Mediagazer: Twitter Cozies Up to Television With New Ad Products (Keach Hagey/Digits)

4:40 PM ET, May 23, 2013

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Keach Hagey / Digits:

Twitter Cozies Up to Television With New Ad Products — Twitter rolled out two advertising products on Thursday aimed at showing it wants to be television's friend, not foe. — The social networking site, powered by its recent acquisition of social media data company Bluefin Labs …

Discussion: Bloomberg, AllThingsD and Poynter

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Twitter Launches TV Ad Targeting, Twitter Amplify For Real-Time Videos In Stream — Twitter today made the latest push in its bid to cozy up to Madison Avenue and the world of big-budget advertising, by tapping more into the kind of mainstream mediums where advertisers like to spend their money.

Discussion: Twitter Advertising, Broadcasting & Cable, AdAge, Capital New York, Adweek, GigaOM, Variety, WebProNews, CNET, AllThingsD, Digiday, @robinsloan and Engadget

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Obama: Leak Investigations Could ‘Chill Investigative Journalism’ — President Obama said Thursday that he is “troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable.” — In a major speech on national security …

Discussion: Mediaite, Washington Times, Associated Press, Fox News, Talking Points Memo, @ggreenwald, @natives, @lheron, @intelligencer, @mirandacgreen, @digiphile and The New Yorker Blog

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Top Politico Reporter Joins The New York Times — Politico's Jonathan Martin, who has been with the publication since its earliest days, is leaving for the New York Times, according to a memo obtained by The Huffington Post. — Martin will become the paper's new national political correspondent …

Discussion: FishbowlDC and JIMROMENESKO.COM

John McCain / Los Angeles Times:

Cable TV, the right way — My legislation would ensure that consumers could buy only those channels they want to watch. — According to the Federal Communications Commission, the price for basic cable has grown by an average of 6.1% a year over the last 16 years ¿ three times …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, @brianstelter, WebProNews, Bloomberg, @notaaroncraig and The Wrap, Thanks:@gnagesh

Gautham Nagesh / Roll Call: Will Rising Cable Bills Prompt Congress to Tune In?

Nick Robinson / BBC:

One phrase and why I'm sorry I quoted it — It was a barbaric attack carried out in broad daylight on the streets of London. A man hacked to death. The attackers had been shot by the police. An extraordinary and horrific story but not one, you might think, for the Political Editor of the BBC.

Discussion: Guardian, Telegraph, Digital Spy and The Huffington Post

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Daily Mail publisher's print revenues slide — DMGT hit by fall in print ad income and circulation, but digital surge is led by 61% year-on-year revenue rise at Mail Online — Revenues at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday declined 6% to £287m in the six months to the end of March …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, pressgazette.co.uk, Media Week and The Drum

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Woolwich attack - why editors were right to publish horrific pictures — The radio stations were on early this morning - was it right and proper for newspapers to publish front pages pictures of a man they called a terrorist brandishing a meat cleaver? — Answer: yes. There are all sorts of arguments in favour.

Discussion: Charlie Beckett and themediablog.co.uk

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Hearst Taps Demand Media's Bradford and Yucaipa's Johnson to “Redefine” the San Francisco Chronicle — Media giant Hearst has hired two senior execs — Demand Media's Joanne Bradford and former Los Angeles Times CEO Jeffrey Johnson — in a significant move to digitally turbocharge and jumpstart …

Discussion: @rajunarisetti

Christopher Dickey / The Daily Beast:

The Al Jazeera Revolution … Shawn Baldwin/Corbis — Al Jazeera English reportedly reaches 260 million households in more than 130 countries. … Neil Emmerson/Corbis — Doha is the Emerald City: glistening towers, sprawling shopping malls, and luxury hotels.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Pearson switches Financial Times into new business division — The Financial Times is being subsumed into a new division by its parent company, Pearson. — As part of the organisation's restructure, the FT Group will disappear and the newspaper will become part of a unit called “professional”.

Discussion: Reuters

Daniel Denvir / Philadelphia City Paper:

Inquirer reporters at war with Philly.com — They worry Philly.com is devouring the papers it was created to promote. — City Paper — Hostile Witness — A May 13 Inquirer business column by Diane Mastrull was posted online with a curious editor's note: “The opinions and analysis expressed …

Discussion: Philadelphia City Paper and Philly.com

Fred Grimm / MiamiHerald.com:

Broward may be Koch brothers' own ‘deal from hell’ — As puns go, the caption was pretty vapid. “Sun Sentinel doesn't need a Koch problem.” (Pronounced, by the way, “coke.") — The banner held by a small band of demonstrators also featured a caricature of those infamous (or famous …

Discussion: The Newspaper Guild