Mediagazer: Vox Wants to Make Ads (Josh Sternberg/Digiday)

10:55 AM ET, May 2, 2013

Top News:

Aswini Anburajan / BuzzFeed:

Where Did All The Search Traffic Go? — Traffic from Google to digital publishers dropped 30% over the past eight months. — Referrals from Facebook and Google to publishers on the BuzzFeed Network — Search traffic to publishers has taken a dive in the last eight months …

Discussion: Search Engine Land, Thanks:@max8378

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Cablevision Picks Up Glenn Beck's Internet Channel — Glenn Beck's Internet channel TheBlaze has been picked up by the cable system operated by Cablevision, giving Mr. Beck television distribution in the New York metropolitan area for the first time since he left Fox News in 2011.

Discussion: Politico, Newsday, Radio Ink Magazine and New York Magazine

Ann Friedman / Columbia Journalism Review:

Branded but ‘independent’ media — The pros and cons of trying to do real journalism at a non-media company — Jessica Bennett worked for seven years at journalistic stalwarts like The Boston Globe, the Village Voice, and Newsweek. But after years of sleeping on couches when she went …

George Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

BBC to Overhaul Bullying, Harassment Policy in Wake of Jimmy Savile Scandal — UPDATED: Director general Tony Hall said parts of the report make for “uncomfortable reading,” but the changes show a “commitment to change.” — LONDON - The BBC said Thursday that it would overhaul its bullying …

Discussion: Deadline.com, The Independent, Televisual, Guardian and BBC

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Los Angeles Times, too, moves away from ‘illegal immigrant’ — Articles in the Los Angeles Times “will no longer refer to individuals as ‘illegal immigrants’ or ‘undocumented immigrants,’ but instead will describe a person's circumstances,” Times reader representative Deirdre Edgar writes.

Discussion: The Informer

Christine Haughney / New York Times:

Condé Nast Introduces Web Series for Magazines — Last year, the latest innovation every magazine wanted to release was an iPad edition. This year, it's online video content. — Condé Nast's Entertainment Group introduced 30 programs at its first presentation made during the Digital Content NewFronts.

Discussion: WWD and Variety

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Vox Wants to Make Ads — Many publishers bemoan how badly produced the ads are on their sites. Add Vox Media to the growing list of publishers looking to create them themselves. — The parent company of sports site SB Nation, tech site The Verge and gaming site Polygon has taken …

Discussion: TechCrunch

Jack Coyle / Associated Press:

YouTube Says The Battle With TV Is Already Over — Tele-what? YouTube touts itself not as a TV alternative, but a new-generation video platform — NEW YORK (AP) — YouTube vs. TV? YouTube says the battle — if there ever was one — is over. — In a flashy presentation …

Discussion: AllThingsD and Softpedia News

Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:

The Movie Business Is A Total Drag — On Earnings — CBS's first quarter earnings, released today, shined in part because it doesn't own a major movie studio. At least not yet. — Media magnate Sumner Redstone, actress Emily Blunt, CBS President and CEO Les Moonves and actor Ewan McGregor.

Discussion: Tech Trader Daily

Ben Adler / Columbia Journalism Review:

Streams of consciousness — Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism? — My first encounters with journalism were the same as most American males: through the sports pages. Sometime in middle school …

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Former Federated Media CEO Deanna Brown joins Byliner as president — E-singles startup Byliner has a new president: Deanna Brown, who was previously the CEO of Federated Media and before that held executive roles at Scripps, Yahoo and AOL. She also founded Inside.com and Gaming Industry News and cofounded CondéNet.

Discussion: Digital Book World

Agence France Presse:

Pay-TV giant BSkyB reports 7% increase in net profits — LONDON — British pay-TV firm BSkyB said Thursday that net profits rose seven percent in the first nine months of the group's financial year on the back of rising subscriber revenues, and despite the difficult economic climate.

Discussion: Guardian, Telegraph, BBC, International Business Times, Sky News, Reuters, London News, Deadline.com, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk and Pocket-lint

The Wrap:

Peter Levinsohn Named President and Chief Distribution Officer of Universal — The Fox executive will report to studio chairman Adam Fogelson — Peter Levinsohn was named president and chief distribution officer of Universal Pictures on Wednesday, the studio announced.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Variety

Glen Keogh / Mancunian Matters:

Guilty: Veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall faces jail after admitting child sex abuse - with one victim aged NINE — Veteran North West broadcaster Stuart Hall faces jail after today pleading guilty to indecently assaulting 13 girls - the youngest aged just nine.

Discussion: BBC, Guardian, Mirror.co.uk, Daily Mail, International Business Times, The Independent, BBC, Sky News, Telegraph, The Nation, ITV News, Channel 4 and @skynewsbreak

Committee to Protect Journalists:

Getting Away With Murder — CPJ's 2013 Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and the killers go free — Rocked by militants in the north and politically inspired aggression nationwide, Nigeria has become one of the worst nations in the world for deadly …

Discussion: Guardian

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Every page is your homepage: Reuters, untied to print metaphor, builds a modern river of news — Reuters, as a wire service, has the concept of a minute-by-minute stream of news deep in its DNA. So it's natural that its digital presence would echo that — a flowing river of information …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and Talking Biz News