Mediagazer: Spotify's Real News: No News! But Big Bags of Cash Might Help (Peter Kafka/MediaMemo)

5:30 AM ET, October 28, 2010

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David Johnson / D@J:

Dropping a bomb in the tenure meeting — So our Journalism Division faculty met today on creating new guidelines about merit and tenure. And, always the troublemaker, I dropped the bomb on the discussion. Tenure, as practiced and preached doesn't make sense to me.

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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.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, coverawards.com, Mixed Media and Gawker

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

Discussion: The Next Web

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.

Discussion: Company Town, B&C, rbr.com, MediaPost, Moneywood, Multichannel, Broadcasting & Cable, Media Money …, The Wrap, TVWeek.com, American Cable Association, New York Times and Stop Big Media News, via:themediaisdying

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.

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.

Discussion: BoomTown, Media News International, paidContent and SAI, more at Techmeme »

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.

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 …

Discussion: PopWatch, coverawards.com, NY Daily News, Splitsider, PopEater, New York Magazine and TV Tattle

Sue Zeidler / Reuters:

Cable, technology, media firms form digital registry — (Reuters) - Major studios, cable and technology companies on Wednesday announced the launch of an Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) to track movies, TV shows and other assets much the way books are coded.

Subtraction.com:

My iPad Magazine Stand — Because I recently left a job at one of the most prominent publications in the world, people often ask me about my opinions on the cavalcade of publications rushing to the iPad — those apps designed and developed by newspapers and magazines principally to deliver …

Discussion: GigaOM and Media Buyer Planner

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Spotify's Real News: No News! But Big Bags of Cash Might Help — Nope. Apple's not buying Spotify. — Now, on to real news: There is no official news about the streaming music service's attempt to land on U.S. shores. Spotify has yet to land a single U.S. label deal …

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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.

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 …

Discussion: Romenesko and Lens

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

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