Mediagazer: News Corp., CBS in Talks Over Merging Book Businesses (Wall Street Journal)

5:05 AM ET, November 21, 2012

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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: BuzzFeed, TVNewser, Capital New York and Poynter

Al Jazeera Blogs:

Al Jazeera office damaged in Gaza City airstrike — Al Jazeera's bureau in Gaza City has been damaged after an airstrike hit the nearby Abu Khadra government building. A residential building in the area was on fire after the strike.

Discussion: Committee to Protect … and The Huffington Post

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: The Huffington Post

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, The New Yorker Blog and Pressing Issues

Wall Street Journal:

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

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

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.

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.

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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: Poynter, 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

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: Sacramento Bee and NetNewsCheck Latest

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

Todd Spangler / Cable Television News:

ESPN Reboots Xbox ‘TV Everywhere’ App — Sports Programmer's Full TV Everywhere Lineup Now Available on Game Console — Sports Programmer's Full TV Everywhere Lineup Now Available on Game Console — ESPN and Microsoft officially launched WatchESPN for the Xbox 360 game console …

Discussion: ESPN MediaZone, TechCrunch and Polygon

John Hopewell / Variety:

Disney Movies on Demand launches in Spain — Wuaki.tv deal marks Europe's second bow for SVOD offer — MADRID — The Walt Disney Company Spain and Portugal and Spanish portal Wuaki.tv, owned by Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, have teamed to launch a Disney-branded subscription video …

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
iTunes-like Disney Movies Online service shuttered because there weren't enough users

Discussion: Deadline.com

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

Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
Twitter Restores @NYTOnIt Parody Account

Discussion: PC Magazine, Guardian, @juliemmoos, TechCrunch, Betabeat, AllThingsD, The Huffington Post, @bkabak and Gothamist

Bloomberg:

News Corp. to Acquire 49% of YES Network at $3 Billion Value — News Corp. (NWSA), the media company led by Rupert Murdoch, agreed to buy 49 percent of the YES Network, the cable channel that carries New York Yankees baseball games, in a deal that values the pay-TV outlet at about $3 billion.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and Deadline.com