Mediagazer: YouTube Close to Announcing Video ‘Channels’ (Amir Efrati/Wall Street Journal)

12:15 AM ET, October 28, 2011

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Jerry Barmash / FishbowlNY:

Cuts, Changes Come to Financial Video Service, Reuters Insider — It's been 17 months since Thomson Reuters debuted an online financial video news service, available to Reuters subscribers. — However, much like the recent layoffs dotting the radio landscape, (Cumulus, Clear Channel) …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Todd A. Heywood / The American Independent:
Laid off Gannett reporter turns occupy protester, feels burned by CEO's $37 mil pay

Discussion: Future of Journalism

AllAccess.com:
Hundreds Cut By Clear Channel Yesterday

Discussion: The New York Observer

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Longtime Washington Post exec Bo Jones to MacNeil/Lehrer — After more than three decades with The Washington Post, Bo Jones will become President and CEO of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, which produces “PBS Newshour.” Jones, who is currently chairman of The Washington Post …

Discussion: @bobbymacreports, FishbowlDC, On Media's Blog, TVNewser and The Wrap

Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

Netflix Takes Up a Third of Internet Bandwidth Traffic shifting from computers to connected devices — Netflix may have lost 800,000 subscribers last quarter, but there are still more than enough streaming fans left over to hog nearly a third of peak Internet bandwidth.

Discussion: Digits and Bloomberg

Keach Hagey / On Media's Blog:

NYT says target of O'Keefe sting didn't work for them — James O'Keefe's Project Veritas is out with the Part II of its “To Catch a Journalist” project, which captures, with what appears to be a hidden camera, a talk that NYU professors Clay Shirky and Jay Rosen are giving to what seems to be a group of students.

Discussion: Big Journalism, Erik Wemple, James O'Keefe's Project …, Betabeat and Mediaite

Steve Myers / Poynter:
James O'Keefe takes aim at Clay Shirky, Jay Rosen

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Dan Gillmor / Guardian:

Wikileaks payments blockade sets dangerous precedent — The mainstream media should be up in arms about corporations' ability to choke off sources of WikiLeaks' funding — Suppose you are the proprietor of an information service. Your customers buy what you sell using the major payment systems …

Brooks Barnes / Media Decoder:

Disney Channel to Be Introduced in Russia — LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Company on Thursday said it had completed a deal to introduce a nationally broadcast version of the Disney Channel in Russia, one of the world's last big untapped entertainment markets.

Discussion: Company Town

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Telemundo Seeks Spanglish Speakers, Aiming for New Viewers — Telemundo has long trailed its rival Univision in their competition for Hispanic television viewers in the United States. But as the number of second- and third-generation Hispanic-Americans skyrockets, the perennial runner …

Discussion: Company Town

Louis Bedigian / Forbes:

Will Spotify Pull a Netflix, Screw Over Consumers and Kill its IPO Dreams? — There has been a lot of love for Spotify this year. But you know what they say: if you love something, you have to set it free. — I'm starting to wonder if this applies to entertainment services.

Yahoo Finance:

Analyst: Digital fees not enough to help NY Times — Citigroup analyst downgrades NY Times, expects print ad woes to trump gains from digital fees — Related Quotes … NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times' digital paywall is unlikely to collect enough revenue to offset a long-running decline …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Nieman Journalism Lab, Poynter and Medacity

Tom Krazit / paidContent:

Wikimedia Doubles Down On Mobile With Wikipedia Zero, Carrier Appeals — After years of employing an ad-hoc community-driven approach to mobile, one of the world's biggest Web sites is going mobile in a much more organized way. Wikimedia Foundation is currently pitching deals involving …

MediaShift:

E-Book Publishers Must Provide Flexible Access to Avoid ‘Media Hell’ — This week on MediaShift, we are exploring the dramatically changing publishing industry in our Beyond the Book special series. Stay tuned for more pieces like this one in the coming days.

Joe Flint / Company Town:

DirecTV takes fight with News Corp. to the FCC — Satellite broadcaster DirecTV has taken its fight with News Corp. to the federal government. — The two sides are at odds over a new distribution agreement that would keep News Corp.-owned cable channels including FX on DirecTV.

Discussion: Multichannel and Broadcasting & Cable

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Livestream Refreshes Video Service: “Viewers Can Rewind While Its Live” — Livestream is unveiling a major upgrade to its live video service today. It won't be fully rolled out until December, but you can see a preview of it here or watch the video below.

Discussion: VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, Betabeat and AllThingsD

Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:

YouTube Close to Announcing Video ‘Channels’ — Google Inc.'s YouTube is expected to announce as early as next week that it has signed a slew of partnerships with media companies and well-known personalities to produce original content for the popular video website, said people familiar with the matter.

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Lawrence Pintak / CJR:

POWs, Dead Dictators, and Journalistic Ethics — Would any journalist have turned down the opportunity to interview Gilad Shalit? — The young Iranian prisoner was no more than fourteen, still caked with a thick layer of dust from the battlefield. He was among thousands of old men …

Nick Bilton / New York Times:

What's Really Next for Apple in Television — “I've finally cracked it!” Steven P. Jobs, co-founder of Apple, told his biographer, Walter Isaacson. — Although Mr. Jobs was referring to Apple's plans to build a full-fledged television, he was not actually referring to the TV set …

Discussion: SplatF, ZDNet, GigaOM, MacStories, Electronista, 9to5Mac, Mashable!, App Advice, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, Gizmodo Australia, Pocket-lint, The Next Web and Daring Fireball, more at Techmeme »

Eric Jackson / Forbes:

David Kenny Won't Be the Next CEO of Yahoo! — Image by Getty Images Europe via @daylife — David Kenny stepped down as President of Akamai (AKAM) yesterday at the same time the company reported good numbers that caused the stock to jump 14% after-hours.

Garett Sloane / New York Post: Kenny in Yahoo! leader loop

NPR:

David Carr: The News Diet Of A Media Omnivore … David Carr has a cold. On Sunday night, the media columnist for The New York Times tweeted to his more than 335,000 followers that he realized he probably had a variation of the common cold — because his drugstore was out of his favorite cold remedy.

Discussion: Gannett Blog

Ian Darby / Campaign:

Dennis Publishing to launch iPad edition of The Week — The Week, Dennis Publishing's news digest title, is launching an iPad edition. — The Week: releasing app — Dennis, which is also testing a web version of the title, is expected to launch The Week app in mid-November.

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

CBC News:

Kobo to become a publisher — Canadian-based e-book seller Kobo is following in Amazon's footsteps and creating a publishing arm that will deal directly with authors, CBC News has learned. — Kobo, whose major shareholder is Indigo Books, will roll out its program sometime next year, according to CEO Michael Serbinis.

Discussion: GalleyCat, Bookseller news, TeleRead, Electronista and eBookNewser