Mediagazer: Vice President Biden complains after dust-up with conservative reporter (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)

5:50 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: Future of Journalism, Multichannel, HubSpot's Inbound …, FT Tech Hub, Broadcasting & Cable, TeleRead, Editors Weblog, GigaOM, Hillicon Valley, Poynter and Reflections of a Newsosaur

Journalism.org:

How People Use Tablets and What it Means for the Future of News — Eighteen months after the introduction of the iPad, 11% of U.S. adults now own a tablet computer of some kind. About half (53%) get news on their tablet every day, and they read long articles as well as get headlines.

Discussion: VentureBeat, CNET News, Search Engine Land, paidContent, Marketing Pilgrim, ReadWriteWeb, Poynter, Medacity, Gannett Blog and CyberJournalist.net, more at Techmeme »

Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Study: Tablet Users Love to Read the News, Still Reluctant to Pay for It

Discussion: Adweek

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: Adweek, Betabeat, Poynter, The Atlantic Wire, paidContent, New York Magazine, Business Insider, Gawker and The Huffington Post

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Netflix Puts Global Expansion On Hold As Costs Drag It Down — Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is on the road to profitability in Canada, but costs for its global roll-out are set to turn the company loss-making next year. So, after its next launches in the new year, Netflix will freeze international expansion.

Discussion: Felix Salmon and Guardian

David Lieberman / Deadline.com:
Is It “Nuclear Winter” For Netflix? Analysts Tell Investors To Bail After 3Q Setbacks

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

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

Discussion: CNET News, The Week, Los Angeles Times, FT Alphaville, Between the Lines Blog and Forbes

MediaPost:
Netflix Streams Revs, But Stock Takes Big Hit

Discussion: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Federal Trade Commission, Forbes, MarketingVox News & Trends, ZDNet, TechCrunch, The Wrap, 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

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!, Electronista, AppleInsider, WebProNews, www.wnyc.org, The Next Web and NME News

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Apple TV Effort Said to Be Led By ITunes Creator

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

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

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Amazon Misses, Q3 Sales Up 44 Percent To $10.9B; Net Income Down 73 Percent To $63M — Amazon reported third quarter earnings today. Net income decreased 73% to $63 million in the third quarter, or $0.14 per diluted share, compared with net income of $231 million, or $0.51 per diluted share, in third quarter 2010.

Discussion: MarketBeat, VentureBeat, Business Wire, paidContent:UK, GalleyCat, Reuters, Between the Lines Blog, CNNMoney.com, Business Insider and Engadget, more at Techmeme »

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

Discussion: Business Insider, more at Techmeme »

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

Discussion: Engadget

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: Search Engine Land, Digits, Threat Level, SiliconFilter and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »

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.

more at Techmeme »

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

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 …

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

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

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

Vice President Biden complains after dust-up with conservative reporter — Joe Biden's office has complained to the Senate press gallery about a confrontation the vice president had with a conservative journalist last week on Capitol Hill. — Biden aides asked whether Senate rules were broken …

Discussion: The Daily Caller and On Media's Blog

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.