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Jim Romenesko:
Barry Diller regrets buying Newsweek — IAC/InterActiveCorp chairman Barry Diller tells Bloomberg Television: “I wish I had not bought Newsweek. It was a mistake.” … * Diller calls Newsweek purchase “a fool's errand” (businessweek.com) — More from Bloomberg Television's transcript of the Diller interview after the jump.
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Barry Diller says broadcasters are bluffing about going cable — Barry Diller testifying last year about his TV delivery startup Aereo. (Karen Bleier / AFP/Getty Images / April 24, 2012) — Media mogul Barry Diller said he thinks his Aereo, the startup company that distributes broadcast signals via …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
HuffPost Live in Deal With AXS to Put Show on Cable — The Huffington Post has found a partial home on cable television for its eight-month-old Internet channel, HuffPost Live, courtesy of Mark Cuban. — The company announced Sunday night that Mr. Cuban's cable channel AXS TV …
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
UK.Gov passes Instagram Act: All your pics belong to everyone now — Everyone = Silicon Valley [ad platforms] tech companies — Have you ever uploaded a photo to Facebook, Instagram or Flickr? — If so, you'll probably want to read this, because the rules on who can exploit your work have now changed radically, overnight.
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Michael Laris / Washington Post:
Hoax emergency message sends police to Wolf Blitzer's house in Bethesda — Montgomery County police received an urgent message at about 6:25 p.m. Saturday saying someone had been shot at Wolf Blitzer's home in Bethesda. Officers streamed toward the CNN host's residence near Congressional Country Club.
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TVNewser, New York Magazine, Chickaboomer, New York Post, Politico, The Verge, WTOP.com, Watchdog Blog, The Raw Story, Poynter, The Huffington Post and Pressing Issues
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
ESPN: The Magazine Puts a Print Spin on Sponsored Content — Branded content has gotten plenty of attention as it's taken off online, where the division between editorial and advertising real estate can be fuzzier (see: Forbes, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Gawker), but publishers have shied away from using similar strategies in print.
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FishbowlNY and eMedia Vitals
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Twitter Hires CBC's Kirstine Stewart As Managing Director (And First Team Member) For Twitter Canada — Canadian broadcasting executive Kirstine Stewart has joined Twitter as managing director for Twitter Canada. — The announcement was just tweeted by Adam Bain, Twitter's president of global revenue.
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AllThingsD, Macleans.ca and canada.com
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Knight, Gates donate $3.5M to project aimed at media metrics — The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are aiming some serious scratch at a problem Meena Thiruvengadam wrote about on Poynter.org recently: — “Despite advances in big data …
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Knight Foundation, New York Times and Knight Foundation
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
How Sports Illustrated Scored The Jason Collins Story — In a thought-provoking Sports Illustrated article, Jason Collins — who played for the Washington Wizards and Boston Celtics this NBA season — just became the first openly gay male athlete in one of America's most popular professional sports.
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Capital New York, Forbes, Variety, Yahoo! News, Gawker, Sports Illustrated, Poynter, Speakeasy, Sports Illustrated, The Stream, LA Observed and Rolling Stone
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Financial Times: ‘There is no drawback to working in HTML5’ — FT.com managing director Rob Grimshaw on apps evolution, paywall prospects and why BuzzFeed is ‘absolutely fascinating’ — Nearly two years since the Financial Times launched its HTML5 web app in June 2011 …
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AllThingsD and eMedia Vitals
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Vox Media Steps Up Its Ad Push With The Launch Of Vox Creative, CEO Jim Bankoff Says Company Will Be Profitable This Year — Vox Media, publishers of the SBNation, Verge and Polygon blogs, is getting down to business with monetizing its content with the launch of Vox Creative …
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T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
Supreme Court rules Freedom of Information Act requests can be limited to state residents — The Supreme Court just ruled that state government agencies are only required to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests (FOIAs) from residents of their state.
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