Mediagazer: Where rock lives: Boston.com gets into streaming radio (Justin Ellis/Nieman Journalism Lab)

8:05 AM ET, June 26, 2012

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Michael J. De La Merced / DealBook:

News Corp. Considers Dividing Itself in Two — Updated News Corporation is considering dividing itself in two, cleaving its publishing arm from its far larger entertainment division, a person briefed on the matter told DealBook early on Tuesday. If News Corporation follows through …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, Wall Street Journal, Poynter, Gannett Blog and London Evening Standard

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘Journal’ rankles sister paper ‘Post’ with poachings

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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

‘Newsroom’ Debut Draws Audience of 2.1 Million — HBO generated a huge amount of talk — positive and negative — about its new Aaron Sorkin drama, “The Newsroom,” and it managed some better-than-average audience totals for its premiere Sunday night. — The drama, about a fictional cable newscast …

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Dan Rather / Gawker:

Dan Rather Reviewed The Newsroom for Us and Liked It — A note from Dan Rather: I'm aware that my musings run counter to some of the more prominent early reviews in high-profile publications such as The New Yorker and the New York Times. But with all due respect (and I have a lot of it for those reviewers) …

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Why the NYT-Flipboard deal is a smart move — The New York Times hasn't exactly been free-wheeling with its digital content in the past: the only way you could get it was through the newspaper's apps or via excerpts on a site like The Huffington Post or Google News — which is why the deal …

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Nitasha Tiku / Betabeat:
TechCrunch Blogger Is Mad as Hell

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Ben Quinn / Guardian:

Prominent Americans urge Ecuador to accept Julian Assange's asylum request — A letter signed by leading US figures in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's application for political asylum in Ecuador has been delivered to the country's London embassy.

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Telegraph: Julian Assange asylum bid: ambassador flies into Ecuador for talks with President Correa

Emily Allen / Daily Mail: Assange demands diplomatic assurances he will not be extradited to U.S. over WikiLeaks revelations …

Steve Outing:

10, 15 free web articles a month: Is this a mistake? (Yes!) — I think it's safe to say that what Walter Isaacson and Steven Brill started — a wave of newspaper websites putting up “metered paywalls” where there's a subscription or membership fee required for site visitors who want to read …

Jordan Weissmann / The Atlantic:

Why Porn and Journalism Have the Same Big Problem — Nobody wants to pay for their product. — The smut business just isn't what it used to be. — The early days of the Internet were a bonanza for major pornography studios, as the web transformed adult entertainment into an instant …

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Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

Auto de Fe launches first on iPad, web second, print third — Auto de Fe launched on iPad earlier this week, with some content going online this weekend and a print edition due to be published later this year — A new magazine “of inquisitive journalism and intelligent photography” has launched for iPad.

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Where rock lives: Boston.com gets into streaming radio — Boston.com sees a future in radio. On Monday Boston.com announced plans to launch an alternative music station that would livestream from the Boston Globe's headquarters. The kicker? They're bringing on some of the dispatched talent …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, The Boston Globe, Media Decoder and NetNewsCheck Latest

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Exclusive: Zinio puts itself up for sale — FORTUNE — Zinio, a digital magazine reading platform that competes with Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle app and Apple's (AAPL) Newsstand, is seeking a buyer, Fortune has learned. The San Francisco-based company has hired investment bank Montgomery & Co …

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Nat Ives / AdAge:

Wired and The New Yorker Pull Back on Flipboard — Some magazines are developing Flipboard fatigue. Wired and The New Yorker are suspending efforts to sell ads on the platform and replacing their robust Flipboard feeds next month with spartan versions that summon their own websites if readers want whole articles.

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Kimber Streams / The Verge:

AFP's e-diplomacy tool maps tweets between world leaders — The Agence France-Presse (AFP) has released a new e-diplomacy tool that curates and maps tweets from heads of state and government, officials, thinkers, and activists. The app displays the most-used hashtags, measures an individual's influence …

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