Mediagazer: Cable Companies Chafe as Low-Rated Channels Change Names (Bloomberg)

11:35 AM ET, May 22, 2013

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Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
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Cody Brown / Medium:

The New York Times Told Me to Take This Down — It's been five months since the New York Times dropped their mammoth digital story “Snow Fall,” and some people still talk about it as if it came out last week. At a conference recently, the editor-in-chief of the Times said that “Snow Fall” has become a verb inside the newsroom.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

NYT: Scroll Kit developer ‘is bragging’ about copyright infringement — Cody Brown received a takedown request from The New York Times' legal department after he posted a video showing how to replicate the “Snow Fall” experience using his tool Scroll Kit. — After he answered that request …

Anthony De Rosa / Soup:

Stop matching — Matching is an institutional problem deeply rooted within many mainstream newsrooms. To paraphrase myself from this article: Sometimes it's a business strategy: ignore you competition, don't let your readers know they exist, pretend they didn't beat you.

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Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Time.com Is on a Hiring Spree — Here's a story you might not expect to come out of Time Inc.: Time.com is on a hiring binge. Two months after several higher-ups left in a round of cost-cutting, the site is hiring some 30 staffers, roughly a 50 percent increase, in preparation for a big relaunch in early fall.

Erik Maza / WWD:

Edward Felsenthal Helming Relaunch of Time.com — BEAUTY OF THE BEAST: When Web sites undergo a redesign, editors will inevitably look toward any number of models. Time.com, it seems, is looking at The Daily Beast. — Edward Felsenthal, Tina Brown's former deputy at the Beast …

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Amazon unveils Kindle Worlds publishing platform to help aspiring fan fiction writers sell their work — Amazon announced a new publishing platform today called Kindle Worlds, which will give both established authors and aspiring fan fiction writers the chance to earn royalties based on their work.

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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

BuzzFeed business news wants to be scoops — BuzzFeed's business news strategy is to focus on breaking news but focusing on the areas where it believes it can cover the news better than others, said its business editor in an interview on Tuesday. — “Business news is scoops,” said Peter Lauria.

Bloomberg:

Cable Companies Chafe as Low-Rated Channels Change Names — Cable networks are rebranding themselves, and pay-TV operators aren't pleased. — At least six channels are changing their names and programming this year to attract more viewers, advertising dollars and higher subscriber fees.

John Plunkett / Guardian:

BBC may charge Sky for content as retransmission fee row escalates — BSkyB charges public service broadcasters £10m a year, with corporation saying ‘money is flowing in the wrong direction’ — The BBC has raised the stakes in its row with BSkyB over retransmission fees …

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Lauren Indvik / Mashable:

‘Wired’ Completely Overhauls Print Magazine — Wired is debuting a new look for its June issue, which hits newsstands Tuesday. The magazine has been completely made over by Scott Dadich, who before being named editor-in-chief last November worked as creative director of Wired from 2006 to 2010.

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