Mediagazer: Ad decline at Associated slows to 1% (Media Week)

3:05 PM ET, September 27, 2011

Top News:

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

James Murdoch's press adviser resigns — Alice Macandrew understood to have quit amid disagreements over the handling of the phone-hacking scandal — One of James Murdoch's closest advisers has resigned from News Corporation, it emerged on Tuesday, amid disagreements over the way the media group dealt with the phone-hacking scandal.

Discussion: Poynter, NPR and New York Magazine

Helene Mulholland / Guardian:

Sun newspaper involved in phone hacking, claims Labour's Tom Watson — Phone-hacking scandal ‘far beyond News of the World’, alleges home affairs select committee member, calling for James Murdoch to resign as BSkyB chairman — A Labour MP has alleged that phone hacking at News International has gone …

Discussion: paidContent:UK and The Huffington Post

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Licensed journalists? Surely Labour is joking...

Discussion: Guardian and Telegraph

Bill Carter / New York Times:

MSNBC Is Close to Falling to Third Place in Cable News Ratings — How badly has MSNBC been hurt by the loss of Keith Olbermann? Enough, apparently, to be on the verge of falling back into third place among the cable news networks. — The ratings results for the month of September show that CNN …

Discussion: Poynter, TVNewser, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, Company Town, Adweek, Business Insider, National Review, Chickaboomer, The Daily Caller and Inside Cable News

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Several Outsiders Said to Be Considered for Time Inc. CEO Job — As Time Warner's search for a CEO of its Time Inc. magazine division grinds on, new names of suspected candidates have surfaced. Given the list, it appears that the company still seems to be focused on bringing in an outsider.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, mediabistro.com and MediaPost

Business Insider:

Guess Who Made The Highest Bid For Hulu — Remember how a group of bidders was circling around Hulu a couple weeks ago? Whatever happened with that? — Two sources tell us that satellite TV provider Dish was the highest bidder, coming in around $1.9 billion. It beat out both Amazon and Yahoo.

Discussion: rbr.com, Adweek, The Wrap, VentureBeat, GeekWire and Electronista, more at Techmeme »

Noah Davis / Business Insider:

The New York Times Lays Off 15 From About.com's Entire Editorial Staff* — UPDATE: According to Kristin Mason, director of public relations at the About Group, the company is eliminating 15 of the 22 full or part-time positions in the editorial department. — Ten new full-time jobs will be created.

Discussion: The Next Web, paidContent, @antderosa and @benpopper

Christopher Mims / Technology Review:

How Amazon's Tablet Perpetuates Apple's Stranglehold on Media App Distribution — Amazon appears to be offering publishers the same unsavory terms as Apple, which feels like a missed opportunity. — On Wednesday, Amazon will unveil its new seven-inch tablet, which is rumored to be based on the now-defunct BlackBerry Playbook.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Most — But Not All — Big Magazine Publishers Sign On for Amazon's Tablet

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

In real-time, journalists' tweets contribute to a ‘raw draft’ of history — When historians look through the Library of Congress' Twitter archive years from now, Andy Carvin's tweets will be among those that help tell the story of the Arab Spring. — Carvin recently acquired his own archive of tweets …

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

CBS News and ‘60 Minutes’ Dominate at News & Documentary Emmy Awards — Last night the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences handed out its 32nd annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. CBS News dominated its competition, pulling home 10 awards-the most for a network news division in a decade.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, On Media's Blog, Multichannel, TVSpy and Inside TV

Marc Randolph / Kibble:

Did Netflix screw up? I don't think so. — Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced last week that the company would be splitting off their DVD rental service into a new business to be called Qwikster. Last time I checked their blog post on the subject, there were 27,183 comments.

Discussion: Fortune, MSDN Blogs and GigaOM, more at Techmeme »

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

AOL Rejigs Europe Leadership: Burns Out, GoViral Chiefs Up — AOL (NYSE: AOL) is restructuring its European executive leadership in a reshuffle that sees AOL Europe CEO Kate Burns leave and two toppers from GoViral get called up. — AOL bought the video ad network in January for up to $96.7 million.

Drew FitzGerald / MarketWatch:

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Media Week:

Ad decline at Associated slows to 1% — The rate of advertising revenue decline at Associated Newspapers has slowed to just 1% in the third quarter, an improvement on the 7% drop in the second quarter. — The 1% decline was for underlying revenues (excluding discontinued operations) …

Discussion: Guardian and Press Gazette

Tim Edwards / PC Gamer:

ITV documentary can't tell the difference between gaming and reality; mistakes Arma 2 for secret IRA film — Here's an upload of a video from a recent ITV documentary into Colonel Gaddhafi's support of the IRA. It contains shocking footage of a helicopter being shot down using weapons allegedly supplied by that baddie.

Discussion: Telegraph, Guardian, msnbc.com and Business Insider

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

China's ‘Facebook’ RenRen Buys China's ‘YouTube’ 56.com — A fusion of social and video in China... Renren, the social network which listed on Wall Street this spring, is acquiring the user-uploaded video site 56.com for $80 million. — Sequoia Capital, Steamboat Ventures, CID Group and SIG were investors.

Discussion: PR Newswire, TechCrunch and Tech in Asia