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Lucia Moses / Adweek:
A Year of Tina Brown and Newsweek Still Needs a Savior — When the merger between Newsweek and The Daily Beast was announced almost a year ago, it seemed like it might, at least, have the makings of a good story: charming nonagenarian audio tycoon teams up with a media mogul and celebrity editor …
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Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
Conde Nast Traveler's iPad App Has a Size Problem — The inaugural iPad edition of Conde Nast Traveler has arrived at Apple's Newsstand — and it's hefty. — The issue is 784 megabytes — substantially bigger than even Wired's first issue, which attracted a fair number of comments …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Disney Double Dips: Renews Netflix Deal for ABC Shows, Adds Amazon — Another example of why the Web video boom is (currently) a great boon to Big TV: Disney has announced not one but two deals to sell digital copies of its reruns. — Disney has re-upped a two-year-old deal with Netflix …
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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
‘Rock Center’ Books Jon Stewart, As It Places Two Segments Online — On the premiere of NBC's “Rock Center” tonight, host Brian Williams will sit down for a conversation with comedian and “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart. Williams made the announcement during “Sunday Night Football” on NBC last night.
Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Editors due to give evidence on privacy and injunctions — Editors of UK newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian and Sunday Times, are due to appear before the committee on privacy and injunctions this afternoon — The committee will ultimately make recommendations on the issue …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
CNN Is Said to Be Revamping Its Morning Lineup — CNN, which remodeled its afternoon and evening schedule earlier this year, is now on the verge of remaking its morning schedule. — The channel, a unit of Time Warner, is expected to announce as early as this week that Soledad O'Brien …
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Cable Is Holding Web TV at Bay, Earnings Show — This time a year ago, the television industry was rife with worry about so-called cord-cutting — people dropping cable subscriptions in favor of watching TV over the Internet. — But for the most part, the cords remain intact, the latest crop of earnings reports indicate.
Susan Krashinsky / Globe and Mail:
Postmedia plans to charge for online articles — Canada's largest newspaper publisher is the latest in the industry to say the future can't be free. — Postmedia Network Canada Corp PNC.A-T , publisher of the National Post and other daily and community papers across the country …
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How Google is quietly experimenting in new ways for readers to access publishers content — Google appears to be experimenting with a new paywall-esque content roadblock for publishers, and it's not One Pass. For lack of a better name, let's call it a “survey wall,” because instead of dollars …
Gordon MacMillan / The Wall Blog:
The Independent begins charging and launches £19.99 iPad app — by @gordonmacmillan, posted on 31 October, 2011 at 9:26 am, filed under Media Owners, Web and tagged Apple iPad, The Guardian, The Independent. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.
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Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
Arab Spring Reshapes Market for TV News — PARIS — As revolutions upend the political landscape across the Arab world, the news media landscape is shifting, too. — The market for Arabic-language television news, dominated for years by two satellite channels with close links to Arab rulers …
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