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Joe Flint / Company Town:
Disney's deal with Cablevision is good news for broadcasters [Updated] — And the Oscar for biggest gamble goes to ... Walt Disney Co.'s ABC. — Risking political backlash and hits to its ratings, advertising revenue and public goodwill, Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger drew a line in the sand …
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New York Times:
At the Last Minute, a Disney-Cablevision Truce — The Oscar statuette became a pawn in a public brawl between the Walt Disney Company and Cablevision on Sunday, a dispute that prevented more than three million viewers from watching the beginning of the Academy Awards show until …
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Dirk Smillie / Forbes:
Digital Lift-Off — Web ads to get a 10% boost in 2010. For the first time advertisers will spend more on digital than print. — We've been waiting for this: A study by Outsell, to be released Monday, reveals that U.S. advertisers are spending more this year on digital media than on print.
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Megan McCarthy / Mediagazer News:
Introducing Mediagazer — Mediagazer presents the day's must read media news on a single page. — The media business is in tumult: from the production side to the distribution side, new technologies are upending the industry. What do news organizations need to do to survive? Will books become extinct?
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Yet Another Media Aggregation Site? Yup. And You'll Read It: Techmeme Unveils Mediagazer. — Does the Web need yet another outlet dedicated to media coverage? Nope. How about another aggregation site? Plenty of those to go around too. — So what if you combined the two? Exactly.
David Carr / New York Times:
Breaking the Story That Isn't — Reporters have always kept an eye on other reporters. For a journalist, the only thing more interesting than what you are working on is what your competitor is working on. — But what if watching your competitor becomes your whole story?
Kerry Lauerman / Salon:
The story behind Oscar's “Kanye moment” — We talk to the two filmmakers whose personal fight became one of the ceremony's weirdest moments … People are already saying you “pulled a Kanye.” What happened? — BURKETT: What happened was the director and I had a bad difference …
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Ian Mundell / Variety:
Fox sets up base in Abu Dhabi — Fox International Channels signs twofour54 deal — Fox International Channels is strengthening its presence in Abu Dhabi. — New and existing operations aimed at the Middle East are to be centralized in the city under a deal with government media agency twofour54, it announced Monday.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
In lean times, TV reporters must be jacks of all trades — Scott Broom turns his tripod toward the wall of gray mailboxes, adjusts the camera, walks into the shot and delivers his spiel. — “Here's how bad it is for the U.S. Postal Service,” the WUSA reporter says as a handful of customers at the Garrett Park post office look on.
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
The New York Times is hiring 12 techies and a social media whiz — While pundits climb over each other to predict the death of The New York Times Company, the NYT is looking to hire at least a dozen full-time software engineers and Web designers, plus one social media marketing manager.
Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:
Bloomberg BusinessWeek's Bullish — Taking sharp aim at its rivals, Bloomberg BusinessWeek is prepping for a relaunch April 23 that it boasts will “reinvent” the category, with shorter stories, 20 percent more editorial pages and three more issues for a total of 50. — The moves come as others are retrenching.
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Steve Pond / The Wrap:
Analysis: How ‘Hurt Locker’ Became the $21M Movie That Could — It wasn't an Oscars for the unexpected. It was an Oscars for the unprecedented. — In the end, “The Hurt Locker” shrugged off the barrage of last-minute criticism and came out of awards season in exactly the same …
Chris / cdixon.org:
News is a lousy business for Google too — There is a widespread myth that search engines have taken profits away from news websites. A few months ago, Rupert Murdoch said: “Google has devised a brilliant business model that avoids paying for news gathering yet profits off the search ads sold around that content.”
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Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:
FT video could move behind paywall — The Financial Times could move its video content behind its paywall, Stephen Pinches, lead product manager, told an industry gathering today. — The FT's videos, which include individual series such as long-form interview programme View From the Top …
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
At 10 Years, A Magazine Finds Time To Celebrate — The project was not real simple. — To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the Time Inc. magazine Real Simple wanted to offer “the gift of time” to its harried readers. Inside the April issue, that means shortcut dinners and time-saving tips.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Cable Channel to Offer Giant Octopi and Big Cats — Cable channels usually get their start in the United States, then branch out to the rest of the world. But this month, the News Corporation will import a foreign channel full of shows about a subject that knows no borders: natural history.
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Saeed Kamali Dehghan / Guardian:
Iran steps up pressure on journalists — Iranians who work for foreign media come under threat — Etemaad, Iran's most prominent reformist daily paper, was closed along with two weekly publications, Irandokht and Sina, a week ago today. Since the disputed election in June …
Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Google reluctant to release info in Viacom case — Google, the search company that uncovers much of the world's information for its customers, is embroiled in a fight to keep information about itself under wraps for at least a while longer. — The owner of YouTube, which is defending itself …
Erik Huggers / Guardian:
BBC Online cutbacks: questions for Erik Huggers — The BBC's plans to cut online budgets have raised more questions than they have answered. What does Erik Huggers, head of BBC Online, have to say? — Erik Huggers: The first TV programmes were simply radio programmes with pictures …
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
How Pandora Slipped Past the Junkyard — OAKLAND, Calif. — Tim Westergren recently sat in a Las Vegas penthouse suite, a glass of red wine in one hand and a truffle-infused Kobe beef burger in the other, courtesy of the investment bankers who were throwing a party to court him.
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