchy spends $164,643 to move Kansas City Star publisher to Sacramento — “With his move to the Sacramento metropolitan area from Kansas City to take the position of Vice President, Operations, the Company provided Mr. Zieman with relocation benefits. For 2012, these benefits included …

Publishers Weekly:

Bezos on Competitors, Royalties, Kindles — Amazon may act as though it doesn't hear criticism from outside of the company but, according to company founder and chairman Jeff Bezos, this is not the case. In a letter to shareholders accompanying Amazon's annual report, Bezos addressed the company's view towards its competition.

Discussion: AllThingsD, ZDNet, NYT Bits, paidContent, CNET and GalleyCat

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Washington Post Hires NBC-MSNBC Veteran For Video Programming — The Washington Post has been staffing up the past few months in preparation for the summer launch of an online politics channel, hiring producers, a technical director, studio technician and even poaching a senior video producer …