Mediagazer: CNBC names new international head (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)

9:30 AM ET, April 25, 2013

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

New York Times Co. announces ‘New Strategy for Growth’ — The New York Times Co. unveiled “a series of strategic initiatives” Thursday morning concurrent with its first-quarter earnings report. … Among the new products, to be introduced at the end of this year and the start of 2014: a …

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

New York Times Co.'s Sales Miss Estimates as Ad Revenue Dives — New York Times Co. (NYT), the newspaper publisher controlled by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, reported first-quarter sales that missed analysts' estimates as it continued to lose advertising dollars.

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Aurindom Mukherjee / Reuters:

Time Warner Cable revenue misses as data services disappoint — (Reuters) - Time Warner Cable Inc, the second-largest U.S. cable operator, reported first-quarter revenue below analysts' estimates as it added fewer-than-expected subscribers for its high-speed data services.

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Anthony Kosner / The Content Strategist:

What Publishers Can Learn from Google's Patented News Article Rankings — Google is the publisher's angel — and its devil. The search engine claims to connect “1 billion unique users a week to news content,” from 50,000 sources in 30 languages. (By comparison, a large publisher …

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

CNBC names new international head — KC Sullivan has been appointed president and managing director of CNBC International, effective May 8 — Sullivan will report to CNBC's global president and CEO, Mark Hoffman. He replaces Satpal Brainch, who is moving to become executive vice president …

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

NBC News looks outside the company and country for a president — Deborah Turness, news editor for Britain's ITV Network, is the latest executive to be mentioned as a possible successor to NBC News President Steve Capus. — NBC's hunt for a new president of its news division has gone beyond …

BBC:

Leveson report: Newspapers reject press regulation plans — A number of newspapers are to publish a proposal for self-regulation backed by royal charter, after rejecting plans drawn up by the main political parties. — The government and Labour Party agreed to a royal charter last month …

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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:

A La Carte TV Will Never Be … The prospect of consumers getting the ability to choose which cable channels they want has proven to be a remarkably resilient fantasy. — Maybe that's because TV executives can't seem to resist giving the proposition just enough attention to make it seem possible.

Brad Stone / Businessweek:

Here Comes Amazon's Kindle TV Set-Top Box — Amazon (AMZN) is making e-readers, tablets and will likely soon introduce a smartphone. As it works to build all types of connected devices, that leaves a natural next step: a television set-top box. The e-commerce giant is planning to introduce …

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

BBC should cap payoffs at £150,000, says director general — Tony Hall says corporation cannot be ‘tone deaf’ to criticism, after his predecessor received £450,000 for 54 days' work — The BBC's new director general, Tony Hall, has announced he wants to cap severance payments …

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Iain Thomson / The Register:

Court orders Visa partner to allow donations to WikiLeaks — Credit card blockade begins to crack — WikiLeaks may soon be able to accept donations again, now that the Icelandic Supreme Court has ruled that the blockade on donations imposed by local Visa partner Valitor is illegal …

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

How Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Sees the Future: Netflix Wins, Apps Win and So Do HBO, ESPN and the Cable Guys — Fresh off a triumphant earnings report, and with investors once again clamoring for his shares, Reed Hastings has something to say. — A lot to say: The Netflix CEO has written …

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