Mediagazer: Minnesota Gives Coursera the Boot, Citing a Decades-Old Law (Katherine Mangan/Wired Campus)

5:25 PM ET, October 19, 2012

Top News:

Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

After Newsweek, Is Writing on Wall for Newsweeklies? — Newsweek, now facing a digital-only future, isn't the only newsweekly that's struggling in print. Fellow mass-audience title Time is down 19 percent in ad pages in the first half of the year, per Publishers Information Bureau.

Discussion: Newsweek & The Daily Beast, BuzzFeed, Wall Street Journal and Capital New York

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Newsweek's Web-Only Future: Inevitable, and a Whole Lot Smaller — Barry Diller has followed through and pulled the plug on Newsweek's print edition, but he insists that the weekly magazine can survive as a tablet publication. — That doesn't seem like the end game: If they make a go of it …

Discussion: Talking Biz News and Wall Street Journal

Dylan Byers / Politico:
Turning the page on Tina Brown

Discussion: kottke.org, The Huffington Post, NPR, Guardian and msnbc.com

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Newsweek CEO: Dumping Print ‘Liberates Us’

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, The Wrap, New York Post, mediabistro.com, MediaShift, Media Decoder, FishbowlDC, Poynter, BtoB Magazine, Corporate Intelligence, Media News, paidContent and Dead Tree Edition

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Google News faces mass newspaper boycott in Brazil — This will sound familiar to anyone who has watched Google News' relations with news publishers over the years.. — The next country in which tension has erupted is one of the world's fastest-growing economies.

Discussion: JOURNALISM IN THE AMERICAS, WebProNews, Techdirt, Search Engine Land, Mashable! and Forbes

BBC:
Google threatens French media ban over proposed law

Discussion: Betabeat, Wall Street Journal, Quartz, The Atlantic Online, Techdirt, Bigmouthmedia Search …, CNET, FRANCE 24, The Verge, Telegraph, The Next Web and TechCrunch

Amita Sharma / KPBS San Diego:

U-T Owner Manchester Shows Interest In Tribune Company — Hotelier and U-T San Diego owner Doug Manchester wants to buy the Tribune Company, which owns the Los Angeles Times. — Since Manchester bought the U-T more than 10 months ago, he's launched a television channel and purchased The North County Times.

Discussion: Cision, NetNewsCheck Latest and FishbowlLA

Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune sets pay wall on some content at $14.99 per month

Discussion: Chicago Business and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Katherine Mangan / Wired Campus:

Minnesota Gives Coursera the Boot, Citing a Decades-Old Law — Coursera offers free, online courses to people around the world, but if you live in Minnesota, company officials are urging you to log off or head for the border. — The state's Office of Higher Education has informed …

Discussion: Forbes, Slate, PandoDaily, BostInno, GigaOM, The Blotter, TechCrunch, Hit & Run, Popehat, WebProNews, The Consumerist, Techdirt, The Raw Story, Inside Higher Ed and The Volokh Conspiracy

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Notorious ad hijacker spreads to more media, retail sites — Do publishers have the right to control the ads that appear on their websites? A controversial company doesn't think so and has been injecting billions of unauthorized ads into websites like AOL, the BBC and the New York Times.

Jim Romenesko:

Publisher at Advance's Express-Times suddenly resigns — Martin Till, who has been with the Express-Times in Easton, Pa., for 14 years, said in a prepared statement that he's decided to explore new opportunities. The departing publisher could not be reached by his newspaper's reporter for comment.

Discussion: lehighvalleylive.com

Glenn Peoples / Billboard.Biz:

Copyright Alert System Coming Within Weeks — American Internet users can expect to start seeing notifications from their Internet service providers if they trade files on peer-to-peer networks. — A blog post by Jill Lesser, executive director of the Center for Copyright Information …

Discussion: CNN, WebProNews and Center for Copyright …

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

The Telegraph's much-delayed digital paywall appears to have taken another step back, following the departure of the senior executive responsible for the strategy. Steve McLaughlin, Telegraph Media Group's chief commercial officer, held responsibility for digital strategy and revenues …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

William Launde / Wall Street Journal:

CBS's Les Moonves Says TV Channel Shakeout Could Remedy Squeeze — CBS Corp. CBS -0.12% Chief Executive Les Moonves has an answer for cable and satellite operators who complain their profits are getting squeezed by continually rising content costs: eliminate low-rated channels from their lineup.

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Tim Davie to head BBC Worldwide — Appointment of new chief executive marks end of John Smith's 23-year career with corporation — Tim Davie, the head of BBC's director of audio and music, has been appointed as the new chief executive of BBC Worldwide. — The appointment of Davie …

Discussion: Radio Today with RCS, Digital Spy and Media Week

The Huffington Post:

Fox News Chief Signs Big New Contract — Fox News CEO Roger Ailes has signed a new four-year contract to remain the head of the network, the Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz tweeted on Friday. Ailes will run Fox Business Network, Fox television stations and 20th Century TV as well.

Discussion: New York Magazine and Media Decoder

Jim Romenesko:

Seattle Times political ad campaign ‘absolutely takes the cake’ — More than 100 Seattle Times staffers sign letter protesting ad buy. … The Seattle Times Co. announced on Wednesday that it's running — and paying for — ads in support of gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna.