Mediagazer: DirecTV-Viacom Dispute May Affect Access for 20 Million Customers (Brian Stelter/Media Decoder)

7:10 PM ET, July 10, 2012

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Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:

Spin Magazine Is Sold to Buzzmedia, With Plans to Expand Online Reach — Spin Media, the company behind the alternative-music magazine Spin, has been sold to Buzzmedia, a portfolio of music and celebrity Web sites, in a deal that could expand Spin's reach online but also calls into question its future as a print publication.

Discussion: Folio, BUZZMEDIA, Inc., Gothamist, Media Decoder, Adweek, AdAge, FishbowlNY, paidContent, New York Magazine, Forbes Real Time, mediabistro.com and eMedia Vitals

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Tech and Media Elite Are Likely to Debate Piracy — It's not often moguls admit they made a mistake. — But lately some of the highest-paid executives at the world's largest media companies have talked a lot about the lessons they learned from a failed industrywide attempt to pass antipiracy legislation six months ago.

Discussion: Daily Dot and Forbes Real Time

Bloomberg:
Murdoch, Moguls Head To Sun Valley As Mobile Shapes Media

Discussion: Capital New York

Amy Sullivan / The New Republic:

Breaking: Some Journalists Forced to Work on Hamster Wheels — Nothing gets journalists chattering like a debate about themselves, so I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise that my post yesterday about the fixation many news outlets have with being first attracted some notice.

Charlie Warzel / Adweek:
Journalists Weigh in on ‘Reporting it First’

Discussion: Poynter, The Daily Dish and Neatorama

AdAge:

Blog Network Say Media Poaches Time Magazine Publisher Kim Kelleher — Leaves Time Inc. Flagship Magazine for Blog Network — Kim Kelleher is leaving her post as worldwide publisher of Time magazine to become president of Say Media, the blog network that includes sites such as XOJane …

Discussion: Adweek, TechCrunch, NetNewsCheck Latest and FishbowlNY

Steve Myers / Poynter:

NPR unpublishes intern's execution story after discovering parts were plagiarized — NPR has deleted a story from its website, an intern's first-person account of witnessing a public execution in Kabul, after learning that parts of it were plagiarized from someone else's story published in 2001.

Discussion: NPR, NetNewsCheck Latest and New York Magazine

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News: WSJ intern fired for making up quotes denies allegation to beauty pageant

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Next Issue brings 39 all-you-can-read magazines to iPad — Digital magazine joint venture Next Issue Media is finally available for the iPad, three months after it launched for Android. With the app, users can read popular magazines like People, Vogue, the New Yorker and Real Simple for a flat monthly fee.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Engadget, AdAge, PC Magazine, ZDNet, SocialTimes, Journalism.co.uk and Techland

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Next Issue, magazines and paving media cow paths

Discussion: The Loop, NetNewsCheck Latest and ZDNet

Erik Maza / WWD:

New York Magazine to Relaunch The Cut — New York magazine's plans to expand its signature fashion blog The Cut have been evident since May, when it hired Gawker sex and scandal blogger Maureen O'Connor as features editor. — It looked like the blog would grow to cover …

Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:
New York Magazine to Expand The Cut Blog

Discussion: NYConvergence.com, New York Magazine and FishbowlNY

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Donald Newhouse rebuffs request to sell Times-Picayune — Donald Newhouse has rebuffed a strongly-worded letter from a group of heavy-hitters in New Orleans to sell The Times-Picayune rather than cut daily printing. The Times-Picayune Citizens Group wrote in a letter delivered Monday:

Discussion: New Orleans Times-Picayune and JIMROMENESKO.COM

John Robinson / Media, disrupted:
In New Orleans, profit trumps readers

Discussion: @annatarkov

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Confidence in TV news at all-time low — Americans' confidence in television news has hit an all-time low, according to a new survey by Gallup. — Twenty-one percent of the 1,004 adults polled said they had “a great deal” or “a lot” of confidence in television news media …

Discussion: Gallup, Deadline.com, Mediaite and @davidfolkenflik

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:

HuffPost Preps for Video Launch — As the Huffington Post prepares for an Aug. 13 launch of its full-day online video network, it is hoping to tap a fast-growing advertising market by offering marketers something akin to sports naming rights in addition to traditional online video ads.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Capital New York, Los Angeles Times and TVNewser

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

DirecTV-Viacom Dispute May Affect Access for 20 Million Customers — DirecTV customers may lose access to Viacom's 17 television channels, including Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central, at the end of the day on Tuesday because of a dispute between the two companies.

Discussion: Forbes Real Time, Tampa Bay Times, Radio & Television …, paidContent, Blog.Viacom, DIRECTV Viacom Dispute, Adweek, CNET, Deadline.com and B&C

Jim Romenesko:

Former Star-Ledger staffer Philip Read sues paper for fraud — Former Star-Ledger journalist Philip Read has sued the Advance-owned newspaper for fraud, claiming he was misled into accepting a buyout in 2010. — Read says in his suit that he felt forced to accept the buyout package …

Dylan Byers / Politico:

David Callaway named EIC of USA Today — USA Today will name MarketWatch editor David Callaway as its new editor-in-chief, POLITICO has learned. USA Today president and publisher Larry Kramer, who founded Market Watch, will announce the news today at 11 a.m. ET.

Discussion: Media Decoder and USA Today

Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

A digital publishing model that works — There's a publisher whose sales doubled in the first quarter of this year, with display advertising revenues climbing 73%, subscription sales rising 90% and recruitment revenues gaining 122%. — The publisher's name is LinkedIn and the quarter was not unusual.