Mediagazer: SPJ Seeks Delay in Vote on Restricting Newtown Victims' Records (John Eggerton/Broadcasting & Cable)

12:55 PM ET, May 29, 2013

Top News:

Ted Johnson / Variety:

IAC Seeking Buyers for Newsweek (EXCLUSIVE) — Newsweek appears to be on the block — again. — According to sources who have been briefed, IAC is sending out inquiries to prospective buyers who may be interested in purchasing the 80-year-old title, which ended weekly publication …

Discussion: Politico, FishbowlNY, Adweek, Reuters, @daschles, @peterlauria3, @shirleybrady, @tunkuv, @sarahw, @grahamdavida, @felixsalmon, @jenzchang, @qhardy, @mattyglesias and @jayrosen_nyu

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Newsweek confirms it is eyeing sale — Newsweek CEO Baba Shetty and editor-in-chief Tina Brown have just sent the following memo to staff, confirming earlier reports that parent-company IAC is exploring a sale of the now online-only magazine: … Developing.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Mashable and National Review

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Barry Diller Is Shopping Newsweek. Here's Why. [Updated] — Most rational business people wouldn't go out of their way to deprecate the value of an asset a few weeks before they try to sell it. As he has made abundantly clear throughout his career, however, Barry Diller is not most people.

Discussion: Capital New York and New York Magazine

Matthew Cooper / NationalJournal.com:

Why a Media Shield Law Isn't Enough to Save Journalists — The only way journalists will be protected is if prosecutors stop being so quick to go after them. — I'm all for a shield law to protect journalists and their sources from government prosecutors. I hope Congress passes one.

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …

Peter Sterne / The New York Observer:

Shield Law More Like a Cheap Umbrella — Faced with criticism over the government's secret spying on the Associated Press and Fox News, President Barack Obama has tried to burnish his free-press bona fides by pushing for the passage of a federal shield law to protect journalists and their confidential sources.

Discussion: Mediaite, Hit & Run, Broadcasting & Cable and New Yorker

Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Attorney general signed off on Fox phone records subpoena

Discussion: The Daily Beast

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Apple's Tim Cook Has a “Grand Vision” for Television — And Still Won't Talk About It — No surprises here — at our 11th D: All Things Digital technology conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook is still staying mum on the company's plans for a proper TV set. — However!

Discussion: GigaOM, VentureBeat, NYT Bits, Forbes, CNET, The Week, AdAge, The Wrap, The Mac Observer and Softpedia News

Dara Kerr / CNET:

Apple CEO: We rejected DOJ settlement in e-book suit — With an impending trial in June, Apple CEO Tim Cook maintains that the company had nothing to do with facilitating a conspiracy to raise prices of e-books. — As the last company standing in the upcoming lawsuit over e-book price fixing …

Discussion: VentureBeat, GigaOM, AllThingsD and Softpedia News

RT:

Larry King joins RT with brand new politics show — Award-winning interviewer Larry King will host a mold-breaking political talk show on RT from next month, speaking to both leading establishment figures, and those who are not afraid to go against the grain.

Discussion: Politico, TVNewser, Gawker, Mediaite, Broadcasting & Cable, Daily Mail, Business Insider, New York Magazine, The Wrap, BBC, Variety and The Huffington Post

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Thomson Reuters hires Economist Group chief to head news agency arm — Andrew Rashbass to leave publisher after 15 years, having led digital transformation from print to digital business — Andrew Rashbass, the chief executive of the Economist Group, is to join Thomson Reuters …

Discussion: New York Times and Globe and Mail

Thomson Reuters:
Thomson Reuters Announces Andrew Rashbass to Join in New Role Leading News and Media Business

Discussion: Talking Biz News

PR Newswire:

Marco Arment Sells “The Magazine” to Its Editor, Glenn Fleishman — Instapaper founder and Tumblr's first employee sells popular electronic magazine — SEATTLE and HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, N.Y., May 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — The Magazine, a popular electronic magazine …

Discussion: Marco.org, The Next Web and Valleywag

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

TuneIn raises $25 million, nabs new CFO from Google to monetize radio streaming — Palo Alto, California-based TuneIn has raised a new $25 million round of funding, and it plans to put that money to good use. TuneIn CEO John Donham told me Tuesday that he intends to spend a big chunk …

Discussion: Forbes, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and CNET

Bill Mickey / Folio:

Study: One-Quarter of Tablet Owners Prefer Digital Magazines Over Print — As device sales grow, that metric could balloon to 65 percent by 2020. — Digital publishing consultancy Mequoda Group released results of a recent survey that examined the usage and content consumption of tablet owners.

Discussion: Mequoda Daily

Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:

Deep Inside NBC Universal's Corporate Culture Makeover — Chief Executive Steve Burke has methodically dispatched with nearly every high level executive from the Jeff Zucker regime. Now it's “all business” — for better or for worse. — Roughly three years into Comcast's ownership of NBC Universal …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times

Elias Biryabarema / Reuters:

Ugandan police fire tear gas at journalists protesting crackdown — (Reuters) - Ugandan police fired tear gas at journalists in the capital Kampala on Tuesday who were protesting against a media crackdown after press reports sparked a rare public debate on who will succeed aging President Yoweri Museveni.

Ali Velshi / Quartz:

Al-Jazeera host: The solution to what's wrong with American cable news — Lately I've been giving a lot of thought to changing viewer tastes and habits. After 12 years at CNN, I needed to better understand why doing more of the obvious isn't helping to grow an audience, even for long-standing brands.

Discussion: TheBlaze.com

John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:

SPJ Seeks Delay in Vote on Restricting Newtown Victims' Records — Says tragedy should not be used as an excuse to block access to public documents — The Society of Professional Journalists has asked the Connecticut state legislature to delay a vote on a bill to restrict outside access …

Discussion: SPJ News