Mediagazer: News among most popular tablet uses, US report finds (Rachel McAthy/Journalism.co.uk)

4:25 PM ET, October 25, 2011

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News among most popular tablet uses, US report finds — Study by Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, in collaboration with the Economist Group, also found more users prefer to view news via browsers rather than apps — US tablet survey found that browsers are more popular than apps for consuming news

Discussion: Multichannel, Journalism.org, Broadcasting & Cable, FT Tech Hub, HubSpot's Inbound …, TeleRead, Hillicon Valley, Editors Weblog, GigaOM, Poynter and Reflections of a Newsosaur, more at Techmeme »

Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:

Study: Tablet Users Love to Read the News, Still Reluctant to Pay for It — Consuming news ranks, according to a new study conducted by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, among the most popular things adults in the U.S. do with their tablets.

Discussion: Adweek, more at Techmeme »

John Koblin / WWD:

Huffington Post Launches Parentlode Blog — HUFFING AND PUFFING: The New York Times and The Huffington Post feud isn't going away. — Times lawyers fired off a cease-and-desist letter to Arianna Huffington on Monday, claiming that The Huffington Post's new blog, Parentlode …

Discussion: Betabeat, Poynter, The Wrap, paidContent, New York Magazine, Gawker, Business Insider and The Huffington Post

David Lieberman / Deadline.com:

Is It “Nuclear Winter” For Netflix? Analysts Tell Investors To Bail After 3Q Setbacks — Netflix is in for a brutal morning: The stock is down 35% in pre-market trading from its $118.84 close yesterday as some influential Wall Street analysts tell investors it's time to dump the stock following …

Discussion: Ars Technica, Techland, TechCrunch and Associated Press, more at Techmeme »

Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Netflix Puts Global Expansion On Hold As Costs Drag It Down

Discussion: Guardian

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Reed Hastings Lays Out the Netflix Comeback Plan

Discussion: CNET News, Felix Salmon, The Week, Los Angeles Times, FT Alphaville and Forbes

MediaPost:
Netflix Streams Revs, But Stock Takes Big Hit

Discussion: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Federal Trade Commission, MarketingVox News & Trends, Forbes, TechCrunch, The Wrap, ZDNet, Future of Journalism, PR Newswire, Business Insider and AllThingsD

Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:

News Corp: James Murdoch suffers confidence blow in vote — News Corp shareholders have dealt a significant blow to James Murdoch and his brother Lachlan at this year's annual general meeting, with around a third of all shareholders voting against both — James Murdoch has been re-elected …

Discussion: Guardian, MediaFile, Journalism.co.uk, Deadline.com and The Huffington Post

Dalya Alberge / Guardian:

Phone hacking: book publishing executives targeted — Agent who worked with Linda McCartney and publisher of Katie Price autobiography told they may have been under surveillance — The police investigation into phone hacking by the News of the World has now spread to the publishing world …

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

Apple TV Effort Said to Be Led By ITunes Creator — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is turning to the software engineer who built iTunes to help lead its development of a television set, according to three people with knowledge of the project. — Jeff Robbin, who helped create the iPod in addition …

Steve Zeitchik / LA Times:

Will Aaron Sorkin take on Steve Jobs? — EXCLUSIVE: Steve Jobs was front and center again Sunday night when “60 Minutes” aired its much-anticipated interview with his biographer, Walter Isaacson. It proably won't be the last time the Apple co-founder will dominate our screens.

Discussion: /Film, Mashable!, AppleInsider, WebProNews, www.wnyc.org, The Next Web and NME News, more at Techmeme »

Media Monkey / The Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch bows to Steve Jobs

Discussion: Forbes, Guardian, The Wrap, Poynter, Softpedia News and VentureBeat

Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:

Time Inc. Hires Digital Executive — Time Inc. hired former Nokia Corp. executive George Linardos as the new head of digital marketing at the magazine-publishing unit, the company said Tuesday, a move that is likely to affirm the magazine company's conservative approach to distributing titles like Time …

Discussion: AllThingsD

Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com:
Amazon's Kindle Fire Will Become To The Video Industry What The iPod Was To The Music Industry

more at Techmeme »

Zachary Sniderman / Mashable!:
Amazon Embraces HTML5 for New Ebooks

Discussion: Engadget

Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:

No, CNET Is NOT In Talks To Buy gdgt — Several sources close to CBS Interactive tell us that CNET is not in talks to buy gadget news site gdgt, shooting down a report that a buy is imminent. — One source said that CNET hadn't even approached gdgt for a round of talks.

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Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: CNET In Talks To Acquire gdgt As Early As This Week

Michael Musto / La Daily Musto:

Bloomberg Media To Be Rocked with Discrimination Lawsuit — I've just learned that Bloomberg Media's International Managing Director of Television Brian Martinez—who I knew back in the '90s club days—is filing suit with that company for having been relieved of his duties in July.

Discussion: The New York Observer, FishbowlNY and Talking Biz News

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

TMZ founder Harvey Levin's unsolicited advice to mainstream media: Adapt or die — America's foremost gossipmonger has a little unsolicited advice for the nation's mainstream media: Your business model is broken. Your future is in jeopardy. Adapt or die.

Discussion: Gawker, TeleRead and Collective Talent

Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:

Obama freezes local reporters out of S.F. event — President Obama is scheduled to appear before hundreds of donors at a $7,500-a-plate noontime fundraiser today at San Francisco's W Hotel - but not a single local reporter will be allowed inside to cover his only stop in the area, the White House said Monday.

Discussion: San Francisco Peninsula …

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Larry King Confirms Radio Rumors... Plus a New TV Show? — Talkers magazine speaks to Larry King, where the longtime host of “Larry King Live,” reveals that he is very close to a new LA-based radio show (as long rumored) as well as a new TV program: … continued... New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Discussion: FishbowlLA and TALKERS.COM

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Google asked to remove 135 YouTube videos for ‘UK national security issues’ — US technology giant reports 71% rise in content removal requests from UK government or police — British police authorities ordered the removal of 135 videos from YouTube in the first half of this year …

Discussion: Digits, Search Engine Land and L.A. Times Tech Blog, more at Techmeme »

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:

Facebook Co-Founder Aims to Bring Venture Capital Model to Media — The Knight Foundation, a sponsor of journalism-innovation projects, named Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and digital experts from Harvard and MIT to its board, where they'll take a venture-capital-like approach to media.