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James Rainey / LA Times:
NBC stations will use content from nonprofit news outlets — Ten NBC-owned television stations across the nation will team with nonprofit news outlets in an attempt to beef up their enterprise and analytical reporting, the network announced Monday. — NBC affiliates in Los Angeles …
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TVWeek.com and AllAccess.com
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
For Local NBC Stations, Collaborative Journalism — In a sign of increasing collaboration between journalism groups, NBC on Tuesday will announce a series of partnerships between its television stations and nonprofit news organizations. — Effectively immediately, NBC's station in Chicago …
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Deadline.com
Bloomberg:
Apple, E-Book Publishers Probed by EU Agency — Apple Inc. (AAPL), the world's biggest technology company, and five e-book publishers are being investigated by European Union antitrust regulators over deals that may restrict sales across the region. — The probe targets the iPad-maker's deals …
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BGR, Jacket Copy and MacRumors
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Europe Probing Apple And Publishers For E-book Price ‘Cartel’ — After carrying out unannounced inspections at the companies back in March, the European Commission is now starting a formal antitrust investigation into whether Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and book publishers are limiting e-book competition with their “agency” pricing model.
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AllThingsD, CNET News, Digits, Publishers Lunch, Fast Company, ZDNet and GigaOM, more at Techmeme »
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Why Europe's trustbusters targeted Apple's e-book ‘cartel’ — The antitrust probe dates back to a deal Steve Jobs cut with five publishers in Jan. 2010 — The language of the European Commission's press release Tuesday announcing the start of a formal antitrust investigation of Apple …
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, EU Press Room, Associated Press, Mashable!, 9to5Mac, Electronista and MacStories, more at Techmeme »
New York Times:
Xbox Live Challenges the Cable Box — The old-fashioned cable television set-top box — long the hub of living-room entertainment for most people — is about to become less relevant. — Beginning on Tuesday and continuing through the month, Microsoft will give a face-lift …
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Click Here Blog, Multichannel News, PopWatch and Forbes
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Jeanine Poggi / The Street:
LoveFilm Gives Netflix a Heartache
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Microsoft upgrades Xbox Live with 40 entertainment services, live TV, and Kinect voice control
Microsoft upgrades Xbox Live with 40 entertainment services, live TV, and Kinect voice control
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Forbes, TechCrunch, MediaPost, GigaOM, Home Media Magazine, GeekWire, MediaPost, Microsoft Advertising Blog, Microsoft, Digits, Pocket-lint, paidContent, Guardian, The Tech Trade, CNET News, GeekWire, Multichannel, Engadget and TechNet Blogs
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Aaron Sorkin's HBO Cable News Series To Be Called ‘Newsroom’ — Exclusive: The upcoming HBO drama about cable news from “The West Wing” creator Aaron Sorkin finally has a name. TVNewser has learned that HBO is expected to call the series “Newsroom.” — Sorkin's series follows fictional …
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HBO Watch, The Daily Caller, Deadline.com, On The Air, The Huffington Post and Business Insider
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Matthew Futterman / Wall Street Journal:
NFL Near Major Media Deals — TV Networks in Talks to Extend Pacts for About $3.2 Billion a Year Through 2021 — The National Football League is close to inking an eight-year extension of three media-rights deals that should earn it a total of about $3.2 billion a year from its broadcast partners …
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Wall Street Journal:
Cable-TV Honchos Cry Foul Over Soaring Cost of ESPN — Dissent is growing within the media business over the rising cost of sports programming, even as the National Football League is negotiating a new agreement with major broadcast TV networks that are expected to boost its fees 60% to $3.2 billion per year.
Discussion:
Company Town and Deadline.com
Julia Angwin / The Wall Street Journal:
WikiLeaks Associates Seek Injunction on Twitter Data — Three WikiLeaks associates are appealing a court order that would force Twitter Inc. to hand over information from their accounts without a search warrant. — The WikiLeaks associates - Jacob Appelbaum, Rop Gonggrijp, and Birgitta Jonsdottir …
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Buyouts offered at The Gazette, Washington Post's community newspapers in Maryland — The buyouts were mentioned at the bottom of a story announcing that Chuck Lyons is moving from CEO to chairman of Post-Newsweek Media, the business division that includes The Gazette: “In an unrelated development …
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Gazette.Net Maryland …
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
CNBC Europe and CNBC Asia Merge to Create CNBC International — TVNewser has learned CNBC president Mark Hoffman sent out a memo this morning announcing that CNBC Europe and CNBC Asia have merged to form CNBC International. — Mick Buckley, who headed CNBC Europe, is leaving the company after eight years.
Discussion:
mediabistro.com and Inside Cable News
Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Financial Times Launches Dedicated Android App — With mobile readers proving to be very avid readers of the Financial Times, the newspaper has launched a new version of its native Android app that it hopes will bring in more users on the platform on both smartphones and tablets.
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Editor & Publisher ® and Softpedia News
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Kindle Fire Offers ‘Disappointingly Poor’ Experience; ‘Miserable’ Magazines — Will the projected 3.9 million Kindle Fire buyers this quarter end up disappointed with their new tablets? User-experience guru Jakob Nielsen's new usability report finds the Fire's 7-inch screen troublesome …
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TechCrunch, Alertbox, ZDNet, WebProNews, Electronista, Daring Fireball, Softpedia News, AllThingsD and Kindle Review, more at Techmeme »
Indiewire:
Exclusive: ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Producer Scott Rudin Replies To David Denby's Upcoming New Yorker Review Embargo Break — “They reviewed what?” — If you follow movie insider baseball news you may have heard the embargo on Sony's “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” is about to break tomorrow …
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New Yorker, Deadline.com, New York Times, Washington Post, LA Observed, The Awl, Gawker, Embargo Watch, Hollywood Reporter and The Huffington Post
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Linda Holmes / NPR:
Honor Among Thumbs: A ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Spat And An Imperfect System
Honor Among Thumbs: A ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Spat And An Imperfect System
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AllThingsD, Gothamist and Carpetbagger
Steve Pond / The Wrap:
Sony Furious Over New Yorker's Plan to Break ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Review Embargo
Sony Furious Over New Yorker's Plan to Break ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Review Embargo
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Company Town, Media Decoder and Poynter