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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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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.
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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Jason Del Rey / AdAge:
Time Warner to Spin Off Time Inc.; CEO Laura Lang to Exit — Talks of Proposed Merger With Meredith End — Soon, CEO Jeff Bewkes will have his wish: Time Warner won't be a magazine company anymore. — A month after several media outlets reported that Time Warner was in discussions …
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
A Day in the Life of a Digital Editor, 2013 — The biz ain't what it used to be, but then again, for most people, it never really was. — Man, I feel everyone on how scary it is to be in journalism. When I made the transition from a would-be fiction career paired with writing research reports …
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Mathew Ingram / paidContent:
The new economics of media: If you want free content, there's an almost infinite supply
The new economics of media: If you want free content, there's an almost infinite supply
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Zev Chafets / Vanity Fair:
Exclusive Excerpt: Roger Ailes Off Camera — Roger Ailes is one of the most powerful—and controversial—characters in television media, pilloried by critics and many in the mainstream media and lionized by conservative viewers who can't get enough of his posse of charismatic hosts.
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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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JIMROMENESKO.COM, @mlcalderone, @craigsilverman and Politico
Daniel Miller / Los Angeles Times:
Disney teams with Sensio for on-demand distribution of 3-D films — 3-D glasses are held up to a 50-inch plasma 3-D television set. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times / June 22, 2010) — Walt Disney Studios has agreed to a content license agreement with Sensio Technologies Inc …
Jordan Michael Smith / The New York Observer:
Fear of a Black Pundit — Ta-Nehisi Coates raises his voice in American media — Before Ta-Nehisi Coates was a superstar at The Atlantic, he was fired from three consecutive writing jobs. Well, not quite fired. “I'm still not exactly sure what happened,” he said …
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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,” …
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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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