Mediagazer: Sky wins exclusive Warner Bros. movie rights, dealing a blow to Netflix and its rivals (Matt Brian/The Next Web)

8:20 AM ET, September 19, 2012

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David Corn / Mother Jones:

WATCH: Full Secret Video of Private Romney Fundraiser — On Monday and Tuesday Mother Jones published exclusive video that captured Mitt Romney speaking to donors at a May 17 fundraiser, which was held at the home of private equity mogul Mark Leder. Responding to a question about the …

Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

With Romney Videos, Mother Jones Keeps Readers Coming Back — It's a good day to be at Mother Jones. — The magazine, which has a circulation of slightly more than 200,000, found itself read by millions of viewers around the world by Tuesday morning after it released a video of Mitt Romney …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, MinOnline, PopWatch, Boston Globe, Slate, Washington Wire, @clarajeffery, TVNewser, The Huffington Post and New York Times

Brendan Nyhan / CJR:

Jumping the gun on the Romney ‘47%’ video — In early coverage, reporters overstated the meaning and impact of Romney's comments—and left out out key context — NEW HAMPSHIRE — Yesterday, Mother Jones released a secretly-recorded video of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney making …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Atlantic Online, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Wire, PandoDaily, Speakeasy and The Daily Beast

Tony Romm / Politico:
Mitt Romney ‘47 percent’ recording may have been illegal

Discussion: The Caucus, citmedialaw.org, New York Times, @jbenton, Forbes and The Week

Dylan Byers / Politico:
Huffington Post, Mother Jones duel for video credit

Discussion: Associated Press

Erik Wemple:
Romney and Obama: Open your fundraisers

Discussion: Boston Globe and Washington Wire

Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
The Long Strange Leak Of Mitt Romney's 47% Video

Discussion: Poynter, @mlcalderone, Tampa Bay Times, AllThingsD, Capital New York, New York Magazine, Politico, The Huffington Post and Mother Jones

David Carr / New York Times:

Media Chiefs Form Venture to E-Publish — Two powerful entertainment moguls, Scott Rudin, the film and theater producer, and Barry Diller, the chairman of IAC/InterActiveCorp, are joining together to enter the turbulent world of book publishing. — Mr. Rudin and Frances Coady …

Discussion: Fast Company, NetNewsCheck Latest, DealBook, @carr2n, CNET and Deadline.com

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Operation Elveden: Sun journalists held — Police officer also arrested as part of investigation into alleged inappropriate payments to public officials in exchange for stories — Two Sun journalists, including the paper's West country correspondent, were arrested on Wednesday …

Discussion: PressGazette and BBC

Associated Press:

Riot police guard French weekly after it spoofs Prophet Muhammad — PARIS — Riot police took up positions Wednesday outside the Paris offices of a satirical French weekly that published crude caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad on Wednesday that ridicule a video that prompted a wave of protests in some Muslim countries.

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, Sky News, Agence France Presse and Guardian

Eva Galperin / TechCrunch:

Why Google Shouldn't Have Censored The Anti-Islamic Video — Editor's note: Eva Galperin is the International Freedom of Expression Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Follow her on Twitter: @evacide. — On Wednesday, YouTube announced that it had blocked access …

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Sky wins exclusive Warner Bros. movie rights, dealing a blow to Netflix and its rivals — Pushing back against Netflix and its satellite, video-on-demand and pay-per-view rivals, Sky has signed a new movie deal with Warner Bros., which sees it granted exclusive access to movies six months after they end their run in theaters.

Discussion: Sky News, Engadget, Hollywood Reporter, Digital Spy, The Wrap and Deadline.com

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Wikimedia enables ebook export feature on Wikipedia for your offline reading pleasure — Wikimedia today announced that it has enabled a new EPUB export feature on Wikipedia, but only on the English version of the site. You can use the new feature to collate your personal collection …

Discussion: Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, nbcnews.com, Lifehacker and Pocket-lint

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:

Apple, publishers offer EU e-book antitrust settlement — (Reuters) - Apple Inc and four major publishers have offered to let retailers such as Amazon.Com Inc sell e-books at a discount, in a bid to end an EU antitrust investigation, the European Commission said on Wednesday.

Discussion: TechCrunch

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Piracy may be commonplace, but music's outlook is improving — Making headlines today is a report that puts some big numbers on the piracy problem. — More than three billion songs were downloaded illegally around the world via torrent in the first half of 2012, according …

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

The Guardian has a new chief digital officer — Guardian News & Media may be re-casting its whole self as “digital-first”, but it still has digital-specific leadership. On Wednesday, the news publisher announced the creation of its first chief digital officer role, a post which appears …

Discussion: Guardian and Media Week

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Curry's revenge: NBC's ‘Today’ reeling after kicking Ann to the curb — Less than three months after a tearful Ann Curry bid goodbye to NBC's “Today” show, it's the network's turn to cry. The once-dominant morning powerhouse is falling even further behind in the ratings race …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and New York Magazine