Mediagazer: As Competition With Streaming Services Heats Up, Amazon And CBS Expand Content Licensing Deal (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

1:50 PM ET, February 13, 2013

Top News:

Time Warner in talks to part ways with Time Inc. — Exclusive: A serious buyer is in talks with the media giant to buy most of its publishing business. — FORTUNE — Media giant Time Warner has begun discussions to separate itself from Time Inc., its $3.4 billion (in annual revenue) …

Discussion: Poynter, @brianstelter, @lucas_shaw, @megan and @pkafka

Craig Silverman / Poynter:

Jonah Lehrer falls into familiar pattern, fails to face his reckoning — In recent years, though certainly not recently, many conference attendees have heard Jonah Lehrer speak about how our brains and our personal interactions affect our behaviours in interesting and surprising ways.

Discussion: ArtsBeat, BuzzFeed, Columbia Journalism Review, @stevebuttry, Strange Attractor, Knight Foundation, The Week, Slate, New York Magazine, Erik Wemple, Forbes and Poynter

Jonah Lehrer:

My Apology — I'd like to begin by thanking the Knight Foundation for the invitation to speak. — I've been asked to give a talk about decision-making. I'm going to focus today on bad decisions, on the causes and repercussions of failure. The failure I'll be talking about is my own.

Discussion: Poynter, @jonahlehrer and Forbes

William Turvill / Press Gazette:

The accused: At least 55 UK journalists arrested since April 2011 — At least 55 journalists have now been arrested in the last two years as a result of police investigations stemming from the phone-hacking scandal. On 13 February, a further six former News of the World journalists …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter and @iainoverton

Press Gazette:

Six former News of the World journalists arrested in phone-hacking probe are named — The six former News of the World journalists arrested today in a new police hacking probe have been named — According to Press Association they are understood to be Jules Stenson, Matt Nixson, Rav Singh …

Discussion: @bbcbreaking

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Phone-hacking inquiry: Sun's Fabulous and northern features editors arrested

Discussion: Softpedia News

Sinead O'Carroll / TheJournal.ie:
Six journalists arrested in fresh phone hacking probe

Discussion: The Huffington Post, CNN, Reuters, Sky News, @kevin_maguire, @skymartinbrunt, BBC, UK News and Opinion and @dannyshawbbc

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Comcast CEO 'Bullish About NBCUniversal's Future,' NBC Turnaround — Comcast is “bullish about NBCUniversal's future,” Comcast CEO Brian Roberts said Wednesday in explaining why the cable giant decided to take full control of the entertainment company earlier than originally planned.

Sam Thielman / Adweek:
How Comcast Scared Up All That GE Cash

Discussion: Media Decoder, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, Bloomberg, Associated Press, DealBook, Los Angeles Times and USA Today

Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:
Comcast Will Buy Rest of GE's NBC Stake for $16.7 Billion

Discussion: Fast Company, VentureBeat, DealBook, @bobbymacreports, Reuters and paidContent

Steve Schaefer / Forbes:
Comcast Beats Estimates, Boosts Dividend And Buys The Rest Of NBC From GE

Discussion: The Consumerist, NetNewsCheck Latest, Guardian, TVNewser, Media Decoder, The Wrap, Media & Entertainment, CNET, Broadcasting & Cable, Radio & Television … and Hillicon Valley

Jennifer Booton / Fox Business:

Thomson Reuters To Slash 2,500 Jobs, 4% of Workforce — Thomson Reuters (TRI) plans to cut 2,500 jobs this year, or 4% of its global workforce, as it continues to axe costs as part of a larger overhaul. — The company said on Wednesday that it expects to spend about $100 million on severance costs …

Discussion: Reuters, Agence France Presse, Wall Street Journal, Thomson Reuters, The Dividend Daily and Talking Biz News

Jennifer Saba / Reuters: Thomson Reuters revenue outlook disappoints

TechCrunch:

AOL Confirms gdgt Acquisition, Quests For tch Domination — AOL (owners of TechCrunch) today is taking one more step to build out its content empire: it has officially confirmed the acquisition of technology reviews site gdgt — first reported by TechCrunch nearly two weeks ago.

Discussion: gdgt blog, VentureBeat, Forbes, AllThingsD, FishbowlNY, VatorNews, Fast Company, Talking Biz News, The Next Web, Engadget and Mashable!

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Hughes' New Republic has 45,000 subscribers, thinks Twitter beats Facebook for news — When multimillionaire and former Facebook executive Chris Hughes bought the struggling New Republic last year, critics were quick to dismiss the purchase as a rich man's folly.

Discussion: AllThingsD

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Financial Times Turns 125 — The Financial Times marks its 125th anniversary today, and, befitting the challenges facing newspapers today, the celebration will have practical elements. — An ad campaign with the somber tagline “Still guiding the way for global business” is breaking in print and online.

Discussion: Guardian, Journalism.co.uk and NetNewsCheck Latest

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Startup Plympton acquires DailyLit to deliver serial fiction in a digital age — Plympton, the startup launched last year by former New York Times reporter Jennifer 8 Lee and novelist Yael Goldstein Love, is acquiring DailyLit, a site that delivers books in installments by email and RSS, for an undisclosed sum.

Discussion: Plympton, PublishersWeekly.com, Betabeat and TechCrunch

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

As Competition With Streaming Services Heats Up, Amazon And CBS Expand Content Licensing Deal — Literally days after Amazon announced a unique content deal with CBS for in-season streaming of Stephen King's “Under the Dome” series this summer, the company today added that now has an expanded relationship …

Discussion: Amazon.com, Broadcasting & Cable, paidContent, Home Media Magazine, Los Angeles Times, WebProNews and The Next Web

Don Reisinger / CNET:

Julian Assange to run for senate seat in Australia, says report — The WikiLeaks founder is running for the senate in Victoria as the lead candidate of his WikiLeaks Party, says a report in The Age. Assange is currently in political asylum in Ecuador. — Julian Assange …

Discussion: Betabeat, The Age, The Atlantic Wire, Mashable! and NBCNews.com