Mediagazer: Netflix to launch service in Latin America (Om Malik/GigaOM)

1:40 PM ET, July 5, 2011

Top News:

DSK accuser sues NY Post for “prostitute” report — (Reuters) - The hotel maid who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault sued the New York Post and four of its reporters for libel on Tuesday for reporting that she was a prostitute.

Discussion: Mediaite, New York Magazine and Clusterstock

BBC:

Police to meet NoW executives over Milly hacking claims — Schoolgirl Milly Dowler went missing nine years ago — Police are to meet News of the World executives to discuss allegations that a private investigator working for the paper hacked into the mobile phone of murdered girl Milly Dowler.

Discussion: Guardian, Reuters, @sarahlellison, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Crikey and The First Post

Guardian:

News of the World hacked Dowler's voicemail — • Deleted voicemails gave family false hope — • Hacking interfered with police hunt — • Family lawyer: actions ‘heinous and despicable’ — The News of the World illegally targeted the missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler …

Brett Pulley / Bloomberg:

Sun Valley Moguls Shift From Acquisitions to Sales to Refine Media Models — Media executives gather at Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley conference this week looking to shed assets such as the Hulu LLC video website and G4 game channel amid a declining global stock market and slowing economic growth.

Discussion: @rafat and The Wire

Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Big Media Brace for Clouds As They Meet in Sun Valley

Discussion: Company Town

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

‘Vogue’ Reigns on Newsstand — It's no secret that magazines' newsstand sales have been dismal. But Anna Wintour's Vogue has been bucking the trend, and not by a little. — For the first five months of the year, newsstand sales for the Condé Nast title have averaged 370,000 …

Alex Howard / O'Reilly Radar:

Data journalism, data tools, and the newsroom stack — MIT's recent Civic Media Conference and the latest batch of Knight News Challenge winners made one reality crystal clear: as a new era of technology-fueled transparency, innovation and open government dawns, it won't depend on any single CIO or federal program.

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Netflix to launch service in Latin America — Netflix, the streaming video service based in Los Gatos, California is going to launch its service in 43 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean later this year. Netflix had launched the service in Canada last year and it is part of company's plans to expand internationally.

Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Why newspapers can't stop the presses — With newspaper ad sales falling at an unexpectedly abrupt rate, many publishers at mid-year were laying off staff, requiring unpaid furloughs, consolidating plants and taking other measures to buttress their bottom lines.

Discussion: Editors Weblog, Poynter and Monday Note

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

What Google+ adds to news — To paraphrase Mark Zuckerberg, it is too soon to know what Google+ is. But I've been trying to imagine how it will and won't be useful to news. You should add rock salt to anything I say, as I thought Google Wave would be an important journalistic tool.

Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:

iPhone Photography Finds Its Way Into Print [PICS] — It's not just iPhone-created art that's making its way into magazines. iPhone photography is beginning to make somewhat frequent appearances as well. — The latest of these is an eight-page spread in Everyday Food magazine.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Thanks:laureni

Emma Hall / AdAge:

Slovakian Publishers' Paywall Appears to Be Success — Unique Visitors to Most Publications Have Increased Since Introduction — When nine of Slovakia's leading news organizations went behind a collective paywall in May, the world's eyes turned on this small eastern European country and waited impatiently for the public's response.

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Condé Nast's Scott Dadich on reinventing mags for the iPad and why partnering with Apple matters — As the man tasked with giving new life to magazines on new platforms for Condé Nast, Scott Dadich says there are some things, old-school things, that don't change whether you're dealing with print or tablets.

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

“There is a Dark Side” to Online Video Advertising, Adap.tv President — While most of the online video ecosystem is fine, “there is a dark side,” where some companies artificially increase view rates, while others place inventory in unwanted locations, says Toby Gabriner, President of Adap.tv.

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Exit music: David Cho on leaving The Awl, joining Grantland, and building a business from high-quality writing — The world of online publishing, or at least upstart online publishing, got a surprise on Wednesday when David Cho, publisher of The Awl, announced he was leaving the 2-year-old site …