Mediagazer: Amazon Taps NBCUniversal To Bring Covert Affairs, Grimm, Suits, And More To Prime Instant Video (Jordan Crook/TechCrunch)

12:35 AM ET, May 17, 2013

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Nitasha Tiku / Gawker:

The Hidden Dossiers Bloomberg Reporters Keep on Powerful Clients — If you are an influential user of a Bloomberg terminal—the $24,000-per-year glorified computers that the company sells to Wall Street trading firms, politicians, and banks—there's a chance the company's news division …

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The Huffington Post:

Bloomberg Scandal Raises Ethics Questions For New Media — NEW YORK (AP) — Launching his namesake company's news division in the 1990s, Michael Bloomberg largely rejected long-held rules of the journalism trade that insist on keeping thick firewalls between reporters and the profit-making workings of their companies.

Wall Street Journal:
J.P. Morgan Seeks Bloomberg Data

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Washington Post Co. shuts Maryland papers — The Washington Post Co. announced Wednesday it would stop publishing the Frederick County, Md., editions of its Gazette newspapers. Post-Newsweek Media CEO Karen Acton said the move “became necessary due to changes in the market conditions in Frederick …

Washington Post:

Some question whether AP leak on al-Qaeda plot put U.S. at risk — For five days, reporters at the Associated Press had been sitting on a big scoop about a foiled al-Qaeda plot at the request of CIA officials. Then, in a hastily scheduled Monday morning meeting, the journalists were asked …

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
DOJ Tactics Against AP Raise Concerns For The New York Times

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Molly Redden / The New Republic:
DOJ seizure of AP records raises question: Is ‘chilling effect’ real?

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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

Tribune CEO Says Furor Over Koch Newspaper Sale Is Premature — Tribune Co. (TRBAA) Chief Executive Officer Peter Liguori, responding to a protest over a possible sale of the Los Angeles Times to Koch Industries Inc., said speculation over potential buyers of the company's papers is “premature.”

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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Campaign to Buy Los Angeles Times Hopes to Crowdfund $660 Million

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Zinio, First Mover In Digital Magazines, Moves To The Netflix Model — The so-called first mover advantage is really only an advantage if you don't get too far out ahead of your customer. Founded in 2001, the digital magazines company Zinio was arguably a good eight years ahead of its time.

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Mike Shields / Adweek:

Yahoo in Talks to Acquire Tumblr: Deal could reach as high as $1 billion — Is Marissa Mayer about to make a game-changing acquisition? It appears so. — Yahoo is in serious talks with Tumblr to acquire the social blogging site, according to multiple sources familiar with the talks.

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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

NewsRight, ambitious attempt at licensing newspaper content, quietly folds — Analyst Ken Doctor reports at Nieman Labs that NewsRight, an industry-owned agency that has tried to license content to aggregators, has gone out of business. — NewsRight's own news release describes the dissolution …

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David Lieberman / Deadline.com:

CW Expands Streaming To Apple TV And Renames Digital Studio — Like most other broadcasters this upfront week, CW execs today urged advertisers to consider the network's involvement with digital platforms — and announced that its streamed shows, now available on Windows and Xbox, will also work with Apple TV.

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CBS Miami:

It's Moving Day For Miami Herald Staff, Reporters — MIAMI (CBSMiami) - Moving trucks were parked along the walk in front of One Herald Plaza Thursday, as The Miami Herald passed its last day in the building it has known as home for half a decade. It was moving day.

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Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Amazon Taps NBCUniversal To Bring Covert Affairs, Grimm, Suits, And More To Prime Instant Video — Amazon has just announced a new content deal with NBCUniversal, bringing a host of new television series to the video streaming platform. — Some of those titles include Covert Affairs, Defiance, Grimm, Hannibal, and Suits.

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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:

Nicholas Jackson Plans to Launch a ‘Smarter Version of MediaBistro’ — Last week, Pacific Standard's digital director Nick Jackson announced on Facebook and Twitter that he was starting a new website that would “be a place for inside-baseball coverage of the media industry and serve as a home …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Yahoo partners with Twitter to bring tweets directly into its US newsfeed on the desktop and mobile Web — Yahoo on Thursday announced a new partnership with Twitter that will see tweets brought directly into the company's homepage newsfeed. The new integration will be rolling out …

Discussion: TechCrunch, CNET, Business Insider and @marissamayer

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 …

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

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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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