Mediagazer: Roger Ebert's funeral: ‘He had a heart big enough to love all’ (Chicago Tribune)

4:50 AM ET, April 9, 2013

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Holy Cow: Two of the Big Four TV Networks Are Considering Going Off the Air — How worried are the owners of the major broadcast television networks about Aereo, the Barry Diller-backed digital television service they've been trying unsuccessfully to sue out of existence?

David S. Cohen / Variety:

Chase Carey Threatens to Yank Fox From Broadcast TV Over Aereo … LAS VEGAS-News Corp president and COO told the opening gathering NAB Show Monday that if Fox does not prevail in the Aereo case, it will consider turning its network into a subscription service. — “Aereo is stealing our signal.

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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal: New Threat to Aereo TV

Scott Turow / New York Times:

The Slow Death of the American Author — LAST month, the Supreme Court decided to allow the importation and resale of foreign editions of American works, which are often cheaper than domestic editions. Until now, courts have forbidden such activity as a violation of copyright.

Discussion: Melville House Books, Forbes, Techdirt, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, Page-Turner and GalleyCat

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

No, Scott Turow, copyright is not killing American authors — In “The Slow Death of the American Author,” Scott Turow decries the state of the country's copyright system. He gets it wrong and hurts the Authors Guild's standing among potential allies. — An array of enemies …

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

What next for The Week? The content curator's plans for the digital domain — The Week surprised the publishing industry by carving out a profitable place in the competitive world of magazine news. Now, it is building up its operations for the digital long term.

Frank Rich / New York Magazine:

Frank Rich on the State of Journalism — Time is on the block. The New York Times is teetering. It can get an alumnus down, but the last thing the news business needs is a case of nostalgia. — This spring marks the tenth anniversary of a journalistic scandal that everyone would like to forget, and that many have.

Discussion: @marklittlenews, bookforum.com and @jeffjarvis

Joshua Gillin / Poynter:

Time Out Chicago bought by parent company, staff report layoffs — Time Out Chicago, an independent weekly entertainment guide published 44 times a year, has been acquired by worldwide parent Time Out Group, according to the Chicago Tribune. — Morningstar Inc. and Time Out Chicago founder …

Discussion: Media Week and Chicago Tribune

Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:

Meredith's CEO: ‘There is Potential’ for Time Warner Deal — The Time Inc. and Meredith merger that everyone was talking about (okay maybe just media junkies, but everything we discuss is very important!) is dead, but Stephen Lacy, Meredith's CEO, isn't giving up completely.

Discussion: Des Moines Register

Gina Kolata / New York Times:

For Scientists, an Exploding World of Pseudo-Academia — The scientists who were recruited to appear at a conference called Entomology-2013 thought they had been selected to make a presentation to the leading professional association of scientists who study insects. — But they found out the hard way that they were wrong.

The Huffington Post:

Newspapers Celebrate Losing Money More Slowly — ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — The newspaper industry's revenue declined at its slowest pace in six years, as publishers turned to new businesses and raised more money from online subscriptions. — The industry's total revenue in 2012 fell 2 percent …

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Deeper data dive finds $5.5 billion in uncounted newspaper industry revenue

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Chicago Tribune:

Roger Ebert's funeral: ‘He had a heart big enough to love all’ — As a standing ovation finally quieted inside Holy Name Cathedral, Chaz Ebert paid the last words of tribute to her husband, famed movie critic Roger Ebert. “He had a heart big enough to accept and love all,” Chaz Ebert said …

Discussion: Chicago Sun Times, Vanity Fair, CBS Chicago, Toronto Star, Detroit Free Press, Associated Press, CBC News, Daily Mail, TODAY, USA Today and New York Times

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Shutterstock Has Paid $150m to Contributors and Hit 300m Downloads — Shutterstock, an online marketplace known for its high-quality stock photographs, vectors, illustrations and videos, revealed today that it has surpassed more 300 million downloads since it launched in 2003.

Tanzina Vega / New York Times:

Sponsors Now Pay for Online Articles, Not Just Ads — Articles in a series on Mashable.com called “What's Inside” looked for all the world like the hundreds of other articles on the digital media site. But journalistically, they were something very different.

Discussion: Digiday, AdPulp, Beyond Search, Kirk LaPointe's … and eMedia Vitals, Thanks:@steverubel

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Why Google Should Rethink Its Approach to Sponsored Content

Discussion: FOLIO

Andrew Rice / New York Magazine:

Does BuzzFeed Know the Secret? — Jonah Peretti's viral-content machine purports to have solved the problems of both journalism and advertising at once, all with the help of a simple algorithm. — Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the website BuzzFeed—though this is increasingly unlikely, as it's currently enjoying a viral moment.

Discussion: paidContent, Gawker, The Atlantic Wire, The Corsair, @jeffjohnroberts and @jayrosen_nyu

Ellen Barry / New York Times:

Mikhail Beketov, Russian Journalist Beaten in 2008, Dies — MOSCOW — The Russian journalist Mikhail Beketov, who became a symbol of Russia's culture of impunity after he was left with permanent disabilities by a brutal beating in 2008, died of heart failure on Monday, his lawyer announced.