Mediagazer: Pubs That Go Digital-Only Face New Requirements (Emma Bazilian/Adweek)

7:25 AM ET, November 21, 2012

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News Corp., CBS in Talks Over Merging Book Businesses — News Corp ., owner of HarperCollins Publishers, has expressed interest to CBS Corp. about acquiring its Simon & Schuster book business, according to people familiar with the talks. — The people described the talks as preliminary and cautioned that a deal isn't imminent.

Discussion: Quartz, Business Insider, Melville House Books, The New York Observer, Deadline.com, Bookseller news, paidContent, The Huffington Post and New York Times

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Another Big YouTube Bet: Time Warner Leads $40 Million Maker Studios Round — Here comes more money for YouTube videos. But these dollars don't come from YouTube: Time Warner is leading a big round of financing for Maker Studios, a startup that specializes in creating and distributing clips for the video giant.

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Gaza Media Coverage Reports Strikes In Real Time, Without Restrictions — NEW YORK — NBC News correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin said it's a “completely different dynamic” reporting from Gaza now than it was four years ago, given both the unrestricted access for journalists and widespread use of social media.

Discussion: Committee to Protect …, BuzzFeed, TVNewser, Capital New York and Poynter

Allison Hoffman / Tablet Mag: The ‘Kids’ Behind IDF's Media

Greg Mitchell / The Nation:
MSNBC's Disgrace: In Five Hours of Primetime, Fifteen Minutes on Israel-Gaza

Discussion: New York Times, The Daily Caller, The Huffington Post, Pressing Issues and The New Yorker Blog

Sara Morrison / CJR:

Martin Baron's plans for WaPo — Will he bring the Globe's double-site strategy to the Post? — Boston Globe editor Martin Baron will be The Washington Post's new executive editor come January 2013, replacing Marcus Brauchli. Three days after his first visit to WaPo's newsroom to meet …

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Pot calls kettle black in New York Times piece on Washington Post business troubles

Discussion: CNET

Jill Goldsmith / Variety:

Jeff Bewkes inks 5-year pact with Time Warner — Extension keeps CEO at helm of conglom through 2017 — Time Warner said Tuesday it has reupped with chairman-CEO Jeff Bewkes, inking a five year contract extension that will keep him at the media giant through 2017.

Discussion: Media & Entertainment, Home Media Magazine, Media Decoder, TVNewser, Wall Street Journal and Associated Press

Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

Pubs That Go Digital-Only Face New Requirements — Newsweek might have been the most high-profile magazine to go digital-only, but it's probably not the last. And so the Alliance for Audited Media—as the Audit Bureau of Circulations has renamed itself—has endorsed new guidelines for print publications that go digital-only.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, Sacramento Bee and NetNewsCheck Latest

McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:

How The Conservative Media Lost The Election — The plan was to unmask Obama. It didn't work. — President Obama's decisive reelection has promised the conservative new media four more years of fodder, but it's also left some of its more earnest participants with a gnawing question: What went wrong?

Discussion: The American Conservative

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Social Curation Site Storify Gets A Search- And Media-Centric Redesign — Storify is launching a redesigned website that puts search front and center. — The site — which allows you to create stories out of online content from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram …

Discussion: Groundswell and The Next Web

Lauren Indvik / Mashable: Storify Aims to Become Portal for Content Discovery

Nadine Schimroszik / Guardian:

FT Deutschland to close, say staff — Journalists at the FT Deutschland claim that Wednesday's edition will be the last, with its owners due to meet the same day — Wednesday's edition of Financial Times Deutschland is expected to be the last published, according to staff at the title.

Discussion: Media News

Abigail Hauslohner / @ahauslohner:

IDF just hit right next to us, blew out the windows in our hotel room #Gaza. AP, AFP, Jazeera bldgs also hit tonight

Discussion: Al Jazeera Blogs and The Huffington Post

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Roger Ailes: ‘My life would be so much easier if I were just more liberal.’ — When Roger Ailes was a kid he used to watch Roy Rogers movies. He used to love the part where “the cattle would all start heading toward the cliff in a stampede. And one poor son-of-a-bitch had to go out there and ride …

Colin Mann / Advanced Television:

Half of Internet users unsure of content legality — Nearly half of all Internet users are unsure whether the content they are accessing online is legal, Ofcom research has found. — However, one in six people online believed they downloaded or accessed content illegally over a three-month period this year.

Discussion: Broadband TV News and The Next Web

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

@NYTOnIt author Benjamin Kabak ‘zero percent interested in picking a fight’ with NYT — New York lawyer Benjamin Kabak's @NYTOnIt Twitter account was reinstated Tuesday morning after a complaint from The New York Times took it offline overnight. — “I'm zero percent interested in picking …

Discussion: City Room, Guardian and New York Magazine