Mediagazer: John McCain proposes ‘a la carte’ cable bill, encourages death of sports blackout rule (Chris Welch/The Verge)

3:00 PM ET, May 10, 2013

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Bloomberg Curbs Its Journalists' Access to Customer Data — Bloomberg LP moved to restrict its journalists' access to log-in and other data for users of its terminals after a big client, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., complained. — The information Bloomberg has blocked from its news division includes details …

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Julia La Roche / Business Insider:

BLOOMBERG SPYING SCANDAL ESCALATES: Reporters Used Terminals To Spy On JPMorgan During ‘London Whale’ Disaster — Earlier today, Mark Decambre of the New York Post broke a bombshell story: Reporters at Bloomberg News used private information from Bloomberg terminals to spy on employees at Goldman Sachs.

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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Why The Onion Is Awesome for Publishing Details of Its Twitter Hack — The Onion, the satirical news site that saw its Twitter account hijacked by a Syrian hacker group earlier this week, has just performed a pretty significant bit of public service. — In a detailed post …

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Felix Salmon:

Mail Online: Big, but not valuable — Back in December 2011, the Daily Mail had 45.3 million unique visitors, according to ComScore. By March 2013, 15 months later, that number had grown to 46.4 million, again according to ComScore. We learn the latter figure — but not the former …

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ESPN Eyes Subsidizing Wireless-Data Plans — Smartphone users who binge on video, games and other content must monitor their usage to ensure they don't run over monthly data caps that wireless carriers have put in place in recent years. — Now, some media companies whose mobile content gets …

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Mark Glaser / Mediashift:

Mark Luckie: Twitter Not Getting Into News Business — Recently, Twitter posted a job for a “head of news and journalism partnerships.” Oh my gosh! Was Twitter going to get into the news business and start its own newsroom with reporters and editors ferreting out what's happening as news breaks?

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Josh Halliday / Guardian:

ITV's Deborah Turness lined up for NBC News top job — UK broadcaster's news editor expected to become the first female head of a US network TV news division — Deborah Turness, editor of ITV News, is expected to become the president of NBC News in the United States. Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe for the Guardian

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Chris Welch / The Verge:

John McCain proposes ‘a la carte’ cable bill, encourages death of sports blackout rule — Senator John McCain today introduced the Television Consumer Freedom Act of 2013, legislation that would encourage cable operators and entertainment conglomerates to unbundle channels and offer programming “a la carte.”

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Randy Lewis / Los Angeles Times:

RIAA adds gold, platinum awards for digital music streams — The RIAA will present new digital stream awards plaques to Cher Lloyd, Jason Derulo and Emeli Sande on May 9 in Los Angeles. (Recording Industry Assn. of America) — Sales are no longer the only path to gold and platinum in the music business.

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Brent Lang / The Wrap:

MoviePass Goes Netflix — Can It Avoid Theater Owners' Anger This Time? — The subscription ticketing service hopes third time is a charm with its latest model — MoviePass is trying for a third time to come up with an unlimited-movie-ticket plan that won't cause a theater-owners revolt.

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

What's the best price for a self-published ebook? $3.99, Smashwords research suggests — Self-publishing platform and distributor Smashwords analyzed ebook sales for nearly a year. CEO Mark Coker draws some interesting conclusions on the best way to price a self-published ebook.

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