Mediagazer: Time Warner Inc. Announces Plan to Separate Time Inc. (Business Wire)

6:55 PM ET, March 6, 2013

Top News:

Time Warner Inc. Announces Plan to Separate Time Inc. — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized management to proceed with plans for the complete legal and structural separation of Time Inc. from Time Warner.

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Media Decoder:

Time Warner Ends Talks With Meredith and Will Spin Off Time Inc. Into Separate Company — Updated Weeks of negotiations between Time Warner and Meredith Corporation came to an end Wednesday when the two companies could not agree to a deal to join their magazines into a separate company.

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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

Time Warner Will Spin Off Time Inc. Magazine Division This Year — Time Warner Inc. (TWX) announced plans to spin off its Time Inc. magazine business into a publicly held company, jettisoning its worst-performing major division. — The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of the year …

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The Huffington Post:
Time Warner Now Looking To Sell All Magazines

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Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

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Mathew Ingram / paidContent:
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Zev Chafets / Vanity Fair:

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Reuters:

Exclusive: Apple's Cook, music mogul Iovine discuss new music service — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has held talks with Beats Electronics LLC, the audio technology firm co-founded by influential hip-hop producer Dr Dre and music mogul Jimmy Iovine, on a potential partnership involving Beats …

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Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Beats spins off Daisy with $60m funding led by Access Industries

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Washington Post Managing Editor John Temple Leaving — John Temple, who joined Washington Post last year as managing editor, is leaving the paper, according to a staff memo obtained by The Huffington Post. — The move may come as a surprise given that Temple — a former editor and publisher …

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Amy Chozick / New York Times:

News Corp. Has a Tablet for Schools — For nearly two years, Joel I. Klein helped Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation weather a phone-hacking scandal at the company's British tabloids with the promise that he would eventually be able to return to the role the company hired him for …

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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Meet the first class: Six media startups get accelerated into Silicon Valley by Matter — Matter, the startup accelerator focused on media entrepreneurs, just launched its first class, which includes startups focused on interactive publishing, video analytics, and audio storytelling.

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Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Condé Nast's Answer to Programmatic Buying — Condé Nast has introduced a new digital marketing product, one of its first since the company overhauled its corporate sales group last summer to tap into potential growth in online advertising. — The new product …

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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

WGBH to Partner on Children's Pilot for Amazon — One of the biggest suppliers of programming for PBS, WGBH, is the latest to climb aboard Amazon's television pilot process. — Amazon's production arm said Wednesday that it had ordered a children's pilot called “Sara Solves It,” …