Mediagazer: Diller on leaving the top spot at IAC: “The company wasn't being managed correctly” (Andy Serwer/Fortune)

5:30 PM ET, December 3, 2010

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Guardian:

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Andy Serwer / Fortune:

Diller on leaving the top spot at IAC: “The company wasn't being managed correctly” — FORTUNE — Barry Diller it seems has been pondering the future lately. Today he took action. — Every summer Diller takes some time off to do a deep think. “I call it my summer project,” he says in an interview with Fortune.

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Media Decoder:

Ben Sherwood Named President of ABC News — 10:50 a.m. | Updated ABC announced on Friday that it had appointed Ben Sherwood, the former executive producer of its “Good Morning America” program, as president of its news division. — He will succeed David Westin, the long-time president …

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Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:

A Very Special Announcement: Changes at The Village Voice — Hello Runnin' Scared readers! We have a special programming announcement for you all! Are you ready? You look ready. Here we go: — Effective, like, the first week in January, Joe Coscarelli - our indomitable …

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Apple, Publishers Still Miles Apart on iTunes Subscriptions — Magazine publishers used to salivate over the iPad. Now they're a lot more reserved. They make hopeful noises about Google's Android tablets instead. — That's because Apple and the publishing industry haven't been able …

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Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:

Rupert Murdoch's Tablet Tabloid: How He Can Pull It Off — With all the frantic hiring of young talent and established editors for The Daily, News Corp.'s new tablet-only newspaper, it's clear that Rupert Murdoch is trying to create the “tabloid for smart people” that he's never quite been able to pull off in print.

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Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

Tim Arango Is Next NYT Baghdad Bureau Chief — In your jobby Friday media column: Rebecca Dana to Newsweek, Foster Kamer to Esquire, Tim Arango to Baghdad, and Barry Diller to the easy life. And, Emily Brill. — We hear that veteran-but-still-young former media reporter Tim Arango …

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Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:

Viacom Set to Appeal in YouTube Case — Viacom Inc. says a new wave of digital piracy could threaten the U.S. media business unless federal courts overturn its defeat in a copyright-infringement lawsuit against Google Inc.'s YouTube video-sharing site. — The New York-based owner of MTV …

Discussion: The Next Web, VideoNuze, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Search Engine Land, more at Techmeme »

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Local Media May Have Blown Another Online Ads Opportunity — For the first time in the internet's history, the hottest thing online today is local. Through daily coupon deals, place reviews and location sharing, local services is where it's at. — That should finally mean boom …

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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

Outfoxed by Fox News? No way. — It takes only an instant for a visitor to Media Matters for America's headquarters in downtown Washington to sense its mission, if not its methods. A few steps into its modern offices, which resemble a newspaper newsroom, a pair of prominently displayed signs spell …

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Ben Widdicombe / Financial Times:

The business of blogging — If anyone, anywhere had an opinion about Perez Hilton in 2004, it was that he would not be around for long. The young Cuban-American (real name Mario Armando Lavandeira), then 26, was doing yeoman work at his day job for Star magazine, a weekly gossip tabloid …

Associated Press:

Foursquare TV Series In The Works — SAN FRANCISCO — Foursquare, a popular startup that lets people share their location with friends through a mobile app, is working with production company Endemol USA to create a television series. — The companies said Thursday that they signed …

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Times of London Paywall Paying Off Already! * — News Corp.'s Jon Miller. Image by Getty Images Europe via @daylife — The Times of London has lost a huge volume of its web traffic since erecting a restrictive paywall around its site in July, and converted only 14 percent of its web readers …

Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Robust ad recovery bypassed newspapers — Newspaper advertising revenues continued sinking in the third quarter of this year despite a robust recovery that has fueled healthy gains in all - not some, but all - of the other competing media. — While television, radio …

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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

Yahoo IS Focused: “We're A Content Company” — News Corp.'s Jon Miller took a potshot at Yahoo this morning at IGNITION, saying that the company is caught between being a media company and a technology company, and that it has to “get religion” about something.

Sarah Hartley / Guardian:

Hyperlocal and working with legacy brands: former TBD boss Jim Brady — When Jim Brady suddenly quit as general manager at the Washington local news empire just three months after launch, it surprised many in the media who were watching TBD.com's progress with interest.

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Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

DealBook's Sorkin: Paywall details still being ‘ironed out’ — As The New York Times gears up to implement its metered online pay model in January, one of various remaining unanswered questions about the finer points of how it will work is whether or not The Times newly-revamped and expanded financial blog …

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Adweek:

Internet Partner Sues the AP — An Associated Press plan to help make itself Internet-friendly has apparently ended in tears. — iCopyright—which has an agreement with the AP that allows bloggers and small Web publications to pay for its articles without subscribing to the wire service …

Emily Brill / CJR:

Disclose This — The press should treat big tech companies like Big Pharma — On August 9, Google and Verizon announced an alliance in which Google, the champion of the free, open Internet, would partially bow to Verizon's long-held position that purveyors of certain types of content …

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Nelson tapped as editorial director of Time Inc. — Tweet — Martha Nelson, a group editor in charge of two of three divisions at Time Inc., is being named the new editorial director of all Time Inc. magazines. — The move makes her the second-highest editorial executive …

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