Mediagazer: Analysis: Hollywood sees licensing cash cow in Disney-Netflix deal (Reuters)

3:05 PM ET, December 7, 2012

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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

Online Paywalls and the Future of Media: A Few Hard Truths — Yesterday, both The Daily Beast (or, more accurately, whatever Tina Brown can toss together after they've absorbed the corpse of Newsweek and laid a bunch of people off) and the Washington Post announced that they may be instituting …

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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Washington Post Considers a Paywall

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Washington Post, Daily Beast Jumping On The Paywall Bandwagon. Too Late?

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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Daily Beast Considers Charging for Website

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Caity Weaver / Gawker:

DJs Behind the Royal Hospital Hoax Have Deleted Their Twitter Accounts; There's Speculation They've Been Fired (UPDATE) — The two DJs behind the Kate Middleton hospital prank, now being blamed as a contributing factor to her nurse's suicide, have either deleted their verified Twitter accounts, or had them removed.

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Guardian:

2Day FM: Australia's shock-jock station with history of backfiring stunts — One DJ previously reprimanded for making teen girl admit she was raped, and calling a female journalist a ‘fat slag’ — The Sydney radio station that made a hoax call to the hospital treating the Duchess of Cornwall …

Dashiell Bennett / The Atlantic Wire:
How the Prank Call at Kate Middleton's Hospital Turned Deadly

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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

News Corp's publishing arm to focus on losses at Times and Sunday Times — More integration of titles difficult under terms that Rupert Murdoch agreed for Times Newspapers in 1981 — Slashing losses at the Times and Sunday Times, running at an estimated £1m a week …

Bloomberg:
News Corp.'s The Daily Shutdown Affects 126 Employees

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Telegraph:

Leveson Report: PM proposes third way to regulate the press — David Cameron is considering establishing a new independent press watchdog by Royal Charter - the mechanism used to set up the BBC and the Bank of England. — Watch Lord Leveson deliver his report

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Joe Schneider / Bloomberg:
U.K. Judge Who Probed News Says Internet Can Be Tamed

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Guardian News & Media plans to shed 68 editorial posts — Publisher of the Guardian, Observer and MediaGuardian says it must save £7m from the editorial budget — Guardian News & Media, the publisher of the Guardian, Observer and guardian.co.uk, has informed staff of plans …

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Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:
Guardian steps up pressure for staff to volunteer for redundancy

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Rob Fishman / BuzzFeed:

Google's Lost Social Network — Last October, while hundreds of protesters were encamped in Zuccotti Park, a handful of people occupied a glass building in downtown Washington D.C. Wearing sheepish grins and business casual attire, the ninety-nine percent they were not; one demonstrator said he worked for Grover Norquist.

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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Some Second Thoughts and Reader Feedback About the Middle East and Social Media — When I wrote last Wednesday about The Times's Jerusalem bureau chief, Jodi Rudoren, and criticism of her social media use, many readers - and some of those quoted in the blog post - responded.

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

For Netflix and the SEC, a Facebook Share Should Be Public Enough — Most people worry about over-sharing on Facebook. Under-sharing? Not so much. — Except, that is, for the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is considering taking action against Netflix for a Facebook post made by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.

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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Netflix Being Investigated By The SEC For CEO Reed Hastings' Public Facebook Posts

David Kravets / Wired:

Hollywood's Total Piracy Awareness Program Set for January Launch — UNIVERSAL CITY, California - Beginning in a few weeks, the nation's major internet service providers will roll out an initiative — backed by Obama and pushed by Hollywood and the record labels - to disrupt …

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Reuters:

Analysis: Hollywood sees licensing cash cow in Disney-Netflix deal — (Reuters) - Cha-ching! — That's the sound ringing in the ears of Hollywood studio executives after Walt Disney Co landed a rich deal with Netflix to stream its movies to television. — Netflix's arrival as a bidder …

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Cleveland Plain Dealer union gets new deal that protects staff from future layoffs, raises pay 8% — The Cleveland Plain Dealer has reached a new, tentative six-year agreement with the Guild's bargaining committee. The new agreement offers some protections to the 58 people to be laid off next year …

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Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

Amidst Ongoing Legal Battles, Aereo To Launch Apps For Smart TVs, Set-Top Boxes; Game Consoles Likely To Follow — Aereo, the polarizing startup that allows users to watch broadcast TV over the Web, is currently fighting for its life in court. The IAC and Barry Diller-backed startup …

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Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online:

The Tweet-Like News Flash That Announced Pearl Harbor — On this day 71 years ago, the United States experienced a day that would live in infamy. In the news flash above, the Associated Press made its first, terse announcement of the Pearl Harbor attacks to the nation.

Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:

Spotify Event Tries to Bury the Old Feuds Between Artists and Napster — Could a single bro-hug symbolize healing for the music industry after a decade of digital strife? — That was the inevitable question at a Spotify news conference on Thursday, when Lars Ulrich of Metallica embraced Sean Parker, one of the company's investors.

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