Mediagazer: Inside the jockeying for top job at Warner Bros. (Hollywood Reporter)

Wall Street Journal:

A New Digital Battlefield — Amazon, Apple Rivalry Moves Beyond Music and E-Books Into TV Shows — TV shows are emerging as a new front in the war over digital media between Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc., amid their ongoing battles over electronic books and online music.

Explaining the Cozy Relationship Between Apple and News Corp. — This week's big product news fromApple (AAPL) was made possible in part by News Corp. (NWS), which agreed to make its TV shows available for rent at the ultra-low price of 99 cents per episode via the Apple TV device.

Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter: Why You (Still) Can't Cut the TV Cord: It's Not Technical, It's Just Business

Andrew Wallenstein / Hollywood Reporter:
Why Apple rental plan alienated most studios

Discussion: paidContent, Multichannel News, C21Media.net and Company Town

Mary Walton / American Journalism Review:

Investigative Shortfall — Many news outlets are doing far less accountability reporting than in the past, bad news indeed for the public. New nonprofit investigative ventures have emerged, but they can't pick up the slack by themselves. On her last day at Fort Lauderdale's Sun-Sentinel …

Discussion: National Media

Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:

New ESPN TV Everywhere Service Begins With Time Warner Cable Deal — Disney and Time Warner Cable have settled their retransmission negotiations, finalizing a deal that will keep ABC, ESPN and Disney networks on Time Warner Cable and Bright House Network cable systems.

Discussion: blogs.tampabay.com

Disney, Time Warner Cable Finalize Programming Deal — Operator Will Launch ESPN.com, Disney Jr. — The Disney/ABC Television Group and its Walt Disney Co. sibling ESPN finalized their retransmission consent and cable carriage deal with Time Warner Cable without any of the popular channels fading to black on the cable system.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, paidContent, Hollywood Reporter, MediaPost, Business Wire, Company Town and Multichannel

Joe Pompeo / Silicon Alley Insider:

EXCLUSIVE: Newsweek's Big Name Economics Editor, Dan Gross, Is Headed To Yahoo Finance — Dan Gross, Newsweek's economics editor, is leaving the magazine, The Wire has learned. He's headed to Yahoo Finance. — Yahoo has been on something of an editorial hiring spree this year, ramping up its original content efforts.

Discussion: Romenesko and New York Magazine

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

YouTube Ads Turn Videos Into Revenue — SAN BRUNO, Calif. — Last month, a YouTube user, TomR35, uploaded a clip from the AMC series “Mad Men” in which Don Draper makes a heartfelt speech about the importance of nostalgia in advertising. — Viewers wouldn't notice, but that clip also makes …

Discussion: Bits and WatchingTV Online, more at Techmeme »

Wall Street Journal:

Billboards That Can See You — Japan Pioneers Use of Cameras, Sensors That Let Signs Identify Their Audience — TOKYO—Inside the bustling Shinagawa train station here, a futuristic-looking vending machine has replaced rows of drink bottles and cans with a 47-inch touch-screen monitor.

Discussion: State of the Fourth Estate

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Newsonomics of less-is-more, more or less — [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] — It is a head-turner, which seems to be, at first, an only-in-Utah story.

Discussion: Salt Lake Tribune

Discussion: Romenesko

Wendy Davis / MediaPost:

Judge Rules News Station Is Immune From ‘Cyber Libel’ Resulting From Commenters — A federal court has dismissed news anchor Toni Miles' claim that her former employer, Raycom Media's WLOX-TV, committed “cyber libel” by allowing readers to post unfiltered comments about her.

Discussion: Techdirt

Joanna / Fiction in Truth:

Jay Rosen @ Sciences Po: Who is the audience, and what does that make us, journalists? — NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen was invited by Sciences Po's School of Journalism today to give an inaugural lecture to the fresh new crop of wannabe journalists. As soon as there is video available, I will link to it here.

Evelyn Rusli / TechCrunch:

Reddit Diggs Traffic Surge, Prepares For Expansion — It's all hands on deck at Reddit this week. — In the wake of Digg's bungled redesign, its rival is enjoying a surge in traffic and a jump in ad and subscription sales. Since Monday, the site has been averaging 900,000 uniques per day …

Discussion: MediaPost, ReadWriteWeb and VentureBeat

Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:

CBS News Fires Back At “Perverse Hobby” Of “Ridiculous” Collapse Predictions — The Daily Beast's Rebecca Dana wrote yesterday about the “implosion” and “collapse” at CBS News, focusing on a variety of issues - from ratings to business cards. — Today, CBS News fires back …

Discussion: B&C, New York Observer, Romenesko and On Media's Blog

Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:

DGA Files Complaint Against Fox News For Illegal Contribution To GOP Candidate — Keeping up its war with Fox News, the Democratic Governors Association on Thursday filed a complaint with the Ohio Elections Commission accusing the network of making an illegal in-kind contribution to gubernatorial candidate John Kasich (R-OH).

Discussion: Gawker, The Wrap, TPMMuckraker and On Media's Blog

Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:

Apple and Google to clash in music space by Christmas — (Reuters) - Google Inc is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its mobile users to play songs wherever they are as it steps up its rivalry with Apple Inc, according to people familiar with the matter.

Discussion: TechCrunch, 9 to 5 Mac, Company Town, MediaPost, Electronista and Tech Trader Daily, more at Techmeme »

James Ledbetter / Slate:

Why is everyone always writing off Netflix? — People who think and write about technology companies for a living are prone to be wrong now and again. Try to find, for example, veteran analysts or journalists who haven't at some point made a claim about Apple that they didn't later regret.

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Hollywood Reporter:

Inside the jockeying for top job at Warner Bros. — CEO Bewkes hired headhunter; new role likely for Meyer — Time Warner chairman and CEO Jeffrey Bewkes might have gotten a bit ahead of himself when it comes to planning succession at the industry's dominant film and television studio.

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Analyst: Paywall Subscribers Worth A Quarter Of Print Readers — Even if newspapers migrate every print reader to paying online, they will still face big losses, according to one analyst. — Annual income per paywall subscriber on TheTimes.co.uk and WSJ.com is just a quarter that from subscribers …

Discussion: Press Gazette, Kirk LaPointe's …, MediaPost, Romenesko, Lost Remote, Editors Weblog, For The Media, Silicon Alley Insider and The Independent

Lisa de Moraes / Washington Post:

Martha Stewart wants to take Barbara Walters place as next important interviewer — Martha Stewart, whose talk/crafts show is moving to cable's Hallmark Channel in two weeks, coinciding with the launch of her prime-time interview specials for that network, wants to become the new Important Interviewer in the television firmament.

Discussion: TVNewser, New York Post and Chickaboomer