Mediagazer: Attention, Publishers: ‘Iconic’ Is Not A Business Model (Jeff Bercovici/Forbes)

7:15 PM ET, February 19, 2013

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Attention, Publishers: ‘Iconic’ Is Not A Business Model — Let's review what the year 2013 hath wrought so far in the media industry. — Reader's Digest, staggering under $1.2 billion in debt, has filed for bankruptcy for the second time in four years. Rolling Stone owner Jann Wenner managed …

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Vivian Schiller: NBC News is Readying “Rich Journalism Destination” — NBC News is in the midst of the “reinvention” of its Web site which will launch this spring as a “rich journalism destination,” with enterprise, investigative reporting and a significant increase of “Web native video” …

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Adam Liptak / New York Times:

Bucking a Trend, Supreme Court Justices Reject Video Coverage — WASHINGTON — Justice Sonia Sotomayor, populist, revealed a paternalistic streak this month, announcing that she had rethought her enthusiasm for video coverage of Supreme Court arguments. — At her confirmation hearings in 2009 …

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Alison Langley / Columbia Journalism Review:

Enforcing copyrights in Europe — In the absence of laws, private companies are doing the job — In January, on the anniversary of the defeat of the Stop Online Piracy Act, an Internet activist group called Fight for the Future uploaded a video of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I have a Dream” speech, in violation of copyright law.