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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Hulu Isn't for Sale — Yet. But Buyers Are Asking ... Two years ago, Hulu's corporate owners put the video site up for sale — and then took it off the block. — New version of a similar story: Hulu's corporate owners still aren't sure what they want to do with the site.
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Hulu's board has reached out to potential buyers to gauge interest — (Reuters) - Hulu's board has approached potential buyers to gauge their interest in buying the online video service, three sources close to the company told Reuters, as owners News Corp (NWSA.O) and Walt Disney …
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Deadline.com, The Next Web, Engadget and Broadcasting & Cable
Aaron Sankin / The Huffington Post:
Major Changes At The San Francisco Chronicle Spark Outrage — SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Chronicle announced over the weekend that the paper would begin charging for a large portion of its online content by imposing a paywall. — Since it became one of the first major newspapers …
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Pacific Media Workers Guild, FishbowlLA, SFBay, KQED Public Media …, SFist, KQED News Fix and SF Appeal
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Desiree Everts DeNunzio / CNET:
SF Chronicle erects paywall for ‘premium’ content
SF Chronicle erects paywall for ‘premium’ content
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sfbg.com, SF Appeal, NetNewsCheck Latest, Forbes, paidContent, SFBay, Media Week, San Francisco Peninsula … and Poynter
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
BBC launches ‘expert women database’ to help its journalists diversify sources — The BBC has launched an “expert women database” and a related YouTube channel to try to get more female sources on air. — BBC Women's Editor Emma Barnett says the database features the names of 60 women …
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
New York Times closes another loophole in its digital paywall — Look out, media cheapskates — the New York Times is losing patience with your skinflint ways. After imposing a metered paywall last year to restrict how many articles non-subscribers can read for free, the Times is clamping …
Russ Martin / Marketing Magazine:
Sprouter and BetaKit folded into Financial Post — BetaKit and Sprouter, two of Canada's leading startup resources, are now part of the Financial Post. As of March 22, both Sprouter.com and BetaKit.com redirected to FP Startups, a long-standing section of the Financial Post dedicated to reporting on young technology businesses.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Anthony Lewis, Who Transformed Coverage of the Supreme Court, Dies at 85 — Anthony Lewis, a former New York Times reporter and columnist whose work won two Pulitzer Prizes and transformed American legal journalism, died on Monday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 85.
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Columbia University …, Committee to Protect …, Slate, WebProNews, Politico and Media Law Prof Blog
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
Spotify Plans To Take On Netflix And HBO With Streaming Video Service — Spotify, the on-demand music service, is planning a major change. — According to two sources briefed on the company's plans, Spotify intends to become an on-demand music and video service - one that would invest …
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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Business Insider president: 'We're taking on the rest of the world' — Business Insider president Julie Hansen says the business news website is making plans for “world domination” - and they're starting with Australia. — The website run by former Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget launched …
Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
“Post Classic”: The Washington Post integrates its print edition into a new iPad app — What if you had an old-school newspaper newsroom where the digital producers were at the core of the operation, and the task of putting together the print newspaper was the side job?
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Guardian:
New data reveals consumer interaction across screens - video — Study finds a unified strategy across environment, content and screen must be deployed to create a coherent proposition with added value for both advertiser and consumer — Revealed today at the Changing Media Summit by Nigel Walley …
Sarah Kessler / Fast Company:
iStockphoto Creator Bruce Livingstone Takes A Second Stab At Stock Photos — BRUCE LIVINGSTONE CREATED ISTOCKPHOTO. NOW HE'S LAUNCHING ITS OPPOSITE: STOCKSY, A CO-OP DESIGNED TO PAY PHOTOGRAPHERS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE FOR THEIR BEST PHOTOS. — Bruce Livingstone created iStockphoto from the perspective of a photographer.
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CNET, seanlockephotography.com and PetaPixel
Janko Roettgers / paidContent:
Blip to publishers: we're going to monetize your videos, whether you like it or not — Video hosting site Blip has come up with a new way to make more money with advertising: The site, which has been specializing on web-exclusive serialized content, is going to turn on preroll advertising …
Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
Trying to make paywalls work, Andrew Sullivan offers Dish access for $2 a month — Blogger Andrew Sullivan has changed the pricing model for his popular blog The Dish, now offering access for $2 a month rather than only a $20-a-year option. — Sullivan moved from The Daily Beast …
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paidContent and The Dish
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Digg Hints Its Google Reader Replacement Will Go Beyond RSS Alone To Include Content From Social Media, HN, Reddit & More — Digg today responded to early user feedback about its plans for a Google Reader replacement announced earlier this month, saying that it has narrowed down incoming requests …
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Digg Blog, eMedia Vitals, The Next Web, VentureBeat, BetaNews, Pocket-lint, CNET, Forbes and NetNewsCheck Latest