Mediagazer: Mobile Internet use expected to surge (Cecilia Kang/Washington Post)

3:24 AM ET, February 7, 2013

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Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:

News Corp. Posts Gain on Strength of Cable Channels — 8:54 p.m. | Updated Strong growth at News Corporation's cable channels FX, Fox News and regional sports networks helped the company more than double its net income in the three-month period that ended Dec. 31, offsetting lingering costs related …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, AdAge and Home Media Magazine

Colin Kruger / Sydney Morning Herald:

News Corp shares fall as publishing struggles — News Corp shares fell in local trading today - despite the media group beating second quarter earnings expectations - after the company downgraded its outlook due to underperforming businesses including its Australian publishing arm.

Discussion: ninemsn and Crikey

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

News Corp. says its split-up is on track — The separation of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. into two separate publicly traded companies is on track to be completed by the end of the current fiscal year, executives said today. — On a quarterly earnings call with Wall Street analysts …

Discussion: Forbes

Ryan McCarthy / MediaFile:

Another blog post that won't make any money — It's been a strange and daunting decade for print journalism — it's now an even stranger time for web journalism. We've become accustomed to reading headlines like BuzzFeed's recent $19 million fund raising, followed by news of buyouts for veterans at the New York Times.

Discussion: @wfrick, @mathewi and @jeffjarvis, Thanks:@mccarthyryanj

Nieman Lab / @niemanlab:

“The dirty secret about the web media business is that theres a massive oversupply problem.” http://nie.mn/11Xg1F5

Mathew Ingram / paidContent:

Business Insider vs. Digiday: One man's aggregation is another man's traffic hijacking — Plagiarism. Copyright infringement. Traffic hijacking. These are all terms publishers like to use when someone excerpts their content without permission, whether it's Google News or The Huffington Post.

Discussion: Poynter, PandoDaily and Digiday, Thanks:@mathewi

Henry Blodget / Business Insider: Thank You For Aggregating Us!

Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

Magazines React to Post Office Cutbacks: ‘The Friday Evening Post’? — Updated The magazine industry, which has already been hurt by advertising declines and the loss of readers, spent Wednesday afternoon reeling from the latest news that they no longer would be able to get magazines delivered on Saturdays.

Discussion: Democrat And Chronicle, magazine.org, Poynter, Home Media Magazine, BtoB Magazine, AdAge, New Yorker and Politico

Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:

Journalists Take Refuge in The World of Branded Content — Until December, Melissa Lafsky Wall was the editor of Newsweek's iPad edition, a job she landed on the strength of bylines in The New York Times, Salon, Wired and The Christian Science Monitor, as well as editing stints at the Huffington Post and the Freakonomics blog.

Discussion: Forbes, The Awl and Kirk LaPointe's …

Peter Kafka / @pkafka:

Streaming video deals from Netflix, Amazon, etc generated $350m for Time Warner last year.

Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:
Cable TV Revenue Helps Spur Time Warner Profit

Discussion: Media & Entertainment, Reuters, Hollywood Reporter, Bloomberg, Home Media Magazine, International Business Times, Deadline.com and Hollywood Reporter

Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:

Mobile Internet use expected to surge — Mobile Internet use will continue to surge over the next five years, at a rate of 66 percent each year, as the world gets its hands on more mobile devices and more machines are connected to each other and the Web, according to a report by Cisco released late Tuesday.

Discussion: Android Authority, ZDNet, BGR, Businessweek, Forbes, Light Reading and Business Insider

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Copy editors ‘have been sacrificed more than any other newsroom category’ — The decline of newspapers has fallen especially hard on copy editors, Natascia Lypny writes. … The figures are actually worse if you go back another few years: ASNE's annual survey of newsrooms, released last April …

Discussion: The Newspaper Guild

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Inside Aereo: new photos of the tech that's changing how we watch TV — Brooklyn-based Aereo lets subscribers watch and record over-the-air TV anywhere they go on computers, iPhones or iPads. The service is available for now in New York City but will soon be unveiled in dozens more cities across …

Sam Byford / The Verge:

What is a book in the age of the iPad? An interview with Craig Mod — The designer talks Subcompact Publishing, the pains of digital distribution, and the future of the magazine — Craig Mod is a writer and designer who splits his time between Japan and the US.

Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

At AOL Under Tim Armstrong, the Only Constant Is Change — ‘King of Cocktail Napkin’ Innovates Incessantly — but Where Is He Leading AOL? — When AOL parted ways with its chief marketing officer in December, both the action and the company's explanation for it — a restructuring …

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