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Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Co. listening to offers for its 8 newspapers — JPMorgan Chase and Evercore Partners hired to manage potential offers … Tribune Co. has hired two investment banks to manage offers to buy its newspapers, executives confirmed Tuesday, saying no decisions have been made about whether to sell any properties.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Maybe You'll Get the Pay TV You Want, After All: Cablevision Sues Viacom to Break Up the Bundle — Pay TV has a simple model: If you want to watch one channel, you have to pay for dozens — or hundreds — of others, whether you watch them or not. That model drives lots of consumers nuts, but it has looked very, very hard to dislodge.
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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Pig Rescues Goat, and the Video Is Really Cute, but Totally Faked — It seemed too adorable to be fake, but it was too good to be true. — On Sept. 19 a 30-second video appeared on YouTube, depicting a baby goat that had become stuck in the pond of a petting zoo and that was heroically rescued …
Tim Carmody / The Verge:
Variety will kill its daily print edition and online paywall, keep weekly magazine — Three editors-in-chief will head coverage of movies, television, and digital content in new web-first approach — The iconic entertainment publication Variety will discontinue its daily printed edition on March 18th.
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Erik Wemple:
NASCAR explains wreck-video blockage — On Saturday afternoon, a crash at a Nationwide Series race at Daytona International Speedway injured at least 30 NASCAR fans. As the media swarmed the scene and questioned authorities on the fallout, a secondary story line emerged …
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CJ Lotz / BuzzFeed:
Former Onion Staffers Denounce CEO's Apology For Quvenzhané Wallis Tweet — Editorial freedom and the “c” word. — Image by Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times/MCT — Former Onion staffers Monday reacted with dismay to the satirical newspaper's apology for calling a 9-year-old a …
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Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
Nickelodeon Targets ‘Post-Millennials’ in Upfront — Children's Net Moves Beyond TV, Rolls Out App Along With New Shows — Nickelodeon's motto for its upfront presentation appears to be “in with the new.” — As the children's cable network looks to revive sagging ratings …
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Jillian Stonecipher / Nieman Journalism Lab:
A proposed Florida law targets mugshot sites, but hits journalists' First Amendment rights — Editor's note: We've talked before about the rise of (and backlash against) mugshot sites — those skeezy sites that get mugshots through public records, post them online for Google to find …
Chandni Doulatramani / Reuters:
AMC Networks profit misses estimates on Dish blackout — (Reuters) - Cable network AMC Networks Inc (AMCX.O), which airs popular shows such as “The Walking Dead” and “Mad Men,” reported a quarterly profit way below analysts' estimates on a temporary blackout of its channels by Dish Network Corp (DISH.O) and higher programming costs.
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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
New York Times backs AP in lawsuit against news collector Meltwater — The New York Times is supporting the Associated Press in a controversial copyright case against Meltwater, a service that monitors the news and reproduces headlines and story summaries for its clients.
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Reuters:
High court throws out challenge to surveillance law — (Reuters) - U.S.-based journalists, lawyers and human rights groups cannot challenge a federal law that allows surveillance of some international communications, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday in a case touching on government efforts to fight terrorism.
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Owen Thomas / Business Insider:
Glam Media Just Secretly Filed For An IPO — Two sources familiar with the matter say that Glam Media, the digital lifestyle-content publisher, has filed confidential documents as part of a new secret IPO process. — Glam got its start offering fashion and gossip content on Glam.com …
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Alex Knapp / Forbes:
Study Finds That Streaming And Spyware Are Killing Music Piracy — It seems that people just aren't pirating music the way they used to. In many cases, because they don't have to. That's according to the NPD Group, which just released their “Annual Music Study 2012.”
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