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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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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 …
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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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Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
Warner Bros.' Kevin Tsujihara on Studio Plans, Digital Critics and Lunch With Clint Eastwood — The new WB chief looks to navigate a hazy outlook as the digital space drives entertainment — but not yet revenue: “We don't want ... to lose focus.” — On the morning of March 5 …
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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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MediaShift and Ask The Post
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.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
BBC Study Confirms Tablets' Growing Role In TV Consumption, But Also That TV Remains Supreme — Companies like Google, Twitter and Nielsen — who respectively make money from digital advertising, want to make a lot more from digital ads, and get paid to provide data to justify ads online and offline …
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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 …
Dolia Estevez / Forbes:
Exclusive Rights To Broadcast Olympic Games Helps Tycoon Carlos Slim Enter Television — On the same day last week that Mexico's lower House of Congress approved an anti-monopoly telecom reform bill that, if enacted, will give billionaire tycoon Carlos Slim the ability to enter the television industry …
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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 from the perspective of a photographer. Initially designed as a community for trading photos, the site only began selling photos to pay the hosting bills.
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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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 …