Mediagazer: News Corp. Rejects Cablevision Offer (Brian Stelter/Media Decoder)

12:05 AM ET, October 28, 2010

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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

News Corp. Rejects Cablevision Offer — Updated With only a few hours before the World Series begins on Fox, Cablevision said Wednesday afternoon that it had put a new offer on the negotiating table to end it's dispute with News Corporation over retransmission fees.

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Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Fans Plot World Series Sweep to Bars, MLB.com Amid Cablevision Shutout

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Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

Barry Diller On The Daily Beast: “Breaking Even Is Not On Some Distant Shore” — The Daily Beast will have a print component at some point and is getting closer to breaking even, Barry Diller, chairman of the website's parent company, IAC, said on a conference call with analysts Wednesday morning.

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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
IAC Says It Wants To Launch A Print ‘Companion’ To The Daily Beast

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Mark Binelli / Rolling Stone:

Conan O'Brien Comes Clean — He has overcome his depression and anger. Now the comedy genius is ready for one last late-night ride — By … In July, shortly after his Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour wrapped up, Conan O'Brien began visiting the set of his new talk show …

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Nate Freeman / New York Observer:

On Cusp of Expansion, WSJ. Magazine Brings In New Publisher — With its last Tina Gaudoin-helmed issue currently on newsstands, WSJ. Magazine has brought in Andrew Cenname to become publisher of The Journal's glossy, Dow Jones announced in a statement. Cenname had previously …

Discussion: Talking Biz News and MediaPost

Fortune:

Cisco's online video gamble — As its traditional networking business slows, Cisco Systems believes it has found a new way to grow. — While the rest of Silicon Valley buzzes about Facebook, Twitter, and tablet computers, networking-gear maker Cisco (CSCO) is betting big on Internet video.

Rick Edmonds / Poynter Online:

Curley: Newspapers Now Provide Only 20 Percent of AP Revenue — Revenues from newspapers have fallen by about one-third at the Associated Press since 2008, from $220 million a year to about $140 million in 2010, and now make up just over 20 percent of the organization's total revenue.

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Hires Ross Levinsohn To Run Americas Business — Yahoo has hired Ross Levinsohn, the former President of Fox Interactive Media, as EVP America's Region, we've confirmed. AllThingsD first broke the news that he was close to taking the job. — Levinsohn will replace Hillary Schneider.

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Comcast Says Its Disappearing Subscribers Aren't Cord Cutters — Comcast lost 275,000 cable subscribers last quarter, and has lost 622,000 in the first nine months of 2010. More evidence of “cord cutting”? — Nope, says the cable giant. It's evidence that the economy sucks.

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

How to Find the Google Chrome App Store: Wait Till December — You probably haven't heard of it, and you're very unlikely to be looking for it. But if you are wondering when you might see the Chrome app store Google is working on, here's the answer: December. Probably.

Joel Meares / CJR:

Q & A: War Photographer Moises Saman — “If you do this long enough, you will eventually find yourself in a bad situation” — Freelance photographer Moises Saman's pictures from Iraq made the cover of The New York Times both days last weekend. Taken in May and June 2008 …

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Andrea Pitzer / Nieman Storyboard:

Lane DeGregory's 10 tips for editors at AASFE 2010 — Pulitzer Prize winner and St. Petersburg Times reporter Lane DeGregory spoke at the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors Conference in Florida earlier this month. She has made a name for herself as a reporter …

Discussion: St. Petersburg Times

Roy Greenslade / This Is London:

Investigative journalism is still thriving in the internet era — Journalists, so surveys regularly reveal, are not trusted by the majority of the people they affect to serve. — In the public estimation of our worth, we rank alongside politicians and estate agents.

Discussion: Guardian

Ben Elowitz / paidContent:

SEO Is Dead, And The New King Is ‘SMO’ — Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a web publisher, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to Wetpaint, Elowitz co-founded Blue Nile, the online retailer of luxury goods. He is also an angel investor in various media and e-commerce companies.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Those Bits Aren't Free: Netflix Could Be Racking Up a $2 Billion Content Tab — Investors are cheering on Netflix, as it moves from DVDs to streaming video and keeps adding customers along the way. But “digital” doesn't equal “cheap” for Reed Hastings's company.

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Megan Lavey / TUAW:

Extra! Extra! app may be scraping news museum's feed of front pages — TUAW came across the US$3.99 app Extra! Extra! when developer Finbarr Brady solicited a review. Extra! Extra! bills itself as an app that will supply you with the daily front pages of more than 800 newspapers from around the globe.

Discussion: Poynter Online