Mediagazer: Nielsen Finally Realizes That TV Viewers Are Cord Cutting, Calls It ‘Interesting Consumer Behavior’ (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

8:35 AM ET, March 14, 2013

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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

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By helping others become competent communicators, legacy media make themselves stronger — Strengthening community competence and awareness is not only a good deed. It is a great business opportunity. And a relationship builder. No bond is stronger than the one you bind while learning together.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

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Tim Carmody / The Verge:
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Nielsen Finally Realizes That TV Viewers Are Cord Cutting, Calls It ‘Interesting Consumer Behavior’ — For many years we've written stories about the TV industry being in complete denial over cord cutting (i.e., getting rid of pay TV). The industry has denied that anyone was doing this …

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Christine Haughney / New York Times:

Spinoff of Time Inc. Rattles Employees — It was an elite reception at a glittery Manhattan setting: prominent media figures like Gayle King and Lesley Stahl gathered on the 10th floor of the Time Warner Center on Monday night to toast Sheryl Sandberg, the Facebook executive who recently released a book about her life.

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Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Google To Close Google Reader On July 1 — Google Reader user? Say goodbye. Google has announced the service is closing on July 1. — The news came today in a “Spring Cleaning” blog post from Google, where the company said: … I'm pretty amazed to read this.

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Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:

Universal Music and Samsung target Africa with The Kleek streaming music service — As 3G networks continue to roll out in Africa, the continent is attracting ever more attention from music rightsholders. A partnership announced today between Universal Music Group and Samsung is one example.

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