Mediagazer: BBC World Service To Run Ads On Some Websites And Radio Stations (Mark Sweney/paidContent)

2:50 AM ET, January 6, 2012

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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Editors to face Leveson Inquiry next week — Fleet Street will be in the dock next week as a variety of leading national newspaper journalists, editors and publishers take the stand at the Leveson Inquiry. — On Monday the witness list comprises: Sun royal editor Duncan Larcombe …

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Leveson inquiry: Dominic Mohan and Kelvin MacKenzie to appear next week — Lord Justice Leveson will focus on former and current editors from the Sun, Telegraph, Mail, Indy, FT and Express — The editor of the Sun, Dominic Mohan, and his best-known predecessor, Kelvin MacKenzie …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Thurlbeck says Leveson should spark ‘tabloid revolution’ — Former chief reporter of the News of the World Neville Thurlbeck has said that the Leveson Inquiry should be “the spark that ignites a tabloid revolution”. — Writing on his own blog, Thurlbeck said today: “Without radical reform …

Neville Thurlbeck:
Notes on Leveson and the Need for Tabloid Revolution

Discussion: Future of Journalism and Guardian

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Warner Brothers Will Make Netflix, Redbox, Blockbuster Wait Longer for New Movies — Want to watch a new movie just out on DVD from Warner Brothers? You're going to have to buy it, or wait even longer to get it from Netflix or other disc renters. — A new deal between Time Warner's movie studio …

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Greg Sandoval / CNET:

HBO forces Netflix to go elsewhere for its DVDs — Netflix won't get HBO shows at a discount anymore but the video-rental service will still be able to rent ‘True Blood’ and other HBO shows. — In what is largely a symbolic move, HBO has stopped providing DVDs of its shows to Netflix …

Discussion: Media Decoder, Mashable!, Multichannel, Engadget, paidContent, The Verge, VatorNews, Electronista, Broadcasting & Cable, VentureBeat and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »

Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:

Current TV Source: Keith Olbermann Has Not Responded To Request To Cover New Hampshire — The plot of the bewildering, apparently one-sided dispute between Countdown host Keith Olbermann and Current TV is thinning as it thickens. A source at the network tells Mediaite that …

Discussion: Gawker, Media Decoder, Big Journalism, The Week and Hot Air

Pandora Young / FishbowlLA:
Olbermann Skewers Media Coverage of His Clash With Current TV

Discussion: FishbowlDC, The Daily Caller, Yahoo! News, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, TVNewser, Hollywood Reporter and Yahoo! News

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Keith Olbermann Has a Point Regarding the Quality of Current TV's Production Values

Discussion: Erik Wemple and PopWatch

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Analyst: Netflix Now the 15th Most-Watched TV ‘Network’ in U.S. — Netflix would now be the 15th most-watched TV “network” in the U.S. and could be the second most-watched in Netflix homes, BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield wrote in a blog post Wednesday. His math is based on news …

Discussion: Free Press, C21Media and Electronista

Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

New York Times, Washington Post, AP Found NewsRight — Newspaper organizations are banding together under an organization titled NewsRight to license and profit from the spread of their content online. — A project first developed by the Associated Press and initially named the News Licensing Group …

Discussion: Mashable!, The Hollywood Reporter, Media & Entertainment, NetNewsCheck Latest, Adweek and mnilive.com

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Remember the beacon? Newly formed NewsRight is the evolution of AP's News Registry

Discussion: Poynter, TechZwn, AdPulp and paidContent

Will Richmond / paidContent:

Disney, Comcast And Why TV Everywhere Alone Is Not Enough — Yesterday's press release from Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), announcing a comprehensive new ten-year distribution agreement covering over 70 different services is a testament to the idea that improved access …

Discussion: Comcast

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Where Did Nine Million Cable Subscribers Go?

Discussion: PC Magazine

Alex Sherman / Bloomberg: Comcast-Disney Pact Signals More Deals Aimed at Fighting Netflix

Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:

Gawker Blogger Fired After Post Invoking N-Word — The Observer has just learned that Gawker blogger Seth Abramovitch was dismissed after a post that invoked a racial slur many considered to be in generally poor taste. Gawker.com editor A.J. Daulerio has confirmed: “Yes, he was fired.”

Discussion: The Wrap, FishbowlNY, Gawker and Speakeasy

Foster Kamer / The New York Observer: Nick Denton's 'State of Gawker 2012′ Memo: ‘Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.’

Michael Wolff / GQ:

Why I love Fox News — Forget the phone-hacking scandal, the real threat to News Corp comes from its enemy within - Fox News' president Roger Ailes has the power, profitability and political influence to bring the media empire to collapse — For more than a decade, the traditional media business …

Discussion: Erik Wemple

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

News Int gears up for launch of iPad focused project — News International is gearing up a new digital project which is believed to be largely aimed at iPad users and is partly staffed by former employees of the News of the World. — At least 11 former News of the World journalists …

Discussion: the Econsultancy blog

Mark Sweney / paidContent:

BBC World Service To Run Ads On Some Websites And Radio Stations — The BBC Trust has approved plans to run advertising on a number of BBC World Service websites as well as in radio broadcasts for the first time in the corporation's history. — BBC World Service has been given the green light …

Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

Amazon Ends Lawsuit Over Kindle Fire — In a surprise development, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has quietly resolved a lawsuit that alleges its Kindle Fire violates four patents related to touchscreen technology. — In court papers filed in Texas this week, Amazon and Smartphone Technologies …

Discussion: Publishing Executive …, ZDNet, mocoNews, GeekWire, AllThingsD, WebProNews and Electronista

Laurie Segall / CNNMoney.com:

Digital music sales top physical sales — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The times they are a-changin'. For the first time in history, digital music sales topped the physical sale of music. — According to a Nielsen and Billboard report, digital music purchases accounted for 50.3% of music sales in 2011.

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