Mediagazer: Producer of The Ring and Mulholland Drive releases new horror movie as an iOS app (Laura Hazard Owen/paidContent)

8:50 AM ET, May 16, 2013

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Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

Your Next Horror Movie Franchise Isn't a Movie - It's an App — Neal Edelstein, producer of “The Ring” and “Mulholland Drive,” has made what may be a game-changing ghost story — The iPad 2 changed Neal Edelstein's life. Edelstein had been working as a producer for more than a decade …

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Producer of The Ring and Mulholland Drive releases new horror movie as an iOS app — Neal Edelstein, producer of hit movies like The Ring and Mulholland Drive, has a new film project: A film delivered in chunks directly through an iOS app. — Plenty of people watch movies on their iPads …

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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:

USA Network's Dividing Line With Twitter — Several television companies have announced deals with Twitter Inc. in recent weeks, looking to take advantage of the popularity of tweeting while watching shows. But not all TV companies believe tying up with the social-media site is such a great idea.

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Gavriel Hollander / Press Gazette:

Trinity Mirror says revenue down 10 per cent year on year but rate of decline slowing — Trinity Mirror's revenue for the first four months of the year fell by 10 per cent compared to the same period in 2013. — But in a statement to the stock market, the group revealed that the rate of decline is slowing.

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Trinity Mirror: ‘too soon’ to know outcome of phone-hacking inquiry — Publisher brought in an external law firm to investigate allegations against six current and former journalists — Trinity Mirror has said that it still “too soon” to know the outcome of an investigation it has ordered …

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Charlie Savage / New York Times:

Criticized on Seizure of Records, White House Pushes News Media Shield Law — WASHINGTON — Under fire over the Justice Department's use of a broad subpoena to obtain calling records of Associated Press reporters in connection with a leak investigation, the Obama administration sought …

Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

Skift's approach to building a new media company: It's as much about data as it is about news — Despite the many miserable prognoses for the future of the media business, a few stubborn entrepreneurs still see fit to venture into content-driven companies. Such people - including PandoDaily's …

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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
PaidContent Founder Rafat Ali Raises Another $1.1M For Skift, His Site For Travel News And Data

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Google demands Microsoft remove YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads — Microsoft updated its own YouTube application for Windows Phone just over a week ago and Google isn't impressed. The Verge has obtained a copy of a cease and desist letter that Google has sent to Microsoft recently …

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Wall Street Journal:

J.P. Morgan Seeks Bloomberg Data — J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. sent a letter to Bloomberg LP this week asking that the financial news and information company show logs of all staff members since 2008 who used the company's data terminals to search activities of J.P. Morgan subscribers.

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Gordon MacMillan / Media Week:

Ian Katz to leave Guardian for editor role at BBC Newsnight — Ian Katz the long-time deputy editor of The Guardian and heir apparent to Alan Rusbridger is to leave the paper and take up the top job at ‘Newsnight’, the BBC's troubled current affairs flagship. Katz has worked at the Guardian since 1990.

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Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

Wired and Cisco Partner on Crowdsourced Tablet Mag — Last month, Wired Insider, Wired's marketing and promotion arm, announced that it would embark on a daunting experiment in magazine-making: Assemble a standalone tablet issue in just two days. (In other words, no one would be leaving the office for a good 48 hours.)

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

Warner Music Gains Approval to Buy Parlophone, a Last Piece of EMI — European regulators on Wednesday approved the Warner Music Group's purchase of the Parlophone Label Group, tying up one of the last loose ends from the $4.1 billion breakup of EMI. — The Universal Music Group …