Mediagazer: CNN's Jeff Zucker Talks Social Media, Considers Native Ads (Terri Thornton/MediaShift)

10:45 AM ET, April 17, 2013

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Evan Williams' Medium acquires long-form journalism site Matter — Ev Williams' content creation platform Medium has made its first acquisition: Matter, the Kickstarter-backed science and technology journalism startup cofounded by former GigaOM reporter Bobbie Johnson last year.

Discussion: Medium, Poynter, Guardian, Felix Salmon, Journalism.co.uk, TechCrunch, The Next Web, @bobbiejohnson and @jayrosen_nyu

Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

DME13: New York Times considering cheaper subscription option — Asked for a key lesson learnt from developing the New York Times paywall, Paul Smurl tells Journalism.co.uk ‘we should have done it sooner’ — The New York Times is considering new paid-for products as it heads into the third year of having a metered paywall.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Terri Thornton / MediaShift:

CNN's Jeff Zucker Talks Social Media, Considers Native Ads — “Twitter is a frenemy.” That's how CNN's new president, Jeff Zucker, described the cable news network's relationship with social media. In a combination luncheon speech and informal press conference at the Atlanta Press Club this week …

Discussion: Mediaite, Thanks:@steverubel

Janko Roettgers / paidContent:

The Young Turks is about to become the first news channel with a billion views on YouTube — If YouTube views were a currency, then The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur would be a billionaire. Here's how he got to one billion YouTube views with news. — Beyonce, Bieber and... The Young Turks?

Nick DeSantis / The Ticker:

Digital Public Library of America Delays Debut in Wake of Marathon Bombing — The Digital Public Library of America has postponed its long-planned public debut that had been scheduled to take place this week at the Boston Public Library, in the wake of Monday's explosions at the Boston Marathon …

Discussion: Digital Public Library … and American Libraries Magazine

Erik Wemple:
New York Post: 12 still dead in bombings that killed at least 3

Discussion: Capital New York, The Onion, Gawker, Poynter, Poynter, Capital New York, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine and The Huffington Post

Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:

Aereo Lawsuit: Networks Seek Re-Hearing After Appeals Court Setback — Networks seek to re-address ruling in Aereo's favor for earlier this month — After receiving a legal setback from an appeals court earlier this month, networks are taking another shot at blocking Barry Diller's Aereo service …

Discussion: The New Yorker Blog, paidContent, Broadcasting & Cable, Adweek, Indiawest.com, Zatz Not Funny! and Variety

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Study shows newspaper readers are engaged, but local papers need to do more on mobile — A new survey from the Newspaper Association of America and Nielsen finds that newspaper readers are highly engaged. But they have to do more on mobile, particularly as ad revenue plunges.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and Rehak/Stuebing Mostly Media

Diego Vasquez / Media Life Magazine:

Big trend: Watching TV when you please — Right now the broadcast networks are carefully preparing their fall schedules, mulling over which show will perform best in what timeslot. But for many TV viewers such considerations are becoming passé. An increasing number are setting …

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

The Tiny News Startup That Crashed the Pulitzer Prizes — On the 12th floor of a none-too-modern office building in downtown Brooklyn are the offices of the law firm Kornblau & Kornblau. Tucked away deep in this warren of dim rooms is the brain center of InsideClimate News …

Discussion: New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, pressgazette.co.uk, Prof Chris Daly's Blog and Journalism.co.uk

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Twitter Won't Challenge Hulu in Internet TV … Hoping to turn tweeters into viewers, Twitter appears to be gearing up to take on Hulu as a destination for premium TV video content: The social site is in advanced talks with Viacom and NBCUniversal to license content, Bloomberg reported.

Discussion: Wired, AllThingsD, VatorNews and The Wrap

Stuart Kemp / Hollywood Reporter:

Ultraviolet Set for Expansion in Europe — The digital locker for home entertainment content, supported by film studios and others, will roll out in France and Germany this fall. — LONDON — Beware Netflix and Amazon's Lovefilm, cloud-based storage giant Ultraviolet is to mount a big European push this year.

Alistair Barr / Reuters:

Amazon gains against Apple's iTunes in music downloads — SAN FRANCISCO, April 16 (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has grabbed more than a fifth of the market for digital music downloads, helped by the launch of its own tablet computers and aggressive pricing, according to an industry study released on Tuesday.

Discussion: NPD Group